Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 21 stands detached, somewhat set back at a small public garden against a wooded background, northwest of number 16, on the west side of the western of the two north-south running roads on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented east-west and stands perpendicular to the road. Building 21 is a military barracks created 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 scattered complex of buildings arranged partly in linear and partly in scattered-village fashion, and within this at micro level part of a series of buildings positioned in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, medium-sized brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly executed with crawl space on essentially rectangular ground plan and covered by a gabled roof with mixed-toned corrugated re-improved Dutch tiles, with in both roof slopes the window strip of an elongated roof dormer. On the northern long side left an extension with steep gable beneath a lower and at the base slightly angled gabled roof. Eastern end gable / main gable with on the right an access opening under a roof tile ornament, with wooden slatted door and four-pane fanlight and on the left two window openings under a roof tile ornament and with concrete sill, with above four-pane hung sash windows and below double wooden two-pane casements opening inwards, both below the sill fitted with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. At attic level three undivided casements. Southern long side with four window openings with concrete sill, with above four-pane hung sash windows and below double wooden two-pane casements opening inwards, below the sill fitted with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Northern long side with on the right two similar windows and to the left of these the extension with arched window, with through glazing bars a four-pane hung sash window. End north gable symmetrical, with on the left and right window openings under a roof tile ornament, with concrete sill and fitted with through glazing bars double wooden two-pane casements below, and four-pane hung sash windows above and below the sill sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif; between these a partly bricked-up access opening, now with a modern window, and a later installed iron spiral staircase to attic level with access opening with modern door and left and right a small rectangular window with through glazing bars. White-painted bargeboards; gutter boxes. The interior is largely modernised with some components and features characteristic of the building period, such as the staircase.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily 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, on account of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, military- and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which among other things can be evidenced by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially established scattered-village structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest 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.