Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot_Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 61 lies free-standing in a wooded environment, roughly between numbers 60 and 62, on the north side of and closely against a straight east-facing axis on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented east-west and runs parallel to the road. Building 61 is a military barrack created 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 placed in a radiating village-green-like arrangement, and within this at micro level of a series of buildings positioned in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large, brick MILITARY BARRACK with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly executed with crawl space on rectangular footprint and covered by a gabled roof slightly splayed at the bottom, laid with grey corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, and arched at both gable ends. The southern side facade / main facade has twice three window openings with concrete cill, in which above four-pane hinged windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the cill provided with sheet-metal shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif; the northern side facade with three times two comparable windows. In the eastern gable end on the left an access opening under a lintel and with a roller ramp running from the road and later constructed, further with a vertically boarded wooden door and a fanlight divided into four parts; to the right thereof two comparable window openings under a lintel. At attic level two small windows under a lintel, in which four-pane casement windows. Western gable end symmetrical, with on the left and right a window opening under a lintel and with concrete cill, in which above four-pane hinged windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the cill provided with sheet-metal shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif; centrally an access opening under a lintel and with two steps. At attic level two small windows under a lintel and with four-pane casement windows. Gutter mouldings, white-painted weather vanes. Interior largely modernized.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACK, of general interest as a clearly 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 evident inter alia from the traditionalist building manner inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, from the artificially established village-green-like structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, from the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.