Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 13 is located on the south side of the southern east-west running road on Vrijland-Noord, standing freely against a wooded background and to the northeast of building 14. The ridge line is oriented east-west and runs parallel to the road. Building 13 was constructed in 1941 as a 'Sonderbau', with the function of parachute packing, 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 placed in a rectangular-geometric structure, and within this at the micro level of several relatively solitary buildings placed in direct connection with that spatial structure.

Description

Single-storey, relatively large, with approximately 50 cm thick exterior brickwork and partly cellared MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (parachute packing facility) on a predominantly rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof clad with corrugated grey rapid-laying tiles and at both gable ends half-hipped, containing window strips of elongated roof dormers and to the west in the ridge a ventilation tower under a small gabled roof. On the left of the southern long facade an extension brought under extended roof shield. In the northern long facade / main facade seven window openings under roll moulding and with concrete sill, containing above tilting sashes with frosted glass and below double wooden four-pane casement windows opening inwards, below the sill furnished with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted list motif. In southern long facade on the right five similar window openings and in the extension on the right three small arched windows and to the left of these an arched entrance opening with green wooden palisade door. To the right of extension a brick staircase to cellar level with brick parapet and door to cellar with upper half divided into four by bars. The gable west facade contains two window openings under roll moulding and with concrete sill, containing above tilting sashes with frosted glass and below double wooden four-pane casement windows opening inwards, below the sill furnished with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted list motif, and at attic storey level two windows. In gable east facade three window openings under roll moulding and with concrete sill, containing above tilting sashes with frosted glass and below double wooden four-pane casement windows opening inwards, below the sill furnished with sheet steel shutters with green and white painted list motif, and at attic storey level on the right one window and on the left a later constructed, via a later iron staircase accessible entrance. Gutters and white-painted weather vanes. The interior has been modernised to a limited extent. Both at cellar level and on the ground floor components characteristic of the construction period, such as doors, interior windows and painted wainscoting.

Valuation

MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (parachute packing facility), of general importance as a relatively intact component of a military barracks 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, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated amongst others through the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, through the components and details characteristic of the construction period, through the artificially established and strongly aligned geometric settlement structure corresponding to the pre-existing spatial layout and the camouflage carried through to the smallest detail within this, through the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied in this.