Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 14 stands detached in a wooded environment, roughly between numbers 10 and 17, on the south side of a formerly dead-end side lane at a turning circle forming part of the north-south connections on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs from west to east, parallel to the lane. Building 14 is a military barracks built as a 'Regelbau' in 1940-1941 and at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged partly in linear and partly in village-green fashion, and within this at micro level part of a cluster loosely grouped outside the predominantly linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small military barracks of brick with approximately 50 cm thick external walls and partly with crawlspace, on a rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof slightly flared at the bottom, with grey corrugated re-improved hollow (Dutch) pantiles and rounded at both gable ends. In the western gable end / principal gable, on the left an access opening with two steps and under a roll moulding, furnished with a batten door and a fanlight divided into eight panes, and to the right of this two window openings under roll moulding and with concrete plinth, containing above four-pane sash windows and below double wooden two-pane casements opening inwards, below the plinth fitted with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. At attic level three small windows with four-pane casements and relic of above-ground electricity supply. Eastern gable end left and right symmetrical, with comparable window openings and centrally a bricked-up access opening. Southern long side two and northern long side three window openings with concrete plinth, containing above four-pane sash windows and below double wooden two-pane casements opening inwards, below the plinth fitted with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Gutters all around. Interior partly modernised. Part of the staircase is characteristic of the construction period. Rafter and tie-beam truss structure, later boarded over.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a 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, by reason of: architectural-historical, town-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 construction period, from the artificially created village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, from the coherence of and with the overall military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.