Militair verblijfsgebouw, Deelen/Klein-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 1-29 stands detached in a wooded environment, east of the southern end of the western of the two north-south running roads on Klein-Heidekamp, near their point of convergence at the southern access gate to the site. The roof ridge is oriented almost north-south and runs virtually parallel to the western of the two north-south running roads. Building 1-29 is an officers' house with shed or garage constructed as a 'Regelbau' in 1940-1941 and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a hamlet-like pattern, and within this at micro level of a cluster of loosely grouped dwellings and annexe buildings. The shed or garage (A14) has been substantially altered and falls outside the protection.

Description

Single-storey brick OFFICERS' HOUSE with approximately 50 cm thick external walls and partly executed with crawl space, on a rectangular floor plan and covered by a hipped roof laid with grey concrete tiles, slightly curved inwards at the eaves, with a dormer window under a catslide roof in each of the two long pitched slopes, each with two by two windows, and at the rear also in the left pitched slope a plastic roof light; in each of the two gable ends each a relatively recently introduced tilting roof window. Gable end south facade / main facade with access opening on the left with fanlight divided into four and two steps, with door containing a small window and on the right two windows with concrete sill, containing above sash windows with four panes divided by glazing bars and below inward-opening double casement windows with two panes divided by glazing bars; windows below the sill provided with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted hourglass motif. The gable end north facade mirrored and executed with comparable facade openings, but provided with a partly glazed and divided patio door. Eastern or right long facade with two comparable window openings; the western or left side facade with a comparable window opening and to the left of this a later inserted modern window with a sill-divided frame and within it two undivided, approximately square windows. Gutters all around. Interior contains several components characteristic of the construction period, such as arched brick roll course between adjoining rooms and built-in cupboard. Number of doors in room retained.

Valuation

OFFICERS' HOUSE, of general importance as a readily recognisable 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, by reason of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated inter alia in the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, in the components and details characteristic of the construction period, in the artificially established hamlet-like structure and the camouflage carried through to detail, in the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and in the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.