Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 27 stands detached, surrounded by a small lawn between numbers 25 and 29, diagonally opposite number 26, on the west side of the western of the two north-south connections on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented from west-northwest to east-southeast and stands perpendicular to the road. Building 27 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 a series of structures grouped in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small, brick MILITARY BARRACKS executed with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly with a crawl space, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a hipped roof, slightly angled at the bottom, and clad with grey corrugated quick-fix tiles. In the eastern gable end / main gable on the right an entrance opening with two steps, provided with a sheet-steel door and a fanlight divided into four lights with later-added grilles, and to the left of this two window openings with concrete sill, containing above four-light drop windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-light casement windows, below the sill provided with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Western gable end symmetrical with on the left (boarded up at the top) and on the right (with such grilles) a comparable window opening and centrally an entrance opening under a roll joint, provided with sheet-steel door. Northern and southern long gable with respectively three and two comparable window openings, partly provided at the top with such grilles, partly boarded up. Box gutters all around. Interior contains a staircase with painted wall panelling characteristic of the building period.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily 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.