Gedenkteken(D6), Stadsweide 120

English translation

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Description

Introduction

U-shaped, broadly extended brick gate building to a design from 1938 by Captain of Engineers A.G. Boost, completed in 1939. The gate building has 1.5 storeys, is covered with a hipped roof, has a centrally situated, raised and forward-projecting entrance section under a transversely placed hipped roof and encloses a courtyard on the east side.

Description

The gate building stands on a slightly recessed plinth in the form of a stone-high rolled course with above it a half storey fitted with square steel windows with glazing bars and on the storey rectangular steel windows with glazing bars. The masonry is executed in Flemish bond and has a continuous brick tooth moulding below the windows. The centrally placed entrance section has on the ground floor on either side of the passage semi-circular projections (bay windows) with brick parapets and above them vertically placed concrete elements with glass between them; above the bay windows hang gracefully, hand-forged iron lanterns on the facade. Above the gate passage a broad closure also in concrete on which five vertically placed glass strips between brick wall mullions, connected at the top by a concrete lintel. The wall mullions have the form of the letter V so that rainwater can collect in the concrete water drainage tray at the bottom. To the left of the gate-wide glass section a weather vane and to the right a clock face. The hipped roof of the raised gate passage and adjacent wings is covered with red, smoked and newly improved Dutch tiles and has a generous overhang. In the gate passage is the space for the guard commander. The wooden external doors of the gate building display ironwork with herringbone motif. On the inside the gate building is arranged almost identically: the windows are however alternated with doors, on either side of the gate passage semi-circular bay windows are provided, both executed in iron and glass. The left leg of the U-shape has among others an entrance with rusticatied surround. Internally the gate building has separate facilities such as offices of the barracks commander and staff, storage rooms, corridors finished with tiled wainscotings with frieze tiles with salamanders in relief; staircases laid with grey natural stone, stair rails in copper fittings, mess, waiting room with fixed wooden benches; various rooms with worked, wooden fixed cupboards provided with profiled tops; cell block with air space surrounded by high brick wall, in the gymnasium laminated trusses and wooden, corridors tiled and executed in terrazzo.

Valuation

The gate building with sports hall wing and camp command wing to the design of Captain of Engineers A.G. Boost represents general importance because of:

- the age;

- the architectural-historical value as an object of military architecture, more particularly barracks construction from the twentieth century according to the principles of the pavilion system;

- the well-preserved main form, construction, layout and detailing;

- the significance for the history of national defence;

- the remembrance of the Second World War;

- the connection with the (history of the) city of Roermond;

- the close relationship that exists between the namesake of the barracks, his place in the history of our country and his role in the struggle for Roermond;

- the functional, historical and spatial relationship with the memorial on the grounds in front of the barracks, with the inner courtyard as well as with the accommodation/lodging building B.