Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 69 stands free-standing in a wooded environment between numbers 75 and 70, in the north-western quadrant of and close against the T-junction of the hospital's approximately west-east running road with the north-south running Lange Jammer on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented approximately north-south and runs parallel with the Lange Jammer. Building 69 is a barracks built 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 placed in a brink village-like arrangement, and within this at micro level of a number of somewhat peripherally located buildings grouped in loose linear relation.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly with crawl space executed brick MILITARY BARRACKS on rectangular ground plan and covered by a hipped roof with corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, slightly flared at the bottom, with a brick chimney through the roof ridge. In the eastern gable end / main gable on the right an access opening with two steps, wooden lattice door with robustly executed hinges and a fanlight divided into four, and to the left of this two window openings with concrete sill, containing above four-pane drop sashes and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the sill provided with sheet metal shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. In the western gable end two comparable window openings and between these a bricked-up access opening under a four-pane fanlight. Both long sides each with two comparable window openings. Gutters throughout. The interior is partly modernised. A staircase characteristic of the building period presumably present behind later cladding.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily 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, by virtue 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 created brink 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 therein.