Legeringsgebouw, Delenseweg bij 85

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 6 is situated with its ridge diagonal to the road and stands freely in an ample lawn on the north side of the former Brinkhorsterweg, to the east of the junction of the former path to the hunting lodge and opposite building 5. Built in 1940 as a 'Regelbau', type 'Unterkunft Groß'. At macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945. At meso level part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a village-like structure. At micro level part of a loosely grouped cluster of buildings arranged in linear fashion.

Description

Single-storey brick BARRACKS, executed with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry, on rectangular plan with plinth and foundation of plastered brickwork and covered by a gabled roof curved on two sides and slightly bent inward at the bottom, covered with corrugated grey concrete tiles. Against the end south facade an extension brought under a separate, bent and tile-covered gabled roof. On the ground floor in both long sides provided with two groups of three window openings under cock's-comb and with concrete calf, containing glazing-barred double wooden four-paned casement windows below, and hopper windows above. All casement windows provided with sheet steel shutters painted in red and white border motif and white on the other side. In the end facades two by two comparable windows and in the extension one, and at attic level two by two wooden windows with four-paned casements. The transversely placed access opening in the extension provided with flat wooden door and divided fanlight; access on ground floor in end west facade is bricked up; the access opening at attic level, with wooden door in which divided glazed upper panel, is accessible via climbing irons and concrete balcony with iron balustrade. Gutters with downpipes; dark red weathervanes under diagonal tiles. Interior layout is substantially unchanged. Wooden floors. Wooden staircase characteristic of the construction period. Interior largely altered by among others lowered ceilings, modern utilities, modern sanitary facilities and renewed doors. Two apparently earlier dormer windows installed in strips in both roof planes and some partition walls have been removed, so that the attic is now one large undivided boarded space, with only a few traces of the old condition remaining. Relatively lightly executed roof truss structure, supported by rafters.

Valuation

BARRACKS, of general importance as a relatively intact component of a military 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 be demonstrated among others by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the construction period, by the artificially established village-like structure and camouflage carried through to the smallest detail, by the coherence of and with the overall military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.