Bijgebouwen, Koningsweg bij 17 A

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The address Koningsweg 17a(7) now comprises among other things a number of separate buildings dating from the occupation period which at that time served as heated aircraft hangars. The hangars are arranged, yet somewhat 'detached' from one another, on three sides of a central middle terrain, which is connected by means of a straight clinker road narrowed after the war to the southwestern part of the (ring) taxiway. The total ground plan of the cluster of buildings suggests it was developed ad hoc as a large-scale farm complex with various agricultural buildings. After the war - presumably all in 1949 - the buildings were converted into a farm business; a function in which they are still used today. The business borders on the National Park De Hoge Veluwe in the southwest and west. The description of the three hangars proceeds - with one's back to the road - counterclockwise and follows the sequence: A hangar right, B hangar middle and C hangar left.

The middle hangar stands detached as the most southern against the wooded background of National Park De Hoge Veluwe. The roof ridge extends from northeast to southwest and lies in line with the road. The aircraft hangar was built as a 'Sonderbau' and is at the macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at the meso level of a sparse complex of originally globally linear relationship, along the taxiway realized open and closed aircraft parking positions, and within this at the micro level of a cluster executed as closed parking positions disguised as agricultural business buildings. The change of use and conversion presumably took place in or around 1949.

Description

Relatively small, single-storey, partly executed with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry brick AIRCRAFT HANGAR (7), on an almost square, rectangular ground plan and covered by a - perpendicular to the greatest length standing - vaulted gabled roof, clad with mixed corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles. The hangar was built as a so-called 'Wärmehalle', that is to say as a heated parking or workshop facility. The northern end gable / main gable is executed symmetrically with - under the vaulted section - centrally a pair of vertically boarded wooden roller doors and on either side thereof potted sections; left and right of the vaulted roof section brick gable sections. The end rear gable is provided on left and right with two later introduced arched window openings, containing concrete four-pane frames and ventilation strip with between them two arched access openings, containing dark vertically boarded wooden doors. The gable contains in multiple places building traces of alterations, which presumably involved closing or filling in earlier, or camouflage-applied, possibly only facade-painted openings, including centrally an arched access and left and right half-round closed windows. Both side gables contain in the southern half two arched access openings, containing dark vertically boarded wooden doors and left and right thereof an arched window opening, containing concrete four-pane frame and ventilation strip. The gables contain in multiple places building traces of alterations, which presumably involved closing or filling in earlier or camouflage-applied, possibly only facade-painted openings, including half-round closed windows. Building entirely white rendered, except the plinth painted black all around; gutters absent; wooden weather vanes; in the floor in front of the doors a concrete drainage gutter. The interior was presumably adapted in 1949 for use as an agricultural outbuilding and is among other things fitted out as a pig sty and as a storage space for (agricultural) vehicles. In the floor there is a partially closed drainage gutter. The entirely rendering unconventionally constructed roof truss structure is in virtually original condition and is composed of sawn, partly by bolts and partly by nails coupled constructional timber, partly based on trusses and partly by perpendicularly placed diagonal planks.

Valuation

AIRCRAFT HANGAR, of general interest as an extremely rare and readily recognizable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, and as a property converted into a farm in the post-war reconstruction period, on account of: architectural-historical, urban planning, technical-historical, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which among other things can be evident from the traditionalist building method inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially established farm business structure and camouflage carried through to detail, from the special wooden roof truss structures applied in the roof, from the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, from the mutual relationship of the forms applied therein, and from the change of use carried out after the Second World War (in the reconstruction period) in direct continuation of the original camouflage form to the local agricultural business.