Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 14 is located on the south side of the southern east-west running road on Vrijland-Noord, standing freely against a wooded backdrop and to the southwest of building 13. The ridge line of the main volume is oriented north-south and stands perpendicular to the road. Building 14 was constructed in 1941 as a 'Regelbau', a type of boiler house with coal storage, 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 one of several relatively solitary buildings placed in direct connection with that spatial structure. The boiler house functioned among other things as a heating centre for Vrijland-Noord and thereby fulfilled a pioneering role in district heating in the Netherlands. The boiler house with coal storage consists of two clearly distinguishable parts: a rectangular main volume and a lower L-shaped extension located to the south of it.

Description

Partly basement, with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry, mostly brick BOILER HOUSE WITH COAL STORAGE on a composite ground plan, consisting of a mainly rectangular main volume and an extension on an L-shaped ground plan.

The main volume is covered by a gabled roof, predominantly tiled with grey corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles and curved outward on both sides with some overhang and with a brick chimney in the eastern roof slope. On the right at the eastern longitudinal facade an extension under extended roof slope; protruding from the western longitudinal facade a remarkably heavy brick chimney with climbing irons and metal cover plate. At the southern gable facade the L-shaped extension with a hipped roof adjoining the facade. The northern gable facade / front facade has the extension on the left and centrally a coved entrance opening under decorative roof crest, containing a green batten door; to the left and right of this a coved window opening under decorative roof crest, with double sashes divided into four panes. Two light shafts to basement level. At attic storey level three small square windows with four-pane windows. Relic of above-ground power supply. The left or east facade is executed with a wooden window strip, in which aligned or separated by two narrow wall piers windows, provided with windows with four-pane glazing bars; in the extension on the right three small windows with four-pane windows and green wooden shutters. To the left of the extension a brick staircase with iron railing to basement level with on the left an entrance to the functional space and straight ahead a window opening, in which double four-pane windows, both under decorative roof crest. In the western longitudinal facade on the right one and on the left two coved windows under decorative roof crest, in which double four-pane sashes, and between these the heavy brick chimney. Below the right window construction marks of a bricked-up ventilation grille. Centrally in the southern gable facade a coved entrance opening with brick step and wooden door and to the left and right of this similar window openings with wooden shutters. Below these two windows light shafts to basement level, provided with roll moulding. At attic storey level three small square windows with four-pane windows and small wooden shutters. In southern gable facade construction marks of bricked-up coved entrance; above this the capping of the extension. Wall gutters and white-painted weather vanes. The interior includes among other things a large functional space rising from basement level with modern heating boilers.

The L-shaped extension at the southern gable facade of the main volume was built as a semi-open coal storage and is covered by a hipped roof, partly tiled with red and partly with grey corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, adjoining the south facade. The extension consists of approximately one and a half meter high breastwork, provided with wall piers and at the corners with buttresses, which is ended by a roll moulding and upon this wooden posts with corbels as supports for the roof. The space between breastwork and roof edge is filled with tarred shingle covered sections and some simple windows. The entrance is located in the east facade and consists of double riveted doors. In the interior some half-height brick partitions and an unfinished tile roof, which is supported by a rafter and tie beam structure.

Valuation

BOILER HOUSE WITH COAL STORAGE, of general importance as a relatively intact and still functional component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by virtue of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can appear among other things from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially created and strongly aligned geometric settlement structure, adapted to the pre-existing spatial arrangement and the camouflage carried through in detail within this, from the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and from the mutual affinity of the forms employed herein.