Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz (Bonn)
The Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz is one of the central squares of Bonn . Located in the north of Bonn-Zentrum on the left Rhenish side of the Kennedy Bridge , it is an important thoroughfare for car traffic, trams and buses. In addition, the square, directly adjacent to the pedestrian zone, also belongs to the heavily frequented part of the city center with numerous shops and facilities. The square was named after the Austrian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bertha von Suttner .
location
Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz is a 180 m long and 40 to 50 m wide widening of the road leading to the Kennedy Bridge. West is this Oxford Street after the Bonn twin city of Oxford , the eastern part before the bridge is directly Berliner Freiheit . At the west end, Kölnstrasse leads north and Bonngasse leads south into the pedestrian zone. Wenzelgasse also goes off in the middle of the square , both of which lead to the nearby market square . The east end of the square forms a large intersection with Sandkaule to the north and Belderberg to the south.
traffic
Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz is part of Bundesstraße 56 and today has two lanes to the west and two to three lanes to the east. The L 300 / B 9 is crossed at Sandkaule / Belderberg . The east direction is part of the so-called city ring of one-way streets around the pedestrian zone.
The tracks of the Bonn Stadtbahn run between the Stadthaus and Kennedybrücke in the middle of Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz. To the west is an elevated platform where line 66 ( Siegburger Bahn ) stops, to the east a flat platform for lines 62 and 65. Numerous bus lines stop on both sides of the square and a short distance up the Sandkaule or Belderberg. The public transport at Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz is used by around 20,000 passengers every day.
Development
On both sides of the square there are 5- to 10-story buildings from the second half of the 20th century. The upper floors are partially used as apartments, the rest as sales, catering and office space. The Woki cinema is on the north side . The regional representative of the European Commission in Bonn is located in an office and commercial building on the south side of the square, a former property of the Federal Republic of Germany .
history
In medieval and early modern Bonn there was no continuous street in an east-west direction at today's Suttner-Platz. To the east of Maargasse , which roughly corresponds to today's Oxfordstrasse, there were instead some buildings and smaller north-south streets. From 1710, Elector Joseph Clemens sought to build an east-west road under the name Rijselstrasse (Rijsel - today Lille ), only a smaller part was realized, soon to be named Vierecksplatz after one of the builders. In the late 19th century, the second Beethoven Hall and several schools were located here . After Bonn's first Rhine bridge was completed in 1898 , Vierecksplatz, as a bridge street , fulfilled roughly the same tasks as Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz today, but was located a little further south, at the level of today's Friedrichstraße .
During the Second World War , the area around Brückenstraße and the Rhine districts were almost completely destroyed by Allied bombing, and the bridge was blown up by German troops. From 1946 to 1950 the remaining buildings were demolished and the current course of the road laid out. The design of the square took 1.1 million DM . The name of the square was based on a resolution of the City Council of Bonn on August 5, 1949. From the 1950s onwards, departments of the Federal Ministry of Transport were located at Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz (today's building of the regional representation of the EU Commission).
With the opening of Reuterstraße in 1964, the previously very heavy traffic via Sandkaule / Belderberg was significantly reduced. In 1968/69 the so-called IOS house was built on the corner of Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz and Sandkaule, based on a design by Bonn architect Wilhelm Denninger , a five-storey office and commercial building projecting slightly from the street with one (originally) made of marble and aluminum clad facade. From 1970 to 1972, the Volksfürsorgehaus , consisting of different heights, was built on the northeast corner of the square (Straße Berliner Freiheit ) according to plans by the Bonn architect Dirk Denninger , originally for the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (demolished in 2016). From 2005 to 2007, the last major renovation of the square was carried out for around 7 million euros, the platforms were raised and the sidewalks significantly widened.
On the initiative of the Women's Network for Peace e. V. Bonn, a 2.50 m high stele made of stainless steel based on a design by Sirpa Masalin (* 1971 in Lahti , Finland) was erected in honor of Bertha von Suttner on the corner of Sandkaule. The association financed the sculpture through fundraising and handed it over to the city of Bonn on September 21, 2013.
Web links
- Entry on Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal budget for the budget year 1989 , Bundesdruckerei, 1987, Volume 2, p. 15.
- ^ City of Bonn (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. 278.
- ^ Entry in the Bonn street cadastre
- ↑ Die Farbe , volumes 8-10, Musterschmidt-Verlag, 1959, p. 14.
- ^ The Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 69, Issue 1, C. Heymann, 1966, p. 255.
- ↑ Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49-69. Attempt to take stock . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Art and antiquity on the Rhine . Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 21 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 161/162 .
- ^ Ingeborg Flagge : Architecture in Bonn after 1945: Buildings in the federal capital and its surroundings . Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7928-0479-4 , p. 111.
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 15.4 " N , 7 ° 6 ′ 7.6" E