Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (Bonn)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Branch of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates (2013)
Aerial view of Erste Fährgasse, the embassy building in the back (2013)

The embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the Federal Republic of Germany was based in the Südstadt district of Bonn from 1981 to 2001 . Since then, there has been a branch office of the embassy , which was converted into a consulate general in 2018/19 . The former embassy and today's consulate building, completed in 1981, is located above the banks of the Rhine (Rathenauufer) on Erste Fährgasse (house number 6) near Bonn city center .

history

After the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany in May 1972, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) opened an embassy in the spring of 1976 at the Bonn government seat. The office of the embassy was initially located in the Bad Godesberg district (Kölner Straße 125–127, today Godesberger Allee ). The embassy residence - the ambassador's residence - was a property in the Wachtberg district of Ließem (Hohler Weg 19). At the end of the 1970s, the UAE government planned to build a new embassy office on the banks of the Rhine. It was built directly adjacent to the house of the Evangelical Church and the Reading and Recreation Society (Adenauerallee 37), which was built in 1974 based on a design by the Bonn architect Ernst van Dorp . In 1981 the new building was inaugurated and occupied. The embassy’s military department was last (as of 1995) located in the Bonn Center . The embassy residence was most recently located in a villa on the banks of the Rhine.

As a result of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the headquarters of the embassy of the United Arab Emirates moved there in October 2001 (→ Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Berlin ). A branch office of the embassy was left in the Bonn building. Their consular district extended to the entire federal territory; Among other things, it included a health office for the care of UAE citizens who are undergoing medical treatment in Germany. The branch office was last occupied by an embassy counselor and six attachés (as of August 2018) and was converted into a consulate general in 2018/19. In February 2019, the head of the representation was granted the exequatur as consul general . The consular district includes the states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland .

architectural art

In front of the former embassy and today's consulate building is a fountain ( nail fountain ) erected in 1982 as part of the new construction of the embassy, ​​based on a design by the architect Karl Heinz Görres. The fountain basin on a square floor plan is edged with slate and contains a bronze ball , supported by a cylindrical support, from which about 70 steel tubes with bronze plates protrude in the upper half . The resulting water feature can be illuminated.

  • Nail well

Web links

Commons : Erste Fährgasse 6  - Collection of images

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United Arab Emirates - Relations with Germany , Foreign Office
  2. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (status: February 1976, May 1976)
  3. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
  4. ↑ object. The trade journal for floors, walls, windows, floor coverings, paints, wallpapers, home textiles , issue 8/2013, p. 128 f. ( Excerpt online: Thomsit: "Flextec" is the message! )
  5. ↑ Embassy of the United Arab Emirates - HE Ambassador Aljunaibi visited Munich and Bonn ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany (PDF) (as of August 29, 2018), Federal Foreign Office
  7. ↑ Professional consular mission of the United Arab Emirates in Bonn - Announcement by the Prime Minister - M 2 - 03.61 - 1/19 - of February 12, 2019 , Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) , 2019 edition No. 4 of March 13, 2019, p. 113.
  8. ^ Gabriele Zabel-Zottmann: Sculptures and objects in the public space of the federal capital Bonn - installed from 1970 to 1991 . Dissertation, Bonn 2012, part 2, pp. 79/80. ( online PDF file ; 5.51 MB)

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '56 "  N , 7 ° 6' 31.8"  E