Two well-known catering establishments in Southeast Drenthe are being demolished to make way for housing. These are Zalencentrum Zwartemeer and café De Buuf in Barger-Compascuum.
The plans come from the brothers Harold (54) and Jeroen Jalving (48), who together run the Jalving Groep BV. They want to erect three residential buildings on the site of Zalencentrum Zwartemeer on Eemslandweg and the house right next to it.
“A main building containing ten apartments and behind that two rows of three ground-level homes,” says Harold Jalving. The construction of a complex with nine apartments is planned on the site of De Buuf in the heart of Barger-Compascuum.
Zalencentrum Zwartemeer was bought by the Jalving brothers last year and has since closed. De Buuf in Barger-Compascuum is still open. This café, which also has a large banquet hall, will close its doors on 1 August. That is also the date on which Jalving Groep BV becomes owner of the complex. If everything goes according to plan, the two catering establishments will be demolished after the summer and construction will start early next year. There has been extensive consultation with the municipality of Emmen, but from a procedural point of view several steps still need to be taken.
Large banquet hall
For both villages, the demolition marks the end of an era. From the second half of the 1960s, catering establishments were located on the site of the conference center in Zwartemeer, and the catering building in Barger-Compascuum dates from 1919. In Zwartemeer, it started with the couple Fenne and Angela van Os, who converted their vegetable and dairy business into cafe/cafeteria and built a large banquet hall behind it. Thereafter the company was run by Haine and Leida Peters and then by the Kamies family. Harold Jalving: ,,We bought both the catering building and the house next to it from the Kamies family.”
According to Jalving, it is a wide and deep plot that offers many opportunities for new construction. The new apartment building in Zwartemeer will border the Eemslandweg. The two blocks of three houses rise behind it. One building with nine apartments will be built on the site of De Buuf in Barger-Compascuum. The current plans are based on a complex with two storeys and an extra storey on the section at the corner of Verlengde Oosterdiep/Postweg. Just like in Zwartemeer, it only concerns owner-occupied homes.
De Groot, Boerland, Hogelink, Budde and De Kloeck
The project in Barger-Compascuum is extra special for Harold and Jeroen Jalving because they come from this village themselves and have celebrated many weddings and other parties in the café with banquet hall. The building will be demolished because the current owners Klaas and Marita Hegeman no longer see any profit in it. In earlier times, the café was known as De Groot, Boerland, Hogelink, Budde and De Kloeck. With the closure of De Buuf, Barger-Compascuum, which has about two thousand inhabitants, loses its last café.