Bonn-Castell

Bonn-Castell Federal city of Bonn Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 42 ″  E
Residents :	10,713  (Dec 31, 2018)
Postcodes :	53117, 53111
Area code :	0228
Location of the Bonn-Castell district in the Bonn district

Settlement at the Roman fort

University building AVZ III

Church of the Christ the King Priory (built 1885)

Bonn-Castell (until 2003: Bonn-Nord, not to be confused with the district of Nordstadt ) is a district of the federal city of Bonn in the Bonn district north of the city ​​center on the Rhine .

geography

It is located in the area of ​​the former Roman camp. The district is bounded by the Rhine in the east, the A 565 in the north and Kölnstrasse in the west and the bleached wax at the Beethoven Hall in the south.

Bonn-Castell consists predominantly of residential development as well as office and administration buildings. About 10,500 people currently live there. The district corresponds roughly to the statistical districts of Wichelshof and Rheindorfer Vorstadt.

On Römerstraße, in the building of the former educational academy, there are several institutes of the University of Bonn as well as a cafeteria and sports facilities for university sports. In the immediate vicinity there are several, partly 17-storey high-rise buildings that are used as student residences.

On the eastern side of Graurheindorfer Straße there are several federal authorities in an approximately 500 m long building complex, including the second office of the Ministry of Finance (housed in ten office buildings built between 1951 and 1954 instead of the Hussar barracks ) and the second office of the Ministry of the Interior , which is structurally based the Düppel barracks from 1915, a building erected in 1927 as a police school and a high-rise building erected in 1967/68. Other federal authorities located there include the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority , the Federal Institute for Sports Science and a branch of the Federal Statistical Office . On the western side of the street, the Deutsche Telekom Foundation has its headquarters on the site of the former Bonn tram depot .

The Rhineland Regional Association operates the LVR Clinic Bonn , a specialist clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology , on the site between Kölnstrasse and Kaiser-Karl-Ring . Other hospitals in Bonn-Castell are the Kaiser-Karl-Klinik and a specialist clinic for rehabilitation medicine. There was also the St. John's Hospital , which has now been converted into a medical center.

There is a Jewish cemetery on the corner of Römerstrasse and Augustusring . Opposite is the reconstruction of a Roman crane.

The Römerbad outdoor pool , which opened in 1939 and expanded in 1974, is located directly on the Rhine, between the university institutes and the A 565 . In addition to a 50-meter sports pool and a single-pool, there are also a ten-meter diving tower and a wave pool as attractions. The swimming competitions of the European Swimming Championships in 1989 took place in the Römerbad . Another possibility for relaxation is the promenade running along the Rhine with a footpath and bike path as well as green spaces and play equipment. This continues south of Bonn-Castell into the Rheinaue .

At the corner of Kaiser-Karl-Ring and Graurheindorfer Straße is the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph from 1931. The brick building in the Bauhaus style with Romanized elements was designed by the Cologne architects Boell and Neuhaus. The church was badly damaged in 1944, but was rebuilt true to detail after the war. The church is a single-nave hall church with a raised chancel (including a crypt), a high wooden ceiling and a tower built on the south side. The church windows come from the artist Wilhelm Rupprecht . The church has about 350 seats. The six bells date from 1958, a new Klais organ with 37 stops was inaugurated in June 2014. The anteroom of the church is open daily for sightseeing and prayer. Further north is the former Sankt-Agnes-Stift on Graurheindorfer Straße. The Evangelical St. Luke Church from 1958 is also located on Kaiser-Karl-Ring. Opposite is the church of the Christkönig Priory, which was built in 1885 as the chapel of the Rheinische Landesklinik. The Tridentine Mass has been celebrated there again since 1980 .

history

Reconstruction of a Roman crane in Bonn-Castell

At 10 BC The Romans set up a camp in the area of ​​today's district, which was expanded in the following years. Around the year 40 AD a legion with approx. 7000 soldiers was stationed in the castra Bonnensia . A settlement developed south of the camp (the so-called canabae legionis ), which, together with the vicus Bonnensis located further south, became the nucleus of today's city of Bonn. Today only a few street names and the remains of the Roman port in the Rhine that are visible at low tide remind of the Roman legionary camp .

In the 1970s, the district experienced extensive population growth due to the construction of multi-storey apartments on the side of Römerstrasse facing the Rhine (a total of 420 apartments at the Roman camp and at the Augustusring ).

In 2003, the previous district of Bonn-Nord was renamed to avoid confusion with the neighboring northern city . In memory of the history of the district, the choice fell on the name Bonn-Castell.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in the Bonn district of Bonn-Castell

literature

• Winand Kerkhoff: Five years of Bonn-Castell. A district remembers (remembers) its Roman past. In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein, Volume 57/58, Bonn 2008, ISSN  0068-0052 , pp. 471–494. [not evaluated for this article]

Web links

Commons : Bonn-Castell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.bonn-castell.de Page u. a. with information about sights

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in Bonn by districts (according to the main statute) on December 31 , 2018 , Federal City of Bonn - Statistics Office, February 2019
2. ↑ Entry on Path of Democracy
3. ↑ 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. 131-133 .
4. ↑ Liegenschaft Graurheindorfer Straße 108 ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning 
5. ^ 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. 146/147.