Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-18 stands detached in a wooded setting, south-west of number 1-17, on the north side of the curved connecting road running from east to west via bayonet connections, approximately halfway between the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp. The roof ridge stands perpendicular to the road. Building 1-18 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. The building currently serves as a dwelling.

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 mixed corrugated tiles, with brick chimneys centrally in the ridge as well as in the western roof slope. On the western long facade to the right an outbuilding with stepped gable under annexed lower saddle roof. In southern gabled main facade to the left an entrance opening under a roofed projection, with wooden door and fanlight divided into four panes, and to the right 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 three four-pane casement windows. In the eastern long facade 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. In western long facade to the left two similar windows and to the right of these the outbuilding with arched window, in which eight-pane casement window divided by glazing bars. Gabled north 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 with below the calf sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif; between these one, and on attic storey level three smaller rectangular windows with glazing bar-divided windows. White painted wind vanes; gutter boards. The interior contains a large number of components and details characteristic of the building period, including a wooden staircase, walls and floors fitted with yellow tiles, window frames and panelled doors, partly with old glazing divided by glazing bars, a bath and toilet room and heating radiators. Ceiling/attic floor in concrete. The attic is a large undivided space without balustrade, in which a solitary and a pair of converging plastered brick flue ducts. The roof cladding later covered with Eternit sheets is supported by rafters and collar ties.

Assessment

MILITARY BARRACKS, of general importance as a readily recognisable and remarkably well-preserved 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 a considerable number of 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.