Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 75 stands detached in a wooded environment between number 68 and 69, on the west side of the north-south running Lange Jammer on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge runs north-south and runs parallel to the Lange Jammer. Building 75 is a boiler house ('Sonderbau') constructed in 1940-1941, a capacity in which it played a pioneering role in district heating technology. Building 75 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 number of somewhat peripherally located buildings grouped in loose linear arrangement.

Description

Partially basements, single-storey brick BOILER HOUSE on rectangular plan, covered by a saddle roof lined with corrugated grey rapid-laying tiles between pointed gables and executed with some overhang above both long gables. Through the south end of the roof ridge a fairly voluminous brick chimney approximately two metres high with two levels and on the north side of the chimney a slit window possibly serving as a lookout opening or as a provision for chimney sweeping. The plinth is executed all around in darker brick and ends in a relieving arch; both end gables are provided with projections on the left and right. In the eastern long gable / principal gable left of centre an access opening under a relieving arch, with two steps and furnished with a batten door; to the left of this three coupled slit windows with brick water-check drips and wooden frames, in which panes divided vertically into three divisions and on the right three small rectangular window panes. Western long gable with on the left three similar small window panes and a later inserted access opening; on the right two later inserted rectangular windows, divided with small opening vents at the top. Northern end gable has been modified and contains directly above the plinth building traces of two bricked-up arched gable openings and higher up of two smaller, likewise bricked-up square window openings. Gable now blank. Southern end gable with centrally a slightly projecting flue channel and on the left two small window openings under a relieving arch, with wooden frames and drop sashes. Box gutters on corbels. Interior contains a modern heating installation, which does not represent intrinsic monumental value.

Valuation

BOILER HOUSE, of general importance as a rare 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 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.