Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 34 stands free-standing in a village-green-like structure along the north side of the northern access road to Groot-Heidekamp, in the north-west quadrant of a road junction and roughly midway between numbers 31 and 36. The short roof ridge extends from north to south. Building 34 is an electricity house / transformer house created in 1940-1941 as a 'Sonderbau' 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 placed 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. The building is still in use in a comparable function.

Description

Single-storey brick ELECTRICITY HOUSE / TRANSFORMER HOUSE on virtually square footprint, with darker executed brick plinth and covered by a hipped roof laid with grey concrete tiles. The eastern side facade / main facade centrally provided with an access opening under a lintel, with green-painted sheet-iron door with three hinges and on either side thereof a small square window under a lintel, with tiles as drip edges and provided with frames divided into four parts by iron mullions. Rear facade comparable, but without window openings. In both side facades at different heights three small square ventilation openings. Gutter mouldings all around; on front and rear facades a relatively large later-added fluorescent lamp.

Valuation

ELECTRICITY HOUSE / TRANSFORMER HOUSE, of general interest as a rare and relatively intact component still in original use of a military 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 can be evident inter alia from the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, from the artificially established village-green-like structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, from the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.