Bomvrij militair object, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 2 stands detached against a wooded background, along the south side of the fork-shaped form of the southernmost division on Groot-Heidekamp, south-east of and in the immediate vicinity of building 3. Building 2 is a sick barrack ('Regelbau') constructed in 1940-1941 and as such forms part of the camp hospital. The roof ridge runs almost east-west, parallel with the adjacent road. 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 medium-sized brick SICK BARRACK forming part of a pavilion-type hospital layout, with approximately 50 cm thick outer masonry and provided with a crawl space, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof laid with corrugated brique / grey improved hollow (Dutch) tiles between pointed gables. On the corner of the northern long facade / main facade and the right gable end a porch, with in both facades a semicircular closed access under double roll moulding and separated by a square brick corner column, in which simple cornice motif and embedded natural stone fragments and bricks placed outside the normal bond. Porch with right access opening under rooster comb and provided with a lath door with laths placed in inverted V-shape. Left of porch five 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, and sheet steel shutters below the transom, on which green and white painted hourglass motif. The right gable end with shoulder pieces, roll moulding along gable top; left the porch and right two comparable window openings under slightly arched short stretches and at attic level three smaller framed windows under rooster comb, with double inward-opening wooden glazing-bar-divided four-pane casement windows. Left gable end comparable. In the southern long facade four 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, and sheet steel shutters below the transom with green and white painted hourglass motif. English bond. Wall gutters. Interior partly modernised. Staircase later refitted, but still with components characteristic of the construction period, such as balustrade and wall panelling. Reinforced concrete attic floor, on which presumably later at the long sides reinforced concrete block walls approximately two metres high have been erected. Roof truss with wooden collar ties and rafters.

Valuation

SICK BARRACK, 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.