Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 70 stands detached in a wooded environment between number 69 and 71, in the southwestern quadrant of the T-junction of the road running roughly west-east from the hospital with the north-south running Lange Jammer on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs north-south and runs parallel with the Lange Jammer. Building 70 is a barracks building 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 arranged in a hamlet-like configuration, and within this at micro level of a number of somewhat peripheral buildings grouped in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large brick BARRACKS BUILDING with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly constructed with crawl space on a rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof slightly curved at the eaves, clad with corrugated grey quick-cover tiles between pointed gables. In the northern gable end / main facade on the left an entrance opening under a relieving arch, with two steps, provided with a wooden door and a fanlight divided into four panes. To the right of this two window openings under a relieving arch and with concrete sill, containing above four-pane drop 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. On attic storey level two small rectangular windows with four-pane glazing, both under a semicircular brick-filled arch. Southern gable end symmetrical, with on the left and right a window opening under a relieving arch and with concrete sill, containing above four-pane drop 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, and centrally a brick-infilled entrance opening. On attic storey level two small rectangular windows with four-pane glazing, both under a semicircular brick-filled arch. In both long facades three times two window openings with concrete sill, containing above four-pane drop 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. Roof gutters and white painted weathervanes. The interior is partly modernized. Behind a later installed boarded ceiling is a staircase characteristic of the construction period. In the attic eight flue channels are combined into four brick chimneys. The roof is supported by a wooden collar tie and rafter roof structure, provided with later boarding.

Valuation

BARRACKS BUILDING, of general importance as a readily recognizable component of an army 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 demonstrated inter alia through the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, through components and details characteristic of the construction period, through the artificially created hamlet-like structure and the camouflage executed down to details, through the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.