Munitiecomplex De 1800-Roeden

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Former AMMUNITION SHED WITH LABORATORY, called Building A, with rampart on the northwestern side, running parallel to the Haarlemmerweg. The shed (n) was part of an ammunition complex, realized in 1897 and is the only surviving component of the complex, which besides the ammunition shed consisted of a gunpowder magazine on the southern part of the site and a guard's house on the eastern side. The former complex that forms part of the Stelling van Amsterdam was realized at the same time as three other ammunition complexes that are all located within the Stelling.

In 1901 the ammunition shed (building A) was extended with a laboratory (w) and the whole was constructed in brick while retaining the original wooden roof truss structure. The laboratory space originally contained a loading point for projectiles, spaces for the making of cartridges, an office and a corridor.

N.B. The seven buildings added later that now form part of the ammunition complex 1800-Roeden fall outside the protection

Description

Building A is a soberly designed former AMMUNITION SHED with attached laboratory, constructed in brick on an elongated concrete foundation with wooden pile foundations and steel beams under a gabled roof covered with Spanish tiles between simple spout gables. The shed has cast-iron gutters on the long sides supported by iron gutter brackets that are fixed underneath to a rectangular moulding. Four lightning conductors are located on the roof lantern. Building A has a ground floor, an attic storey and a crawl space and consists of two parts: a former elongated ammunition shed with an axially symmetrical facade arrangement and a former laboratory added on the western side. The side gables of the ammunition shed consist of a window in the middle with a door on each side and three windows on the outer sides. The attached laboratory has three windows on the long sides. The spout gables (o and w) with natural stone coping on top and on the sides have a door in the middle, a window on each side and above them a hoist opening and hoist beam. All windows of the shed are double sash windows fitted with wooden frames and attached shutters with iron hinges, natural stone eyebrows (in the rectangular roof moulding) and natural stone windowsills. The sashes hang on wheels in a horizontal iron sliding system. All double attached doors and hoist openings are fitted with iron hinges and fittings and natural stone eyebrows. The interior of the ammunition shed consists of the wooden roof truss structure from 1897 and consists of 22 trusses with double king posts on concrete plinths that support the loft. Both the ground floor and the attic originally consisted of one large space. Various smaller rooms have now been created in the shed by means of reversible materials. Near the southern entrance, at its original location, there is a renovated staircase to the loft. Building A is situated within a rampart (nw) and located parallel to the Haarlemmerweg and forms part of the former military complex 1800-Roeden.

Evaluation

The shed with wooden roof truss structure (building A) with historical rampart is of general importance due to cultural, architectural, military-historical and typological value as a well-preserved ammunition shed and associated laboratory, created as part of the Stelling van Amsterdam. Building A is of historical situational importance due to the strategic and logistically important location on the Haarlemmerweg and waterway situated within the Stelling. Building A has ensemble value as part of the Stelling van Amsterdam.