Adenauerallee 131 (Bonn)

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Villa Adenauerallee 131 (2013)

The building Adenauerallee 131 (also Villa Ermekeil ) is a villa in the Bonn district of Gronau , which was built in 1900/01 and today serves as an office building. It is located on the east side of Adenauerallee ( B 9 ). The villa stands as a monument under monument protection and forms since 1953 a common building complex with a house of the German Trade incurred office building Adenauer Allee 131a .

history

Draft, elevation of the street front (1900)

The villa was built on the newly parceled grounds of Villa Busch (built in 1853/54, demolished in 1900/01) for the builder widow Johann Heinrich Ermekeil, simple millionaire (as of 1913) and widow of one of the two owners of the one at the beginning of the then Coblenzerstraße on the city side Hotels Royal , which had a villa built for resale as early as 1899/1900 on the adjacent property. With the execution she commissioned as already in the new construction of the neighboring house, the West German construction joint stock company in Dortmund (formerly Josh. Track and sons , Bonn) for which the Bonn architect August Scheidgen served as local representatives of the project. In response to the building application for the villa on August 28, the building permit was granted on October 4, 1900 and that for a stable and coach house building on October 9, 1900. On September 9, 1901, the final acceptance of the new building took place. The house was designed as half of a double villa (half villa), which was never joined by an adjacent half.

Due to a building police order from June 1906, the gable side of the villa was plastered by August 1906. The successor owner of the property in 1913/14 was the Kommerzienrat A. J. Eschbaum, also a simple millionaire. Between January and June 1916 he had the building rebuilt under the supervision of August Scheidgen - the villa's original architect. The toilet and pantry on the ground floor were enlarged, the entrance to the courtyard was relocated and the side balcony on the first floor was converted into a closed veranda and a storage room was set up instead of the toilet in the bathroom.

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the villa was located on the northern edge of the new parliament and government district . The Central Association of German Crafts (ZDH) acquired it including the property to set up its House of German Crafts there. For this purpose, the villa was renovated and a new building was erected directly adjacent to Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse according to plans by the Bonn architect Ernst van Dorp (today Adenauerallee 131a). The inauguration took place on November 3, 1953.

Due to its imminent move to a new building for the German crafts , the ZDH sold the now vacant building complex in mid-1965 to the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP). This took its seat there in April 1966. In later years the villa also served as the DGAP's emblem . In 1983/84 the Atlantik-Brücke eV moved into the attic of the house. As a result of the earthquake in Roermond on April 13, 1992 , the building suffered damage worth more than DM 100,000, which mainly affected the interior of the Atlantik-Brücke. As a result of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin , DPAG and Atlantik-Brücke moved there in 1999. The villa was until the spring of 2010 the seat of the majority of the city Bonn and the Rhine victory circle belonging Tourism & Congress GmbH Region Bonn / Rhein-Sieg / Ahrweiler (T & C) , which is responsible for advertising the resort in the region. The Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research (ZMB) of the Museum Koenig is currently located there (as of 2016).

The villa was entered in the city ​​of Bonn's list of monuments on July 30, 1991.

architecture

The building is a two-storey semi-villa with a low base and a high slate hipped roof , which is held in neo-Gothic shapes with stone walls and decorations . Stylistically, it can be attributed to the villas built on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn in a picturesque style with a medieval design language . The facades are clad with tuff and sandstone and richly decorated with tracery elements. The entire building is shaped asymmetrically and with multiple sections by risalit-like projections and bay windows as well as different window formats. The risalit on the street side has a canopy supported by columns in the form of a round-arched loggia with a round-arched, curved dwarf house at the top.

Inside, only the entrance area and the bay window on the first floor are essentially unchanged due to the later conversion to an office building.

"The villas of Mrs. Ermekeil have very imaginative, freely invented medieval shapes."

- Olga Sunday (1998)

literature

  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 70–72. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

Web links

Commons : Adenauerallee 131  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ originally Coblenzerstraße 131 , then until 1967 Koblenzer Straße 131 (→ list of streets in Bonn's Gronau district )
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 2064
  3. ↑ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 1, Catalog (2), p. 200/201.
  4. ↑ a b Address book of the city of Bonn , Carthaus, Bonn ( 1902 , 1904 , 1912/13 , 1914/15 )
  5. ^ A b Rudolf Martin: Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires. Rhine Province. Berlin, 1913, pp. 102-105.
  6. ^ A b Helmut Scheidgen: A Rhenish family of architects. Rheinbrohl-Koenigswinter-Bonn. 1822-1977. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03129-5 , p. 54.
  7. ↑ a b c Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 2, Catalog (3)
  8. ^ Daniel Friedrich Eisermann: Foreign policy and strategy discussion: the German Society for Foreign Policy 1955 to 1972 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56338-6 , p. 83. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1995)
  9. ↑ German Society for Foreign Policy V .: Annual Report 1992/93 , p. 15.
  10. ↑ Tourismus GmbH moves next to plenary hall , General-Anzeiger , March 25, 2010
  11. ↑ Bonner Tourismus-GmbH in the red , General-Anzeiger , May 1, 2010
  12. ↑ 26 million euros for the Museum Koenig , General-Anzeiger , May 12, 2016
  13. ↑ a b 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.
  14. ↑ a b Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 1, p. 292.
  15. ↑ a b Entry on semi-villa (Villa Ermekeil / Eschbaum), Adenauerallee 131a in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland )
  16. ↑ incorrectly given as address Adenauerallee 131a , the address of the adjacent building

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 22.2 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 50.5"  E