Bijgebouwen, Koningsweg 17 B

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The address Koningsweg 17b(9) now comprises among other things a former locomotive shed dating from the occupation period, and at some distance from it a building that at that time served as a heated aircraft hangar. The locomotive shed stands approximately 250 m north of the former runway, roughly in line with the Kemperbergerweg; the hangar stands to the southeast of this, south of the former runway in the vicinity of the northern boundary of the military camp Koningsweg-Noord. In or around 1949 the locomotive shed was, according to a design by architect L.A. Heijdelberger, converted by the Nederlandse Heidemaatschappij in conjunction with some other buildings into a set of four farm enterprises (called the Vier Heemskinderen and also provided with a blue tile as such) - a function in which they are still used (commemorative stone Ritsaerthoeve dated 12 July 1949). The conversion involved among other things the widening of the shed on both long sides with a lower extension, the building of a dwelling onto the building at the southeast side, whilst on the northwest side there is a long barn. The building is thereby distinguished by three asymmetrically placed building components against each other: a higher business section, a lower residential section and a long barn. The building is entirely whitewashed, except for a black plinth. The hangar does form part of the same agricultural enterprise, but does not form a visual-spatial unit with it; the hangar is connected via a ruler-straight, brick-paved road with the southern part of the (ring) runway.

The locomotive shed stands detached on the north side of the runway, in a garden with trees and on the south side against a backdrop of rising woodland. The roof ridge of the building, which also changed in plan after the war, runs roughly from northwest to southeast and lies in line with the former small railway track that ran alongside it, of which only a rudiment now remains. The locomotive shed was created as a 'Sonderbau' and at macro level is part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level part of a sparse complex of originally realised in roughly linear relation along the runway open and closed positions for predominantly aircraft, and is within this at micro level a solitary military building executed as an agricultural business building for camouflage reasons with a technical function for locomotive maintenance and storage.

Description

Two-storey LOCOMOTIVE SHED (9) executed with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork and partly also concrete, on a complex ground plan and covered by gently sloping gabled roofs covered with corrugated red curved (Dutch) tiles. On the attached part of the shed to the right a lean-to roof and to the left an extended roof shield; in the ridge of the residential section a white brick chimney and in the roof planes some modern roof lights. The higher business section contains to the right in the eastern gable end / main gable a doorway with outward-opening double green wooden doors with four-pane fanlights and to the right of it a window opening with divided sash window at the top and below two-pane division. On the first floor a smaller window with four-pane division. To the left the residential section is built on. The northwestern gable end contains a doorway under a lintel, provided with high double wooden doors with divided panes at the top and to the right of it a smaller doorway, in which a fixed door and a window opening with four-pane window. At higher level to the left a window opening with four-pane frame and to the right a doorway with double outward-opening doors and furthest to the left the attached barn. The northeastern long side contains to the left and right unequal doorways in which fixed doors, and three small window openings between them; the gable section between the lean-to roof and the gabled roof is blank. The southwestern long side is executed similarly. The interior contains among other things the workshop executed in thick reinforced concrete, with in the floor the relic of a lubrication pit and in the side walls traces of blocked gable openings; at the western doorway a brick infill, whilst the east side is composed of concrete. In the equally concrete ceiling an opening (possibly a smoke outlet) with a view onto the wooden roof boarding.

The dwelling contains in its asymmetrical southeastern gable end / main gable a doorway under an arched lintel, in which a wooden door with a conically shaped four-pane divided window; to the left and right of this window openings of unequal dimensions with double divided opening windows, wooden cornice and green shutters and on the first floor two window openings with double opening divided windows. The right gable contains two unequal window openings, of which the left has double divided opening windows, and the right divided into six panes, both with wooden cornice and green shutters. On the first floor three small window openings. The rear gable coincides with the business section. The southern long side is provided among other things with French doors. Half-gutters.

The attached, elongated barn under a gabled roof with relatively large overhang contains in the northern long side among other things three small divided windows and to the left of this a doorway with a fixed door.

Valuation

LOCOMOTIVE SHED c.a., of general interest as a 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 building converted into a farm in the post-war reconstruction period, by reason of: architectural-historical, town-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated inter alia by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially created strongly geometric settlement structure consonant with the previously existing spatial layout and the camouflage carried through in detail within it, by the interconnection of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.