Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 71 stands freely in a wooded environment, slightly south of number 70, in the south-western quadrant of the T-junction of the approximately west-east running road from the hospital with the north-south running Lange Jammer on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented east-west and stands at right angles to the Lange Jammer. Building 71 is a military barracks created as a 'Regelbau' in 1940-1941 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 village-green-like pattern, and within this at micro level of a number of somewhat peripherally located buildings grouped in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively small brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly with crawl space, on rectangular ground plan and covered by a gabled roof with red corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, slightly curved inward at the base, between pointed gables. In the eastern end gable / main gable on the right an entrance opening under a roll moulding, with two steps and provided with a lattice door with robustly executed hinges and a fanlight divided into four panes. To the left of this two window openings under roll moulding and with concrete sill, with four-pane hopper windows above and double wooden two-pane casement windows opening inward below, below the sill provided with sheet metal shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. At attic storey level two small rectangular windows with four-pane glazing, both under a half-round arch filled with brick. Western end gable symmetrical, with a window opening on the left and right under roll moulding and with concrete sill, with four-pane hopper windows above and double wooden two-pane casement windows opening inward below, below the sill provided with sheet metal shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif, and centrally a bricked-up entrance opening. At attic storey level two small rectangular windows with four-pane glazing, both under a half-round arch filled with brick. In both long walls two window openings with concrete sill, with four-pane hopper windows above and double wooden two-pane casement windows opening inward below, below the sill provided with sheet metal shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Gutters and white painted weathervanes. The interior is partly modernized. Behind later-applied cladding a staircase characteristic of the construction period is presumably present.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily identifiable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and established 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 in particular be evident from the traditionalist building approach inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the construction period, from the artificially established village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, from the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.