Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-13 stands detached in a wooded environment, roughly between numbers 1-7 and 1-14, on the south side of the east-west running section of the curved and bent lane that connects the eastern access road and the eastern of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp. The roof ridge stands at right angles to the road. Building 1-13 is a medium-sized military barracks created 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 part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a village-green-like pattern, and within this at micro level part of a loosely grouped cluster of buildings.

Description

Single-storey brick MILITARY BARRACKS with approximately 50 cm thick external walls and partly with crawl space, on a mainly rectangular plan, covered by a gabled roof curved at two sides and covered with corrugated tiles, with one brick chimney centrally in the ridge, and two brick chimneys high in the eastern roof slope. On the eastern long façade on the right an extension under extended roof slope. The northern gable façade facing the road has on the left an access opening under a cock's comb, with wooden door and fanlight divided into four lights, and on the right two window openings under a cock's comb and with concrete sill, in which above are four-light opening lights and below are double wooden inward-opening two-light casement windows, both below the sill fitted with sheet steel shutters with sand-timer motif painted in green and white. At attic storey level two four-light casement windows. Western long façade with four window openings with concrete sill, in which above are four-light opening lights and below are double wooden inward-opening two-light casement windows, below the sill fitted with sheet steel shutters with sand-timer motif painted in green and white. In the eastern long façade on the left two similar windows and to the right of these the extension, with two smaller windows with double inward-opening two-light casement windows and green-painted wooden shutters. Southern gable façade with window openings on left and right under a cock's comb, with concrete sill, in which double wooden two-light casement windows with glazing bars below, and four-light opening lights above and with below the sill sheet steel shutters with sand-timer motif painted in green and white; centrally between these an access opening with two steps and renewed door, and at attic storey level two smaller rectangular windows with four-light frames. White-painted wind vanes; gutters. The interior shows traces of limited modernisation, including new doors.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily identifiable and relatively intact component of a military 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 may be demonstrated inter alia by the traditionalistic building style inspired by local forms, by components and details characteristic of the construction period, by the artificially created village-green 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.