Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building F stands free in a brink-like environment, between numbers 16 and 25 and opposite number 22, on the western side of the western north-south running road on Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge extends from south to north and runs parallel to the road. Building F is a mortuary created as a 'Sonderbau' in 1940-1941 and at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged partly in linear and partly in brinkdorp-like arrangement, and within this at micro level of a series of buildings positioned in loose linear arrangement. The building is currently used as a storage.

Description

Small one-storey brick MORTUARY on a rectangular plan with narrow buttresses on the corners of all facades, under a gently sloping and at the bottom flared hipped roof with boarded generous eaves below and covered with red corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles. Around, approximately 50 cm below the eaves, a roll-moulding on which (partly) overhanging window openings. Centrally in the eastern long facade / main facade a segmental arched access opening with corner stones and keystone and provided with white-painted, radially boarded door, on which a large Latin cross motif. The ornamental fittings on the door have, according to traces, been replaced by modern plain material. Left and right above the roll-moulding two window openings each with two arched wooden sash windows, containing imitation leaded glass, and of which the two outer ones executed overhanging. Western long facade without access opening, but otherwise similarly executed. Both end facades each with a narrower overhanging window on the left and right, containing one arched wooden frame with imitation leaded glass. Above the roll-moulding centrally in both facades a brick circle with an applied Greek cross. The interior is formed by an undivided space with white plastered walls and a brick roll-moulding below window level.

Valuation

MORTUARY, of general importance as a rare and relatively intact component of an army camp established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield dating from the Second World War, by reason of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military 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 total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied therein.