Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 17 stands detached in a wooded environment, roughly between building 14 and building 18, on the north side at the end 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 southwest to northeast and lies parallel to the greatest length of the turning circle. Building 17 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 loosely grouped cluster of buildings.

Description

Single-storey, medium-sized military barracks of brick with approximately 50 cm thick external walls and with crawlspace, on a mainly rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof rounded at two sides, with red and smoored corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) pantiles and on the southeastern long side on the right a partly open extension carried by a brick column at the corner under a half-hipped roof addition. The northeastern gable end / principal gable has on the left an access opening under a roll moulding, with wooden door and fanlight divided into four panes, and on the right 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, both below the plinth fitted with sheet-steel shutters with hourglass motif painted in green and white. At attic level two small four-pane casements. The southwestern gable end with on the left and right a window opening under roll moulding and with concrete plinth, containing above four-pane sash windows and below double wooden two-pane casements opening inwards, both below the plinth fitted with sheet-steel shutters with hourglass motif painted in green and white, and between these a bricked-up access opening. At attic level two small four-pane casements. Northwestern long side with four 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. Southeastern long side with on the left two comparable windows and on the right of these the extension, containing two smaller windows with four-pane sash windows and green painted wooden shutters. White painted wind braces; gutters. The interior is largely modernised.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a relatively intact 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.