Bijgebouwen, Deelen:Groot-Heidekamp Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 56 stands freely in a wooded green space, at some distance to the northeast of no. 37 and to the southeast of the firefighting water pond, on the northern side of a slightly curved road running to the northeast at Groot-Heidekamp. The roof ridge is oriented roughly from southwest to northeast and runs parallel to the road. Building 56 is a bathhouse annex boiler house created in 1940-1941 as a 'Sonderbau', a capacity in which it fulfilled a pioneering role in district heating technology in the Netherlands, together with the boiler houses no. 24 and 75. On a macro level it forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, on a meso level of a sparse complex of buildings placed partly in a linear and partly in a radiating village green arrangement, and within this on a micro level of a series of buildings positioned in a loose linear arrangement. The building currently still functions as a boiler house for heating in the complex.

Description

Partly executed from basement level, single-storey brick BOILER HOUSE ANNEX BATHHOUSE on an L-shaped floor plan, under a barrel-vaulted roof at both ends and slightly arched at the bottom, covered with red improved Dutch tiles and a gabled roof. On the northwestern side facade on the left a lower extension under an attached hipped roof. Protruding easterly from the middle of the main roof, perpendicular to the ridge line, a relatively substantial brick chimney several metres high, which is provided on the east side with climbing irons. In the western gable end or front facade a central arched entrance opening under rooster comb moulding, with a stoop and double outward-opening doors. Against the northeastern gable a presumably later added, low and finished with mastic, flat-roofed extension with three sash windows under roll moulding at basement level, and to the right of it a side staircase with iron balustrade and partly metal treads leading to an entrance at basement level. Above the extension two blocked-in window openings and at attic level a window opening under roll moulding with a four-pane window. The southeastern side facade with six blocked-in windows and in the middle a window replaced by a ventilation grille. Northwestern side facade with blocked-in windows on the right and a modified entrance opening with a fanlight. On the left the low extension under hipped roof, with in the gable end and the southwestern facade three each and in the northeastern facade two arched, high-placed windows under rooster comb moulding, of which those in the southwestern facade are blocked in. In the northeastern facade on the right adjoining the windows an arched entrance opening under rooster comb moulding. Eaves gutters and white-painted wind vanes. In the interior of the basement on the east side, the former boiler house, including yellow floor tiles, brown-painted wainscoting and above it white-washed walls; further relics of a hoisting installation and climbing irons to a (later) rendered attic. The extension under hipped roof is fitted with light-blue painted wainscoting. In the former bathhouse section is found the now operational heating installation, which does not represent intrinsic monumental value.

Valuation

BOILER HOUSE ANNEX BATHHOUSE, of general importance as a rare component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, because 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 boiler house of a military camp built in a short time with modern facilities and the camouflage implemented in detail within it, and as a boiler house of the first district heating system in the Netherlands

- complex and ensemble values through its location in an artificially established village green structure for camouflage purposes, through the coherence of and with the overall military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and through the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.