Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 63 stands isolated between numbers 59 (at considerable distance) and 64, close to the south-western angle of the T-junction of the north-south running, so-called Lange Jammer and an east-west oriented straight road on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs east-west and is perpendicular to the Lange Jammer. Building 63 is a military barracks created in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a radiating village green-like configuration, and within this at micro level of a somewhat peripherally located series of buildings positioned in loose linear arrangement. The extension on the right side of the northern long side has sustained considerable damage from—presumably—a traffic accident. The interior is relatively rich in components and forms characteristic of the building period.

Description

Single-storey, with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and with crawl space executed, brick MILITARY BARRACKS on predominantly rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof lined with red corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, arched at two sides, with one brick chimney passing through the roof ridge and two in the northern roof slope, and with on the right of the northern long side a partly open extension and on the corner an extension carried by a square brick column under an abutting catslide roof. The eastern end gable / main gable has on the left and right a window opening under relieving arch and with concrete sill, containing above four-pane casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, both below the sill provided with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. On attic level two window openings under relieving arch and small four-pane casement windows. Western end gable with on the right two window openings under relieving arch and with concrete sill, containing above four-pane casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, both below the sill provided with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. To the left of this an entrance opening under relieving arch, with wooden lattice door and four-pane fanlight and again to the left of this the extension under catslide roof. On attic level two window openings under relieving arch and fitted with small four-pane casement windows. Northern long side with on the left two window openings with concrete sill, containing above four-pane casement 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 this the extension, containing two smaller windows with four-pane casement windows. Southern long side with three window openings with concrete sill, containing above four-pane casement 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. White painted wind braces; gutters. The current spatial and functional condition presumably aligns closely with the arrangement created during the building period. The interior contains numerous components and details characteristic of the building period, such as the staircase to attic level, doors and door frames, various sanitary facilities, black-edged yellow tilework, light ochre-coloured painted wainscoting, white plasterwork, C.V. radiators. The roof is supported by a wooden rafter and tie-beam roof truss later clad with sheet metal.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a relatively intact, very readily recognizable and thus representative component of a military camp from the Second World War, established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of: architectural-historical, town-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be evidenced by among others the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, the components and details characteristic of the building period, the artificially created village green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest details, the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.