Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-6 c.a. stands detached against a wooded background at the northern end of the small road with oval turning place, which begins at the gatekeeper's lodge of Klein-Heidekamp. Building 1-6 c.a. is an officers' residence with shed and garage established in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a scattered complex of buildings placed in a hamlet-like arrangement, and within this at micro level of a loosely grouped cluster of dwellings and ancillary buildings. The property was the personal quarters of the first camp commandant.

Description

Single-storey, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly with crawlspace executed brick OFFICERS' RESIDENCE on rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof with partly red, partly grey corrugated newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles laid between pointed gables, with in the right roof slope the window strip of a wooden roof dormer and in the left a brick chimney. In the gable-end main facade on the right an entrance opening under cock's comb, with step of two treads, a wooden latticed door with window and divided into fours fanlight; on the left two windows under cock's comb, with concrete sill, in which above with glazing bars divided drop windows and below inward opening double with glazing bars divided four-pane casement windows; beneath the sill provided with sheet-steel shutters with in green and white painted hourglass motif; at attic level two small rectangular windows. In gable-end rear facade three windows under cock's comb, with concrete sill, in which above with glazing bars divided drop windows and below inward opening double with glazing bars divided four-pane casement windows; beneath the sill sheet-steel shutters with in green and white painted hourglass motif; at attic level an arched window under roll moulding, with brick sill and double outward opening with glazing bars divided six-pane windows. Right side facade with on the right entrance opening, in which glazed door finely divided by glazing bars and centrally a window opening with concrete sill, in which above a with glazing bars divided drop window and below two inward opening double with glazing bars divided four-pane casement windows; beneath the sill sheet-steel shutters provided with a in green and white painted hourglass motif. Left side facade with view onto a terrace surrounded by brick wall and on the left provided with entrance opening with later inserted double French doors and provided with wooden shutters and to the right of this two similar window openings. Box gutters; white, trespa windbraces.

Valuation

OFFICERS' RESIDENCE, forming part of an ensemble of officers' residence and ancillary shed and garage / stalling at the end of cul de sac, of general importance as easily recognizable, rare and relatively intact component of a Second World War military camp established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of: architectural-historical, urban planning, situational, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be seen among others in the traditionalist building manner inspired by local forms, in the components and details characteristic of the building period, in the artificially established hamlet-like structure and the camouflage carried through to the smallest detail, in the somewhat secluded, but view-affording location, in the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and in the mutual relationship of the forms applied therein.