Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 11 stands detached in the northwestern corner of the T-junction of the southern east-west oriented lane and the eastern northward road on Vrijland-Noord. The roof ridge extends from west to east and runs parallel with the east-west oriented road. Building 11 is a military building with technical function (battery workshop) created in 1941 as a 'Sonderbau' 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 rectangular-geometric structure, and within this at the micro level of some buildings placed in direct connection with that spatial structure in linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (battery workshop) on a predominantly rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof clad with corrugated grey rapid-laying tiles and ending on a pointed gable at both gable ends, with two small chimneys in both roof slopes. On the right a lean-to addition brought under an extended roof slope along the southern long facade, and to the left of this across the full width of the facade a veranda brought under the same extended roof plane. The veranda is supported by a set of six delicately carved wooden corbels standing at right angles to the wall and resting on blocks. The southern long facade / main facade has on the left one and on the right four window openings under a soldier course and with a concrete plinth, in which above drop windows with fixed top panes and below double wooden inward-opening four-pane casement windows, below the plinth equipped with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted moulding motif. (Shutters are missing at the second window from the right.) Between these an access opening under a soldier course with divided fanlight and provided with a garden door divided into four panes. In the northern long facade five comparable windows (shutters are missing at the left window) and to the left and right of these a comparable access opening. To the right of the addition a brick staircase to basement level with brick parapet and door to basement with divided four-pane upper half. The western gable end contains four window openings under a soldier course and with drop window with fixed top pane, of which the right one with concrete plinth and the others higher in the facade and smaller; the left one is sealed at the bottom. In the eastern gable end three window openings under a soldier course, of which the middle one has been modified and provided with a temporary addition. Furthermore an access opening under a soldier course with sheet steel door and at mezzanine level a semicircular window with vertically divided three-pane frame. Mast gutters. The interior is partly modernised. Concrete mezzanine floor; roof clad with Eternit based on rafters and purlins.

Valuation

MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (battery workshop), of general importance as a rare and 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, by reason of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated among other things by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms and provided with rare decorative elements, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially established and strongly geometric settlement structure aligned with the pre-existing spatial arrangement and the camouflage carried through to the detail within this, 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 therein.