Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 38 stands detached in a village green-like planted area, broadly to the north and northwest of numbers 36 and 37, on the eastern side of the through north-south connection at Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented east-west and stands somewhat askew to the adjacent road. Building 38 is a military barracks erected 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 placed partly in linear and partly in village green-like arrangement, and within this at the micro level of a number of structures grouped in loose linear order.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small, brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly with a crawl space, on a rectangular plan and covered by a hipped roof lined with grey corrugated concrete tiles, slightly curved at the lower edge; through both roof slopes a brick chimney and in both a later inserted plastic ventilation window. In the western end facade / principal facade on the left an entrance opening with two steps, provided with a flat wooden door and a fanlight divided into four panes and to the right of this two window openings with concrete sill, featuring above four-pane drop windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the sill provided with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Southern end facade with on the left and right a similar window opening and centrally a bricked-up entrance opening. Both longitudinal facades with two similar window openings; on the right in the eastern facade construction traces of a filled third window. Gutters all around. Interior largely modernized.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily recognizable component 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 demonstrated amongst others through the traditionalistic building style inspired by local forms, through the components and details characteristic of the building period, through the artificially established village green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest details, through the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.