Adenauerallee 89b (Bonn)

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Villas Adenauerallee 89b (left) and Adenauerallee 89a (right), street side
Villas Adenauerallee 89b (left) and 89a (right), side of the Rhine

The building Adenauerallee 89b (also Villa Schumm ) is a villa in the Bonn district of Gronau , which was built in 1897/98. It lies above the banks of the Rhine (Wilhelm-Spiritus-Ufer) and is connected to the Adenauerallee ( B 9 ) via a cul-de-sac . The villa stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

Elevation of the Rhine front (1897)

The villa was built for the client Hermann Schumm (* 1841), director of the Deutz AG gas engine factory , based on a design by the Cologne architects Alfred Müller and Otto Grah. Its construction was preceded by a rejected plan by the Bonn architect Otto Penner , which stylistically is attributed to the picturesque late classicism with Italian Renaissance influence - the ultimately realized design of the villas of the picturesque style with medieval design language . The construction files begin in August 1896, the preparatory construction of a lining wall on the Rhine side began in May 1897. In July 1897 the building permit for the villa was granted , the final acceptance in December 1898.

"The Villa Schumm mostly shows freely invented forms borrowed from the Middle Ages."

- Olga Sunday (1998)

Following 1900, the construction was followed by a summer house (wooden frame with zinc roof) and an archway as a boundary to the northern neighboring properties, in the 1901 to 1903 in succession , the Villa Bungarten (Adenauerallee 89a) was created. In 1902 the villa became the property of Professor Konrad Cosack . This year, he had a gate erected next to two gate pillars at the end of the private path belonging to the building. In 1919, the Cologne State Secretary Walraff took over the building and now intended to build a two-storey extension in the northwest for commercial purposes. Since it touched the adjacent Villa Bungarten directly and thus led to the creation of a closed construction , the permit was initially forbidden, but finally granted after conditions were imposed.

In 1949 the villa, now located north of the new parliament and government district, became the property of the Federal Republic of Germany together with neighboring buildings. Initially, the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance , Alfred Hartmann , was housed here. The villa then served as the first domicile of the Bonn Press Club ( German Press Club and Association of Foreign Press in Germany ), which was sponsored by Presseclub-Wirtschafts GmbH , which opened its clubhouse there in May 1953. An extension was built for this. The press club was located here until 1976. Subsequently, the villa belonged to the properties of the Foreign Office with its headquarters in a neighboring office building . In the mid-1980s, the villa was to give way to a 400 m long new building for the Foreign Office, but its implementation was dropped. In the end it housed part of the ministry's protocol department. After the ministry moved in the course of relocating the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the federal government sold the villa. In 2005/06 it was renovated and divided into condominiums , with the extension from the 1950s also being torn down and a staircase made of glass and steel to connect to the neighboring building to the north .

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. 60-64. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  • Heinz Murmann : With a 'C' it's finer: The German Press Club Bonn 1952 until today . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-416-02713-2 , p. 51 ff.

Web links

Commons : Adenauerallee 89b  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 3, number A 1113
  2. ^ A b Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819-1914 . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, p. 292.
  3. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 . Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 171.
  4. ↑ Listed villas on the Rhine are being extensively renovated , General-Anzeiger , March 4, 2006

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '38.36 "  N , 7 ° 6' 43.56"  O