Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 19 stands detached between buildings 4 and 20, with the ridge of the main volume oriented north-south and parallel to the eastern north-south running road on Vrijland-Noord. Building 19 is a military building created around 1945 that at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945. At meso level it forms part of a complex of buildings arranged in a rectangular-geometric structure, and at micro level it is part of a number of military buildings integrated into the existing parcel pattern.

Description

Single-storey and partly two-storey, brick MILITARY BUILDING characteristically designed for its construction period, on an L-shaped floor plan and covered by a hipped roof clad with grey corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles. The building consists of two clearly distinguishable building components, namely a relatively high main volume and at right angles to this on the northeast side a lower secondary volume. The western side elevation / main elevation of the main volume has seven large rectangular window openings under a cambered lintel, with wooden sash windows divided into three parts at the top and six-pane windows below, and to the left a vaulted entrance opening under a cambered lintel, containing a herringbone-pattern boarded wooden door and above it a round window within a roll moulding with a window divided into six parts by perpendicular glazing bars. The eastern side elevation has six comparable large rectangular windows and to the right of these the smaller building volume. To the right next to this building volume at storey level a rectangular window opening under a cambered lintel, containing a double two-pane casement window. The symmetrically executed southern gable elevation has a large entrance opening under a cambered lintel, containing relatively modern top-hung roller doors and to the left and right of these a window comparable to those in the main elevation. At attic storey level a wooden roof dormer projecting through the gutter line under an attached saddle roof, containing inward-opening double wooden doors and an H-profile hoist beam. The northern gable elevation has on the ground floor two rectangular window openings under a cambered lintel, containing double two-pane casement windows and to the left and right of these respectively two and three small window-lights with sash windows. At storey level asymmetrically four rectangular window openings under a cambered lintel, containing double two-pane casement windows. All around at sub-sill level a roll moulding, and an arched frieze on and between projecting brick. Zinc gutters on white painted and slightly profiled wooden overhang on corbels. The interior is scarcely modernised and contains several components, facilities and details characteristic of its construction period, including doors, door posts, internal windows, painted wall panelling and yellow and black tilework. Floor and ceiling (= attic floor on two levels) executed in reinforced concrete. The roof, possibly dating from the construction period, clad with wooden elements is carried by a likewise wooden roof truss structure.

The secondary volume is covered by a hipped roof adjoining to the right on the eastern side elevation of the main volume, which is interrupted on both side elevations by a small wooden roof dormer with windows, containing window-lights divided into four parts by glazing bars, and under an attached saddle roof. The secondary volume contains in the northern - and presumably also in the southern - side elevation four rectangular window openings under a cambered lintel, containing double two-pane casement windows. The eastern gable elevation has on the left an entrance opening under a cambered lintel, containing a door with herringbone-pattern boarding, and on the right a window comparable to those in the other elevations. White painted gutters on some overhang on corbels. The interior comprises a virtually empty rectangular space.

Valuation

Predominantly single-storey MILITARY BUILDING, of general importance as a rare and relatively intact component dating 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, because of: architectural-historical, building-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be demonstrated among other things by the traditionalist building style and embellished with some relatively rare decorative elements, by the applied roof construction, by the many components and details characteristic of its construction period, by the as far as possible geometrically determined location matching the camp artificially set up in German times and strongly adhering to the pre-existing spatial layout, and by the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp underlying it.