Legeringsgebouw, Radarpad 4

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 4 is located between the Koningsweg and building 5 with the roof ridge parallel to the access road, standing freely in a lawn against a background of tall vegetation, on the west side of the access lane to the camps Koningsweg-Noord and Zeven Provinciën. Building 4 is a 'Regelbau' group accommodation for the Luftwaffe constructed in 1943-1944, which at the macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945. At the meso level it forms part of two complexes of buildings arranged in a rectangular-geometric pattern and at the micro level it is part of a number of military accommodations placed in linear relationship against a forest edge. The building is in a neglected state and due to boarded-up access and window openings it is not accessible and scarcely possible to inspect internally. It is reported that the original window openings were altered and enlarged after the Second World War.

Description

Two-storey, executed with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, BARRACKS BUILDING fashioned in bricks typical for the construction period on an elongated rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof with grey corrugated improved hollow (Dutch) tiles between pointed gables with generous overhang on corbels, with in both roof slopes five two-light roof dormers and on the right in the eastern roof slope a brick chimney. The nine window-bay wide eastern long facade / main facade contains centrally a fairly wide (boarded-up) access opening with a brick stoep with two steps, and further a relieving arch and fanlight with glazing bars vertically divided into seven sections and above it a standing, divided into two parts rectangular wooden window opening, containing diamond-patterned coloured leaded glass. Both on the ground floor and on the first floor to the left and right of this four horizontal rectangular wooden window openings placed under concrete lintels and divided into six sections. The eight window-bay wide western long facade contains on both levels eight comparable window openings. Both end gables have on three levels a smaller window opening under a concrete lintel and on the northern facade an iron staircase with landings for access to the first and attic storey. Wide zinc gutters and white painted overhang. The interior contains on ground floor and first floor separate rooms and here and there relieving arches and passages and it has at attic storey level one undivided space and a roof carried by roof trusses.

Valuation

Two-storey BARRACKS BUILDING, of general importance as a recognizable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupiers as part of a large military airfield, by reason of: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which among other things can be demonstrated by the construction method, components and details characteristic for the construction period, by the relative rarity of such two-storey buildings, by the location making use of as much as possible of the existing camouflaging green and landscape structure, by the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.