Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 26 stands detached, somewhat set back, in linear arrangement broadly between numbers 24 and 28 and diagonally opposite 27, on the east side of the western of the two north-south connections on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge stands perpendicular to the road and is broadly oriented from west-northwest to east-southeast. Building 26 is a military barracks 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 of a sparse complex of partly linearly and partly village-green-like positioned buildings, and within this at micro level of an ensemble of structures placed in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small, brick MILITARY BARRACKS executed with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and with a crawl space, on a mainly rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof arched on two sides and clad with red corrugated tiles, with roof windows in the northern long side and with on the southern long gable on the left a partly open extension supported at the corner by a brick column under a catslide roof. In the western gable end / main gable on the right - beside the extension - an entrance opening under a roll joint, with two steps, wooden door and a fanlight divided into four lights. To the left of this a window opening under a roll joint, with concrete sill, containing above four-light drop windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-light casement windows, both below the sill provided with sheet-steel shutters with an hourglass motif painted in green and white, and to the left of this a bricked-up window. At attic level two small windows with four-light casement windows. Western gable end symmetrical, with on the left and right a window opening under a roll joint, with concrete sill, containing above four-light drop windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-light casement windows, both below the sill provided with sheet-steel shutters with an hourglass motif painted in green and white, and between these an entrance opening with a sheet-steel door, under a roll joint and with two steps. At attic level two small windows with four-light casement windows. Northern long gable with on the left a window opening with concrete sill, containing above four-light drop windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-light casement windows, both below the sill provided with sheet-steel shutters with an hourglass motif painted in green and white, and to the right of this three bricked-up windows. Southern long gable with on the right two comparable window openings and to the left of this the extension, containing two small windows with four-light drop windows and provided with wooden shutters. White-painted roof finials; gutters. Interior modified.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a recognizable 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, 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 created village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to the 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 affinity of the forms applied herein.