Bomvrij militair object, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 4 stands detached against a wooded background, east of the northbound section of the southernmost road split on Groot-Heidekamp, somewhat to the west and in the immediate vicinity of buildings 1 and 5. The roof ridge runs roughly from southwest to northeast and runs parallel to the adjacent road running eastward and curved. Building 4 is a sick barracks created in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and as such forms part of the camp hospital. At macro level it is part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings placed in a more or less linear village arrangement, and within this at micro level of a number of buildings grouped in a green-like structure.

Description

A single-storey relatively large brick SICK BARRACKS forming part of a pavilion-type hospital with approx. 50 cm thick exterior masonry and equipped with a crawl space, on a rectangular footprint and covered by a gabled roof laid with predominantly corrugated brick tiles, curved at both sides, with three under-roof dormer windows in both long gables and a brick chimney through the southeast gable. The southwest end gable / main gable has on the right a round-arched entrance framed with blocks of imitation natural stone (concrete) with two semicircular steps and to the left of this an imitation natural stone (reinforced concrete) cross window under a slightly arched lintel, with at the top two wooden four-pane casement windows with glazing bars and at the bottom two inward-opening wooden four-pane casement windows with glazing bars, and below the sill sheet metal shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif; at attic level three smaller framed windows under slightly arched lintels, containing double inward-opening wooden four-pane casement windows with glazing bars and wooden shutters. The northeast end gable similar, but the entrance opening central and to the left and right of this imitation natural stone (reinforced concrete) cross windows. In the northwest and southeast long gables each nine similar cross windows under a haunch. Flemish bond. Roof gutters. White-painted weathervanes. Interior contains among other things renewed doors.

Valuation

SICK BARRACKS, of general importance as a rare and clearly recognizable 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, by virtue of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated among other things in the traditionalist building style inspired by partly local and partly Rhinish examples, in the components and details characteristic of the building period, in the artificially created green-village structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest details, in the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and in the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.