Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 29 is situated freestanding in a village green-like structure, broadly between numbers 28, 30 and 31, in the southwestern quadrant of the T-junction of the western of the two north-south running roads on and the northern access road to Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented north-south and stands perpendicular to the access road. Building 29 is a military barracks constructed in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and at macrolevel forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at mesolevel of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a fanned village green-like configuration, and within this at microlevel of a series of buildings grouped in loose linear relationship. The building currently functions as a centre for spiritual care.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly executed with a crawl space on a rectangular plan, with concrete plinth and foundation and covered by a gabled roof with slightly curved eaves lined with corrugated grey quick-cover tiles between pointed gables, with window strips of elongated dormer windows in both roof slopes. In the northern end gable / main gable on the left an access opening under roll moulding, with two steps, provided with a lattice door and a fanlight divided into four panes. To the right of this two window openings under roll moulding and with concrete kalf, in which above four-paned casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-paned casement windows, below the kalf provided with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. At attic level two small rectangular windows, with four-pane division, both under roll moulding. Southern end gable symmetrically with on the ground floor left and right a window opening under roll moulding and with concrete kalf, in which above four-paned casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-paned casement windows, below the kalf provided with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif, and between these a bricked-up access opening. Relatively recently installed iron spiral staircase to attic level, where access opening with relatively recent door and left and right a window opening with four-pane windows. Repair or restoration traces in masonry. In western and eastern long sides respectively three by two and two by three window openings with concrete kalf, in which above four-paned casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-paned casement windows, below the kalf provided with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. White painted wind braces; gutters. The interior has been largely modernized.

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-historical, urban planning, military- and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be evidenced among other things by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the construction period, by the artificially created village green structure and the camouflage carried through to detail, by the coherence 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 therein.