Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 47 stands detached along the south side of the northernmost east-west running road at Groot-Heidekamp and on the north side of a spacious vehicle assembly and washing area, at some distance north-east of number 44 and with the roof ridge perpendicular to it, running parallel to the said northernmost road. Building 47 is a garage built in 1940-1941 as a 'Regelbau' with four double garage bays for the Fahrbereitschaft, at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the period 1940-1945, at meso level part of a complex of similar 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 garage 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 roof panel is partially raised above the two middle bays to accommodate a higher entrance opening. The northern long or front facade facing away from the assembly area is divided by five brick wall piers or pilasters into four double bays of equal width. Each bay is closed with two full-height, heavily executed, vertically boarded wooden hanging roller doors—the four middle ones executed slightly higher than the others. In each door two relatively small windows divided into panes by glazing bars and in the right roller door a wicket door. The southern rear facade facing the assembly area contains, in addition to a series of seven later inserted window openings under concrete lintels, at the far left in a later extension a construction trace of an infilled ventilation opening, originally round and executed with a roller course. The blind end gables are provided with green wind braces; at the front and rear facades roof gutters. The interior is formed by separate double stalling spaces, with above them a wooden roof truss structure based on rafters and purlins.

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.