Legeringsgebouw, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 74 stands detached beside a small park against a wooded background, to the northeast of number 73, in the southeastern quadrant of the T-junction of a relatively short north-south running connecting road and an east-west directed road in the southern part of Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs north-south and is perpendicular to the east-west directed road. Building 74 is a military barracks ('Regelbau') constructed in 1940-1941 and is at macroscale part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at mesoscale part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a brinkdorp-like relationship, and within this at microscale part of a cluster of somewhat peripherally located buildings.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly executed with crawl space, on rectangular plan and covered by a saddle roof lined with corrugated grey rapid-laying tiles between pointed gables and with four brick chimneys in the roof ridge. In the northern end gable / principal gable on the left an access opening under a relieving arch, with two steps, furnished 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, in which above four-pane drop 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. At attic storey level two small rectangular windows with four-pane glazing, both under a semicircular arch filled with brick. Southern end gable symmetrical, with on the left and right a window opening under a relieving arch and with concrete sill, in which above four-pane drop 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 bricked-up access opening. At attic storey level two small rectangular windows with four-pane glazing, both under a semicircular arch filled with brick. In both long gables three times two window openings with concrete sill, in which above four-pane drop sashes and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, each below the sill furnished with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Box gutters and white painted wind vanes. The interior is partly modernised. Behind later applied cladding is a staircase with painted wall panelling characteristic of the building period. On the attic floor eight flue channels are united into four brick chimneys. The roof is supported by a wooden tie-beam and rafter truss, furnished with later boarding.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily recognisable component of a military camp originating 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-historical 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 brinkdorp structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, by the coherence of and with the overall military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied therein.