Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-9 c.a. stands detached in a wooded environment, approximately between numbers 1-3 and 1-7, diagonally opposite numbers 1-10 and 1-12, with the roof ridge parallel to the curved and angled lane that connects the eastern access road and the eastern of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp. Building 1-9 c.a. is an officers' dwelling created in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' with a shed, and at the macro level is part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at the meso level part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a hamlet-like configuration, and within this at the micro level part of a loosely grouped cluster of dwellings and ancillary buildings.

Description

Single-storey officers' dwelling in brick with approximately 50 cm thick outer brickwork and partly with a crawl space, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a fairly steep hipped roof lined with grey Tuiles du Nord and strongly curved at the base, with in three roof slopes a relatively small wooden dormer with a rear-sloping zinc pediment, while the fourth roof slope facing the road is broken through by a brick chimney. The western long facade facing the road and main facade is provided with two windows with concrete sill, with above glazing bars divided upper casement windows opening downwards and below inward-opening double four-light casement windows with glazing bars, beneath the sill provided with sheet steel shutters with an hourglass motif painted in green and white. The eastern long facade and the north gable with comparable window openings; on the left in the north gable an entrance opening with fanlight. In the south gable centrally a comparable window, with on either side an entrance with a step of two treads - the left one under a segmental arch with glazing bars and a glass door, the right one with a four-light fanlight and renewed three-quarter glass door with glazing bars. Gutters all around.

Valuation

OFFICERS' DWELLING, forming part of an ensemble of officers' dwelling and associated shed, of general importance as a readily recognizable and relatively intact component of a military barracks camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by virtue of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated among others through the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, through components and details characteristic of the building period, through the artificially created hamlet-like structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest details - here with emphasis in the form of a villa-like building, through the coherence with and of the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.