House of Representatives (Bonn)

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One of the former parliamentary houses on Heussallee (2014)
Former House of Representatives on Saemischstrasse, photo taken shortly before the demolition (2006)

The parliamentary houses in the Gronau district of Bonn were built in the 1960s as a second home for members of the German Bundestag . The preserved apartment buildings at Heussallee 7-11 are located in the center of the former parliament and government district (today the federal quarter ) in the immediate vicinity of the former Bundestag buildings, including the Bundeshaus with plenary hall and the Lange Eugen .

history

The first residential building with 65 residential units was built in 1959–1960 on Saemischstrasse based on a design by the Karlsruhe architect Karl Selg (1918–1981). Following a resolution by the Bundestag in November 1963, three further apartment buildings, each with 23 apartments from the Federal Ministry of Defense, followed in 1965/66 on behalf of the German Construction and Lands AG under the direction of the Federal Building Directorate and the later Stieldorf planning group on Heussallee Residential units; the building permit was granted in September 1965 and the acceptance test took place in October 1966. Heinrich Raderschall from Bonn was the garden architect . Initially, contrary to their original purpose, the apartments were (also) used as a study by the MPs due to the lack of space in Bonn at the time; Due to their proximity to the Federal Palace and their low price, they were in demand and were given out through contingents per parliamentary group and waiting lists. The basement rooms on Saemischstrasse and Heussallee were rented directly from the Bundestag.

Until the move of the Bundestag in the course of the relocation of the seat of parliament and government to Berlin in 1999, members of all parliamentary groups lived in the two rows of buildings. After a temporary vacancy, the houses were supposed to be used by the United Nations Information Center on the nearby UN campus , but after a renovation initially planned for mid-2009, they were intended for residential use. While the Laubenganghaus on Saemischstrasse was demolished in 2006 for the expansion of the World Conference Center , the three houses on Heussallee were preserved from 1965/66, as their peripheral location fits in better with the overall concept for building the congress center were integrated. They are due to their importance for the urban development of the government district since 2000 as a monument under monument protection .

The parliamentary houses, which have meanwhile passed into municipal ownership, were initially renovated in parts (two of the three houses) by spring 2014 at a cost of 8.4 million euros and handed over to Bonn Conference Center Management GmbH (BonnCC) in January 2015 . The apartments should especially be rented to congress participants, possibly also used as boarding houses for conference operations. House No. 11 was intended to be used as an office building for conference-related services by Tourismus & Congress GmbH . The house at Heussallee 7 was still used as a construction office for remaining work and remedying defects at the WCCB until March 2017 and could only be renovated afterwards. The commissioning of two of the three houses as boarding houses took place from June to August 2017, the third house serves as a reception and is otherwise home to Tourismus & Congress GmbH.

architecture

The first non-preserved residential building from 1959/60 (formerly Saemischstrasse 2-4) was designed as a 100-meter-long, three-storey and flat-roofed arcade house , its street front glazed corridors and two trapezoidal staircases protruding from the building line and closed on three sides as access to the included both upper floors. At the rear there were continuous covered balconies, corresponding to the corridors on the street side, which divided the facade into rectangular fields. The residential units were each formed by a room that took up the entire depth of the room and was divided into kitchen, bathroom and sleeping alcove by partition walls .

The three preserved and listed apartment buildings from 1965/66 (Heussallee 7-11) between Karl-Carstens-Straße and Platz der United Nations are two-storey, white-plastered cubes on an approximately square floor plan. You will experience a rhythmic structure with exposed concrete balconies placed one on top of the other and connected by filigree balustrades . The dark natural wood of the window and door reveals as well as the roof edge form a contrast to the white plaster . The residential units were designed as one-room apartments with a hall that led through both floors and was lit with skylights, around which the kitchen, bathroom and balcony were grouped.

"The [parliamentarians' houses] are exemplary in terms of a 'new way of living'."

- Andreas Denk (1997)

“[The residential buildings] are an example of the provisional expansion of Bonn as the federal capital and the accommodation of the 'temporary representatives'. (...) They belong to the atmospheric peculiarities of the quarter, which make up the aura of the place, the genius loci, beyond their, in this case, also architectural-historical importance. "

- Angelika Schyma (2000)

Known residents

literature

Web links

Commons : Heussallee 7–11  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on residential building, Saemischstrasse 2-4 in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR office for the preservation of monuments in the Rhineland by Angelika Schyma , 2006)
  2. ↑ a b Minutes of the plenary session of the German Bundestag, 4th electoral period, 154th session, December 16, 1964 (PDF), p. 7621
  3. ^ Ingeborg flag: Architecture in Bonn after 1945 .
  4. ↑ Franz Josef Talbot: Provisional Federal Capital: The Houses of Representatives in Bonn's Heussallee
  5. ↑ Entry on residential buildings, apartment houses for parliamentarians, Heussallee 7, 9, 11 in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , 2005)
  6. ^ Nino Galetti: The Bundestag as a client in Berlin: Ideas, Concepts, Decisions on Political Architecture (1991-1998) (= Contributions to the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Volume 152). Droste, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7700-5287-5 , p. 40.
  7. ↑ Minutes of the FDP parliamentary group October 19, 1969 , p. 7 (PDF)
  8. ↑ a b c d e Das Apartment , Der Spiegel , November 1, 1993
  9. ↑ German Bundestag, 6th electoral period, printed matter 6/3351 , April 13, 1972, p. 23.
  10. ↑ Bavaria sells its representative office , General-Anzeiger , May 29, 2009
  11. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 25, number A 3668
  12. ↑ WCCB construction site: Work is carried out in three shifts , General-Anzeiger , April 24, 2014
  13. ^ Sparks of Hope in the WCCB , Bonner Rundschau, April 23, 2014
  14. ↑ Printed matter no. 1712323ST2: Statement by the administration: Allocation of parliamentarians from August 21, 2017 Online PDF / Online in the Bonn Council and Information System
  15. ^ World CC Bonn: Order to general planner can go , Federal City of Bonn, October 19, 2012
  16. ^ Expensive hostel for congress participants on Heussallee , General-Anzeiger , April 22, 2013
  17. ↑ Visible progress - completion of the World Conference Center Bonn is progressing rapidly ( Memento from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the City of Bonn, April 23, 2014
  18. ↑ Certificate of a provisional arrangement , General-Anzeiger , 23 August 2014
  19. ↑ Boarding house at the WCCB is in operation , General-Anzeiger , August 30, 2017
  20. ↑ Printed matter no. 1712323NV3: Notification template: Allocation of parliamentarians from September 4, 2017 Online PDF / Online in the Bonn Council and Information System
  21. ↑ Printed matter no. 1711810NV2: Notification template: 2nd controlling report of the conference center / Beethovenhalle office on the reference date: June 30 , 2017 from September 5, 2017 Online PDF / Online in the Bonn Council and Information System
  22. ↑ a b Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49–69. Attempt to take stock.
  23. ↑ a b c Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: Architekturführer Bonn .
  24. ↑ Landschaftsverband Rheinland , Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege : Monument areas: Chances and perspectives. Lecture texts from the conference on September 13, 2000 in the House of History in Bonn (= communications from the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation , issue 12). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 978-3-7927-1850-6 , p. 31.
  25. ↑ a b c d Members of the German Bundestag: Notes and Memories , Boldt, 1985, p. 340.
  26. ↑ Elisabeth Niejahr , Rainer Pörtner: Joschka Fischers Pollenflug and other games of power: how politics really works , Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-8218-3934-9 , p. 77.
  27. ↑ Between Wrecking Ball and renewal , Aachener Zeitung , January 6, 2003
  28. ^ Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.); Matthias Hannemann, Dietmar Preißler: Bonn - Places of Democracy: The historical travel guide , 2nd edition, Christoph Links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-780-9 , p. 113.
  29. ↑ House of Representatives 1960–1999 , Weg der Demokratie

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 4 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 27 ″  E