Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 22 stands detached against a wooded background, roughly between numbers 15 and 23, northwest of number 20, on the east side of the western north-south connection on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented north-south, parallel with the road. Building 22 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 grouped in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly executed with crawl space on rectangular ground plan and covered by a hipped roof slightly angled at the base, with grey corrugated rapid-lay tiles, with a chimney through the western roof slope and two through the eastern one. In the western long side / main gable three 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. In the eastern long side two similar window openings. In the northern end gable on the right an access opening with wooden slatted door and four-pane fanlight and on the left two similar window openings. The southern end gable symmetrical with on the left and right a similar window opening and between these a later bricked-up access opening with two steps. Gutter boxes all around. Interior largely modernised.

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.