Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 31 stands detached in a village green-like structure along the north side of the northern access road to Groot-Heidekamp, in the northwestern quadrant of a road junction and broadly situated between numbers 29, 32 and 34. At macro level, building 31 is part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged partly in linear and partly in village green-like arrangement, and within this at micro level of an ensemble of premises arranged in loose linear formation. Building 31 is a recreation building and restaurant (Kasino) established in 1940/1941 as a 'Sonderbau' and comprises three clearly distinguishable sections, namely - as the most westerly - a rectangular main mass; to the east of this, standing at right angles and connected to it by a connecting element - with later extension - a somewhat elongated volume; and at right angles to this second part and behind it a likewise rectangular mass; the latter two together form a T-shaped floor plan. The building is currently fitted out as a non-commissioned officers' mess.

Description

Partially cellared and partly provided with crawl spaces, large, single-storey, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork RECREATION BUILDING ANNEX RESTAURANT on a composite floor plan, roofed with hipped roofs, each mainly covered with corrugated mixed-coloured newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles. Rainwater gutters all around.

The western cellared building section is built on a rectangular floor plan and is roofed with a hipped roof with the ridge running parallel to the main facade and perpendicular to the road and with in both long slopes a window strip of an elongated roof dormer. The eastern long facade / main facade contains on the left two window openings under a rooster comb and with concrete soffit, above provided with four-pane drop casement windows with wooden glazing bars and below with double wooden two-pane casement windows, below the soffit provided with sheet-steel shutters, single-sided painted in green and white hourglass motif. To the right of this a later inserted arched access opening under rooster comb, with an arched door divided into six panes; around the door building traces of a former window opening. To the right of this a comparable window. Southern gable end with three comparable windows. The western long facade contains on the right an access opening with three steps and to the left of this three comparable window openings. Iron balustrade and brick stair with handrail to cellar level, also with window openings. Northern facade with a relatively small arched window and to the left an access opening. Two cellar lights under concrete lintels with inward-opening double two-pane windows, each provided with a light shaft with iron grille. At the transition to the connecting element a block-shaped later extension. The interior is heavily modernised.

The eastern section thereof, with the ridge parallel to the road and slightly set back building section is built on a rectangular floor plan. The southern long facade contains nine window openings under rooster comb and with concrete soffit, above provided with four-pane drop casement windows with wooden glazing bars and below with double wooden two-pane casement windows, below the soffit provided with sheet-steel shutters, single-sided painted in green and white hourglass motif, and interrupted by two later inserted arched access openings with arched doors provided with six-pane division. In the eastern gable end on the left an arched window opening with brick surround, provided with an eight-pane drop casement window with wooden glazing bars and horizontally divided fanlight in four, and on the right a small arched window with drop casement. In the northern long facade to the left of the cross wing an arched access opening under rooster comb, with an arched door executed in six-pane division and to the right two window openings comparable to those in the southern long facade. To the right of the cross wing three comparable window openings and between the first and the third from the right a later inserted, but likewise comparable access opening. Adjoining to the right the later extension. The interior is formed by a largely undivided modernised space.

The connecting element between the first and second building section, roofed with a gabled roof pitched on both sides, has the south facade in line with the south facade of the second, right building section, and the - considerably lower - ridge likewise parallel to the road. The southern facade of the connecting element has on the ground floor a broad arched access opening - the main entrance of the building - which is flanked by a white-painted arched and blocked brick surround, on which in the arch in metal letters: 'oomess' and which is provided with modern glass doors. On the north side of the connecting element the relatively modern extension, containing hall and sanitary facilities.

The northern building section has the ridge perpendicular to the east-west oriented section; it is built on a rectangular floor plan and is roofed with a hipped roof pitched on two sides, with a brick chimney in the ridge and several modern roof windows in both long slopes. (Together with the east-west oriented building section this section forms a T-shaped floor plan.) The eastern long facade contains on the left a brick stair and balustrade to cellar level, where on the left an access opening and on the right a window opening. Eastern facade on ground floor provided with seven window openings under rooster comb and with concrete soffit, above provided with four-pane drop casement windows with wooden glazing bars and below with double wooden two-pane casement windows, all with below the soffit sheet-steel shutters, single-sided painted in green and white hourglass motif. Between the third and fourth window from the left a possibly later inserted arched access opening with an arched door executed in six-pane division. Far right a small arched window opening with four-pane drop casement. Gable end on the north with on the left three comparable, small window openings and on the right a rectangular access opening with blocked brick surround, two steps, fanlight divided into six panes and provided with a sheet-steel door. The western long facade is to a significant extent white-rendered and with originally nine window openings, of which the left five (semi-)permanently blocked and the right four under rooster comb and with concrete soffit, above provided with four-pane drop casement windows with wooden glazing bars and below with double wooden two-pane casement windows; the leftmost placed and the right four with below the soffit sheet-steel shutters, single-sided painted in green and white hourglass motif. The interior is partly modernised and contains a number of cellar spaces, the ground floor includes an undivided, modernised space.

Assessment

Recreation building annex restaurant (Kasino) built on a composite floor plan, of general importance as a rare and recognisable component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and set up 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 may among others be evident from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially created village green structure and the camouflage carried through into details, from the coherence with and in the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.