Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 6 stands detached in a wooded environment, between numbers 4 and 7, on the south-east side of the northern branch of the southernmost green-like division on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs parallel with the road at that location. Building 6 is a military barracks erected in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a green-like village pattern, and within this at micro level part of a cluster of loosely grouped buildings.

Description

Single-storey, medium-sized brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick outer walls and partly provided with crawl space, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof arched on two sides, slightly flared at the base, and covered with grey corrugated sheet-metal tiles. In the north-western long side / main facade and the south-eastern rear facade five window openings with concrete sill, containing above four-pane drop windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the sill provided with sheet-steel shutters painted green and white with hourglass motif. In the south-western end facade two similar window openings and in the north-eastern one on the right an entrance opening with wooden door and glazing bars divided fanlight and to the left of this two similar window openings. White painted weather vanes; gutter pipes. The interior has been partly modernised. A wooden stair with painted wall cladding and tile border, characteristic of the building period, is still partly intact.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily recognizable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and established 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 may be evident among others from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially created green-like village structure and the camouflage carried through to the details, from the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.