Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 20 stands isolated in a wooded environment, broadly between number 15 and number 22 but to the east of them, approximately midway between the two north-south connections on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs north-south and runs parallel with both roads. Building 20 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 series of buildings grouped in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, medium-sized, 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 slightly deflected at the bottom and clad with grey corrugated tiles with one brick chimney in each of the long roof panels. The northern gable end / main gable has on the right an access opening with wooden door and fanlight divided into four panes, and to the left of this two 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. The southern gable end contains on the left and right a comparable window and between these a bricked-up access opening. The eastern long side contains two and the western long side three comparable window openings. Gutters all around. Interior on ground floor largely modernised. The staircase retains characteristic features and forms of the building period beside this, such as balustrade and painted wainscoting. Roof with wooden collar ties and rafters. Loft boarded over.

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.