Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 44 stands detached on the west side of a spacious vehicle assembly and washing area, north of number 41 and parallel to it, running parallel to the present-day Clément van Maasdijklaan, which forms the western boundary of Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge extends from south to north. Building 44 is a garage built in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' with four double garage bays for the Fahrbereitschaft, and at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945, at meso level part of a complex of buildings arranged in rectangular geometric formation—at some distance from the accommodation buildings placed in linear and village-green-like arrangement—and at micro level part of a complex of functional buildings related to each other by 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 masonry on an elongated, rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof with predominantly grey newly improved Dutch tiles between pointed gables. The eastern front or long facade facing the assembly area is divided by five brick wall piers or pilasters into four double open bays of equal width; garage doors are absent. The western rear facade contains, per bay, two construction traces of infilled ventilation openings, originally round and executed with a roller course. The blind end gables are provided with white-painted wooden wind braces; at the front facade a roof gutter. The whitewashed interior, in which much of the original whitewash layer remains, is divided by three, approximately 1.25 m high, brick partition walls into four double stalling spaces for eight vehicles, with above them an open wooden roof truss structure based on rafters and purlins and without boarding. On the middle partition wall text revealed from under later wall paint: "Zu diesem Hause Mannlöcher sofort erkunden", which possibly indicates a tank stalling. On the rear wall likewise: "Rauchen verboten".

Justification

GARAGE of general importance as a recognisable 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 in a garage cluster in the Groot Heidekamp army camp for the "Fahrbereitschaft",

- urban planning and ensemble value through embedding in a garage cluster formed on a rectangular basis with vehicle assembly areas, through the coherence of and with the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the encampment, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied in this context.