Friedensplatz (Bonn)

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Friedensplatz (2009)
New building of the Sparkasse KölnBonn (2014)

The Friedensplatz is a square in the center of Bonn . The square was originally in front of the Sterntor outside the medieval city wall and was the location of the cattle market. After the Sterntor was torn down, the square was called Friedrichsplatz from 1899 to 1922 , then for the first time Friedensplatz and during the time of National Socialism (1933–1945) Adolf-Hitler-Platz . From 1945 it was again given the name Friedensplatz .

From 1897 to 1929 the Bonn Viehmarkt train station was located in the middle of the square (from 1899 Bonn Friedrichsplatz and from 1922 Bonn Friedensplatz ) as the end point of the narrow-gauge foothills railway . From 1906 it developed into a junction in the tram network. Since 1913, the headquarters of the Städtische Sparkasse zu Bonn was on Friedensplatz . Shortly before the end of the First World War , the square was hit by a bomb during a British air raid on October 31, 1918 , killing 16 people and causing significant property damage to surrounding houses. After the Second World War until 1949, the savings bank building served as the local headquarters of the British military government and (briefly) the high commission . In 1955 it was demolished for a new building for the Städtische Sparkasse zu Bonn based on a design by Ernst van Dorps . From 1960, part of the Federal Ministry of Transport was based in this building . Friedensplatz has been on the edge of the pedestrian zone since 1974 , which is why the tram was relocated to Thomas-Mann-Straße. Instead, a bus stop was set up at Friedensplatz.

In the mid-1980s, Friedensplatz was redesigned according to plans by Joachim Schürmann , with a public underground car park and a shopping mall on Oxfordstrasse ("Friedensplatz-Passage") being built; it was completed at the end of 1988. In 2010, the savings bank building was demolished and was rebuilt in the same location by the beginning of 2014.

Architectural monuments

The oldest preserved building on the square is the former inn "Zum golden Hirsch" (Friedensplatz 2), which was built around 1840 and whose gable side, which was rebuilt in 1900-02, faces Sternstrasse . On the north side of Friedensplatz, the former "Hotel Central" (Wilhelmstrasse 1) with its distinctive dome, which was built in 1897 according to plans by the architect Johann Schwister , characterizes the corner of the Sterntorbrücke . Both buildings and the residential and commercial building Friedensplatz 12 (architect: Karl Thoma ) built in 1901/02 are listed as historical monuments.

  • Former inn "Zum golden Hirsch"

  • Former "Hotel Central"

  • Residential and commercial building Friedensplatz 12

Web links

Commons : Friedensplatz  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Hedrich-Winter: "We never want to forget what happened in these days." Bonn in the air war 1914–1918 . In: Dominik Geppert , Norbert Schloßmacher (Ed.): The First World War in Bonn. The home front 1914–1918 (= publications of the Bonn City Archives , Volume 72; Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn: Bonner Geschichtsblätter: Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 65/66). Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-922832-82-9 , pp. 439–478 (here: pp. 468/469).
  2. ^ 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 , pp. 78–79.
  3. ↑ Entry on Path of Democracy
  4. ^ Karl Gutzmer : Chronicle of the city of Bonn . Chronik-Verlag, Dortmund 1988, ISBN 3-611-00032-9 , p. 272.
  5. ↑ The 30 million euro project is picking up speed , General-Anzeiger , April 17, 2012
  6. ^ Friedensplatz: New shops from September , General-Anzeiger, April 13, 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 10.7 "  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 52.8"  E