Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

The text above is the record as published by the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, in Dutch. The English below is a machine translation made by TreeAlive, not by the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed; it has not been checked by a person. Where the two differ, the original is the record. Report a translation error: privacy@treealive.com

Description

Introduction

Building 15 stands detached in a green-like environment, between numbers 13 and 22, diagonally opposite number 16, on the east side of the western north-south running road on Groot-Heidekamp, in the north-eastern angle of the T-junction with a side road. The roof ridge is oriented from east to west and stands perpendicular to the road. Building 15 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 partly in linear and partly in green-like village pattern, and within this at micro level part of a series of buildings positioned in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large 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 between pointed gables, slightly flared at the base, and covered with corrugated tiles, with long window strips of dormer windows in both roof slopes. In the western end facade / main facade on the left an entrance opening under a relieving arch, with two steps, provided with a lattice door and a fanlight divided into four. To the right of this two window openings under a relieving arch and 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. On attic storey level two small rectangular windows with four-pane glazing bars, both under a semicircular arch filled with brick. Eastern end facade symmetrical with on the left and right a window opening under a relieving arch and 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, and centrally an entrance opening with sheet-iron door. Later-applied iron spiral staircase to attic storey level, where modern entrance opening and to the left and right modern windows. In northern long side two times three and in southern long side three times two 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. Gutter pipes. The interior has been partly modernised. Wall cladding characteristic of the building period is largely 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.