Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 37 stands detached in a village-green-like planted area, roughly between numbers 36, 38 and 57, opposite a fire-water bunker, on the north side of a slightly curved road oriented towards the northeast on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge stands at right angles to the road and is oriented from north-northwest to south-southeast. Building 37 is a military barracks created in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and at the macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at the meso level of a sparse complex of buildings positioned partly in linear arrangement and partly in village-green-like arrangement, and within this at the micro level of a series of buildings positioned in a loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and executed in part with a crawl space, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof between pointed gables, slightly offset at the lower edge, covered with corrugated red improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with a brick chimney in both roof slopes. In the southeastern gable end / main gable a modified access opening under a relieving arch, with two steps, provided with a modern glass door and matching windows. To the left of this a window opening under a relieving arch and with a concrete cill, wherein above are four-light drop windows and below are double wooden two-light casement windows opening inwards, below the cill provided with sheet steel shutters with an hourglass motif painted in green and white, and on the right a later bricked-up window. On attic level two small rectangular windows with windows with four-light division, both under a relieving arch. Northwestern gable end symmetrical, with on the ground floor three window openings under a relieving arch and with a concrete cill, wherein above are four-light drop windows and below are double wooden two-light casement windows opening inwards, below the cill provided with sheet steel shutters with an hourglass motif painted in green and white; according to building traces the middle one has replaced an earlier access opening. Relatively recently installed metal ladder staircase to attic level, where there is no access opening, but two small window openings with four-light windows. In the southwestern and northeastern long sides respectively three times two and two times three window openings with concrete cills, wherein above are four-light drop windows and below are double wooden two-light casement windows opening inwards, below the cill provided with sheet steel shutters with an hourglass motif painted in green and white. White-painted barge boards; gutters. The interior is largely modernised.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as an easily recognisable component of a military barracks camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by reason of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated inter alia 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 structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest details, 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 herein.