Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 33 is situated as a free-standing structure in a village green-like layout along the eastern side of the easternmost of the two north-south running roads on Groot-Heidekamp, at the south-eastern side of a road junction and roughly between numbers 32, 35 and 36. The roof ridge extends roughly from south-west to north-east and runs parallel with the adjacent road. Building 33 is a military barrack erected in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings positioned partly in linear and partly in village green-like arrangement, and within this at micro level of an ensemble of buildings positioned in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly executed with crawl space brick MILITARY BARRACK on rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof with corrugated grey concrete tiles at the bottom slightly splayed out, positioned between pointed gables. In the north-western end gable / main facade on the right an access opening under a roll bond course, with two steps, fitted with a lattice door and a fanlight divided into four panes. To the left of this two window openings under a roll bond course and with concrete lintel, with above four-pane drop sashes and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the lintel fitted with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. At attic floor level two small rectangular windows with four-pane glazing, both under a semi-circular brick-filled arched field. South-western end gable symmetrical with on the left and right a window opening under a roll bond course and with concrete lintel, with above four-pane drop sashes and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the lintel fitted with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif, and centrally in the facade a later bricked-up access opening; at attic floor level two windows comparable to those in the main facade. In the south-eastern long facade two and in the north-western long facade three window openings with concrete lintel, with above four-pane drop sashes and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the lintel fitted with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Gutter brackets. The interior is partly modernised but contains a staircase with painted wainscoting characteristic of the building period.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACK, of general importance as a readily recognisable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by virtue of: architectural historical, urban planning, military and cultural historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated among other things 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-like structure and camouflage carried through to 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 relationship of the forms applied herein.