Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 26-03-2018

The town hall in Naarden

betekenis & definitie

(Marktstraat 22) is a two-story deep building from 1601 with two unequal stepped gables and a six-sided roof rider with pear-shaped open crowning

(clock 1604, Henricus Meurs). The narrower wing on the right has a basement room. The Mannerist façades are richly decorated with bacon layers, decorative masonry bands and sculptures (masks, cartouches, weapons). A sidewalk leads to a sandstone archway with fronton and statues (Fides, Spes and Justitia). The facade has sandstone cross windows; in the side rear wall they are made of wood. The building has been restored in 1936 (A.L. Oger).

In the interior, the hall and a council chamber are equipped with beam layers with sculpted consoles and cut key pieces. The council chamber, now the wedding room, also kept the oak paneling with benches and counter from the construction period. Noteworthy in the hall are the paintings 'The judgment of Salomon' (1602) and 'The fire of 1572' (1604), and in the council chamber a chimney with a coat of arms (1603) and three paintings with the legal representations (1601, 1615 and 1619). The inventory includes further copper work from the synagogue that was demolished in 1935.