Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 58 stands detached and set back in a wooded environment, south-west and diagonally behind number 59, in the south-western quadrant of the T-junction of a north-east-oriented, slightly curved road and the easternmost north-south running road (Lange Jammer) on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is east-west oriented and is perpendicular to the Lange Jammer. Building 58 is a military barracks constructed in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged partly in linear arrangement and partly in radiating green-village fashion, and within this at micro level of a somewhat peripheral ensemble on the north-east-oriented road.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly with crawl space executed brick MILITARY BARRACKS on rectangular floor plan and foundation and covered by a hipped roof with corrugated grey interlocking tiles, slightly bowed out at the eaves, with two chimneys through the south-facing roof slope and one through the north-facing. In the eastern gable end / main gable on the right an access opening, equipped with a flat wooden door and a fanlight divided into four panes, and to the left of this two window openings with concrete cill, with above four-pane drop sashes and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the cill provided with sheet-steel shutters painted green and white with hourglass motif. Western gable end with on the left and right a similar window opening and centrally a sealed up access opening. South-facing and north-facing long-sides with two similar window openings each; in north-facing long-side a third window (on the left) is sealed up. Box gutters all round. Interior partly modernised.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a 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, on account 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 established green-village structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest 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.