Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 18 is located between buildings 2 and 4, with the roof ridge oriented north-south and situated almost entirely freestanding on Vrijland-Noord; via an extension / connector there is a connection on the south side with hangar II A. Building 18 is a group accommodation that came into being around 1945, which at the macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945. At the meso level it forms part of a complex of buildings arranged in a rectangular-geometric structure, and at the micro level is part of a number of military buildings fitted into the existing plot pattern. The building presumably came into being in two phases or was otherwise modified in a later phase.

Description

Two-storey brick BARRACKS BUILDING, designed in a manner typical for the building period, with an elongated, predominantly rectangular plan and covered by a hipped roof lined with grey corrugated concrete tiles, splayed at the bottom with some overhang on corbels, with a brick chimney in the southern part of the roof ridge and a relatively modern tilt window in the western roof slope. The eastern long facade / main facade, fifteen storeys wide and not entirely symmetrical, contains between the eighth and eleventh window bays a fairly broad, somewhat recessed entrance opening within a stone surround, with partly glazed double doors inserted later. To the left and right of this respectively six and five, and on the first floor thirteen window openings under a cock-bead and with wooden cross windows; the windows were later provided with secondary frames, creating a double layer of glazing. At the far left of the facade on ground floor and first floor each two arched windows under arched brick eyebrow moulding and provided with a wooden calf, with above and below divided in threes arched wooden frames. The comparable and originally virtually mirror-image western long facade contains on the ground floor between the fourth and fifth window a bricked-up entrance opening, and left and right later top-joined iron staircases leading to entrances created later in place of windows. The northern gable wall has on both levels four window openings under a cock-bead and provided with wooden cross windows; the windows were later provided with secondary frames, creating a double layer of glazing; on the ground floor the second window opening from the right was later modified into an entrance opening. The southern gable wall contains on the right on the ground floor and on the first floor an arched window under arched brick eyebrow moulding, both provided with wooden calf, with above and below arched wooden frames divided in threes. Between both windows a relatively recently installed (partly) metal canopy attached to the facade by tie rods. To the left of this the extension / connector to the hangar. The east facade / long facade of the extension contains on the right an entrance opening under a straight rolled arch, with relatively modern double wooden doors, and on the left two arched windows under arched brick eyebrow moulding, with arched wooden frames divided in four. The west facade contains on the left presumably two wall openings. Zinc gutters on white-painted wooden overhang on corbels; extension gutters with leaders.

The interior has been substantially modernized. The staircase exhibits features typical of the building period, such as worked wooden beams, wrought-iron fencing and decorative brickwork. The roof truss structure supported by props and brickwork is clad with Eternit panels. The brickwork stands perpendicular to the roof ridge and consists of a number of walls reaching to the ridge which are interrupted by arches executed with triple rolled arch; perpendicular to the brickwork are braces that support roof purlins. On the attic the relic of a small scissor truss is also visible.

Valuation

Two-storey BARRACKS BUILDING, of general importance as a rare and recognizable component stemming from shortly after the Second World War of a military camp set up by the Germans during the war as part of a large military airfield, on account of: architectural-historical, building-historical, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be evidenced inter alia by the traditionalistic construction method and some relatively rare decorative elements, by the applied roof truss structure, by components and details characteristic of the building period, by the location as much as possible conforming to the geometrically determined layout artificially established during the German period and closely matching the previously existing spatial arrangement, and by the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp underlying it.