Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-12 stands free-standing in a wooded environment, diagonally opposite numbers 1-7 and 1-9, west of the north-south part of the curved and bent path that forms a connection between the eastern access road and the eastern of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp. Building 1-12 is an officers' dwelling built 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 sparse complex of buildings placed in a brink village-like arrangement, and within this at micro level of a cluster loosely grouped dwellings and ancillary buildings.

Description

Single-storey, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly with crawl space executed brick OFFICERS' DWELLING on rectangular ground plan and covered by a hipped roof laid with grey corrugated concrete tiles, slightly flared at the bottom, with in the left roof slope two relatively small dormers partly executed in trespa under a lean-to roof, in both gable roof slopes each two side-by-side placed modern roof windows and in the ridge at the back a brick chimney. The eastern gable-end main facade facing the road is provided with two windows with concrete sill, containing above four-pane drop sashes with glazing bars and below inward-opening double two-pane casement windows, below the sill provided with sheet metal shutters with hourglass motif painted in red and white; and to the right of this an access opening with renewed door under a four-pane window. The eastern long side and the gable-end north side both with three comparable window openings, of which however the left one in the long side is semi-permanently closed. In the western long side on the left an access opening with a two-step stoop, under arched roller course and provided with a renewed glass door; to the right of this two comparable window openings, of which the right one is without shutters and between these two a presumably later made but now semi-permanently closed access opening. Gutters throughout. The interior is partly modernised - inter alia by means of lowered ceilings, renewed doors, (temporary) adaptation of rooms and by the fitting out of the upper floor. Contains a staircase characteristic of the building period and a brick chimney breast.

Valuation

OFFICERS' DWELLING, of general importance as a readily recognizable component of a military 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 inter alia by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially created brink village structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, by the coherence of and 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 therein.