Bijgebouwen, Falk-Stelling Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

A group located southwest of the Hooilaan (13) with an (unknown) number of individual, relatively closely situated former anti-aircraft gun positions. The position is located to the left and in part (namely one visible component) to the right of a path which extends from the Hooilaan - from near the northern boundary of the recent young tree planting - in a southwesterly direction over military training ground and namely on the east and southeast side of a so-called 'compound' - a relatively modern parking position for materiel and personnel provided with earth banks and guard huts. The components of the so-called FLAK position came into being (mostly) as 'Regelbau' and at macro level they are part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945. The components are at meso level part of an ensemble of defensive means around the airfield and at micro level form a rather amorphous group of semi-open bunkers. An air photograph from around 1945 shows a rather untidy spatial structure with little vegetation, and also a connecting path from the position to the Hooilaan, which apparently served as a supply route for materiel and weaponry. The structures are for the most part in a neglected state or have fallen into serious decay.

Description

(Remains of) at least three former, partly executed in concrete blocks, partly in brick and partly in reinforced concrete, principally rectangular positions for anti-aircraft guns and associated equipment. The components of this so-called FLAK POSITION (FLAK = Flugzeugabwehrkanone) (13), which are partly obscured from view by sand and vegetation, possess (or do not) in rudimentary form presumably a former entrance between bevelled masonry, which in the plan is followed by a rectangular open space, which in turn via a brick staircase and an access opening connects to a half-sunken position, covered by a reinforced concrete slab, a small rectangular room built of concrete blocks. To the right of the entrance is a second facade opening. Furthermore, in a fairly deep pit, remains of an apparently destroyed building were found, of which among other things a brick staircase and a fragment of a former flue were recognizable.

Valuation

FLAK POSITION or anti-aircraft gun position, of general importance as a rare and recognizable component of a military camp originating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of: military and cultural-historical, situational and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated among other things by the amorphous structure which possibly formed part of the camouflage, by the specific location with unrestricted view and field of fire over the wide surroundings of Vliegveld Deelen, and by the connection with and within the total military airfield concept.