Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 30 is markedly situated from the south and southwest, freestanding against a wooded background on the east side of the current Clément van Maasdijklaan in the northeastern quadrant of the T-junction with the northern access road to Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge extends from south to north, parallel with the Clément van Maasdijklaan. Building 30 is a gate building constructed in 1940/1941 as a 'Sonderbau' 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 a somewhat peripheral building on the (formerly) through north-south connection between Groot- and Klein-Heidekamp. The access road has been widened, which has necessitated among other things the demolition of the access gate and virtually the entire adjoining wall. The building still functions as a gate building.

Description

Single-storey brick GATE BUILDING with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry on a rectangular plan, covered by a hipped roof lined with grey corrugated concrete tiles, with two brick chimneys in the roof ridge. On the corner of the southern end gable / main gable and the right long side a portico provided with two steps, with in both gables a semicircular closed access under double roll moulding, separated by a square corner column. Portico with brick cross vault, arched access opening under roof ridge and provided with lattice door and on the left a small arched window under roof ridge. On the left in the southern end gable a window strip placed under roll moulding and concrete lintel and provided with brick lintels, fairly wide rectangular, in which four modern fixed windows. Perpendicular to the gable approximately 25 cm lowered wall fragment. In the right or eastern long side to the left the portico and to the right of this further six relatively small arched windows under roof ridge and with brick lintels, partly provided with four-paned casement windows and with shutters painted in a green and white hourglass motif, and otherwise filled with glass blocks. At various places construction traces of modification / extension in northern direction. Northern end gable provided with arched access opening with renewed rectangular door. In western long side six window openings under roof ridge and with brick lintels, of which the left two filled with glass blocks, the two middle ones with double two-paned casement windows and provided with relatively recent grille work, and the right two later extended downwards and provided with modern fixed glazing. Gutters all around. The interior has been substantially modernized.

Valuation

GATE BUILDING, of general importance as a rare and 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.