Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 43 stands detached and dominant amongst storage areas for equipment on Groot-Heidekamp, on the west side of the north-south running access road to these storage areas, to the northeast of number 42. Building 43 is a garage with workshop and office brought into being in 1940/1941 as a 'Sonderbau' for the purposes of the Fahrbereitschaft on a composite floor plan and comprises three clearly distinguishable sections: a long east-west oriented garage section, to the east of this and at right angles to it a taller rectangular volume for workshop and office, and to the east of this again a lower, relatively shallow rectangular building section. Building 43 is at macro level part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945, at meso level of a complex of - at some distance from the residential buildings arranged in linear and brink-village fashion - buildings arranged in a rectangular geometric relationship, and at micro level of a complex of functionally related buildings mutually connected by function and form. The building has served as a training space for fire and disaster response, and bears traces of this in particular at attic storey level (offices).

Description

One-storey brick GARAGE with WORKSHOP and OFFICE in running bond, partly basement, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork on a composite floor plan and for a section covered by two gabled roofs and a curved gabled roof, each provided with muffled improved Dutch tiles and provided with white ridge cresting and box gutters. The east-west oriented garage section is constructed on an elongated rectangular floor plan and is covered by a gabled roof capped at the east side, running out to the west in a pointed gable. The south-facing longitudinal or front facade is divided by six brick wall piers or pilasters into five double bays of equal width, of which the left four are partly filled with spandrels and within these are closed off with two full-height facade, heavily executed, vertically boarded wooden hanging roller doors, flanked by whitewashed brick door jambs. In each of the doors a window divided by glazing bars into four lights. In the right door of the middle bay a wicket door. The right bay contains on the left a recessed window opening under a cable moulding, with double casement windows divided into four lights and on the right a later infill with a flat wooden door under a brick relieving arch. The northern rear facade is predominantly provided with later inserted rectangular window openings under concrete lintels. The western gable end is blank. The interior shows some separate parking spaces with plastered and painted skirting and contains among other things pipes from a central heating system. The roof, boarded with reused wood in different colours, is carried by wooden trusses and struts.

The considerably taller main volume located to the east is partly provided with a basement and has a steep roof covered with again improved Dutch tiles, a curved gabled roof. The roof ridge - in which a chimney - is oriented north-south and contains in the eastern roof slope a number of roof dormers under gently sloping gabled rooflets. In the south-facing, in relation to the western garage section projecting, gable end two tall garage openings under cable moulding (now plastic roller doors). At attic storey level three recessed windows under cable moulding and with brick drip edge, with double casement windows divided by glazing bars into four lights opening inwards, flanked by diagonally boarded wooden shutters. Centrally an iron emergency ladder. The projecting rear facade of the main volume has on the left a recessed access opening with a batten door, to the right of this a filled-in rectangular window opening. Immediately to the right three recessed windows under cable moulding with double windows divided by a glazing bar into two lights. At attic storey level three recessed windows under cable moulding comparable to those in the main facade. In the eastern side facade on the left four high-placed recessed windows under cable moulding, containing drop windows divided into eight lights, with brick drip edges; to the right of this the eastern building section adjoins. The interior contains at basement level amongst other things a room with heating equipment and on the ground floor parking space usable as a workshop with a filled-in grease pit. At attic storey level amongst other things a number of office spaces with renewed doors in reveals characteristic of the building period. Attic storey floor in reinforced concrete. Staircases contain components characteristic of the building period; furthermore amongst other things painted wainscoting, yellow tilework in sanitary facilities, corrugated radiators.

The most eastern shallow building section is built on a rectangular floor plan, lies well behind the building line with the roof ridge running from west to east and is covered by a gabled roof capped at the west side, ending in a pointed gable at the east side. This east gable contains a broad access opening under cable moulding, with double external braced doors and a narrow ventilation slot in the gable apex. The southern longitudinal facade counts four and the northern two recessed window openings under cable moulding and with brick drip edges, and within these double four-light windows divided by glazing bars. The interior contains some small rooms, containing amongst other things doors characteristic of the building period and painted wainscoting.

Justification

GARAGE, WORKSHOP and OFFICE of general interest as a recognizable component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier 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 with workshop and office of the "Fahrbereitschaft" in a garage cluster in the Groot Heidekamp army camp specially equipped for the purposes of the Fahrbereitschaft,

- urban design and ensemble value through the setting within a cluster of garages and vehicle storage areas formed on a rectangular basis, 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 here.