Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-24a/b stands detached in a wooded setting, roughly between numbers 1-2 and 1-26 and diagonally opposite 1-23a/b, on the west side of the eastern of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp, in the south-western angle of the T-junction of the somewhat diagonally running southern connecting road between these two north-south running roads. The roof ridge is perpendicular to the north-south running road. Building 1-24a/b is a double officers' dwelling with shed 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 of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a brink village-like pattern, and within this at micro level it forms part of a loosely grouped cluster of buildings and ancillary structures.

Description

One-storey brick double OFFICERS' DWELLING, with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry and partly with a crawl space, on a rectangular ground plan and covered by a gabled roof with ridge and with corrugated predominantly grey improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with chimney in the roof ridge and in both roof slopes two vertically divided four-light roof dormers with sloping zinc frontispiece. In the eastern end gable / main gable on the left and right a window under a rooster comb, with concrete cill and provided with glazing-bar divided double wooden two-light casement windows below, and four-light sash windows above, both with sheet-steel shutters below the cill painted green and white with an hourglass motif; centrally an access opening with two steps, under a rooster comb with divided fanlight and a batten door, in which three small windows placed one above the other. To the right of the door a smaller window with divided frame. At attic storey level three windows under a rooster comb with inward-opening four-light casement windows. The western end gable executed as a mirror image. In the southern long side gavel four window openings with concrete cill, provided with glazing-bar divided double wooden two-light casement windows below, and four-light sash windows above, all with sheet-steel shutters below the cill painted green and white with an hourglass motif and in the northern long side gavel two by two comparable window openings, both middle ones separated by a wall to the shed and with on each side of the wall - asymmetrically between the two pairs of windows - an access opening (the western one according to construction traces slightly altered) with glazing-bar divided garden doors under divided fanlight. Master gutters and white painted wind vanes. The interior of number 1-24a contains various components that are characteristic of the period of construction, including doors with glazed work, frames and staircase.

Valuation

OFFICERS' DWELLING, forming part of an ensemble of double officers' dwelling and associated shed, of general importance as a readily recognizable and (presumably) relatively intact component of a military 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 others by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, by the artificially created brink village structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, by the cohesion 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 in this.