Bijgebouwen, Koningsweg 24 B

English translation

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Description

Introduction

The address Koningsweg 24b(11) consists of two coupled buildings dating from the German occupation period, with the northernmost serving as a heated aircraft hangar and the other containing the associated boiler house. The hangar stands adjacent to a pre-existing, presumably wartime forest path and was connected along this path to the southern part of the (ring) taxiway. The floor plan of the building suggests that it was designed as camouflage in the form of a head-neck-body farmhouse. After the war, the two buildings and the connecting part were converted by the Dutch Heidemaatschappij according to designs by architect L.A. Heijdelberger, in conjunction with three other buildings, into a farm operation (together called the Four Heemskinderen and also marked as such with a blue tile) - a function in which they are still used today. The boiler house was converted into a dwelling and connected to the hangar - now a barn - by means of a connecting section. As a reminder of this, a tile with an inscription was installed bearing, among other things, the name 'Adelaerthoeve' and the date '5 April 1949'.

The hangar stands freely on the west side of a forest lane that begins between the farmhouses Heiderijk and Heuvelink and is situated in a meadow against a background of tall heavy trees. The roof ridges of the component main sections extend roughly from west to east and stand perpendicular to the forest lane. The hangar, created as a 'Sonderbau', together with the (now converted into a dwelling) boiler house, is at the macroscopic level part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at the mesoscopic level part of a sparse complex of open and closed aircraft parking positions originally realized in a roughly linear arrangement along the taxiway, and at the microscopic level part of a cluster of closed parking positions executed as agricultural farm buildings for camouflage reasons. The dwelling is completely whitewashed with a black plinth.

Description

Medium-sized, single-storey AIRCRAFT HANGAR (11) with partly approximately 50 cm thick external masonry in brick, on a composite floor plan, with respect to the current farm section covered by a hipped roof placed perpendicular to the greatest length, currently covered with modern partly light-transmitting corrugated sheet, and with a raised roof edge on the east side and a deflected roof shield on the west side extended over an outbuilding. With respect to the current residential section, the building is covered by a saddle roof with red corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles between chimneys terminating in spout gables; the saddle roof of the connecting section is covered with comparable tiles. The hangar was built as a so-called 'Wärmehalle', that is to say as a heated parking or working place. The eastern gable/main facade, which - despite its great length - stands transverse to the roof ridge, is executed symmetrically, with whitewashed brick sections on the left and right and further a broad access opening reaching to the roof edge occupied by black tarred timber sections, with centrally an entrance without doors featuring in the middle a wooden standvink on a stone pier. The right brick facade section contains an arched access opening with black double wooden doors; the left is provided on the right with an access opening with a single door and to the left of this a broad window opening with a short strip of windows, consisting of two double outward-opening two-light windows, and on the upper floor level a smaller four-light window. The western gable lies under a deflected and slightly extended roof shield and is provided on the left with two pairs of coupled arched access openings, with clamped wooden doors with heavily executed hinges and fastenings and five window openings, with concrete two-part glazed frames with air vents. To the right of this several access openings with double wooden doors and similar window openings. The northern long side is provided with three, two and three coupled concrete two-part window openings with between them a relatively small blocked arched access and an access opening with double wooden roller doors. The southern long side coincides on the right with the connecting section and contains on the left, among other things, a series of cross windows. The interior has been somewhat adapted to use as an agricultural outbuilding and the property functions mainly as a storage space for vehicles. Construction, layout and details are to a high degree in their original state. The roof is supported by a number of laminated wooden tie-beam trusses over the greatest width, and a wooden system, partly based on timber framing and partly made from planking, bolted and assembled from rafters. The hangar comprises one large central space which ends on the west side with a concrete wall and on the north and south sides against a brick wall. Behind the side walls are smaller annex rooms.

The dwelling contains in the southern long side two window openings of different sizes with shutters and four-part windows, and on the upper floor two smaller windows with (now only in the right one a four-light) casement window and centrally between them an access opening with a so-called French balcony. The eastern facade connects to the connecting section and contains, among other things, a small porch-like outbuilding situated in the angle.

Valuation

AIRCRAFT HANGAR with former boiler house, of general importance as a rare and readily recognizable component of a military camp erected by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield dating from the Second World War and as a building converted into a farm in the post-war reconstruction period, on account of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be demonstrated in particular by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the building period, by the artificially established farm business structure and the camouflage carried through to the finest detail, by the coherence with the complete military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, by the mutual relationship of the forms employed therein, and by the adaptation carried out in the post-Second World War period (in the reconstruction) in the direct continuation of the original camouflage form to the local agricultural business.