Godesberg villa district

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Godesberg villa district
Federal city of Bonn
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 34 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 62 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 4653  (December 31, 2018)
Area code : 0228
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Location of the district of Godesberg-Villenviertel in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn
The Rheinallee running through the villa district

Godesberg-Villenviertel is a district of the federal city of Bonn in the Bad Godesberg district . The villa district is part of the so-called Rheinviertel .

history

The area of ​​the second Godesberg villa district between Rüngsdorf , Plittersdorf , the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine and the Rhine was developed and developed for the most part from 1888 onwards , following the quarter with representative villas in the south of the town center . Already existing structural points of contact in the area were the villa of the mayor Carl August von Groote (built 1862/63) and the Protestant Church of the Redeemer (built 1878-80), both located on the southern edge of today's villa district in the area of ​​the Rüngsdorf district. The development of alignment plans was initially carried out together with the communities of Plittersdorf and Rüngsdorf, which were only incorporated into the community of Godesberg in 1899, and from 1903 on the basis of an overall concept by the Cologne city planner Josef Stübben . Above all wealthy pensioners from the Cologne area built representative townhouses here, initially mainly villas and double villas in the style of historicism , later also in the art nouveau style . In the 1920s, objects were added that can be assigned to Art Deco and, in some cases, to New Objectivity . The Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche was built in 1906 and expanded in 1936.

It was first popularly known as the villa district , but was later also called that by the city administration. After Bonn became the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , many of the houses were used as embassy buildings or by organizations and interest groups. The most important embassy offices in the villa district included those of Greece / Cameroon ( Rheinallee 76 ), Pakistan ( Rheinallee 24 ) and Iraq ( Dürenstrasse 33 ). Some of the properties have been or are still being used since the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999) as branch offices or consulates (including a branch office of the Libyan embassy ). The well-preserved Wilhelminian style houses are still considered a showcase address.

"Despite the elimination of trees in the avenue and front gardens as well as the increasing density of the residential area to this day, large parts of the residential area give the unique impression of an upper-class quarter at the turn of the century."

- Andreas Denk (1997)

Public facilities

The Friedrich List Vocational College is located in the villa district .

Personalities

A prominent resident of the villa district is the former finance minister and candidate for chancellor of the SPD for the 2013 federal election , Peer Steinbrück .

See also

literature

  • Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV (Ed.); Martin Ammermüller : Walk through the villa district . Bad Godesberg 2016.
  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 121/122.
  • Anne Biesenbaum, Michael Weisser: Art Nouveau windows in Godesberg town houses . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Homeland Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 13, 1975, pp. 68–84.
  • Walfried Pohl: The architecture of the Godesberg villa district at the beginning of the century. In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Homeland Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 12, 1974, pp. 35–47.

Web links

Commons : Godesberg-Villenviertel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population in Bonn by districts (according to the main statute) on December 31 , 2018 , Federal City of Bonn - Statistics Office, February 2019
  2. ^ Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: Architekturführer Bonn .