Embassy of the Republic of Hungary (Bonn)

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Former building of the Hungarian embassy (2013)

The Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in the Federal Republic of Germany (until 1989 People's Republic of Hungary ) had its seat in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn from 1984 to 1999 . The former embassy building, built in 1983/84, is located in the Plittersdorf district near the banks of the Rhine on Turmstrasse (house number 30). It is still owned by the Republic of Hungary.

history

Hungary and the Federal Republic of Germany set up mutual commercial agencies on the basis of an agreement dated November 10, 1963 . The Hungarian commercial agency took its seat in Cologne in the Neustadt-Süd district (Hardefuststrasse 7). In October 1969, as part of an effort to deepen mutual relations, the commercial agencies were given the authority to operate a visa or consular section . In 1973 the commercial agency within Cologne moved to Sachsenring 40, while the visa department remained at the old location. After the official establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries on December 21, 1973 as a result of the accession of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations , Hungary opened an embassy at the location of the previous visa department in Bonn, while the commercial agency was converted into the commercial department of the new embassy and continues on Sachsenring was located. The embassy residence, the ambassador's residence, was initially located in the Cologne district of Braunsfeld (Friedrich-Schmidt-Strasse 52a), but was relocated to the Lindenthal district (Robert-Koch-Strasse 40-42) as early as 1974 .

When the Hungarian government began to adjust to a longer presence at the Bonn seat of government, from the end of the 1970s it planned to build a new embassy, ​​residence and consulate in the Bonn district of Bad Godesberg, the main focus of diplomatic missions. In return for a plot of land in Budapest , the Federal Government of Hungary provided a corresponding plot of land from a former nursery in the north of the Plittersdorf district on the edge of the American settlement , on which it could build a new building for the Federal German embassy. The new Hungarian embassy building was designed by the Wuppertal architect Max R. Wenner at a cost of 12.5 million D-Marks . The official inauguration took place on February 13, 1984. The trading department remained in Cologne (Sachsenring 40). In 1984 a house in the Remagen district of Oberwinter (Rheinhöhenweg) was rented as the embassy residence , and in 1993 a villa in Bad Godesberg (Im Hohn 3) near the city forest was rented.

In the course of relocating the seat of government , the Hungarian embassy moved to Berlin in August 1999 (→ Hungarian embassy in Berlin ). In Bonn, a branch office of the embassy with the consular department was initially left, in which seven out of 20 Hungarian diplomats in Germany were initially active and which was ultimately occupied by an embassy counselor and a second secretary. In autumn 2006 it was given up in favor of the Consulate General in Düsseldorf . The former embassy building has been empty since then, but is still owned by Hungary and is being maintained. At the end of 2013, an investor was planning to demolish the building, on whose property residential houses were to be built.

building

The former Hungarian embassy building, erected on a 4,900 m² site, is a three-storey building on an L-shaped floor plan with a facade made of anodized aluminum . The usable area of the building is 4,100 m² with a volume of 20,000 m³. The ambassador's original residence was in the wing of the building on the Rhine side, from which the representation and offices of the embassy chancellery led to the consular section on the street side. The building also contained apartments for the embassy staff.

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. 178-181.
  • Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, pp. 48, 80.

Web links

Commons : Turmstrasse 30 (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius (Ed.): Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1967. January 1 to March 31 , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1998, p. 15
  2. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius (Ed.): Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1969. July 1 to December 31 , Volume 1, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2000, p. 324 ff.
  3. ↑ Glas-Email-Keramo-Technik, Volume 24, Verlag Brunke Garrels, 1973, p. 56
  4. ^ Hungary, Relations with Germany , Foreign Office
  5. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of December 1973)
  6. ↑ Foreign Office (Ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of April 1974, September 1974)
  7. ↑ a b Hungary: Embassy ready in February . In: General-Anzeiger . January 20, 1984, p.  9 .
  8. ↑ The Federal Republic of Germany. State Handbook: Bund , C. Heymanns, 1995, p. 471
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Bonn Council Information System - Statement by the Administration (PDF), September 2006
  11. ↑ List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany ( Memento of November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) (as of May 2006), Foreign Office
  12. ↑ Hungary's representative: The walk through the Brandenburg Gate was moving , Berliner Kurier , February 9, 2000
  13. ↑ Hungarians sell their embassy on the Rhine , General-Anzeiger, November 3, 2006
  14. ↑ The branch office of the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Bonn will be closed soon
  15. ↑ 13 ex-embassies in Bad Godesberg are still empty , General-Anzeiger, October 3, 2012
  16. ↑ Investor wants to build five detached apartment buildings , General-Anzeiger, December 13, 2013
  17. ↑ Diplomatic parquet is running out, General-Anzeiger, January 15, 2014

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