Godesberger Allee

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The Godesberger Allee is an important inner-city street in the Bonn district of Bad Godesberg and part of the federal highway 9 . It leads through the outskirts of the districts of Friesdorf , Hochkreuz and Plittersdorf and also opens up the southern area of ​​the federal quarter .

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Light rail on Godesberger Allee

The Godesberger Avenue lies to the north of the district Bad Godesberg and performs on the districts Friesendorf and Godesberg with a length of about 1.9 km from the intersection of State Highway 562, the main road 9 - the border district of Bonn - in the north-west to the Wurzerstraße in South-east, where the B 9 in the direction of Koblenz dips into the Bad Godesberg tunnel . Between its northwestern end on the A 562 and the intersection with Kennedyallee and Hochkreuzallee - this section of Godesberger Allee can be assigned to the federal district - the border between the districts of Friesdorf in the west and Hochkreuz in the east runs in the middle of the street, while the southeast section until Wurzerstraße is entirely part of the Plittersdorf district.

In the middle of the street runs the whole length of the Bonn – Bad Godesberg light rail line with the Max-Löbner-Straße / Friesdorf and Hochkreuz / Deutsches Museum Bonn stops .

history

Godesberger Allee is a section of the former Cöln-Mainzer Landstrasse , later Provinzialstrasse and Reichsstrasse 9 between Cologne and Koblenz , which was named Bonner Strasse on February 28, 1878 by resolution of the Godesberg municipal council . After the incorporation of Friesdorf (1904), its northwestern end marked the border between the city of Bonn and the municipality (from 1926 "Bad", from 1935 "City") Godesberg. By resolution of the City Council of Bad Godesberg on July 29, 1930, with effect from October 1, 1930, the name was changed to Kölner Strasse . The street was given its current name by a resolution of the City Council of Bonn on March 24, 1977, with effect from January 1, 1978.

1892 along the road on its own rail body along the former channel bed of Godesberger Bach newly built of " steam trams busy" railway from Godesberg to Bonn put into operation, which has been converted into an electric tram line 1911th In 1956, due to increasing individual traffic, it was given a separate track in the middle of the street. In 1975 the railway line was converted to light rail operations.

Building on both sides of the street, which until then had the character of an arterial road , took place from the 1960s in the wake of the strong increase in demand for office and commercial space due to Bonn's function as the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany. Initially, it did not take place on the basis of an urban planning concept, but was built largely haphazardly as speculative objects by private property developers, in particular for leasing to interest groups or other government agencies; Some embassies also settled down on the street, which - like a large part of Bundesstraße 9 in Bonn - was given the nickname “Diplomatic Avenue”. The office buildings were interspersed with petrol stations and businesses as well as a few residential buildings. The new buildings as well as the road expansion necessary with the increasing traffic went hand in hand with negative interventions in the design of the street space, which led to the removal of front gardens and trees.

“Between Bonn and the villa town of Godesberg, a kind of jungle of extremely diverse buildings for ministries and administrations has spread along the 'diplomatic racetrack', and it is always a shock when you suddenly come out of the noticeably intact city of Bonn with its pleasant streets this confusing environment is coming. "

- Gerhart Laage (1977)

"[T] he Bundesstraße 9, which runs through the government district on its way from Bonn to Bad Godesberg, was battered as wildly as the strip of a gold rush town that was too provincial ostentatious."

- Manfred Sack (1992)

At the beginning of the 1970s, the city of Bonn began planning to develop Bundesstraße 9 in the area of ​​the newly created parliamentary and government district and thus also Godesberger Allee into a representative government avenue , which is now expanding to include the city ​​of Bad Godesberg, which was incorporated in 1969 . These plans were implemented as part of an urban development measure; In addition to reducing the heterogeneity of the buildings, they provided for avenue planting on both sides, wide footpaths and cycle paths as well as squares at the important intersections. In 1975 a large car company on the former outskirts of Bad Godesberg was bought and relocated. One of the first traffic planning measures in 1985 was the expansion of the Godesberger Allee / Kennedyallee intersection into a square. By 1994, the light rail line at the southern end of the street was relocated to a newly built tunnel , at the same time the above-ground Hochkreuz stop was built and the street section south of the Hochkreuz was redesigned to look like an alley. In 2006, a new intersection between Heinemannstrasse and Winkelsweg (since 2011 Marie-Schlei-Allee) with Godesberger Allee was created in order to dismantle the intersection with Annaberger Strasse and Max-Löbner-Strasse and to be able to shift traffic to the north in this way. This was followed in 2008/09 by the relocation of the Max-Löbner-Straße / Friesdorf stop and the route to the west, which enabled the further expansion of the east side of the street.

Buildings and landmarks

Right side of the street

Built in 1973 by a local housing company and shortly after completion in May 1974, it was taken over by the newly opened Permanent Mission of the GDR in the Federal Republic of Germany. After reunification in 1990, the state representations of Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were located in the building until the relocation of the seat of parliament and government to Berlin in 1999 . Today it is the seat of the German Nutrition Society .

Built in the mid-1970s as the office building of the Saudi Arabian embassy. The building has been empty since the embassy moved to Berlin in 1999. In 2008 it was privately owned by Saudi Arabia; the new owner's plans to convert the building into a hotel were not approved by the city. In 2017 it was canceled.

  • Office building, Godesberger Allee 90 / Kennedyallee
  • Kennedy statue at the corner of Godesberger Allee and Kennedyallee

Built 1989–90 as the office building of the Japanese embassy and the last new embassy building in Bonn. After the embassy moved to Berlin in 1999, a branch office was left there until 2002. After the privately owned building was sold in 2006, it is now the location of a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL .

The federally owned property housed a branch of the Federal Audit Office until 1997 and has been the seat of the Environmental Law Center (ELC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) since February 1999 .

Before the opening of the depot in Dransdorf in the mid-1980s, the light rail vehicles of the Bonn Stadtbahn were stationed, today the entire bus fleet of SWB Bus und Bahn .

  • Andreas-Hermes-Haus, Godesberger Allee 142–148,

Completed in 1963 as the seat of the German Farmers' Association (DBV) and other agricultural and forestry interest groups, named after the first BGV president, Andreas Hermes . Today the office building is home to the Central Horticultural Association and, since 2014, the Bonn branch of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (South Korea).

  • Three office buildings, Godesberger Allee 150–154

Built 1995–96 according to plans by the Cologne architect Thomas van den Valentyn . It consists of three square structures of different sizes with facades made of Jura limestone , which are grouped around a forecourt with Italian granite framed by a flight of stairs with a cut ramp .

Built 1969–75 for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry of Justice based on a design by the Stieldorf planning group . The building ensemble with two cross-shaped skyscrapers extends between Godesberger Allee, Heinemannstraße, Langer Grabenweg and Max-Löbner-Straße. The base building on Godesberger Allee (Heinemannstrasse 12-14) is now the seat of the German Institute for Adult Education .

Built in 1989 as the second largest hotel in North Rhine-Westphalia and the first facility in what was then the parliament and government district that was suitable for hosting large international conferences and was therefore funded by the city of Bonn and the federal government with an investment grant. The hotel wing is crossed by a ramp of the light rail line over the south bridge in a curve leading to the underground station Robert-Schuman-Platz .

  • Former Permanent Mission of the GDR, Godesberger Allee 18

  • Former office building of the Saudi Arabian embassy, ​​Godesberger Allee 40–42

  • Former office building of the Japanese embassy, ​​Godesberger Allee 102-104

  • Andreas-Hermes-Haus, Godesberger Allee 142–148

  • The tram passes under the Maritim Hotel

Left side of the street

  • Former Embassy of Kuwait , Godesberger Allee 77–79

Built around 1985 as the office building of the Kuwaiti embassy according to plans by the architect Dirk Denninger . After the embassy office was relocated to Berlin in 1999, a branch office of the embassy with the health and culture department was initially left there. After 2005, the state of Qatar took over the building and set up a branch of its embassy there, which currently consists of a medical office .

  • Villa , Godesberger Allee 93

Built in 1910/11 as a representative villa with a stucco - plaster facade, followed in 1914 by the erection of a base wall with grating as a fence . The house is the only building on the avenue Godesberger (except Kreuzbauten), including the enclosure as a monument under monument protection .

In November 1957 the building became the seat of the newly opened Tunisian embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany. After moving to Berlin in 1999, a Tunisian consulate was opened there in 2005 (consulate general from 2006 ), which is responsible for the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein.

  • Office building, Hochkreuzallee 1 / Godesberger Allee

Built in 1969 according to plans by the architects Wilhelm and Dirk Denninger for Deutsche Beamten-Versicherung on behalf of an entrepreneur from Bad Godesberg. In the 1990s, the building was home to the press and culture department of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea . At the moment (status: 2014) it is being converted into a medical center.

  • Hochkreuz , crossing Kennedyallee / Hochkreuzallee

True-to-scale replica of a crossroads in Gothic style, probably built in the middle of the 14th century, which was completely renewed in 1859, moved 50 m to its current location in 1957 and dismantled in 1979/81, rebuilt in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum and replaced by the replica at the previous location.

Built in 1988-89 according to plans by the architect Dirk Denninger by an insurance company as the office building for the Australian embassy instead of the previous building that had been demolished. Since they moved to Berlin in 1999, the building has been rented to various companies and institutions; the Bonn office of the Cologne Chamber of Crafts has been located here since 2011 .

  • Office building, Godesberger Allee 121–127

Building complex reaching back to Martin-Luther-Allee, which was built in 1973/75 as the largest private office building in Bonn at the time by the Dutch developer Bredero , who mainly rented it to associations. Before the seat of government was relocated to Berlin in 1999, the building housed, among other things, the office of the Embassy of Peru .

Built in 1975 according to plans by the architect Dirk Denninger and acquired by Iran in the same year and converted into the embassy building. After the embassy moved to Berlin in 2000, the building is empty, but is still owned by Iran.

Built in 1968-69 for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and its affiliated archive of social democracy in the form of a three-story office building with a conference room and library based on plans by the Cologne architect Joachim Steinecke, Heinrich Raderschall worked as a gardener . In 1981 a limited architectural competition took place among three participants for an extension, from which the design by Novotny Mähner Associates emerged victorious as the first prize winner and was carried out in 1984/85 in the first and in the early 1990s in the second construction phase.

  • Political Club of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Godesberger Allee 155

Built in 1922 as a country house in neo-baroque shapes for a presumably Jewish entrepreneur in Bonn by a local architect. The well-known constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt, who taught in Bonn, lived in the house from September 1926 to autumn 1928 , and in 1934 it became the property of the entrepreneur Hans Riegel .

One of three service buildings of the BSI in Bonn next to the building Dreizehnmorgenweg 40-42 at the rear belonging to the same location and the Mehlem location (Am Nippenkreuz 19). The BSI-affiliated Computer Emergency Response Team ( CERT BUND ) is located in the Godesberger Allee 183 building . The Godesberger Allee 185-189 building is on the corner of Dreizehnmorgenweg at the A562 / B9 intersection .

  • Listed villa, Godesberger Allee 93

  • The Hochkreuz in the middle of Godesberger Allee

  • Former office building of the Australian Embassy, ​​Godesberger Allee 105-107

  • Former office building of the Iranian embassy, ​​Godesberger Allee 133–137

  • Federal Office for Information Security, Godesberger Allee 185–189

Web links

Commons : Godesberger Allee  - Collection of Images
  • Entry in the Bonn street cadastre in the "Bonn street cadastre"

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Hofmann: The steam tram Bonn – Godesberg – Mehlem. In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Issue 36/1998, Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 1998, ISSN  0436-1024 , pp. 13–33 (here: pp. 14, 20).
  2. ↑ Gerhart Laage: Bonn is looking for its face . In: Die Zeit , No. 12, March 18, 1977.
  3. ↑ Manfred Sack: Bonn shines . In: Die Zeit , No. 45, October 30, 1992.
  4. ↑ a b c d Karl-Heinz van Kaldenkerken , City Director Bonn (ed.); Friedrich Busmann : Expansion of the federal capital. 10 years capital city agreement 1975–1985 . Bonn 1986.
  5. ↑ 24 million euros will be invested by 2009 , General-Anzeiger , March 18, 2006.
  6. ^ Entry in the Bonn street cadastre
  7. ↑ German Bundestag , 13th electoral period, printed matter 13/6674 , January 6, 1997.
  8. ↑ Umweltrechtszentrum (ELC) remains in Bonn , Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, December 7, 1998.
  9. ^ German Farmers' Association e. V. (Ed.): Deutsche Bauern Korrespondenz - Monthly magazine of the German Farmers' Association, issue 6/08 , Deutscher Agrar-Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 11.
  10. ^ Die Deutsche Gartenbauwirtschaft: Das Fachblatt für Betriebswirtschaft, Technik und Gesamt Gartenbau , Volumes 10-12, 1963, p. 226.
  11. ^ Painting exhibition in the Andreas-Hermes-Haus in Bonn - one-year conversion and renovation work finished , Agra-Europe, July 13, 1998.
  12. ^ Office building in Bonn - Godesberger Allee , Van den Valentyn Architektur
  13. ↑ Michael Gassmann : Light at the end of the hype. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 4, 2001, No. 3, p. 44.
  14. ↑ a b c d The Lord Mayor of the City of Bonn (ed.); Friedrich Busmann : From the parliament and government district to the federal district. A Bonn development measure 1974-2004 . Bonn, June 2004.
  15. ^ Josef Niesen : Bonner Personenlexikon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 , p. 109.
  16. ↑ Addresses of the diplomatic and consular missions in Germany (PDF file; 538 kB), as of May 3, 2005.
  17. ↑ The information is taken from the legally binding list of monuments of the city of Bonn. It is managed by the Lower Monument Authority , from which the entries for the individual monuments can be obtained for a fee.
  18. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 50, number A 115
  19. ↑ Ursel and Jürgen Zänker (arrangement) with contributions by Edith Ennen , Dietrich Höroldt , Gerd Nieke, Günter Schubert: Bauen im Bonner Raum 49-69. Attempt to take stock. (= Art and Antiquity on the Rhine. Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn. No. 21). Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 159.
  20. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995.
  21. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of March 1992.
  22. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions in the Federal Republic of Germany, as of 1997
  23. ↑ Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49-69. Attempt to take stock (=  art and antiquity on the Rhine. Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . Volume 21 ). Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 162 .
  24. ^ Ingeborg Flagge : Architecture in Bonn after 1945: Buildings in the federal capital and its surroundings . Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7928-0479-4 , p. 109.
  25. ↑ Reinhard Mehring (Ed.): On the dangerous road of public law: Correspondence between Carl Schmitt and Rudolf Smend 1921–1961. 2nd Edition. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-428-13753-4 , p. 74.
  26. ↑ Entry on the Political Club of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in the database " KuLaDig " of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (with a brief description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland by Angelika Schyma and Elke Janßen-Schnabel)
  27. ↑ The enemy on my computer , the daily newspaper , January 21, 2014.