Kazematten

English translation

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Description

Introduction.

MAGAZINE A is located between magazine B and the arsenal. It lies back in the rampart and is covered with earth and overgrown with grass.

Description.

The flat-roofed magazine is constructed in Flemish bond small-format red brick in the lower part of the wall and larger format from the middle onwards. Brick and joints are weathered. A cement plinth runs along the base of the wall which is finished at the top by a roll moulding with a closing natural stone block on either side. To the left and right lie, following the height of ground level, cemented masonry. The arrangement is symmetrical with centrally a small square shutter with two round arch openings on either side. Further to the left and right two clamped wooden round arch doors. Bands around the arches of the wall openings. Natural stone is used in the diamond-head keystones, thresholds and at the position of the dowels of the iron hinges. The shutters are closed with iron doors in the same hinges. Internally, parallel to the front lie three spaces with barrel vault constructed in Flemish bond Ijssel brick with cut jointing. Two identical side spaces, accessible from outside through the round arch doors, provide access to the larger central space where in the rear wall lies a built-in air shaft and small iron grilles. In the partition walls lie air shafts centered above the wooden frames in which originally the doors hung. On the upper threshold of the frame in the right section is painted: THE POWDER MAGAZINE. Behind the round arch doors originally lay a second door. This space within the thickness of the wall is constructed in red brick.

Valuation.

The magazine is of general interest. It has cultural-historical value as part of the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie and is of typological importance for the development of the fortification. It has architectural-historical value as an example of nineteenth-century fortification works and the architecture of the powder magazine in particular. It has ensemble value due to the functional relationship with magazine B and the nearby arsenal. Furthermore due to the landscape relationship with the Rijkswal. The internal masonry of the magazine has been preserved in particularly good condition and as such is rare.