Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 59 stands detached in a wooded environment, roughly between numbers 54 and 58, 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 north-south oriented, parallel to the Lange Jammer. Building 59 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 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 large, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly with crawl space executed brick MILITARY BARRACKS on rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof with corrugated red improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, slightly bowed out at the eaves, between pointed gables. In the northern gable end / main gable on the left an access opening under relieving arch, with two steps and equipped with a wooden door under four-pane fanlight. To the right of this two window openings under relieving arch and 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. At attic level two small windows under relieving arch and with four-pane casement windows. Southern gable end symmetrical, with centrally an access opening with wooden door and to the left and right of this a window opening under relieving arch and 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; at attic level two small windows with four-pane casement windows. In western and eastern long-side respectively three times two and two times three 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; on the right in southern long-side also a later introduced window with vertically divided pane. White painted wind braces; box gutters. The interior is partly modernised. Staircase to attic level with features characteristic of the building period.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily 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.