Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-28 stands detached against a wooded background in the western angle of the T-junction of the eastern of the two north-south running roads of Klein-Heidekamp and the southern diagonal connection between these two, between numbers 1-26 and 1-29. The roof ridge is directed from northwest to southeast and runs approximately parallel to the diagonal road. Building 1-28 is an officers' dwelling with shed or garage 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 of a cluster of loosely grouped dwellings and ancillary buildings. The ancillary shed or garage (A13) has been significantly enlarged, maintaining some parts of the original wall work, but falls outside object protection.

Description

Single-storey brick OFFICERS' DWELLING with approximately 50 cm thick external walls and partly executed with crawl space on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof slightly offset at the base and clad with smothered Tuiles du Nord tiles, between gabled ends, with in the southeastern roof slope a small wooden dormer window and a brick chimney and in the northwestern on two levels modern roof windows. In the gable, northeastern main wall on the right an entrance opening under a cock's crest, with a step of two treads, a wooden slatted door with three windows placed one above the other and a four-part fanlight; on the left two windows under cock's crest, with concrete sill, containing above four-light pivot windows with applied glazing bars and below inward-opening double two-light casement windows with applied glazing bars; beneath the sill fitted with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hopper-pattern motif; on attic level two small rectangular windows with four-light glazing bars, both under a semi-circular relieving arch and with brick-filled arch field. The gable back wall executed as a mirror image; entrance opening fitted with renewed garden door. The northwestern right long wall with on the right a small window opening with brick undersill and centrally a window opening with concrete sill, containing above a four-light pivot window with applied glazing bars and below two inward-opening double two-light casement windows with applied glazing bars; beneath the sill sheet steel shutters fitted with a green and white painted hopper-pattern motif. The southeastern left long wall contains two window openings comparable to the last mentioned. Virtually all frames on the ground floor fitted with outer frames, preserving the existing windows. Plastic rainshield above garden door. Box gutters, white-painted weather vanes. The interior contains a number of components characteristic of the construction period, including en-suite doors with leaded glass, fixed cupboard, two fireplaces of glazed anthracite-coloured brick, doors, hardware, a fixed staircase and a small cellar.

Valuation

OFFICERS' DWELLING, forming part of an ensemble of officers' dwelling and ancillary shed or garage, of general interest as a readily recognisable and 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, 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.