Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building B1 stands with its ridge at right angles and detached from a paved car park against a wooded background, on the north side of the southern access road to Groot Heidekamp, between buildings 4 and 10 and diagonally opposite building 3. Building B1 was constructed in 1940-1941 as a 'Sonderbau', presumably as a warehouse / storage building and is at macrolevel part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945, at mesolevel of a sparse complex of buildings arranged partly in linear and partly in green-village fashion, and within this at microlevel of a number of buildings grouped in a green-village structure. It was a garage which was later converted into a potato-peel house.

Description

Single-storey brick WAREHOUSE / STORAGE BUILDING on rectangular plan, covered by a gabled roof between pointed gables, clad with grey corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles and with slight overhanging eaves on corbels on the long sides. The western long side / main facade contains a doorway opening left of centre, set within a previously larger but otherwise infilled facade opening, with one window opening to the left and two to the right under a soldier course and with a drip moulding of tiles, with wooden frames and wooden muntins. Above the muntins four vertical divisions of wooden fixed lights and below double four-division wooden casement windows. Directly to the right of the doorway opening a small elongated little window. At the base of the eastern long side a brick, (now) water-filled and wooden-boarded depth. The eastern long side provided with twice two window openings under a soldier course, with wooden frames and wooden muntins and above the muntins wooden, vertically four-divided fixed lights and below double four-division wooden casement windows. In the narrow northern gable one comparable window opening and in the southern one two comparable window openings, both within a rectangular spared field. White-painted wind braces and above the (former) doorway opening a guttered eaves board. Interior somewhat modified. The interior contains partly painted wainscoting and partly light yellow tiled walls.

Valuation

WAREHOUSE / STORAGE BUILDING, of general interest as a rare component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by reason of: urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated inter alia by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially created green-village structure and the camouflage carried through in detail, by the coherence of and with the overall military airfield concept and the spatial principal lines and components of the encampment, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.