Eerste-hulppost, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1 stands detached against a wooded background, within the fork-shaped form of the southernmost division on Groot-Heidekamp, in the immediate vicinity of buildings 4 and 5. Building 1 is a physicians' station ('Sonderbau') constructed in 1940-1941, and as such forms part of the camp hospital. The roof ridge runs approximately north-south, with the main facade perpendicular to the sight line from the southern entrance to the camp. At the macro level it forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at the meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a more or less linear village pattern, and within this at the micro level of a number of plots grouped in a village-green-like structure.

Description

A single-storey brick PHYSICIANS' STATION / PHYSICIANS' RESIDENCE forming part of a pavilion-type hospital layout, with approximately 50 cm thick outer masonry and provided with a basement, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof laid with corrugated brique / grey improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, which is centrally pierced by a brick chimney. The western long facade / main facade with centrally a Flemish gable with pointed gable, shoulder pieces and small rectangular framed window with segment arch, the whole under an attached gabled roof; centrally an access opening with three semicircular steps, imitation-sandstone (concrete) framing with segment-arch-shaped glazing bars divided attic light; left and right imitation-natural stone (reinforced concrete) cross windows under rooster comb, with in the upper part two wooden glazing-bar-divided four-pane sash windows, and in the lower part two inward-opening wooden glazing-bar-divided four-pane casement windows with sheet steel shutters below the transom painted with green and white hourglass motif. Eastern long facade modified, whereby a later centrally boarded-up access opening with ramp, flanked by boarded-up window openings; left and right window openings comparable to those in main facade. The southern gable end is a spout gable with ogee-shaped shoulder pieces and centrally with an otherwise similarly arched cross window, and at attic level two smaller framed windows. Northern gable end is a spout gable with ogee-shaped shoulder pieces and with a brick staircase descending from right to left to basement level, provided with iron balustrade. At basement level left two access openings, the left one with sheet steel door and the right one boarded up, and to the right of these two inward-opening iron grilles, all under roll moulding. Above these three window openings brought under segment arch, otherwise comparable to those in the main facade, and at attic level two smaller framed window openings under segment arch. English bond. Wall gutters. Interior partly modernised. Brick fireplace. Basement ceiling and ceiling / attic floor in reinforced concrete.

Valuation

PHYSICIANS' STATION / PHYSICIANS' RESIDENCE, of general importance as a rare and readily recognisable component of a military camp originating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can among other things be evident from the traditional building style inspired by examples that are partly local and partly in the Rhenish manner, from the components and details characteristic of the construction period, from the artificially created village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest details, from the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp layout, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.