Legeringsgebouw, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 20 stands detached and somewhat set back on a paved area, between buildings 12 and 19, with the ridge running north-south and parallel to the eastern north-south running road on Vrijland-Noord. Building 20 is a military building constructed around 1945 that at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945. At meso level it is 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 fitted into the existing plot pattern. Building 20 has served among other things as a clothing store and as sports space.

Description

Predominantly single-storey, brick MILITARY BUILDING characteristically designed for its building period, on an elongated floor plan and covered by a hipped roof with grey corrugated concrete tiles. The floor plan and elevation are formed by a northern rectangular mass comprising one - relatively high - storey, and a shorter southern section, stepping back approximately one metre on both long sides, which has two storeys / window levels on the southern end gable, but is brought under the same hipped roof - albeit naturally with a higher eaves line. The western long facade / main facade contains on the left eight window bays with pilasters and spandrels, with on the left an arched window opening under a brick corbel and arched brick eyebrow, with arched timber frame divided into four panes. The remaining seven bays are provided with large rectangular window openings under brick corbels with above sash windows divided into three panes and below six-pane windows. The recessed right facade section contains on the left an arched entrance opening under a brick corbel and arched brick eyebrow, with divided fanlight and a modern door, and to the right of this an arched window opening under a brick corbel and arched brick eyebrow, with arched timber divided sash window above, and divided window below. The eastern long facade is mirror-image virtually identical; in the recessed left facade section two window openings. The northern end gable has centrally a framed entrance opening bordered by two pilasters with (presumably concrete) cornice and a - as evidenced by the differing brick - later mortared-in spandrel, containing double outward-opening and relatively modern doors each executed with three glass panes. The southern end gable has on the ground floor an arched entrance opening under a brick corbel and arched brick eyebrow, with divided fanlight and a timber door, and to the left of this an arched window opening under a brick corbel and arched brick eyebrow, with arched timber divided sash window above, and divided window below. At multiple locations - but especially to the right of the entrance opening - building traces. At first-floor level three arched window openings framed by a quartet of pilasters with outward-opening arched casement windows, and below a short and shallow awning borne by corbels. All around at sill level a base course, and an arch frieze on and between projecting brick as facade termination of the northernmost long bay, the northern end gable and of the entire, slightly set back from the building line southern section of the building. Zinc gutters on white-painted timber eaves on corbels. The interior is somewhat modernized. Floor executed in concrete.

Valuation

Predominantly single-storey MILITARY 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, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated inter alia through the traditionalistic building manner with some relatively rare decorative elements, through the components and details characteristic for the building period, through the positioning determined geometrically as far as possible corresponding to the artificially established layout in German times and closely adhering to the pre-existing spatial layout, and through the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components underlying it of the camp.