Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-5 c.a. stands free-standing against a wooded background on the west side of the current Clément van Maasdijklaan on the north(west) side of the wall and fence work in the eastern access road to Klein-Heidekamp. Building 1-5 c.a. is a gate lodge with garage and wall and fence work created in 1940/1941 as a 'Sonderbau' and at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945 and at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in village-green fashion.

Description

Single-storey brick GATE LODGE on rectangular plan, with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry, covered by a hipped roof laid with reed with roof ridge parallel to the Clément van Maasdijklaan. Centrally in the ridge laid with grey ridge tiles a brick chimney with chimney plaque and in the eastern roof slope two half-round roof windows placed under semi-circular transverse roof cappings with double wooden pivot frames on a central spindle and with ridge tiles as sills. On the corner of the southern gable / main facade and the side facade a porch with two steps, with in both facades a semi-circular closed access under double relieving arch, separated by a square corner column. Porch with brick cross vault, arched access opening under a cymaise, containing a lattice door with three window panes arranged one above the other and to the right a small arched window under a cymaise with brick sill, containing a wooden frame divided into four panes with glazing bars. To the right in the southern gable a relatively broad rectangular window strip placed under a relieving arch and concrete lintel and provided with brick sills, with four linked wooden four-pane frames. In the left or western long facade two further relatively small arched windows under a relieving arch, provided with four-pane pivot frames and shutters painted with a green and white diagonal stripe motif. The northern gable from left to right provided with an undivided rectangular window, arched access with renewed arched door and an arched window with double four-pane pivot frames. As a temporary provision a roof covering towards the garage. The eastern long facade has on the left a window under a relieving arch and concrete lintel adjoining with a narrow wall dam on the window strip and to the right a comparable window strip three four-pane pivot frames wide.

Valuation

GATE LODGE, forming part of an ensemble of gate lodge, garage / stalling and wall work, of general importance as a well-recognisable and rare component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of their: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical, situational and complex and ensemble values, which can be evident inter alia 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 - and in particular the extremely rarely applied reed roofing, from the specific location at the access road and with extensive views, from the coherence with and within the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.

Description

Adjacent to building 1-5 and on either side of the eastern access to the Klein-Heidekamp site consisting of two separate parts, encompassing some tens of metres in length and approximately two metres high brick WALL WORK. Opposite the gate lodge a square gate pier with coping on which a later-applied rectangular lantern on wrought iron base, and adjoining towards the south a gently curved wall under coping. The swing gate that evidently once existed from some finger-widths of brick opening is now missing. A similar but somewhat shorter curved wall is also found on the north side of the access.

Valuation

WALL WORK, forming part of an ensemble of gate lodge, garage / stalling and wall work, of general importance as a well-recognisable and rare component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of their: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical, situational and complex and ensemble values, which can be evident inter alia 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 - and in particular the extremely rarely applied reed roofing, from the specific location at the access road and with extensive views, from the coherence with and within the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.