Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 25 stands detached, diagonally northwest opposite 24, on the western side of the western of the two north-south connections at Groot-Heidekamp. Building 25 is a barrack 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 of a sparse complex of buildings arranged partly in linear and partly in village-green arrangement, and within this at micro level of an ensemble of buildings placed in loose linear arrangement. The building is now fitted out for the functions of bar and function space.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small, brick BARRACK executed with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and with crawl space on substantially rectangular plan, with concrete plinth and foundations and covered by a gabled roof arched on two sides, laid with red corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with in both roof slopes modern roof windows and with on the eastern long gable on the right a partly open extension carried on the corner by a brick column under an adjoining lean-to roof. In the eastern long gable / main gable on the left two window openings with concrete sill, containing above four-pane hopper windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, both below the sill provided with sheet-steel shutters with an hourglass motif painted in green and white. To the right of this the extension, containing two sealed-up windows. The northern gable end, adjoining the extension, has on the left an access opening under course, with wooden door and four-pane fanlight and on the right two comparable window openings under course. At attic storey level two small four-pane casement windows. The southern gable symmetrical, with on the left and right a comparable window opening and between these a sheet-steel access opening under course and with two steps. Later steel spiral staircase to attic storey level, where relatively modern door and two small windows with four-pane casement windows. Western long gable with three window openings with concrete sill, containing above four-pane hopper windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the sill provided with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif, and between the first and the second from the right a later introduced access opening under arched course, with eight-pane glass door. White-painted wind braces; box gutters. Interior significantly altered by change of use.

Valuation

BARRACK, of general importance as a recognisable component of an army 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 among others in the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, in the components and details characteristic of the building period, in the artificially created village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, in the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and in the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.