Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-3 stands detached in the south-eastern corner of the T-junction of the eastern access road to Klein-Heidekamp and the eastern of the two north-south roads on the site. At macro level, building 1-3 is part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in village-green fashion, and at micro level of a centrally located ensemble of functional accommodation. It was placed in 1940/1941 as a 'Sonderbau' and was extended in a later phase, in 1943. Building 1-3 comprises three clearly distinguishable sections, namely an east-west oriented mass, and at right angles to it two wings pointing mainly to the south. The eastern wing contained the office of the commander of 'Nachtjagdgeschwader 1' and other command rooms, and was the most important. A possible octagonal wooden superstructure on this building part is no longer present.

Description

Partially cellared and otherwise largely provided with crawl spaces, single-storey, with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry executed in brick COMMAND BUILDING on a mainly U-shaped floor plan, with slightly recessed and raised plinth and partly covered by (half-hipped) gabled roofs, partly by hipped roofs, each laid with grey and to a limited extent with red wavy improved hollow (Dutch) tiles. Gutters all around.

The eastern north-south oriented building section is built on a rectangular floor plan and is covered by a hipped roof. In the eastern long facade, to the left of centre a three-bay wide projecting section under lower, attached hip, and adjoining a two-step high terrace of brick and concrete tiles. The bays contain arched access openings and double, vertically divided in fours glass doors, with on either side down to halfway, green painted sheet-steel shutters. In the east facade also on the left two and on the right eight window openings under lintel and with concrete sill, at the top provided with fanlight sash windows divided with wooden glazing bars and at the bottom with double wooden four-light casement windows, all with sheet-steel shutters, painted on one side in green and white hourglass motif. In the end south facade four comparable window openings and in the western long facade five, with a doorway to the right with two steps, under arched lintel and with 16-light door and on the left four small arched windows with four-light division. The end north facade merges seamlessly on the right into a slightly lower, attached connector, which is the link to the northern building section. In facade with connector on the right an access opening framed with blocked arched natural stone with voussoir stone, containing double eight-light doors, and to the left and right of this twice two small arched windows under lintel and with wooden four-light windows. Interior comprises among others a corridor with floor tiled in yellow with a black edge, partly door frames characteristic of the building period (including with splayed edge) and doors, and - especially those in corridors - yellow tiled or in painted scrubwork executed wainscoting; concrete floors and ceilings. Next to this also lowered system ceilings. Cellar and crawl space executed in concrete and also supported by a metal beam system. Loft is a predominantly undivided space with concrete floor and with roof structure carried by principals and purlins.

The northern building section is built on a rectangular floor plan and is covered by a gabled roof which is half-hipped on the east side and attached on the west side to the roof of the western building section. Connector to the eastern building section merges seamlessly into the southern long facade. Both long facades provided with partly paired window openings under lintel and with concrete sill, containing above fanlight sash windows divided with wooden glazing bars and below double wooden four-light casement windows, all with sheet-steel shutters, painted on one side in green and white hourglass motif. In the end east facade at ground floor on the right comparable window; at attic level a later, arched access opening under lintel, with double eight-light doors, above which an H-profile iron lifting beam; two small window openings are apparently blocked up. In the interior among others a corridor with floor tiled in yellow with black edge, predominantly door frames and doors characteristic of the building period, in the corridor wainscoting executed in painted scrubwork; concrete floors and ceilings. Under the floors crawl spaces; the loft is a predominantly undivided space with concrete floor under a roof structure carried by principals and purlins.

The western north-south oriented and also highest building section was built in 1943 on a mainly rectangular floor plan and is covered by a partly raised gabled roof between spout gables. On the west side an outbuilding executed with pointed gable under a lower, attached and transverse gabled roof and five (to the left of this) plus one (to the right) roof dormers brought under zinc hipped roof-lets with double four-light casement windows. In the space of which this outbuilding forms part, the so-called 'Auswertungsraum', flight guidance was established in 1943. The end north facade, which can be typified visually and functionally as main facade, is a spout gable with blocked brick pilasters and shoulder pieces; centrally therein an access opening framed with blocked and arched natural stone with raised voussoir stone and to the left and right a small window with wooden eight-light windows under lintel, provided with sheet-steel shutters with diagonal white and green stripe motif. At attic level three arched windows under lintel, with casement windows and at attic storey level a small window. The end south facade has an access opening framed with blocked natural stone under small fanlight, three small windows with eight-light windows under lintel and sheet-steel shutters with diagonal white and green stripe motif; at attic level three arched windows and at attic storey level a small window. The east facade is at ground floor provided with window openings under lintel and with concrete sill, at the top provided with fanlight sash windows divided with wooden glazing bars and at the bottom with double wooden four-light casement windows and sheet-steel shutters, which are painted on one side in green and white hourglass motif; also a later modified access opening, now under arched lintel and provided with wooden, with glazing bars divided, single glass door. Under the raised roof hip a total of nine arched window openings with casement window, the right one with an iron emergency stair and an iron balcony with balustrade. On the right in the roof hip a strip-shaped roof light. The west facade at ground floor on the left provided with window openings under lintel and with concrete sill, at the top provided with fanlight sash windows divided with wooden glazing bars and at the bottom with double wooden four-light casement windows and sheet-steel shutters, painted in green and white hourglass motif. On the right a platform and brick staircase and above it three small windows with wooden eight-light windows under lintel, all provided with sheet-steel shutters with diagonal white and green stripe motif. In the facade of the outbuilding at basement level a possibly later introduced double sheet-iron shutter; at ground floor a large arched brick cross window with a two by eight- and two by four-light wooden glazing bar division and at attic level a window with double four-light casement windows; southern side facade arched access opening with 16-light.

The interior comprises among others a later partly brought into the 'Auswertungsraum', fairly high festive and dance hall. At the location of the windows under the raised roof hip, a staircase characteristic of the building period, door frames and a number of doors and in the right section at the platform stairs to a small basement. Loft contains - next to a finished undivided space with three arched windows and roof window-lets - a heavy concrete structure above the 'Auswertungsraum' and further a roof structure carried by wooden principals and purlins.

Opposite the most western facade a shallow brick shed under lean-to roof with double iron doors.

Valuation

COMMAND BUILDING realized in two building phases, of general importance as a rare and recognizable component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by reason of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be apparent among others from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially created village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to detailing, from the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied therein.