Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria (Bonn)

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Former office building of the Bulgarian embassy (2013)
Former building of the Bulgarian trade agency (2013)
Former residence of the Bulgarian embassy, Am Arndtplatz 8 (2013)

The Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in the Federal Republic of Germany (until 1990 People's Republic of Bulgaria ) was from 1975 to 1999 based in Bonn district of Bad Godesberg , with a branch office until 2012. The former office building of the embassy , built in 1974/75, were in the district of Plittersdorf close the banks of the Rhine on the streets Auf der Hostert (house number 6) and Am Büchel (house numbers 15/17). In the course of the closure of the branch office, they were sold and demolished in spring 2014.

history

Villa Mönkemöller , the first seat of the Bulgarian embassy in Bonn

Bulgaria and the Federal Republic of Germany set up mutual commercial agencies on the basis of an agreement dated March 6, 1964 . There was already an unofficial Bulgarian commercial agency in Frankfurt am Main , which was given official status as a government agency when the agreement came into force. On April 1, 1973, the agency was relocated to Bonn , where it settled in the Villa Mönkemöller (Mönkemöllerstrasse 37) built in 1904 in the Dottendorf district. After the official establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries on December 21, 1973, Bulgaria opened an embassy at the Bonn government seat. The office of the embassy took its seat at the location of the commercial agency, the consular department of the embassy in the Bad Godesberg district of Plittersdorf (Büchelstrasse 17; today Am Büchel). A property in the Bad Godesberg district of Muffendorf (Klosterbergstrasse 56) served as the residence of the embassy, ​​the residence of the ambassador .

In the run-up to the establishment of diplomatic relations, the Bulgarian government began planning the construction of a new embassy and commercial agency in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn, the main focus of diplomatic missions. For this purpose, Bulgaria acquired a corresponding plot of land with a size of 2,500 m² in the Plittersdorf district in 1974  . The Bulgarian architect Georgi Mejdouretchki was commissioned to design the new buildings. The groundbreaking ceremony for the two new embassy buildings - one each for the office and one for the commercial agency - took place in June 1974, at a cost of 4.5 million D-Marks ; They were completed by the beginning of 1976. For the Bulgarian embassy staff, a block of flats ("Bulgarian block") was built in 1978/79 on the corner of Herderstrasse / Am Arndtplatz in the Godesberg villa district on a plot of land of over 3,000 m², consisting of five houses with 30 apartments. From 1980, the Villa Am Arndtplatz 8, immediately adjacent to the Bulgarian bloc, served as the embassy residence . The consular affairs department of the embassy was last (as of 1995) housed in the commercial representation building.

In the course of relocating the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the Bulgarian embassy moved there in mid-August 1999 (→ Bulgarian embassy in Berlin ). A branch of the embassy with a consular department was left in Bonn ; the consular district comprised the states of Bremen , Hesse , Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate . The commercial agency building and a large part of the Bulgarian bloc stood empty after the move was over. Both were for sale from summer / autumn 2010, the latter was gutted from autumn 2011 after it was sold at the end of 2010 . The branch office of the embassy that remained in Bonn was closed in the summer of 2012 as part of a restructuring of the network of diplomatic and consular missions initiated in 2011 - the consular section on June 29, 2012 and the branch office as a whole on August 1, 2012. With its final closure, the use of the former embassy residence, which was sold to the owner of the previously sold Bulgarian block, by members of the branch office ended at the end of July 2012; it will continue to be used for residential purposes after a complete renovation . The former buildings of the embassy and commercial agency as well as a neighboring residential building were also privately owned at the end of July 2012 and were completely demolished in spring 2014 in favor of new residential buildings planned by the end of 2015.

architecture

The former Bulgarian embassy building consisted of a four-storey chancellery building (with a recessed attic ), located on the side of Auf der Hostert street facing away from the Rhine , and a three-storey commercial agency building with a rear extension on Am Büchel street . Both buildings were kept in simple forms and connected to one another via an underground car park and a terrace . There was also a cinema hall in the office building . The floor area of the two buildings was around 3,000 m², of which 895 m² was accounted for by the commercial agency. The embassy property also included an adjoining apartment building with a living space of around 420 m², resulting in a total property area of ​​3777 m².

See also

literature

  • Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, p. 50.
  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 168-169.

Web links

Commons : Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germany Archives, Volume 7 , Science and Politics, 1974, p. 462.
  2. ^ Until 1977 Lindenstrasse 37
  3. ^ Eastern Europe, Volume 24 , German Society for Eastern European Studies, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1974, p. 586.
  4. ↑ The terracotta statue shows the way into the villa , General-Anzeiger , September 8, 1999
  5. ↑ Karl Heinz Jahnke: You have never given up: Ettie und Peter Gingold, Resistance in France and Germany , Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, 1998, p. 78.
  6. ^ Eastern Europe, Volume 24, Issue 3; Volume 24, issues 7-9 , German Society for Eastern European Studies, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1974, p. 565.
  7. ↑ Heinz-Günther Borck: 1200 years of German-Bulgarian relations - an overview , p. 20.
  8. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of December 1973)
  9. ↑ German Embassy Sofia - 1900–1999 ( Memento of the original from April 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sofia.diplo.de
  10. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of February 1976)
  11. ↑ The Bulgarian Block is being completely renovated , General-Anzeiger , December 16, 2010
  12. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (status: February 1980, November 1980)
  13. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
  14. ↑ Bonn Council Information System - Statement by the Administration (PDF), September 2006
  15. ↑ List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany ( Memento of October 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) (as of September 25, 2009), Foreign Office
  16. ↑ Bulgarians sell commercial agency in Bad Godesberg , General-Anzeiger, October 12, 2010
  17. ↑ The Bulgarian Block is being completely renovated , General-Anzeiger , December 16, 2010
  18. ↑ Sign at the embassy branch , Wikimedia Commons
  19. ↑ Bek. D. Prime Minister - LPA II 1 - 01.28 - 1/10 v. 2.8.2012: Diplomatic Mission of the Republic of Bulgaria in Bonn , Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) - Edition 2012 No. 23 of August 2, 2012, p. 625
  20. ↑ Bulgaria to open a consulate in Frankfurt am Main , Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 3, 2012
  21. ↑ Bulgarian residence in Bad Godesberg sold , General-Anzeiger, July 21, 2012
  22. ^ The branch is leaving Bad Godesberg , General-Anzeiger, March 24, 2012
  23. ↑ The message is followed by apartments on the Rhine , General-Anzeiger, July 28, 2012
  24. ↑ 13 ex-embassies in Bad Godesberg are still empty , General-Anzeiger , October 3, 2012
  25. ^ Neighbors find out about the future of the embassy grounds , General-Anzeiger , December 14, 2013
  26. ↑ Demolition is progressing , General-Anzeiger , March 26, 2014
  27. ^ The Bulgarian Embassy is History , General-Anzeiger , May 13, 2014

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 47.6 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 1.5"  E