Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 12 stands detached on the east side of the eastern north-south oriented lane on Vrijland-Noord, to the south of number 20. The roof ridge extends from east to west and stands at right angles to the road. Building 12 is a military building with technical function (storage) 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, relatively broad, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (storage) on a predominantly rectangular floor plan and covered by a half-hipped gabled roof clad with mixed corrugated newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with in the roof plane of both long slopes elongated roof light strips executed in metal and glass. At the eastern end of both long facades a lean-to addition brought under an extended roof slope, not executed symmetrically. In the southern long facade / main facade four large gable openings, separated by three wall ribs rising to the roof edge, in which modern vertically opening roller doors; to the right of these a window under a soldier course, in which a drop window with panes divided into eight by glazing bars and an access opening under a rooster-tail moulding, with divided four-pane fanlight and door with high window. To the right of this the addition, in which in left side facade an access opening under a soldier course and a door with high window. The northern long facade contains eight window openings under a soldier course and with drop windows with panes divided into eight by glazing bars. To the left of these an access opening under a rooster-tail moulding with divided four-pane fanlight and wooden door; construction marks around door. On the left the addition, in which construction marks and two relatively recent access openings; the left one with a single, the right one with double wooden doors, in which a high window; in lean-to roof a zinc ventilation duct. The asymmetrical eastern gable contains five window openings under a soldier course and with concrete plinth, in which above drop windows with fixed top panes and below double wooden inward-opening four-pane casement windows, the left two below the plinth equipped with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted moulding motif; to the right of these against the facade a small brick addition under a lean-to roof in corrugated sheet, provided with access opening with double doors in iron framework. At mezzanine level four window openings with drop windows with panes divided into eight by glazing bars. Facade of right addition at corner with south facade apparently newly built up. In the symmetrical western gable end left and right a window opening under a soldier course and with drop windows with panes divided into eight by glazing bars and centrally one, as evidenced by construction marks, reduced access opening, with double outward-opening doors. Mast gutters and white painted weathervanes. The interior partly modernised. There are components characteristic of the building period, such as inner frames and painted wainscoting.

Valuation

MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (storage), of general importance as a relatively well-preserved 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, 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.