Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-22 c.a. stands detached against a wooded background, broadly to the south of 1-21 and to the southwest of number 1-23a/b, on the east side of the western of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp, and diagonally opposite the junction. The roof ridge stands at right angles to the (current) main axis. Building 1-22 is a military barrack (1-22) with kennel (E1) constructed in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' and at the macro level forms 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 brinkdorp-like configuration, and within this at the micro level forms part of a cluster of loosely grouped buildings and ancillary structures.

Description

MILITARY BARRACK AND ASSOCIATED KENNEL. Single-storey military barrack constructed of brick with approximately 50 cm thick external walls and partly executed with crawl space on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof with saddle-backed gabled ends, clad with mixed corrugated newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with in both roof slopes fairly modern window strips of elongated dormer windows. In the southwestern gable end wall, on the right two window openings under a cock's crest, with concrete sill, containing double wooden two-light casement windows below and four-light pivot windows above, with glazed hopper-pattern sheet steel shutters beneath the sill, painted green and white, and on the left an entrance opening under a later-added wooden canopy and matching glazed door. On attic level two smaller wall openings with later-added pivot windows. In the gable northeast wall left and right similar windows and centrally an entrance opening with renewed door and to the left of this climbing irons to an iron balcony at attic level. Left and right small window openings. The long walls provided with twice three (northwest) and three times two (southeast) window openings with concrete sill, containing double wooden two-light casement windows below and four-light pivot windows above, all with beneath the sill sheet steel shutters painted green and white with hopper-pattern motif. In the southeastern wall the right window later fitted with grillwork on the exterior. Box gutters and white-painted weather vanes. Interior partly modernised, but also containing some components and details characteristic of the construction period, including door frames and painted wall panelling and part of the staircase.

Behind building 22 an approximately one metre high brick KENNEL, covered by a shallow sloping concrete slab. At the front the entrance opening with metal frame, containing an iron door with cross bracing and mesh.

Valuation

MILITARY BARRACK AND ASSOCIATED KENNEL, of general interest as a readily recognisable 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, town planning, military and cultural historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be demonstrated inter alia by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the construction period, by the artificially created brinkdorp structure and the camouflage carried through in 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 herein.