Embassy of Australia (Bonn)

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Former office building of the Australian Embassy (2008)

The Australian Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany was based in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn from the early 1960s to 1999 . The former office building of the embassy , built in 1988/89, is located in the Friesdorf district on the west side of Godesberger Allee ( B 9 ) with the address Godesberger Allee 105-107.

history

Australia was one of the first 16 states to be accredited with a diplomatic mission for the Federal Republic of Germany at the Allied High Commission at the seat of government in Bonn . Initially performing the function of a military mission from 1950, on January 28, 1952 it was converted into an embassy that was also responsible for Switzerland and Liechtenstein . It was initially located at Zitelmannstrasse 14 in the center of the new parliamentary and government district until around 1960 . It then moved to Bad Godesberg, the geographical focus of the diplomatic missions, on Kölner Strasse (initially 157, later 107). The immigration department and an information office of the embassy were temporarily (around 1960 – around 1980) in Cologne in the “Victoria-Haus” on Hohenzollernring 103 ( Neustadt-Nord district ).

From the beginning of the 1970s, the embassy was located in a four-story office building at Kölner Straße 107 (from 1978 Godesberger Allee ). After the available space there proved to be inadequate and the Immigration Office and the information department had to move to the neighboring "Bredero" high-rise building to the north , planning began in the mid-1980s for a new embassy office at the old location, with the previous building being demolished. The Bonn architect Dirk Denninger (1928–2002) was commissioned to design the new building . A Dortmund insurance company acted as the client , from which Australia rented the property. Construction began at the end of 1987, in two construction phases at a cost of seven million Deutschmarks . After completion of the first half, it was possible to move into at the end of 1988, and then by the end of 1989 the second half could be built on the site of the old building. Moving into the new building, which had 60 employees at the time, including 20 Australians, was completed in January 1990. Safety requirements had led to the abandonment of the originally intended balconies and a greater distance from the street.

The residence of the embassy, ​​the ambassador's residence, was last in a villa above the banks of the Rhine in the Rüngsdorf district (Basteistraße 30), which previously belonged to the Underberg family. In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the Australian embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 (→ Australian embassy in Berlin ). After a renovation led by Malte Denninger, the former embassy building served as the headquarters of Bonnfinanz from March 2001 to autumn 2010 and has been the headquarters of the Bonn office of the Cologne Chamber of Crafts since March 2011 .

building

The former Australian embassy building is simple in shape, the facade in a reserved gray. It comprises four full floors , including three office floors, as well as a recessed top floor and has a volume of 5,300 m². A flat gable roof forms the upper end , below which there is a mezzanine for the building services . An underground car park originally accommodated parking spaces for the embassy staff, and the basement a common room with a separate entrance. Towards the B 9 there is a canopy made of folded glass fiber reinforced plastic.

In the entrance area of ​​the building there were two life-size concrete sculptures of an emus and a giant kangaroo by the Cologne sculptor Marlene Dammin (* 1941), which refer to the fauna of the country and have been in the Tierpark Berlin since 2003 .

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. 146-149.

Web links

Commons : Godesberger Allee 105–107  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ 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. 17
  3. ↑ Cornelia Dörries: Australian Embassy Berlin . In: The New Architecture Guide. Edition 42 , Stadtwandel Verlag, 2003, p. 4
  4. ^ Office for the Interior (Ed.): Official Gazette for Schleswig Holstein. Born in 1952 , Schleswig-Holstein State Administration, 1952, p. 454
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  7. ↑ Yearbook for Foreign Policy , A. Gross, 1960, p. 48
  8. ^ Address book of the city of Bad Godesberg 1962 , JF Carthaus, Bonn 1962, p. 53. ( online )
  9. ^ German Viticulture Association: Der Deutsche Weinbau: Organ of the German Viticulture Association, Volume 17; Volume 1962 , Der Deutsche Weinbau, 1961, p. 312
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  11. ↑ Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics (Ed.): Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 55, 1969 , p. 115
  12. ↑ The Federal Republic of Germany: Partial edition of the Bund , Heymanns, 1982, p. 497
  13. ↑ Address book of the federal capital Bonn , 91st edition (1970), JF Carthaus, Bonn 1970, p. 204. ( online )
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  15. ^ Australia, Department of Administrative Services (ed.): Commonwealth Government Directory, Volume 1 , Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987, p. 220
  16. ↑ Capital, Volume 24 , Capital Verlagsgesellschaft, 1985, p. 216
  17. ↑ a b Half a building has become a whole . In: General-Anzeiger , Bad Godesberger edition . January 16, 1990, p.  6 .
  18. ^ Michael Wenzel: Small stories Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, p. 50
  19. ↑ Financial services instead of passport issue , General-Anzeiger, March 28, 2001, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 8
  20. ↑ Bonnfinanz creates the turning point , General-Anzeiger, May 4, 2010
  21. ^ Chamber of Crafts Expands Services , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, March 12, 2011
  22. ↑ New rooms at the old place for diplomats from Australia . In: General-Anzeiger , city edition Bonn . August 6, 1987, p.  9 .
  23. ↑ Enrico Matthies; Tierpark Berlin Friedrichsfelde GmbH (ed.): Animals with a stone heart and bronze skin. The artistic jewelry of the Tierpark Berlin . Berlin 2009, p. 15.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 58.4 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 16.9 ″  E