Adenauerallee (Bonn)

The Koblenzer Tor, the northernmost point of the Adenauerallee

Adenauerallee in Bonn center

Renaming a section

The Adenauerallee , named after the first German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , is a street through the Bonn districts of Zentrum , Südstadt and Gronau . It is shaped by the political institutions that arose during the Bonn period as the seat of parliament and government of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Location and traffic

The Adenauerallee runs near the Rhine from northeast to southwest between the Koblenz Gate of the Electoral Palace and Bundeskanzlerplatz . It is part of the federal highway 9 and has four lanes. The underground line runs under the avenue between Bonn city center and Bad Godesberg .

history

Until 1967 the Adenauerallee was called Koblenzer Straße and was then named after Konrad Adenauer. Until 1999 the section between Bundeskanzlerplatz and the Bonn Art Museum also belonged to Adenauerallee, but was then renamed Willy-Brandt-Allee.

building

Adenauerallee was the first seat of the Federal President, the Federal Chancellor and other ministries and authorities until the Federal Government moved in 1999. The Federal Audit Office , the Federal Agency for Civic Education , the Foreign Office , the Villa Hammerschmidt , the Palais Schaumburg and the former Federal Chancellery (today the seat of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ) were located along the street . Numerous organizations and associations have had and still based here. In addition, here is the Museum König in which 1949 of the Parliamentary Council convened to continue the massive Collegium Albertinum and before that adjacent to the old customs , the Hotel Royal Court , which in the 19th century was a preferred meeting place and residence of noble students.

One of the distinctive buildings is the seat of the law faculty, the Juridicum . The façade of the flat exposed concrete building is adorned with a mosaic by Op Art artist Victor Vasarely . Opposite is Bonn's oldest grammar school, the Beethoven grammar school. On the corner of the Second Fährgasse - set back on the banks of the Rhine - is the house of the writer and first rector of the University Ernst Moritz Arndt .

Web links

Commons : Adenauerallee (Bonn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adenauerallee in the Bonn street cadastre
2. ^ Brief history of Adenauerallee , picture book Bonn, accessed on October 18, 2011

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 29.8 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 43.7"  E