House Trouet

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Entrance facade of the Trouet house, 2014

Haus Trouet , also called Haus Smets and Haus Schmetz , is a manor house at Eupener Straße 8 in the Eynatten district of the Belgian municipality of Raeren . Large parts of the building, which dates from the second half of the 18th century, have been a listed building since June 9, 1995 . The various names for the house go back to the first owner family Smets (also Schmetz) and the last owner, the Trouet family.

history

In 1658, Johann Sigismund Smets built a previous building on the site of the current building, of which only parts in the cellar are preserved today. A lintel with the corresponding year indicates the year of construction. The house from the 17th century had the rent master and tax collector Johann Nikolaus Jakob Smets replaced by the current building in 1770, before he sold it only a few years later.

1920 acquired Léon Trouet, one of Malmedy originating notary and 1927/1928 mayor of Eupen, the estate. When a fire destroyed a wing of the house in 1936, he had it rebuilt. On June 27, 2001, his daughter Marie-Louise donated the building, including a farmhouse and stables, to a foundation in order to save the building, which was meanwhile in need of renovation, from further deterioration. The aim was to make Haus Trouet a home for the elderly. The foundation never became legally valid because it failed to publish its statutes in the Belgian State Gazette , so that the planning for the property finally had to be abandoned in 2003. The owner no longer wanted the conversion to senior citizens' apartments, and neither did she want to sell the run-down buildings. However, because the decay endangered public safety, it was finally expropriated at the end of 2004 .

The new owner was a housing association that wanted to transform the property into age-appropriate housing units together with the Walloon Region and the municipality. The purchase price was 450,000 euros. Marie-Louise Trouet tried, however, to legally defend herself against the expropriation, so that the renovation work could not begin until 2008. In June 2011, the first apartments in the former stables were ready for occupancy, around two years later residential units in the former farmhouse were also available. However, there were problems with the redesign of the listed manor house. Among other things, because of the monument protection requirements, the renovation would have been enormously expensive, which would not have been compatible with the goal of creating inexpensive senior citizen accommodation. The project was therefore not feasible, and the owner company then searched unsuccessfully for a tenant for the dilapidated mansion for several years before finally selling it to the real estate company of a Raeren entrepreneur in 2017 for 350,000 euros. The new owner's plans include building part of the park belonging to the property .

description

Trouet House, east view, 2014

Haus Trouet is a two-storey building made of bluestone blocks with a half-hip roof with small dormers . At the north-east and south-west end of the central wing are short, also two-storey side wings, which has created a small courtyard on the east side of the building . The facade facing the courtyard is divided into seven axes by arched windows with wedge stones , whereby the southernmost axis is now covered by the south-western side wing. This has a half-timbered gable and was previously used as a stable and hayloft. The north-eastern side wing has two coupled windows and a coarse stud fries in height of the eaves on.

Inside, the building has 27 rooms and a living space of 600 m². Of the interior, only the old wooden staircase with carved railings and handrails is a listed building. All other protected areas (facade, roof structure and surrounding wall) are part of the exterior of the building.

In addition to the manor house, former stables, a farmhouse and a 2110 m² park belong to the property, which is bordered by a chest-high wall with an attached grid. Some of the square pillars have vases on top .

literature

  • Werner Keutgen: Nosbau separates from Haus Trouet. In: Grenz-Echo . Friday Packet for October 12, 2016.
  • Martin Klever: The eyesore won't go away for the time being. In: Grenz-Echo. Issued August 1, 2013.
  • Administration of the German-speaking Community (Hrsg.): Raeren (= monument directory. Volume 8). Administration of the German-speaking Community, Eupen 1990, p. 319 ( digitized version ).
  • It all started with an expropriation. In: Grenz-Echo. Issued August 1, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Haus Trouet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decree of protection of 9 June 1995 (PDF; 115 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c Information on Haus Trouet on ostbelgienkulturerbe.be , accessed on June 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c It all started with an expropriation. 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Martin Klever: Schandfleck will not go away for the time being. 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Werner Keutgen: Raeren entrepreneur buys Trouet house. In: Grenz-Echo. Edition February 11, 2017.
  6. ^ Administration of the German-speaking Community: Raeren. 1990, p. 319.
  7. ↑ a b Werner Keutgen: Nosbau separates from Trouet House. 2016.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 31.1 "  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 57.4"  E