Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 41 is situated independently on the west side of a spacious storage area for equipment, to the south and in line with garage number 44, directly opposite the rear gable of garage 42 and parallel to the present Clément van Maasdijklaan, which forms the western boundary of Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented north-south and runs parallel to the said road. Building 41 is a garage created in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' with four double garage boxes for the Fahrbereitschaft, is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945, at meso level of a complex of buildings placed at some distance from the residential buildings arranged in linear and brinkdorp fashion, in a rectangular, geometric arrangement, and at micro level of a complex of functional buildings mutually related in terms of function and form. The garage is nowadays in use in a comparable function and as a storage building.

Description

Single-storey brick GARAGE executed in fair-faced brickwork on an elongated, rectangular ground plan and covered by a gabled roof with predominantly grey, recently restored Dutch tiles between pointed gables. The eastern front or long gable facing the storage area is divided by five white-painted brick wall sections or pilasters into four double bays of equal width. The bays are closed with two full-height gable, heavily executed, vertically boarded, wooden, hanging sliding doors. In each of the doors a two by four pane-divided window and in the second door from the left a small door with three heavy strap hinges below the right window. The western rear gable contains per bay two construction traces of sealed, circular ventilation openings executed with a rollway. The blank end gables are provided with white-painted wooden wind braces; at the front gable a mastgutter. The whitewashed interior, of which the original lime layer is visible around the sealed ventilation openings, is divided by three approximately 1.25 m high brick and sand-lime stone partition walls into four double stalls for eight vehicles, with above it an open wooden roof truss structure on the basis of rafters and purlins and without boarding.

Motivation

GARAGE of general significance as a recognisable component of a military barracks originating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupiers as part of a large military airfield, on account of:

- architectural-historical value through the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms and the execution and detailing characteristic of the building period,

- military and cultural-historical value as a garage in a garage cluster in the Groot Heidekamp military barracks for the "Fahrbereitschaft",

- urban planning and ensemble value through its integration in a cluster of garages with vehicle parking areas formed on a rectangular basis, through the coherence with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the barracks, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied to these.