Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-1 is located on the east side of the eastern north side of Klein-Heidekamp, standing freely against wooded terrain and slightly to the southeast of building 1-2. The ridge line of building 1-1 runs parallel with the road and with that of building 1-2. Built in 1940/1941 as a 'Regelbau', type bathhouse. On a macro level part of a large-scale military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945. On a meso level part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a brink village pattern and on a micro level part of a centrally located ensemble of functional accommodations.

Description

Single-storey brick BATHHOUSE on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof clad on both sides with grey corrugated dulled hollow (Dutch) tiles and with a modern plastic roof light in the eastern roof slope. In the northern gable end / main gable a central segmental arched entrance opening, containing double clamped wooden doors of diagonally placed sections. Above this at attic level a later-added rectangular attic entrance with clamped door. In the southern gable end a rectangular, later-added window opening with four-pane casement window and at attic level a rectangular window with single-pane frame. In both long sides a total of six high-placed rectangular window openings with four-pane frames, all twelve furnished with green-painted double clamped wooden shutters on both sides. Wall gutters and white-painted wind vanes. In the interior, among other things, semi-open shower cubicles tiled in light yellow up to window height with wooden frames, and central heating system with embossed ribbed pipes as convectors. The showers and control buttons are missing. Ceiling and wall above the tiles white-washed. Ceiling / attic floor probably approximately 20 cm thick concrete.

Valuation

BATHHOUSE, of general importance as a rare and relatively intact component part of an army camp originating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be evident among other things in the traditional building style inspired by local forms, in components and details characteristic of the construction period, in the artificially created brink village structure and the camouflage carried through to the details, in the coherence of and with the overall military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and in the mutual relationship of the forms applied in this.