Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-2 is located on the east side of the eastern north-south road of Klein-Heidekamp, standing freely against wooded terrain, between buildings 1-1 and 1-3, slightly to the northwest of the first. The ridge line of building 1-2 runs parallel with the road and with that of building 1-1. Built in 1940/1941 as a 'Sonderbau', type boiler house with coal storage, and on a macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 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. The boiler house functioned among other things as a heating centre for Klein-Heidekamp and thereby fulfilled a pioneering role in the history of district heating in the Netherlands. The boiler house with coal storage consists of two clearly distinguishable parts from each other: a main volume and a northern lower L-shaped extension.

Description

Partially cellar'd, with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry executed, mostly brick BOILER HOUSE with COAL STORAGE on a composite floor plan, consisting of a mainly rectangular main volume and an extension erected on an L-shaped floor plan.

The main volume is covered by a gabled roof clad on both sides with predominantly grey corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles and with a brick chimney in the ridge on the south side. To the right on the western long side an extension under extended roof slope and extending outward in the eastern long side a remarkably heavy executed brick chimney with climbing irons. On the chimney some modern outlets of smoke flues. At the northern gable end the L-shaped extension with roof slope adjoining the facade. The western long side / main facade is executed with a wooden window strip, wherein connected or separated by a pair of narrow wall dividers windows, furnished with frames with glazing bars; in the extension to the right three small square windows with four-pane frames and wooden shutters with on one side an hourglass motif painted in green and white. To the left of the extension a brick staircase with iron railing to cellar level with access on the left to functional space and straight ahead a boarded-up window opening, both under half-hipped roof. In eastern long side two arched windows under roll moulding and furnished with wooden shutters with green and white hourglass motif and between these the heavy brick chimney. Below both windows ventilation grilles. Centrally in the southern gable end an arched entrance opening with brick step and wooden door, and to the left and right of this similar window openings with wooden shutters. Below these two windows light shafts to cellar level, furnished with roll moulding. At attic storey level three small square windows with four-pane frames and small wooden shutters. In northern gable end two entrance openings: to the left an arched opening with double clamped doors and to the right of this a rectangular entrance opening with clamped door, both under roll moulding. Above this the roof covering of the extension. Wall gutters and white-painted wind vanes. The interior comprises among other things a large functional space rising from cellar level with modern heating boilers on a tile floor characteristic of the construction period; the walls are furnished with painted wainscoting, while ceiling / attic floor is presumably executed in concrete. On the south side an iron stair structure to ground floor level, which is missing on the north side. In the extension under extended roof slope are among other things recognisable period-characteristic panel doors with four-pane light and yellow tilework.

The L-shaped extension at the northern gable end of the main volume was built as semi-open coal storage and is covered by a roof slope clad partly with red and partly with grey improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, adjoining the north facade. The extension consists of approximately one and a half metre high, on the corners provided with buttresses breast wall, which is terminated by a roll moulding and thereupon wooden posts with corbels as roof supports, but on the west side brick columns. Between breast wall and roof foot is approximately one metre open space. To the left in the west gable a wide and approximately one and a half metre high, mainly of iron pipes constructed sliding door and to the right a clamped door with pivoting sections. In the interior with a brick floor covering some approximately one and a half metre high, roughcast small walls under an unboarded tile roof, which is supported by a rafter and tie-beam structure.

Valuation

BOILER HOUSE WITH COAL STORAGE, of general importance as a rare and relatively intact, still functioning in the original purpose 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, technical-historical, 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 significance for the history of district heating in the Netherlands, 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.