Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 11/12 stands free to the west of number 10, in the northwestern quadrant of the bayonet junction of the southern access road and the western of the two north-south roads at Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge of the main volume runs roughly from north to south and stands perpendicular to the access road; the roof ridge of the ancillary volume stands perpendicular to this. Building 11/12 is a military building created in 1940-1941 as a 'Sonderbau' and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings placed partly in linear and partly in village-green arrangement, and within this at micro level of an ensemble of functional accommodations arranged in loose linear order. Possibly the western part of building 12 originally stood free and a connection with building 11 was realised in a later phase. Building 11/12 is now in use as accommodation for the facilities service (11) and as a transformer house / electricity house (12). Originally, a classroom or sports room was located in building 11.

Description

Relatively large, single-storey brick MILITARY BUILDING, partly with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly with crawl space, on a T-shaped floor plan, with the main volume covered by a gabled roof curved on two sides and covered with corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles and with a lower affixed hipped roof on the ancillary volume. The southern end wall / main facade of the main volume is executed symmetrically, with on left and right a window opening under a roofcomb and with concrete calf, in which above four-paned casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-paned casement windows, below the calf fitted with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Central entrance opening under roofcomb with slightly arched fanlight and lattice door with small pane, and at attic level two small windows under roofcomb, in which double two-paned casement windows. Eastern long side with five window openings under roofcomb, of which - from left to right - numbers 1, 4 and 5 are roughly square with brick eaves gutters and fitted with double two-paned casement windows, and numbers 2 and 3 comparable to those on the ground floor of main facade. Northern end wall symmetrical with on left and right a window as above 1, 4 and 5 and between these an arched entrance opening under roofcomb, fitted with double doors. Western long side interrupted by the ancillary volume possibly created in a later building phase. Either side of this a pair of window openings comparable to numbers 1, 4 and 5. White-painted wind vanes; roof gutters. Interior partially modernised. Rendered roof truss structure.

The slightly lower ancillary volume possibly came into being later through the construction of a connection between the original volumes 11 and 12. Southern long side of the oldest part with three blocked square window openings and in the more recent part - to the left of these - four openings closed with sheet metal, of which three doors. In the north wall three differently executed entrance openings; the west wall is executed blind.

Valuation

MILITARY BUILDING, of general importance as a readily recognisable component of an army 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 evident inter alia from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially created village-green structure and camouflage carried through to every detail, from the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual affinity of the forms applied here.