Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 13 stands free in a village-green-like environment, roughly between numbers 10 and 15, on the east side of the western north-south connection at Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs from west to east and stands perpendicular to the road. Building 13 is a barrack created 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 of a sparse complex of buildings placed partly in linear and partly in village-green arrangement, and within this at micro level of a number of buildings grouped in loose linear order.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small brick BARRACK, partly with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly with crawl space, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a hipped roof slightly angled at the bottom, covered with grey corrugated tiles, with two chimneys through the western roof slope and one through the eastern. In the northern end wall / main facade on the left an entrance opening with two steps, fitted with a lattice door and a fanlight divided into four parts and to the right of this two window openings 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. Southern end wall with on left and right a comparable window opening and centrally a bricked-up entrance opening. Western long side with two and eastern with three comparable window openings. Roof gutters all around. Interior largely modernised.

Valuation

BARRACK, 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.