Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 23 stands detached and set back, in a wooded environment, roughly between numbers 22 and 24, on the east side of the western of the two north-south running roads on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented north-south and parallel to the road. Building 23 is a military barracks constructed in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and at the macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at the meso level part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged partly in linear and partly in hamlet-like formation, and within this at the micro level part of a series of properties grouped in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick outer walls and in part executed with crawl space, on rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof arched on two sides, slightly splayed at the bottom and clad with grey corrugated metal roof tiles, with two modern casement windows in the eastern long side. In the northern gable end / main gable on the right an access opening under brick arch, with two steps, with four-pane fanlight and fitted with a slatted door, and to the left of this two window openings under brick arch and with concrete plinth, in which four-pane drop windows above and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the plinth fitted with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. At attic floor level two smaller windows with four-pane frames. The southern gable end with on the ground floor left and right a window opening under brick arch and with concrete plinth, in which four-pane drop windows above and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the plinth fitted with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif, and between them a later bricked-up access opening. A later installed steel spiral staircase to attic floor level, with access opening, in which a later installed door and to the left a smaller window with four-pane glazing pattern. In the western long side three window openings three times and in the eastern long side three times two window openings under brick arch and with concrete plinth, in which four-pane drop windows above and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the plinth fitted with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Gutters along the eaves. The interior has been partly modernised. Roof truss structure with wooden rafters and timbers.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a clearly 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 can be demonstrated inter alia by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially constructed hamlet-like structure and the camouflage carried through in detail, by the coherence of and with the overall military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms employed herein.