Bijgebouwen, Koningsweg 17 A

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The address Koningsweg 17a(8) now comprises among other things three separate buildings dating from the occupation period, which at that time served as heated aircraft hangars. The hangars are arranged, yet somewhat 'loose' in relation to each other, on three sides of a central courtyard, which is connected by means of a straight brick-paved road narrowed after the war to the southwestern part of the (ring)taxiway. The overall floor plan of the cluster of buildings suggests it was developed ad hoc as a large-scale farmstead with various agricultural buildings. After the war - presumably all in 1949 - the buildings were fitted out as a farm; a function in which they are still used today. The farm borders the National Park De Hoge Veluwe to 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 hangar on the left stands free as the most easterly in a vegetable garden and kitchen garden, with at some distance the wooded background of National Park De Hoge Veluwe. The hangar is built up from two clearly distinguishable parts: a business section and a residential section. The roof ridge of the business section of the building constructed on a roughly L-shaped floor plan extends from northeast to southwest and runs parallel to the road; the roof ridge of the residential section connected on the northeast side runs at right angles to it. The aircraft hangar came about 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 aircraft shelters originally realized in roughly linear sequence, along the taxiway, and within this at the micro level of a cluster of closed aircraft shelters executed to disguise as agricultural buildings. The change of use and conversion presumably took place in or around 1949; to commemorate this, a stone with inscription was placed in the southeastern gable: "Reynouthoeve / This stone placed on 6 September 1949 by Emma Staf born 3-11-1937". Of the three, this specimen was converted most drastically.

Description

Relatively small, partly cellaried, single-storey, in part constructed with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork AIRCRAFT HANGAR (8), on a principally L-shaped floor plan and covered by a - at right angles to the greatest length - gabled roof clad with mixed corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, with in the ridge of the business section two brick escape stairs, in the ridge of the residential section a brick chimney and in the southwestern roof slope a roof dormer. The hangar was built as a so-called 'Wärmehalle', that is as a heated parking or workshop and it contained for this purpose in the basement among other things a heating installation, also for the other halls. The building is whitewashed over a black-painted plinth. The northeastern end gable / main gable of the business section is executed symmetrically and contains centrally an access opening with double wooden doors with four-pane windows at the top and to the left and right thereof a window opening with concrete frames in four-pane division; at attic floor level a smaller access opening with double wooden doors and smaller window openings with concrete four-pane windows. The southwestern end gable contains on the ground floor three access openings, in which clamped wooden doors and at attic floor level an access opening with fanlight and double wooden doors and to the left and right thereof a round window opening with a cross-divided four-pane window. The northwestern long side wall contains about ten rectangular window openings, in which concrete frames divided into four with below a ventilation strip, and further in the left half between the first and second and between the fifth and sixth windows an access opening, in which clamped wooden doors. The southeastern long side wall contains on the left four similar windows and transitions on the right into the residential section. Wind braces, no gutters. The residential section contains in the southeastern end gable centrally a vaulted entrance, with sunken therein the wooden door filled with two large glass panes; to the left thereof a rectangular window opening with green wooden shutters, a large window below and two small casement windows above and to the right thereof a small window pane and two approximately square window openings with shutters. Below the small window pane the aforementioned stone with inscription. The short gable on the northeast side - the building was slightly widened at that location - situated under a canopy contains alongside a small window opening traces of a former access to the (heating) cellar. The northeastern long side wall contains among other things a large, later inserted window with modern glazing bars and to the left thereof a smaller window with double outward-opening windows. In the southwestern long side wall on the right a large window opening with undivided pane and shutters, and to the left thereof an access opening which is now filled with a sunken-installed window. Mast gutters, wooden wind braces. Directly to the north of the hangar is a still recognizable aircraft washing place. The interior was adapted in 1949 to use as a farm and contains among other things a cow shed and a milk processing room in the business section, and a dwelling house. The ceiling in the business section is borne by round, concrete columns (possibly completely renewed). Dwelling house converted according to standards circa 1950 and subsequently modernized.

Valuation

AIRCRAFT HANGAR, of general importance as an extremely rare and clearly recognizable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield and as a farm fitted out in the post-war reconstruction period, by reason of: architectural historical, urban planning, technical historical, military and cultural historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated among other things in the traditional building style inspired by local forms, in the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, in the artificially established farm business structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, in the coherence of and with the complete military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, in the mutual relationship of the forms applied therein, and in the change of use executed immediately after the Second World War (in the reconstruction) in direct continuation of the original camouflage form adapted to the local agricultural enterprise.