Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 18 stands isolated in a wooded environment, between number 17 and number 19, at the end of a formerly dead-end side road of the north-south connections on Groot-Heidekamp, terminating at a car turning area. The roof ridge runs approximately from northwest to southeast and is perpendicular to the greatest length of the turning area. Building 18 is a military barrack created in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' 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 hamlet-like arrangement, and within this at micro level part of a loosely grouped cluster of buildings.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small, brick MILITARY BARRACK with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and executed with crawl space, on rectangular floor plan and covered by a hipped roof clad with red corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles with one brick chimney in the southwestern roof panel and two in the northeastern panel. The southeastern gable end / main gable has on the left an access opening with wooden door and fanlight divided into four panes, and to the right of this a window opening with concrete calf, with four-pane pivot windows above and double wooden two-pane casement windows opening inwards below, below the calf fitted with sheet-steel shutters with hourglass motif painted in green and white; a second example is bricked up. The northwestern gable end with on the left and right a window opening with concrete calf, with four-pane pivot windows above and double wooden two-pane casement windows opening inwards below, both below the calf fitted with sheet-steel shutters with hourglass motif painted in green and white, and between these a bricked-up access opening. Southwestern long side with three window openings with concrete calf, with four-pane pivot windows above and double wooden two-pane casement windows opening inwards below, below the calf fitted with sheet-steel shutters with hourglass motif painted in green and white; on the northeastern long side both window openings are bricked up. Gutters all around. The interior has been substantially altered and largely modernised.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACK, of general importance as a recognisable 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 evidenced inter alia by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially established hamlet-like structure and the camouflage carried through to detail, by the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.