Fort, vesting en -onderdelen, Vossegatsedijk 3

English translation

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Description

Cluster 40.

Introduction

FORT GUARDHOUSE, as a military service dwelling on the southwestern side of the fort. Because most forts and other (defence works located outside the built-up area) - when there was no mobilisation or exercises - had no occupation by military personnel, in many cases there was a separate dwelling or other form of accommodation for a manager or guard. Sometimes such a dwelling or accommodation also had another function, such as that of a lock and or bridge watcher's dwelling. In the applied architecture there is consequently no uniformity; the building material used varies, but is usually brick or wood. Also with regard to the location of a watcher's dwelling there are no clear standards; some fort watcher's dwellings lie within the fort ditch, others outside it - sometimes even at some distance from the fort. The fort guardhouse of the Fort bij Rijnauwen lies on the southwestern side of the fort, outside the ditch.

Description

FORT GUARDHOUSE of the Fort bij Rijnauwen, located on the southwestern side of the fort and dating from the construction period of the fort. The brick dwelling is a single-storey building on a rectangular floor plan with grey plinth, covered by a tile-covered gabled roof with white wind finials and at the rear of the ridge one masoned chimney. The southern end gable is provided with lisenes accentuated with yellow brick and rising frieze. Further two glazing-bar sash windows in arched window openings on the ground floor and one smaller example in the top gable, all three provided with yellow decoration in the arch. Below the window opening on the upper floor in yellow brick the letter W. Window openings on the ground floor provided with shutters, green with hourglass motif in red and white. A skylight and a Velux window have been installed in the eastern roof slope. On the eastern side gable a wooden extension.

Valuation

The FORT GUARDHOUSE of the Fort bij Rijnauwen is of general importance by reason of:

* Cultural-historical values as part of the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie as designed by C.R.T. Kraijenhoff and in initial construction from 1815 by him, Jan Blanken and major-engineer Willem Offerhaus and subsequently by others over approximately 125 years was reinforced and improved.

* Military-historical values as part of a continuous military defensive line between the former Zuiderzee and the Biesbosch. This consisted mainly of a coherent system of inundation fields and associated inundation means and of fields of fire. This system was supplemented with various types of built or constructed (defensive) works dating from different periods that served or contributed to the closure of non-inundable terrain or other accesses.

* Architectural-historical values, in particular as an expression of a dwelling related to military-strategic architecture, which was based on: - the system of inundation and access defence (19th century) and - indirectly on the competition with increasingly powerful offensive means (19th century).

This concerns here a component from approximately 1870, namely a service dwelling located outside the fort ditch as accommodation for the fort watcher.

* Ensemble value and situational values as part of the Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie. Also by reason of the functional and physical coherence with the other components of the complex.

* The component is representative because it is an example of a service dwelling arranged at a defence work.

* The component is reasonably well preserved because main form and architectural detailing, as well as various components have remained intact.