Embassy of the Republic of Poland (Cologne)

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The embassy of the Republic of Poland in the Federal Republic of Germany (the People's Republic of Poland until 1989 ) had its seat in Cologne from 1972 to 1999 , with a branch office until 2001. Since the embassy moved to Berlin , the city on the Rhine has had a Polish consulate general including one Commercial department.

history

Villa Lindenallee 7 in Cologne-Marienburg, 1980–1999 seat of the Polish embassy and until 2013 of the consulate general (2011)
Villa Am Waldpark 44 in Cologne-Hahnwald, residence of the embassy until 1999 (2015)
Alteburger Mühle in Cologne-Marienburg, Commercial Department of the Consulate General (formerly the Embassy)

Poland has had a commercial agency in Frankfurt am Main since the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949 . In the early 1960s she moved to Cologne , where she took her seat in the Marienburg district at Villa Pferdmengesstrasse 5, a brick building built in 1924 . In 1964/65 an office wing was added to the building for the commercial agency. The head of the trade mission resided in a former home of Konrad Adenauer in the Lindenthal district (Max-Bruch-Strasse 4), which he rented to Poland. After the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany on September 14, 1972, the commercial agency was converted into an embassy at the seat of government in Bonn. The office of the embassy (including the consular department ) was set up at the previous location of the commercial agency (Pferdmengesstrasse 5); the former home of the head of the trade mission (Max-Bruch-Strasse 4) served from then on as the residence of the embassy, ​​the residence of the ambassador . The office of the Polish Trade Council as the trade department of the embassy was initially located in downtown Cologne (Clever Strasse 5) and in 1977 moved to the Alteburger Mühle in Marienburg , which was expanded for this purpose in 1977/78. In 1980 Poland moved the embassy office within the Marienburg district to Villa Lindenallee 7 . A single-family house built in 1983 in the Hahnwald district (Am Waldpark 44) was the last residence of the embassy . Poland and Eritrea were the only states whose diplomatic missions were based in Cologne until the end. The consular department of the embassy was housed outside the office building in the Marienburg district (initially Pferdmengesstraße 30, lastly Leyboldstraße 74).

At the end of the 1980s, the Polish government planned to rebuild the embassy in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn , the focus of the diplomatic missions. A corresponding plot of land on Turmstrasse in the Plittersdorf district was to be provided by the Federation of the People's Republic of Poland in return for a plot of land in Warsaw on which a new building for the German embassy was planned. The negotiations were almost completed in autumn 1989 when they were thwarted by the fall of the wall , reunification and the decision to move the seat of government to Berlin .

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the headquarters of the Polish embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 (→ Polish embassy in Berlin ). In Cologne, a branch office of the embassy with the consular department was initially left at the previous location. In 2001 it was converted into a consulate general , as its commercial department, the office of the commercial council in the Alteburger Mühle remained; The former residence of the embassy (Am Waldpark 44) served as the residence of the consul general. In spring 2012, plans by the Polish Foreign Ministry to abandon Villa Lindenallee 7 for cost reasons as well as downsizing and relocating the Consulate General with its last 27 employees within Cologne became known, which - in particular due to the use of the property for cultural events - met with public criticism. Consul General Jolanta Róża Kozłowska was recalled at the end of 2012 due to her protests about the future seat of the representative office . The Consulate General moved to offices at Mediapark at the beginning of December 2013 , and the new headquarters were officially opened on December 18.

The consular district of the Polish consulate general in Cologne includes the states of Hesse , North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . It is currently the largest consulate of the Republic of Poland in Germany. The trading department in the Alteburger Mühle now operates under the name Department for Trade and Investments .

Consuls General after taking office:

See also

literature

  • 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. 170-171.

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Individual evidence

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  10. ↑ a b Unrestricted public tender for the sale of the property Am Waldpark 44, 50996 Cologne-Rodenkirchen (Hahnwald) , Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Cologne (May 13, 2016)
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  16. ^ Poland sells the consulate villa , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, May 30, 2012
  17. ↑ Hildegard Stausberg : Why Poland sells a piece of culture , Welt Online , June 24, 2012
  18. ^ Poland gives up Villa Neuerburg , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, January 3, 2013
  19. ↑ Last big reception before the move , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, May 4, 2013
  20. ↑ a b Cultural impulses from the Mediapark , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , December 18, 2013
  21. ^ Representations in Poland , Foreign Office
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