Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 54 stands detached in a wooded environment to the north of number 59, in the northwestern quadrant of the T-junction of a road oriented towards the northeast, slightly curved, and the easternmost north-south running road (Lange Jammer) at Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented east-west and stands perpendicular to the Lange Jammer. Building 54 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 fanning village green-like arrangement, and within this at the micro level of a somewhat peripherally situated ensemble at the road oriented towards the northeast. Relatively recently building 54 has been substantially enlarged on the west side with a flat-roofed wing built on, connected via a connecting section with entrance area. The building now has, amongst other uses, a function as a reception and instruction room.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large, brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly with a crawl space, on a rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof lined with corrugated mixed newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, slightly curved at the lower edge, and with in both roof slopes strips of windows formed by elongated roof dormers. In the eastern end facade / principal facade an entrance opening under arched brick with later applied ramp and provided with a door under a four-pane fanlight. To the left and right of this a window opening under arched brick and 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. To the right of the entrance an iron stair to attic storey level, leading out at a possibly later inserted entrance opening under arched brick and with a relatively modern door, and to the left of this a small window under arched brick with four-pane window. The western end facade at ground level modified by extension and at attic storey level provided mirror-wise with two similar facade openings. In northern and southern longitudinal facade respectively three times two and two times three 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; also to the right in southern longitudinal facade a later inserted window with vertically divided window. White painted wind braces; gutters. The interior is largely modernized. Stair to attic level with features characteristic of the building period.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a 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.