Embassy of Japan (Bonn)

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Former office building of the Japanese embassy, ​​view from Godesberger Allee (2013)

The Japanese embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany was located in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn from around 1960 to 1999 . The former office building of the embassy , built in 1989/90, is located in the Hochkreuz district on the east side of Godesberger Allee ( B 9 ) at the corner of Kennedyallee at Godesberger Allee 102-104.

history

"Villa Struwe" in Oberwinter , residence of the Japanese ambassador until 1962 (2014)

After establishing diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany in 1951, Japan opened an embassy at the Bonn government seat. It was initially directed by an Chargé d'Affaires until January 1954 when the first authorized ambassador was accredited . The embassy office was initially, at least until 1955, in the Venusberg district (Kiefernweg 11/15) and moved to the northern edge of the new parliament and government district (Wörthstraße 19, today Tempelstraße) in 1951/52 according to plans by the Bonn architect Wilhelm Denninger rebuilt the former house. In 1961, the later city district of Bad Godesberg (Kölner Straße 139), where the firm was located until at least 1977, became the new location. The residence of the embassy, ​​residence of the ambassador, was initially the " Villa Struwe " (Hauptstrasse 26) in Oberwinter , from 1962 to 1973 the Villa Lindenallee 51 in the Cologne district of Marienburg and then a several buildings, designed by the industrialist Rudolf Plate (1939– 2013) property built in the Bonn district of Ippendorf (Quellenweg 6–8) with a plot of 1.35  hectares . Around the turn of the year 1978/79, the law firm was relocated to the Bonn-Center high-rise office building , where it last had 65 employees.

Since the late 1970s, the Japanese government had been planning to build a new embassy office at Bundesstrasse 9 in the north of the Bad Godesberg district. She acquired the subsequent building plot in 1979. Negotiations with the city of Bonn about the new building began in the early summer of 1986, and the planning concept was completed in March 1987. After the building application from April 1988, construction began in May 1989. It was created after a design by the Japanese architect Shosuke Nonaka at a cost of 29 million German marks . In autumn 1990 it was the last new embassy building in Bonn to be completed and occupied, the official inauguration took place on May 15, 1991 and was connected with the planting of a cherry tree .

In the course of relocating the seat of parliament and government , the Japanese embassy moved to Berlin at the beginning of August 1999 (→ Japanese embassy in Berlin ). In Bonn, a branch office of the embassy with the consular district of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Cologne district only ), Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland was initially left, which was ultimately occupied by an embassy counselor and three secretaries. On June 30, 2002, the branch was closed. The previous embassy buildings were then empty. The former residence in the district of Ippendorf was demolished in 2005/06 for a new building with residential houses, the former office building was sold to a private investor in Bonn in January 2006 with an associated land area of ​​8,000  m² . Today it is the location of the “Head Office” of “DHL FREIGHT GmbH”, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL .

building

View from the northeast

The former embassy building has three floors on an L-shaped floor plan built by a beige granite facade dressed up and is at the top of an imported from Japan gabled roof made of stainless steel complete. Held in sober forms, it combines elements of Japanese and European architecture . The building has a usable area of around 4,500  m² and has an underground car park with an original capacity of 80 cars. There are two entrances, one from the B 9 (formerly for guests and employees of the consular department) and another from the rear Stephan-Lochner-Straße (formerly for the remaining embassy employees). The street front was adorned with the imperial seal of Japan . One of the typical features of the embassy building was a Japanese garden , the remains of which are still preserved.

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Web links

Commons : Godesberger Allee 102–104  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesverwaltung Schleswig-Holstein, Office for the Interior (Ed.): Official Journal for Schleswig Holstein. Born 1952 , 1952, p. 455
  2. ↑ Japan Exports & Imports, Volumes 6-7 , Foreign Trade Press, 1953, p. 19
  3. ↑ Federal Ministry of Finance (Ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1953, p. 1072
  4. ^ Paperback of public life 1955 , Festland Verlag GMBH, 1955, p. 134
  5. ↑ a b Entry on residential building, former Imperial Japanese Embassy / Bavarenhaus of the student association "Bavaria", Tempelstrasse 19 in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland by Angelika Schyma and Elke Janßen-Schnabel, 2005)
  6. ^ German Aero Club: Yearbook of Aviation , 1962, p. 155
  7. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.) The Federal Republic of Germany. State Handbook. Partial edition of the federal government , part 1, Verlag Heymanns, Cologne 1980, p. 473.
  8. ^ Hermann Bauer: The Japanese embassy residence in Oberwinter . In: Ahrweiler district's homeland yearbook 1959 . Ahrweiler 1958, pp. 53-56.
  9. ^ Obituary notice , General-Anzeiger , November 30, 2013
  10. ↑ 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 , p. 136.
  11. ↑ Small Protocol , General-Anzeiger, May 11, 1985, Bonn city edition, p. 4
  12. ↑ New use for the site of the former Japanese Residence: Living in the Park ( Memento from March 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) , press release from the City of Bonn, January 14, 2004
  13. ^ A b Bonn Council Information System - notification template , May 13, 2005
  14. ^ Resolution proposal - Bonn Council Information System
  15. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (status: October 1978, February 1979)
  16. ↑ a b Building application for the Japanese embassy. Completed in summer 1990 , General-Anzeiger , April 13, 1988, Bonn city edition, p. 10
  17. ↑ a b New Japanese Embassy in Bad Godesberg , General-Anzeiger, May 17, 1989, Bonn city edition, p. 8
  18. ↑ Diplomat: We don't need jewelry for work , General-Anzeiger, May 16, 1991, Bonn city edition, p. 10
  19. ↑ Bonn Council Information System - Statement by the Administration (PDF), September 2006
  20. ↑ Representations of foreign states responsible for Germany ( Memento of October 6, 2000 in the Internet Archive ), Foreign Office
  21. ↑ Diplomatic missions and consular missions in the Federal Republic of Germany , status: September 2002 (Bundesanzeiger Verlag, ISSN  1616-9468 )
  22. ^ Embassy of Japan in Germany - The Japanese missions abroad in Germany
  23. ↑ The Japanese Embassy has been sold , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, February 1, 2006
  24. ↑ Michael Wenzel: Small stories Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, p. 64/65.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 51.4 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 28.6 ″  E