Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 64 stands detached, somewhat set back in a wooded setting, to the south-west of 63, in the south-western quadrant of the T-junction of a road running towards the north-east, slightly curved, and the easternmost north-south running road (the Lange Jammer) at Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs east-west and is perpendicular to the Lange Jammer. Building 64 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 green-village-like configuration, and within this at micro level of a somewhat peripherally located ensemble of buildings positioned in loose linear alignment.

Description

Single-storey, medium-sized brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external wall masonry and partly with crawl space, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof with a slight outward bow at the base, clad with red corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, between pointed gables, with two chimneys through the southern roof slope and one through the northern. In the eastern gable end / main gable on the right an entrance opening under a relieving arch, furnished with a wooden lattice door and a fanlight divided into four panes and to the left of this two window openings under a relieving arch with concrete sill, with four-pane hinged sashes above and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the sill furnished with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. At attic storey level three small window openings under a relieving arch, with four-pane casement window and remains of overhead electricity supply. Western gable end with on the left and right a window opening under a relieving arch with concrete sill, containing above four-pane hinged sashes and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the sill furnished with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif, and centrally an entrance opening under a relieving arch, with fanlight divided into four panes and furnished with a sheet-steel door. At attic storey level three small window openings under a relieving arch, with four-pane casement window and remains of overhead electricity supply. Southern and northern long sides with two and three window openings respectively with concrete sill, containing above four-pane hinged sashes and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the sill furnished with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif; on the left in the northern long side also a small arched window with hinged sash. White painted wind vanes, master gutters. In the interior a staircase characteristic of the building period, some yellow tilework, painted wall panelling, and door posts.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a relatively well-preserved 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 among others can be evident from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially established green-village structure and the camouflage carried through in every detail, from the coherence of and with the complete military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.