Embassy of Czechoslovakia (Bonn)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Former office building of the Czechoslovak embassy, ​​Ferdinandstrasse 27
Former residence of the Czechoslovak embassy, ​​Am Buchenhang 5
Office building Im Rheingarten 7 in Beuel, 1974–1985 seat of the Czechoslovak embassy (2012)

The embassy of Czechoslovakia in the Federal Republic of Germany was based in Bonn from 1974 to 1992 . When the country was divided, the embassy buildings were taken over by the Czech Republic in 1993 . The former office building of the embassy, ​​completed in 1985, was located in the district of Ippendorf . After the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin in 1999, a branch office of the embassy was left there until 2004 and then a consulate general until 2008 . In 2012 the building was demolished.

location

The former embassy building stretched in a residential area for a total of 200 m on the east side of Ferdinandstrasse from Im Blumengarten in the north to Wasserturmstrasse in the south. The demolished office building (Ferdinandstrasse 27) was on the corner of Im Blumengarten, the preserved former residential complex of the embassy (Ferdinandstrasse 29-37) was on the corner of Wasserturmstrasse.

history

After the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and the Federal Republic of Germany on the basis of a contract of 11 December 1973 on the same day diplomatic relations had taken each other, the CSSR opened to 1974 a message to the government headquarters in Bonn. The embassy office was initially located in the Beuel district (Im Rheingarten 7), the trade and consular departments in the Marienburg district of Cologne (Germanicusstraße 6). From 1975 to 1976, a new residence for the embassy, ​​residence of the ambassador, was built on a hillside plot of land in the Bonn district of Kessenich (Am Buchenhang 5) based on a design by the Slovak architect Ľudovít Jendreják (* 1929) by converting and expanding an existing villa stayed at home in Beuel.

When the Czechoslovak government began to prepare for a longer presence at the seat of government in Bonn, it planned in the early 1980s to build a new embassy office in the Bonn district of Ippendorf, which would also house the consular department. In addition to the office building, the project also included a neighboring residential complex for embassy staff. Ľudovít Jendreják was once again commissioned with the planning and design of the new building, along with others. Started after 1980, it was completed in the summer of 1985. Czech workers who had come specially from their country were deployed on the construction site. On July 1, 1980, the embassy officially started its work in the new office building; the following autumn the consular department moved from Cologne-Marienburg to the building, while the trade department remained there. As a result of the Velvet Revolution from April 1990 to the end of 1992, the seat of the embassy of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic , the property and the residence in the Kessenich district were taken over by the newly founded Czech Republic at the beginning of 1993. The Slovak Republic temporarily rented some rooms from the Czech Republic until moving into its own embassy building.

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the headquarters of the Czech embassy moved to Berlin in October 1999 (→ Czech embassy in Berlin ). In July 2001 the Czech Republic sold the residential complex that had formerly belonged to the embassy to a private investor who had it renovated. In Bonn, a branch office of the embassy with the consular districts of North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland had been left, which was converted into a consulate general on September 1, 2004 with the same consular district . After the Consulate General was closed on July 1, 2008, the former embassy building stood empty. In March 2009, the property with a plot of around 6,700 m² was acquired by a property developer and project developer who intended to demolish the building in favor of an ensemble - under the Czech name Smetana Carrée , which is related to the former embassy - of high-rise residential buildings. After various changes in planning, the development plan ultimately envisaged up to three and four-storey residential buildings and so-called “city villas” with a total of 55 apartments. After its approval in spring 2012, the former embassy building was demolished so that the new development of the site could begin and be completed in late summer 2014. The residential complex adjacent to the demolished office building continues to exist as an Ippendorf residence , as is the former residence of the embassy in the Kessenich district.

building

The former office building of the embassy was a complex of two differently designed components according to their function: a rectangular office wing around an inner courtyard with a travertine-clad facade, which housed the offices, an archive and some guest apartments, and a lower building with the entrance hall. and lobby, kitchen and meeting room. Most of the windows on the upper floors faced the inner courtyard. The reception room was around 300 m² in size and could be subdivided as required, the meeting room held 50 people and could also be used as a cinema and press room. A large part of the interior of the building consisted of walnut wood and Yugoslav marble , which was also used in the winter garden accessible from the reception room . The administration and reception sections of the embassy had a common entrance as the main entrance to the embassy, ​​while the consular section had its own entrance from the street.

The former residential complex of the embassy, ​​which is adjacent to the office building, has four floors and contains 47 two- and three-room apartments and two commercial units.

literature

  • L. Kušnír: Veľvyslanectvo ČSSR v Bone. Project 24, No. 9/1982, pp. 33–34.
  • 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. 176-177.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Ostpolitik: Prague Treaty
  2. ^ Horst Moller, Klaus Hildebrand, Gregor Schollgen (eds.): Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. January 1 to December 13, 1976 , Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58040-2 , p. 89.
  3. ^ Treaty on Mutual Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic [Prague Treaty], December 11, 1973
  4. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 406.
  5. ↑ Yearbook 1976 , Junge Union Deutschlands, Federal Office of the Junge Union Deutschlands, 1976, p. 173.
  6. ^ The Federal Republic of Germany: Partial edition of the Bund , Heymanns, 1983, p. 526.
  7. ^ German Society for Eastern European Studies : Eastern European Economy, Volumes 22-23 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1977, p. 62.
  8. ^ The Federal Republic of Germany State Handbook: Part of the Land Niedersachsen , C. Heymann, 1979, p. 271.
  9. ^ The Federal Republic of Germany: State Handbook. Partial edition Bund , Heymanns, 1983, p. 527.
  10. ↑ a b L. Kušnír: Veľvyslanectvo ČSSR v Bone.
  11. ↑ a b The new embassy of Czechoslovakia will be ready in the summer . In: General-Anzeiger , city edition Bonn . February 28, 1985, p.  9 .
  12. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of March 1992
  13. ^ Daily Report: East Europe , Issues 1-9, The Service, 1993, p. 13
  14. ↑ a b The residential building will soon have a new owner . In: General-Anzeiger , Bonn city edition . July 13, 2001, p.  8 .
  15. ↑ Bek. D. Prime Minister of November 8, 2000: Change of the consular districts of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and the branch office of the Embassy in Bonn , Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) - Edition 2000 No. 75 of December 14, 2000
  16. ^ Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin - History of the diplomatic mission
  17. ↑ Addresses of the diplomatic and consular missions in Germany (PDF file; 536 kB), as of February 19, 2004
  18. ↑ Addresses of the diplomatic and consular missions in Germany (PDF file; 538 kB), as of May 3, 2005
  19. ↑ State Gazette for the State of Hesse - No. 23, June 2, 2008, p. 1414 ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / stanz.ms-visucom.de
  20. ↑ a b The first tenants are coming soon , General-Anzeiger , August 29, 2014
  21. ^ "Seldom ugly building": Former Czech embassy to be demolished, General-Anzeiger, May 13, 2010 ( Memento of September 21, 2002 in the web archive archive.today )
  22. ↑ New building project in Ippendorf is on the brink , General-Anzeiger, December 3, 2010
  23. ↑ Compromise ends dispute over development of the former Czech Embassy , General-Anzeiger, May 5, 2011
  24. ^ A brief outline of the former Czech Embassy , General-Anzeiger, February 25, 2012
  25. ↑ Winners and losers in a construction project on the former embassy site , General-Anzeiger, March 10, 2012
  26. ^ Advertisement of the residential building by a real estate company ( Memento from March 17, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 0.4 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 1.7 ″  E