Militair verblijfsgebouw, Zeven Provinciën 6

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 6 stands detached in a relatively exposed location, with the roof ridge running north-south, to the east of Building 5, south of a ring road around a large rectangular open area on the camp 'Zeven Provinciën'. Building 6 is a military dwelling constructed as a 'Regelbau' in 1941-1942, at meso level forms part of two complexes of buildings arranged in a rectangular-geometric pattern and at micro level is part of (originally seven) now five military quarters arranged in two short linear groupings, virtually identical.

Description

Basement, single-storey, in approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, up to the water-moulding with plinth, rendered brick MILITARY DWELLING on a rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof with grey and some red corrugated re-improved hollow (Dutch) tiles, between stepped gables and with in the roof ridge two brick chimneys. The northern end wall / principal facade has at ground level light shafts for the basement and on the ground floor on the left two rectangular window openings under water-moulding, provided with a concrete sill, with below the sill double four-paned casement windows opening inward and with green and white moulded plate-iron shutters, and above the sill sash windows divided into eight panes by glazing bars; to the right of this a slightly arched entrance opening provided with a step under cock's-comb moulding, containing a door with eight panes divided by glazing bars and a fanlight with a simple, riveted iron decorative piece. At attic level three slightly arched windows under cock's-comb moulding, with double four-paned casement windows. The southern end wall symmetrically and similarly arranged, but with two windows on the ground floor and between them an iron tube ladder to attic level. In the western and eastern long walls three and two rectangular window openings respectively under water-moulding, provided with concrete sill, with below the sill double four-paned casement windows opening inward and with green and white moulded plate-iron shutters, and above the sill a sash window divided into eight panes by glazing bars. Gutters and white-painted weathervanes. The interior has been altered. Staircases and balustrade characteristic of the period of construction, painted wainscoting and plinth tilework. Concrete floors and ceilings. Basement fitted with office and meeting rooms; day-light openings tapering toward the outside leading to the light shafts; brick well. Ground floor and attic spaces with lowered ceiling used as offices.

Valuation

MILITARY DWELLING, of general importance as a readily recognizable component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be demonstrated inter alia through the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, through the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, through the artificially created 'ad hoc structure' and the camouflage carried through to the finest details, through the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.