Bomvrij militair object, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 3 stands detached against a wooded backdrop, at the southernmost fork on Groot-Heidekamp, in the immediate vicinity and to the northwest of building 2. Building 3 is a hospital barrack constructed in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and as such forms part of the camp hospital. The roof ridge runs approximately north-south and is perpendicular to the adjacent road. At macro level it forms part of a large military airfield structure from 1940-1945, at meso level of a scattered complex of buildings arranged in a more or less linear village pattern, and within this at micro level of a number of buildings grouped in a green-common structure.

Description

Forming part of a pavilion-style hospital, single-storey medium-sized brick HOSPITAL BARRACK with approximately 50 cm thick exterior brickwork and provided with a crawl space, on a rectangular ground plan and covered by a gabled roof with corrugated brick / grey improved hollow (Dutch) tiles between pointed gables. Northern end gable / principal gable with shoulder pieces, 'keystone', and roll moulding along gable top. On the corner with the left side gable a porch, with in both gables a semicircular closed entrance under double roll moulding and separated by a square brick corner column, containing simple cornice motif and embedded natural stone pieces and bricks placed outside the normal bond. To the right in the porch an access opening under cock's comb and provided with a batten door. To the right of porch two imitation-natural stone (reinforced concrete) cross windows under slightly arched stretches, with at the top two wooden four-paned sash windows with glazing bars and at the bottom two wooden four-paned casement windows with glazing bars opening inward, and beneath the sill sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif; at attic floor level three smaller framed windows under cock's comb, with double wooden four-paned casement windows with glazing bars opening inward. The southern end gable comparable, however without porch and with three window openings on the ground floor. In the eastern side gable to the right the porch and to the left of this five imitation-natural stone (reinforced concrete) cross windows under cock's comb, with at the top two wooden four-paned sash windows with glazing bars and at the bottom two wooden four-paned casement windows with glazing bars opening inward, and beneath the sill sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Western side gable four comparable windows. English bond. Eaves gutters. Interior partially modernised. Staircase later boxed in, but also with parts characteristic of the period of construction, such as balustrade and wall panelling. Reinforced concrete attic floor, on which presumably later reinforced concrete block walls approximately two metres high were constructed along the long sides. Roof truss structure with wooden members and rafters.

Valuation

HOSPITAL BARRACK, of general importance as a rare and readily recognisable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and set up 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 may be demonstrated inter alia by the traditional building style inspired by examples in part local and in part Rhenish, by the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, by the artificially created green-common settlement structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, by the coherence with and within the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.