Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 73 stands freely at a small square against a wooded background, roughly between numbers 72 and 74, in the south-eastern quadrant of the T-junction of a relatively short north-south running connecting road and an east-west running road in the southern part of Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented approximately north-south and runs parallel with the road. Building 73 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 cluster of somewhat peripherally located buildings.

Description

Single-storey brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly with crawl space, on rectangular ground plan and covered by a hipped roof with red corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, slightly curved inward at the base, and with a brick chimney through the roof ridge. In the northern end gable / main gable on the left an entrance opening with two steps, a wooden lattice door with robustly executed hinges and a fanlight divided into four panes; to the left of this 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. In the southern end gable two similar window openings and between these a bricked-up entrance opening. Both long walls each with two similar window openings. Gutters throughout. The interior is modernized.

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.