Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 65 stands detached in a wooded setting, to the north of number 66, in the north-western quadrant of the T-junction of the Lange Jammer and the slightly winding road towards the south-western entrance of Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs north-south and is parallel to the Lange Jammer. Building 65 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 partly in linear and partly in green-village-like configuration, and within this at micro level of a number of somewhat peripherally located buildings grouped in loose linear alignment.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small 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 grey corrugated quick-cover tiles and with half-hipped ends on both gable sides, with a chimney through the roof ridge. In the eastern long side two window openings 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. The western long side is executed similarly. The northern gable end contains on the right an entrance opening under a relieving arch, with two steps and furnished with a lattice door with substantially executed hinge and a fanlight divided into four panes and to the left of this two comparable window openings under a relieving arch. At attic storey level two smaller window openings with four-pane casement window. Southern gable end with on the left and right a window opening 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 a blocked-up entrance opening. At attic storey level two smaller window openings with four-pane casement window. Master gutters; white painted wind vanes. Interior largely modernised. Staircase characteristic of the building period presumably present behind later panelling.

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 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.