Plittersdorf (Bonn)

Plittersdorf Federal city of Bonn Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 2 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 28"  E
Height :	61 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	11,773  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Postcodes :	53175, 53173
Area code :	0228
Location of the Plittersdorf district in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn

Aerial view of the north of Plittersdorf

Former Israeli Embassy (2006)

Plittersdorf is a district of the federal city of Bonn in the Bad Godesberg district with around 11,000 inhabitants.

geography

Plittersdorf is in the north of Bad Godesberg on the west bank of the Rhine . It borders in the south on Rüngsdorf and the Godesberg villa district , in the west on Godesberg-Nord and Friesdorf and in the north on Hochkreuz . Today part of Bonn's largest park, the Rheinaue leisure park , belongs to Plittersdorf. The district also includes the Bad Godesberg central cemetery . Niederdollendorf is on the opposite side of the Rhine , and the Rhine ferry from Bad Godesberg to Niederdollendorf crosses there.

history

In 1670 Plittersdorf had 37 houses. Wonderfully country belonged to the village by the end of the 18th century to the Electorate of Cologne and the administration was under the Office Godesberg (-Mehlem) in Oberamt Bonn . In the course of the growth of Godesberg, the previously independent municipality of Plittersdorf was incorporated with an area of ​​400  hectares in 1899. The Plittersdorf district within the boundaries of the former community still exists today.

In addition to an old town center with a smooth transition to the Godesberg villa district, Plittersdorf received a new housing estate in the 1950s and 1960s, in which mainly federal officials settled. In addition, in 1951 an initially freely accessible housing estate was built here for the employees of the former American embassy with complete infrastructure ( HICOG settlement Plittersdorf ). From the mid-1970s, all entrances to the American settlement were specially secured due to the threat posed by terrorist attacks, and in the area of ​​the Israeli embassy , which was also located in Plittersdorf from 1974 to 1999 , a heavy police presence and identity checks were commonplace.

During the Bonn Republic , the offices of the DFG , the DAAD and the German Museum Bonn settled on Kennedyallee , the northern boundary to the Hochkreuz district around the Bonn Science Center . In addition, in Plittersdorf, with the Villa von Meier on the banks of the Rhine, the service villa of the Bundestag President as well as the South African , Hungarian and Bulgarian embassies were located, and the diplomatic representation of the Holy See in the Federal Republic of Germany in the tower courtyard with the Apostolic Nunciature .

Attractions

Stimson Memorial Chapel

House Carstanjen

Carstanjen mausoleum

Plittersdorf's sights include the Rhine panorama with the world-famous view of the Siebengebirge , the neo-Gothic St. Evergislus Church , the Stimson Memorial Chapel of the former HICOG settlement and the Schaumburger Hof , a eatery with a beer garden that has already served personalities such as Heinrich Heine , Karl Simrock , Carl Schurz or Konrad Adenauer hosted. Also worth seeing are the buildings in the villa district from the first third of the 20th century, many of which are listed , the Christ Church , built in 1953, and the neoclassical building of the former Sparkasse of the city of Bad Godesberg (Rheinallee 1).

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Rhine and Siebengebirge

In the north of Plittersdorf is the Carstanjen house , which used to be the location of federal ministries and is now the seat of a UN organization. The mausoleum belonging to the Carstanjen family , a lavish domed structure with several floors, richly decorated inside and out and based on ancient Greek models, is located right next to the Evergislus Church and, after years of decay and non-use, now serves as a burial place again.

A little further south is the listed neo-Gothic Villa Cahn . It was built according to plans by the Hanoverian architect Edwin Oppler for the Jewish banker Albert Cahn as what was then known as a “German house on the Rhine”. The current owner Frank Asbeck (see below) saved it in 1997 from increasing dilapidation. The castle-like, no longer accessible villa is located in an area known as the readers ' park and is therefore also called the small readers' castle. The nowadays small park is made up of various 60 to 100 year old deciduous trees and has a pronounced layer of undergrowth.

Personalities

Prominent residents of Plittersdorf are currently the politicians Wolfgang Clement and Peer Steinbrück as well as the entrepreneur Frank Asbeck , a great promoter of Bonn's culture.

During his first visit to Germany, Pope John Paul II stayed in what was then the nunciature in Turmstrasse ( Turmhof ). Due to the nunciature, practically all high Catholic dignitaries in Germany stayed in Plittersdorf during the time of the Bonn Republic . Pope emeritus Benedict XVI. lived in the 1950s, when he was professor of fundamental theology at Bonn University, for several years on Wurzerstrasse running through Plittersdorf.

TV presenter Sonja Zietlow and doll and actor Gerd J. Pohl also spent their childhood in Plittersdorf.

On October 26, 1961, the priest, teacher, author and local researcher Friedrich Albert Groeteken died in Plittersdorf.

When her husband worked for the American embassy in the 1950s, the well-known cookbook author and cook Julia Child lived in Plittersdorf.

Many US politicians, diplomats, and high-ranking officers regularly visited the HICOG settlement. The then US President John F. Kennedy stayed at the Carstanjen house during his visit to Germany on the night of June 23-24, 1963 . At the corner of Hochkreuz- and Kennedyallee, Kennedy was honored in 1989 by the Cologne sculptor duo Herm-Jörg Barner / Marlene Dammin with a larger than life statue made of Weiberner tuff .

See also

• List of architectural monuments in the Plittersdorf district of Bonn

literature

• Alfred Wiedemann : History of Godesberg and its surroundings , second increased edition, Verlag des Amtes Godesberg, Bad Godesberg 1930, pp. 194–248.
• Hartmut Heikaus: Hliurithi - an old Saxon settlement name in Plittersdorf. In: Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg e. V. (Ed.): Godesberger Heimatblätter, Annual Issue 2013, No. 51, ISSN  0436-1024 , pp. 41–50.

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. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 61.
3. ↑ State Surveying Office North Rhine-Westphalia: Directory of the landmarks ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (As of 2005; PDF; 243 kB) 
4. ↑ Report in Die Streife 11/2000 (press release from the Bonn police on the closure of the POS department)
5. ^ Andreas W. Daum: Kennedy in Berlin. Politics, culture and emotions in the Cold War, Paderborn 2003
6. ↑ Sculptures and objects in the public space of the federal capital Bonn, installed from 1970 to 1991, p. 41 (accessed on November 19, 2012; PDF; 9.6 MB)

Web links

Commons : Plittersdorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : district Plittersdorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files