Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-17 stands detached in a wooded setting, diagonally opposite number 1-11 and north-east of number 1-18, on the west side of the eastern of the two roughly north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp. The roof ridge stands perpendicular to the road. Building 1-17 is a 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 brinkdorp-like pattern, and within this at micro level part of a loosely grouped cluster of buildings.

Description

Single-storey brick MILITARY BARRACKS, executed with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly with a crawlspace, on a predominantly rectangular floor plan, covered by a saddle roof with curved eaves at two sides, laid with predominantly grey corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with one brick chimney centrally in the ridge and two brick chimneys in the northern long elevation. On the northern long facade to the left an outbuilding under extended roof slope. The eastern gabled main facade has a right-hand entrance opening under a roofed projection with two steps, wooden door and fanlight divided into four panes, and to the left two window openings under a roofed projection with concrete calf, in which above four-pane casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, both below the calf provided with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. On attic storey level two four-pane casement windows. Southern long facade with four window openings with concrete calf, in which above four-pane casement windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows, below the calf provided with sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. Northern long facade with to the right two similar windows and to the left of these the outbuilding with two smaller windows with four-pane casement windows. Western gabled facade with left and right window openings under a roofed projection, with concrete calf and provided with double wooden two-pane casement windows with glazing bars below and four-pane casement windows above, and below the calf sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif; between these an entrance opening under a lintel, with two steps and provided with a sheet-steel door; on attic storey level two smaller rectangular windows. White painted wind vanes; gutter boards.

Assessment

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily recognisable and presumably 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 among other things be evident from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially created brinkdorp structure and the camouflage carried through to the detail, from the coherence with and of the complete military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied in this.