Bijgebouwen, Koningsweg bij 17 B

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 16(2) stands detached on the north side of the taxiway, broadly between and diagonally opposite the T-junction of this with the access road to Vrijland-Noord and building 14 and hangar III A. The roof ridge extends from west to east and runs parallel with the taxiway. Building 16 is a military building with technical function (weapons repair workshop: presumably meant for airborne weapons) created in 1941 as a 'Sonderbau' and is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a rectangular-geometric structure, while at micro level it is a relatively solitary placed object, in direct connection with the existing but, in the context of the airfield development, adapted spatial structure. The location on the taxiway reveals the directly aircraft-related function.

Description

Undercellarated, single-storey, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, brick MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (weapons repair workshop, Waffenmeisterei) (2), on a predominantly rectangular floor plan and covered by a hipped roof clad with grey corrugated newly improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with a brick chimney in the ridge and further in the northern and southern roof slope window strips of elongated wooden roof dormers with lean-to roofs, and in the western slope a small roof dormer with lean-to roof, containing an access opening reached via an iron staircase and a balcony. Light shafts all around to cellar level. The southern long facade / main facade has on the right an approximately one metre projecting gable section with pointed gable and beneath an attached saddle roof. This projecting gable section contains on the left the main access opening situated in a porch with cock's comb ornament, containing double wooden slatted doors beneath a fourteen-pane fanlight divided by glazing bars. To the right of this two rectangular window openings beneath a roll moulding, with double wooden four-pane windows, and at attic level a recessed access opening beneath cock's comb ornament and provided with double wooden doors. To the left of the projecting gable section three, two and three window openings beneath roll moulding and with concrete calf, each above the calf provided with four-pane drop windows and below the calf with inward-opening double four-pane windows and with sheet metal shutters painted in green and white list motif (and the right three (upper) with grilles). The northern long facade has on the left four and on the right nine comparable window openings and between these an access beneath roll moulding, with four-pane fanlight and wooden door. The eastern gable end has on the left and right two pairs of comparable window openings and between these two likewise comparable access openings. On the right an external staircase with small brick wall running parallel with the facade to cellar level. The western gable end contains on the left one and on the right two comparable windows and between these a recessed access opening beneath cock's comb ornament, with 12-pane recessed fanlight and wooden door. All round box gutters and white painted wooden wind-braces on the pointed gable. The interior is partly modernised, but contains both in the cellar and on the ground floor details and components characteristic of the building period, such as doors, door posts, painted wainscoting. Concrete floors and ceilings.

Valuation

MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (weapons repair workshop), of general importance as a readily recognisable component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, because of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, situational, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated inter alia by the traditionalist building approach inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the adherence to the artificially established geometric settlement structure aligned with the pre-existing spatial layout and the camouflage carried through to detail within this, by the location on the taxiway, by the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied in this.