Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-10 stands detached in a wooded environment, approximately between numbers 1-3, 1-9 and 1-11, diagonally opposite 1-3 and 1-9, on the west side and at the beginning of the curved and angled lane that connects the eastern access road and the eastern of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp. The roof ridge lies at an angle to all adjacent roads. Building 1-10 is a large barracks building created in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' 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 buildings.

Description

Single-storey barracks building in brick with approximately 50 cm thick outer brickwork and partly with a crawl space, on a fairly long rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof curved on two sides and slightly curved at the base, lined with corrugated grey concrete tiles. Roof slopes on both sides partly opened up for three later-installed wide dormers. The eastern long facade/main facade with two groups of three window openings with concrete sills and provided with glazing bars divided double two-light casement windows below and four-light casement windows above, all with sheet steel shutters beneath the sill with an hourglass motif painted in red and white; western long facade with three groups of two comparable window openings and on the left a later-installed rectangular window. Northern gable with on the right two comparable windows under a segmental arch and on the left an entrance opening under a segmental arch and provided with a four-light fanlight. At attic level a window with a double casement frame. The southern gable on the left and right comparable windows and centrally an entrance opening with modern door. At attic level a small window with a four-light frame; to the right of this an entrance opening with modern door made accessible via a later-installed iron staircase, created by alteration of a window; all under a segmental arch. Gutters. Interior partly modernized.

Valuation

BARRACKS BUILDING, of general importance as a readily recognizable 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, 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.