Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-7 c.a. stands detached in a wooded environment, broadly between numbers 1-6, 1-9 and 1-12, on a curved and bent little road that provides a connection between the eastern access road and the eastern of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp. Building 1-7 c.a. is an officers' residence with shed and garage constructed in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau', and at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a hamlet-like layout, and within this at micro level of a cluster of loosely grouped dwellings and ancillary buildings.

Description

Single-storey OFFICERS' RESIDENCE constructed of brick with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly executed with crawl space, on a rectangular ground plan and covered by a gabled roof between pointed gables clad with grey corrugated newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with a wooden dormer on the left roof slope and in the right two relatively recent small windows and above it a brick chimney. In the northern gable end left an access opening under a rooster-comb moulding, with a step of two treads and a wooden door with three small windows arranged one above the other and shared fanlight; right two window openings under rooster-comb moulding, with concrete calf, in which above glazing bars divided four-pane sash windows and below inward-opening double two-pane casement windows divided by glazing bars; under the calf fitted with sheet-steel shutters painted in green and white with hourglass motif; at attic floor level two small rectangular windows. Gable end on the south side executed as a mirror image, but with half glass door. Right long side with two windows with concrete calf, in which above glazing bars divided four-pane sash windows and below inward-opening double two-pane casement windows divided by glazing bars; under the calf sheet-steel shutters painted in green and white with hourglass motif. Left long side with centrally a comparable window and left a small rectangular window under rooster-comb moulding, with sash window divided into four panes by glazing bars. Master gutters, white Trespa wind boards. The interior contains - apart from the somewhat modernised fittings - on the ground floor a ground plan substantially dating to the time of construction with among others two rooms, which are separated from each other by a semi-circular closed arch with roller shutter, a vestibule, a corridor, a cellar cupboard and a kitchen - with in most rooms various types of door frames and panelled doors characteristic of the period of construction, with glazing divided or not by glazing bars. The characteristic staircase to the attic floor dating from the period of construction is stripped of its balustrade; various rooms on the attic floor with comparable windows and doors. Concrete ceiling / attic floor.

Valuation

OFFICERS' RESIDENCE, forming part of an ensemble of officers' residence, shed and garage / stalling, of general significance as a readily recognisable and relatively well-preserved component of an army camp dating 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 among others can be demonstrated by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, by the artificially established hamlet-like structure and the camouflage carried through in detail, by the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.