Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-20 c.a. stands detached with a garden, against a wooded background, to the northwest of and diagonally opposite number 1-19a/b, in the westward extension of the eastward-bent northern end of the western of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented approximately east-west and stands perpendicular to the north-south running section of the western main axis. Building 1-20 c.a. is a barrack building erected in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and is at the macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at the meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a village-green manner, and at the micro level of a pair of buildings constructed somewhat apart.

Description

Single-storey brick BARRACK BUILDING on mainly rectangular plan with approximately 50 cm thick exterior walls and partly executed with crawl space, covered by a gabled roof between pointed gables, laid with mixed corrugated and newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles and slightly curved up at the bottom, with a chimney in the roof ridge at the rear and a second chimney approximately halfway along the southern long side. Western gable wall provided with a lower extension brought under its own gabled roof, erected in a somewhat later building period. Also traces of quite extensive alteration on the southern long side, where the presumed original single window has been replaced by two similar examples. The tile roof shows colour and material traces of alteration. In the short eastern gable / main gable on the right two window openings under cock's comb, with concrete sill and furnished with glazing-bar divided double wooden two-light casement windows below and four-light drop windows above, both with sheet-steel shutters beneath the sill with green and white painted hourglass motif, and to the left of this an entrance opening with divided fanlight and renewed wooden door, three steps and a later fitted largely wooden canopy. At attic level two smaller windows with four-light casement windows. Northern or right long side with three by two window openings, with concrete sill and furnished with glazing-bar divided double wooden two-light casement windows below and four-light drop windows above, all with sheet-steel shutters beneath the sill with green and white painted hourglass motif. Southern long side with two by three similar window openings, with an entrance opening between them under a segmental arch with grey artificial stone setting and closing stones and glazing-bar divided double garden doors, the latter affording a view of a three-step high semicircular brick platform. To the right of all this a round window later inserted within a roller course, with a wooden frame divided cross-wise into quarters, and to the left of it the two altered windows, both without shutters and stripped of the thumbpieces. To the left of these two windows also clear building traces of the extension, where there are no gable openings. Western gable wall with on the left in the main volume and in the extension a window opening with concrete sill and with glazing-bar divided double wooden two-light casement windows below and four-light drop windows above; both with sheet-steel shutters beneath the sill with green and white painted hourglass motif. In the gable of the extension also a basement light. At attic level in the western gable of the main volume to the left of centre a smaller window with four-light frame. The north side of the extension contains an entrance opening with four-light fanlight and four steps, with a diamond-patterned boarded door and matching small window pane. White-painted wind braces and gutter boards. Interior partly modernised and altered, among other things through removal of partition wall, Eternit as roof lining and partly lowered ceilings. Three of the apparently originally five - whether or not combined - smoke channels / chimneys are capped at attic level at the lining. On the attic building traces of a window closed off for the construction of the extension. Also components characteristic of the building period, such as door and window frames, panel doors, draught doors, fitted cupboards, roof trusses and their traces. Beneath the extension a small cellar, half below ground level, while the greater part of the building is provided with a crawl space approximately 1.5 m high.

Valuation

BARRACK BUILDING, forming part of an ensemble of barrack building with annexe garage / stable, of general importance as a readily recognisable and despite an intervening - possibly shortly after completion - alteration relatively intact component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and set up 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 can be demonstrated among other things through the traditionalistic building style inspired by local forms, through the components and details characteristic of the building period, through the artificially created village-green structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, through the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied hereto.