Bundeshaus (Bonn)

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New plenary building by architect Günter Behnisch (2005)

The Bundeshaus in Bonn is a building complex in which the plenary sessions of the German Bundestag and the Bundesrat took place from 1949 to 1999/2000 . The core building, erected from 1930 to 1933, served as the Bonn Pedagogical Academy for teacher training until the Second World War . After the decision on the capital issue in 1949 in favor of Bonn, it was converted into provisional accommodation for the Bundestag and Bundesrat and formed the core of the developing parliamentary and government district . The original plenary hall of the Bundestag was demolished in 1987 and a new building was erected in its place by 1992.

In over 40 years as the seat of the two constitutional organs , the Bundeshaus was expanded and rebuilt several times until the institutions were relocated to Berlin in 1999 due to the capital city resolution. The plenary hall was then taken over by the International Congress Center Bundeshaus Bonn , today's World Conference Center Bonn, in which national and international conferences take place. The southern parts of the building have been part of the “ UN campus ” since 2013 as the seat of the United Nations climate secretariat , which includes the Bundeshaus as well as the neighboring former House of Representatives Langer Eugen .

Location and development

Aerial view of the World Conference Center and the Federal Palace (2011)

The Bundeshaus is located in the middle of the former parliament and government district (today Federal Quarter ) on United Nations Square between Dahlmannstrasse in the north and Hermann-Ehlers-Strasse in the south, in the immediate vicinity of the Rhine . While the main entrances to the various parts of the building are on United Nations Square, the plenary hall and the presidential annex ("Vice President annex") are also accessible via the Rhine promenade (Stresemannufer). The building complex can be reached via the B 9 , the direct route leads via the Heussallee branching off to the east.

history

Before 1949: Pedagogical Academy and Parliamentary Council

Bundeshaus - the former "Pedagogical Academy" (2006)

The core and origin of the building complex was built from 1930 to 1933 in the form of New Objectivity according to a design by the government architect Martin Witte (1896–1930) as a new building for the existing Bonn Pedagogical Academy (1926–1933) and the University for Teacher Training (from 1933) erected. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on September 16, 1930 - two months before Witte's death. In the summer of 1931 the shell was completed; towards the end of the year work was suspended for twelve months due to financial difficulties. The new building was officially inaugurated on October 2, 1933, and teaching began provisionally at the end of the year. The completion of the interior and furnishings took until the end of 1938. The new building was divided into an elongated seminar building, a north-western porch with a lecture hall and caretaker's apartment as well as the entrance, a right-angled building on the Rhine side with an internal administration wing and a "day care center" (lounges for students) and a further lecture hall building with a stairwell and a gymnasium as a south-eastern front building.

After the decision had been taken in 1948 to have the Parliamentary Council meet in Bonn, suitable rooms were sought to accommodate the body. The academy buildings were chosen because they offered sufficient space to accommodate the constitutional convention. From September 1948 until the Basic Law was passed in May 1949, it met in the former auditorium of the Pedagogical Academy. The Allied High Commission continued to look for a seat for the future state organs of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn also applied and was therefore an option in the so-called “ capital question ”. Frankfurt am Main , the main competitor for capital city status, had a plenary hall built in 1949. In order to get ahead of Frankfurt, Bonn also had a plenary hall built by the architect Hans Schwippert within a few months, which was connected to the gymnasium of the academy, which was converted into a foyer. From the spring of 1949, Schwippert converted the entire building into a parliament building. The steel skeleton for the plenary hall was erected at the end of March, and the topping-out ceremony was held on May 5th. On May 10, 1949, in a secret ballot by the Parliamentary Council, Bonn received a majority of 33 to 29 votes and was thus appointed the "provisional seat of the federal organs". At the beginning of July 1949, the plenary hall was completed except for the stalls.

From August 10, 1949, the expanded complex of the former Pedagogical Academy was officially referred to as the “Bundeshaus”. On a provisional basis, state representatives were also accommodated here , but only a few offices were able to use them. On September 7, 1949, the first session of the German Bundestag took place in the plenary hall and the first session of the Bundesrat took place in the former assembly hall, whose offices and other meeting rooms were housed in the north wing of the Bundestag building, which was newly built in 1949. On November 3, 1949, the question of the capital was finally decided in favor of Bonn by the 1st German Bundestag.

1949–1999: German Bundestag and Bundesrat

Federal Palace 1961
Federal Council 1990

After the location of the government organs had been finally determined, the Federal Palace was further expanded as the seat of the legislature and two constitutional organs. Since Bonn was only to remain a provisional capital, great functionality and economic efficiency were taken into account in the planning contracts . The first expansion, which was also carried out in 1949 according to Schwippert's plans, included the addition of a restaurant porch on the Rhine side and the construction of a north and a south wing. In 1951, the second extension of the Federal Palace was added to the southern end of the building on the foundation of an existing air raid shelter, an initially seven-storey House of Representatives (now the “old high-rise”) and an intermediate wing. A third extension in 1953 by the Federal Building Directorate included a three-wing ministerial wing, an extension of the plenary hall and a fractional building at the southern end of the building complex. It was not until May 9, 1953, that the Federal Palace was transferred from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to the possession of the Federal Republic of Germany through the transfer agreement.

In 1955, the meeting room of the regional chamber was rebuilt. In the Bundestag, the members of the Bundestag voted in favor of the new circular arrangement of their seats proposed by Schwippert for the plenary hall. However, the Federal Government found this too modernist; therefore the original seating arrangement was retained, in which the MPs were separated from the government and the members of the government were seated on a raised podium. After reunification in 1990, the seating arrangements of the Federal Council were expanded to include representatives from all 16 federal states. The circular arrangement of the seats was also implemented in 1992 in today's plenary hall.

In 1986 the Bundestag decided after decades of discussions and a large number of repeatedly rejected architectural and urban planning designs (including by Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf ) to build a new plenary hall. Despite intensive efforts to the contrary by the preservation of monuments, a number of politicians and committed citizens and a number of reports that presented the old building as ready for renovation, Schwippert's plenary hall, now a listed building, was demolished in mid-October 1987 after 2,168 plenary sessions held there until June 27, 1986. The Stuttgart architecture firm Behnisch & Partner , which had previously won the relevant competition, was commissioned with the design, planning and execution of the new building . Construction work on the new plenary hall (construction costs: approx. 120 million euros) began in 1988, and the building was largely completed in 1990. During the construction work, the Bundestag met in the neighboring former waterworks . After the inauguration on October 30, 1992, the first regular session took place in the new parliament building on November 4, 1992. After the microphone system failed in a session on November 24, 1992, the Bundestag again gathered in the waterworks until it moved back to the Bundeshaus on September 22, 1993. On June 20, 1991, the German Bundestag decided to move its seat to Berlin . On July 1, 1999, the last session of the parliament in Bonn took place with the swearing-in of Federal President Johannes Rau . In November 2000 the last 900 employees of the Bundestag administration moved from Bonn to Berlin. The only thing left in Bonn was the library of the German Bundestag , housed here in eight different locations, including the old parliament building , which was moved to Berlin from March to May 2004.

Other buildings used by the German Bundestag in Bonn were, in addition to parts of the Allianz buildings on Tulpenfeld, the Villa Adenauerallee 208 (Bundestag administration), the Godesberger Hof in the Rüngsdorf district (Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag) and the Villa Dollendorfer Strasse 10 in the Plittersdorf district (service villa of the Bundestag President) .

  • Chamber 1954 (Debate on the Paris Treaties)

  • Plenary hall Altes Wasserwerk 1990 for the funeral service of Gerhard Schröder

  • Plenary hall of the Altes Wasserwerk (conference venue 1986–1992) in 2005

Since 1999: IKBB / WCCB, Federal Council and United Nations

Rhine side of the plenary hall with a building for the vice presidents

On October 29, 1999, the plenary hall was handed over to the Federal City of Bonn to use the building for the International Congress Center Bundeshaus Bonn (IKBB) (since 2007 World Conference Center Bonn , WCCB). On July 14, 2000, the 753rd plenary session of the Federal Council took place in Bonn, after the Federal Council had decided on September 27, 1996 to move its headquarters to Berlin. Since then, the Federal Council has had a branch in Bonn. First of all, the meetings of the committees - with the exception of the Health Committee and the Defense Committee - that corresponded with the Federal Ministries headquartered in Bonn took place here outside the session weeks of the Bundestag: the Committee for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety , the Committee for Agricultural Policy and Consumer Protection and the Cultural Affairs Committee . In March 2001, the Federal Ministry of Finance took over responsibility for its former plenary building from the German Bundestag. The Building and Property Management Controlling Institution (GCI) of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (later the Federal Agency for Real Estate ) was responsible for the technical and infrastructural building management at IKBB . On October 1, 2002, the city took over the sponsorship of the IKBB.

The core area of ​​the Bundeshaus, previously used by the German Bundestag, was initially taken over by United Nations (UN) organizations until they were able to move into the UN campus, which was initially limited to the Lange Eugen , in 2006 . The southern parts of the building, including the old parliament building, were prepared from 2009 to 2013 as an extension of the UN campus for the climate secretariat.

building

The Bundeshaus essentially consists of nine buildings or building parts. The best known is probably the plenary hall, completed in 1992, in which the German Bundestag met until 1999. All buildings are connected to each other. Bundeshaus, north wing / Bundesratssaal and plenary hall are stops on the path to history, the path to democracy .

Plenary hall, foyer and Rhine lobby

Plenary building from 1949

The plenary hall was built in 1949 after the former gymnasium of the Pedagogical Academy, which was converted into a lobby (“lobby”) and provided with a surrounding gallery. The plenary hall was built as a self-supporting steel structure and redesigned several times in the 1950s. In 1984 it was determined that it was a cultural monument , in 1987 it was demolished along with the foyer.

New plenary building

plenum
foyer

The new plenary building was built until 1992 on the site of the former building by Hans Schwippert together with the vice-presidential extension according to plans by the Stuttgart architects Behnisch & Partner , and the old Bundestag restaurant was also rebuilt and redesigned. Today it is used as part of the " World Conference Center Bonn ", to the extension of which opened in 2015, an underground passage leads. Since the congress center started operating, numerous nationally and internationally important conferences and meetings have taken place here. The plenary hall can be visited outside of the congress hours. The plenum has a floor area of ​​1230 m². Following the spirit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the building should express transparency, closeness to the citizen and modesty: All areas of the glass and steel building can be seen, there is not a single continuous wall. The concrete walls, which are unavoidable for structural reasons, are concealed by large-scale works of art.

In contrast to previous parliamentary buildings, the seating arrangement is circular. As a result, the members of the government, the presidium and the respective speaker did not sit opposite, but with them. Outside seats are avoided in this way. The seating arrangement has been unchanged since the 1998 Bundestag election, only the stenographers' seats in front of the lectern have been removed. The actual plenary hall is beneath the surrounding floor, which makes the entire building appear smaller and therefore more modest. The entrances for MPs and visitors are only a few meters apart and the 1200 m² foyer, which, together with the Rhine lobby, frames the plenary hall and is used, for example, for banquets, can be seen from a visitor's balcony. The presidential area, which was reserved for the President of the Bundestag, faces the Rhine.

The Bundestag eagle, the so-called “fat hen”, is a copy of the first eagle from the old plenary chamber, which was made of aluminum instead of plaster for design reasons. The plumage of the heraldic bird is asymmetrical and patchy to show MPs that they will never achieve perfection. It is noteworthy that very little of the entire symbolism can be found in the converted Reichstag building . Its architect Norman Foster: "The building that will stand there in the end [will] have nothing to do with the Behnisch building in Bonn".

Following a decision by the city council in December 2014, the restaurant kitchen of the former plenary building was converted into a catering kitchen for the existing WCCB buildings at a cost of around 3 million euros. The financing came from funds from a funding agreement “Strengthening Bonn as a UN location” concluded in February 2016 between the federal government and the Federal City of Bonn as part of the “Future Investment Program” (ZIP). Also within the scope of the ZIP, the public address system, camera technology and desk call stations are being repaired and modernized in the plenary building.

Core area

The United Nations in the main building of the Federal Palace (2005)

The four-storey core area facing the square and five-storey building on the Rhine - the former seminar and lecture hall building of the Pedagogical Academy - is, together with the former auditorium (later the Federal Council building), the oldest of the nine parts of the building today. Built from 1930 to 1933 in the Bauhaus style according to plans by the government architect Martin Witte, it was used by the German Bundestag from 1949. In the same year, an elongated single-storey restaurant with a capacity of 800-1000 people was built for the Bundestag according to plans by Hans Schwippert on the Rhine side between the north wing and the plenary building. Until the opening of the nearby UN campus in 2006, UN organizations were temporarily housed there. Today the building is partly used privately; Since the beginning of 2013, the Global Trust Fund for Crop Diversity, which is affiliated with the United Nations and has around 30 employees, has been based there on around 750 m² ; the inauguration took place on May 22, 2013.

North wing and Federal Council Chamber

Branch office of the Federal Council in the north wing, since 2000

The north wing was built for the Federal Council in 1949 as part of the first expansion phase of the Federal Palace and today houses its branch office. It has five storeys in steel framework construction, but is set two storeys lower than the core area of ​​the Federal Palace and is therefore the same height towards the street. Originally it also included the common rooms for the members of the Federal Cabinet; In addition, the Bundesrat initially made the 5th floor available to the Bundestag to accommodate around 70 members of the Bundestag until its final interior was completed, so that the Bundesrat only had 20 rooms. The committee meetings took place in the north wing and the plenary meetings of the Federal Council took place in the adjoining former auditorium of the Pedagogical Academy ("Bundesratssaal"). On May 26, 1952, the Germany Treaty was signed in the Bundesrat chamber; In addition, there were repeated meetings of the Federal Cabinet in the north wing . After his term in office , Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had a study in the Federal Council building . In 2000, after being the only constitutional body to remain unchanged throughout Bonn, the Federal Council moved its headquarters to the Prussian mansion in Berlin. In the early 2000s, the north wing was renovated for around two million euros, in particular to meet fire protection requirements.

The Bonn branch is still home to the offices of the following committees of the Federal Council, which also meet here if necessary if their meeting dates do not fall during a session of the German Bundestag: Committee on Defense, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Committee on Agricultural Policy and Consumer Protection, Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Committee on European Union Affairs and Committee on Cultural Affairs. Nine permanent employees of the Federal Council currently work there (as of 2006). The House of History has set up a Federalism Information Center in the Federal Council, which opened on September 6, 2006 and which provides information on the work and history of the Federal Council and that of federalism. In the foyer of the plenary hall of the Federal Council, the permanent exhibition Our Basic Law , designed by the collection director of the Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany Dietmar Preißler , has been shown, which sheds light on the genesis of the Basic Law. The exhibition and the Bundesratssaal can be visited with accompaniment.

South wing

The south wing of the Federal Palace was built in 1949 as part of the first expansion phase based on a design by Hans Schwippert using a steel frame construction. It initially included a large seating hall (relaxation hall) on the ground floor with space for around 150 people, reading and writing room for the members of parliament, library and archive, offices for administration, secretariat and stenographers , vault, printing and bookbinding. The 2250 m² listed building consists of a basement, a ground floor and two upper floors with around 110 offices and a conference room. It was renovated until 2013 and has since housed parts of the UN campus.

Intermediate wing

The intermediate wing was built in 1951 according to a design by the Federal Building Department as part of the second expansion of the Federal Palace. It originally extended over an area of ​​590 m² and connects the "old high-rise" with the south wing. The building was the second extension of the Federal Palace. The 36 office and three meeting rooms were distributed over a base and a ground floor as well as two upper floors. The intermediate wing could not be preserved in the course of the renovation of the southern part of the Federal Palace for the UN campus from 2009 to 2013 due to structural defects and was rebuilt.

Faction building

The 1610 m² parliamentary building, in which the individual parliamentary groups were previously located, was also built in 1953 according to the plans of the Federal Building Directorate. It consisted of two building complexes with a) a basement and three upper floors with 31 office rooms, b) a basement, two upper floors and the parliamentary group wing, each with one and a half-story conference rooms (parliamentary groups). This building, too, could not be preserved in the course of the renovation of the southern part of the Federal Palace for the UN campus from 2009 to 2013 due to structural deficiencies and was rebuilt.

Old parliament building

"Old parliament building" (2014)

The eight-storey building, officially known as the “old parliament building”, was built in 1951 as part of the second expansion of the Bundestag building according to a design by the Federal Building Department on the foundation of a two-storey air raid shelter from the Second World War (“Gronaubunker”), and in 1965 one floor was added and a library extension was added added to the terrace. It contains two basement floors on the level of the bunker, a ground floor and seven upper floors with 160 office rooms on an area of ​​3990 m². Until spring 2004, part of the Bundestag library was still located here in the library extension with catalog room, until it was transferred to the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus in Berlin . After that, the building was given to the United Nations in order to set up part of the UN campus there. The necessary modernization and renovation work with the demolition of the library extension began in September 2009, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated in October 2011, the keys were handed over on October 31, 2012, the official takeover by the United Nations on July 15, 2013. Then moved here part of the staff of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat .

Presidential extension ("Vice President extension")

The presidential annex ("Vice Presidential annex"), which was built for the Bundestag Presidium in the course of the new plenary hall building, is located on the Rhine side. It was reserved for the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag and their employees as well as the members of the government and today belongs to the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB). There are 36 meeting rooms and 7 conference halls in the building. There were temporary offices there for SMI Hyundai , the investor who was supposed to build and operate the WCCB. Today, the administration of the WCCB and the Tourismus & Congress GmbH Region Bonn / Rhein-Sieg / Ahrweiler (T & C) , which mainly belongs to the city of Bonn and the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, are based there, which is responsible for advertising the tourist offer of the Region is responsible.

reception

Former educational academy

“The Bonn Academy [has] the advantage of the scenic location. Its clear lines accompany the river Rhine and continue the lively contours of a very sophisticated villa romanticism of the older style in a more calming way. "

- Martin Kießling (1932)

Bundeshaus

“These buildings on the banks of the Rhine (...) seem to us an excellent example of how state buildings can be designed in a democracy. Free of eclectic splendor and cold representation, a noble, factual framework for parliamentary work has emerged here. "

- Bruno E. Werner (1952)

“The German Federal Palace was once a unit, namely Schwippert's work. (...) At the moment I cannot finally say a final word about this, since then, without the author himself, there seem to be great ingredients going on. But Schwippert's design was a happy one and beneficial for the landscape. "

- Wilhelm Kreis (1953)

"The first 'modern' parliament building in the world, but at the same time a decisive encouragement and starting point for the 'modern', ie building freed from the stylistically preconceived formal scheme in a Germany long cut off from development and facing a plethora of architectural tasks."

- Konrad Rühl (1954)

"As much as the building complex inside is a confusing sequence of rooms, it makes a closed impression on the outside despite the different construction phases and is still one of the best buildings in Bonn in terms of its landscape classification."

- Ingeborg flag (1984)

"Schwippert's extensions [north and south wings] were characterized by their optimal adaptation to the existing building stock, the nature of the property and the landscape."

- Gisbert Knopp (1989)

Plenary building from 1992

“The nation's most important building for a hundred years has been completed. (...) The most complicated, nagliest, most disinterested builder you can think of is moving into the most carefree, most frank, most elegant parliament building in the world, the new plenary hall on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. "

- Manfred Sack (1992)

Monument protection

As a monument under monument protection were initially since 17 February 1986, the group of buildings of the former teacher training college, consisting of the former assembly hall building with the day care center and administration wing (later Federal), the former seminary building with Western and Eastern Hörsaalgebäude and western staircase (later office wing) and the former gymnasium (later the foyer of the plenary hall; demolished in 1987), as well as the plenary hall demolished in 1987 (including the extension from 1953). On December 7, 2000, the new plenary area, which was built between 1987 and 1992, was included in the Bundeshaus monument at the request of the Cologne District President with the approval of the building commission of the German Bundestag , as Bonn's youngest architectural monument to date . The extended scope of protection includes the plenary hall with entrance hall and lobby, the presidential annex, the former Bundestag restaurant, the forecourt on the United Nations Square, the outdoor sculptures that are permanently installed as art in the building and the outdoor horticultural facilities.

Art in the outdoor area of ​​the Federal Palace

In the past few years and decades, a number of artistic works have been set up outside the Federal Palace as art in buildings . For the covered entrance of the 1,951 built Deputies high-rise to be built, where a mural of four by six meters, was founded in 1952 by the Federal Planning Bureau announced an open art competition - the first for a building of the Federal Republic. Ultimately, none of the top three competition entries by Günter Lossow , Fritz Koenig and Josef Höntgesberg were executed in 1953 , but rather one of the designs by the glass painter Odo Tattenpach , the limestone relief of a rising crane or a phoenix symbolic of the young Federal Republic from the ashes . Since 1988, in front of the Federal Council building, there has been the plastic Alpenstück (1980–84) donated by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate by the artist couple Kubach-Wilmsen , a stone book made of Italian serpentine. In October 1992, the bright red sculpture made of steel profiles L'Allumé by Mark di Suvero was installed in front of the Bundeshaus, in the immediate vicinity of the Rhine . It points in the geographical direction of the German capital Berlin . In 2010 the work of art was renewed and modernized with the participation of di Suvero. In the area of ​​the main entrance of the former plenary hall there is the sculpture Meistdeutigkeit by Olaf Metzel , an assemblage of bicycle racks and a little further north, the metal sculpture Breakthrough (1980) by Hermann Glöckner , which was created between 1993 and 1997, and the sculpture Mondfluss (1997) on the Rhine side in front of the plenary hall. by Rebecca Horn , a sculpture made of stainless steel, mercury, plexiglass and motors. For the southern part of the Federal Palace, which is being prepared for the UN campus, three new art-in-building competitions were held in 2010. The first prize went to the sculptor Michael Sailstorfer for his outdoor thermometer at the old parliament building, which is intended to point out the role of the climate secretariat and was installed in July 2012.

World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB)

The World Conference Center Bonn (until 2006 the International Congress Center Bundeshaus Bonn or United Nations Congress Center ) comprises the plenary hall inaugurated in 1992 by Günter Behnisch , the adjacent building for the vice-presidents, the old waterworks opposite, which served as an alternative quarters for the Bundestag during the construction of the new plenary hall, as well as its neighboring pump house. Since 2006, work has been carried out on a comprehensive extension, including a hotel, in the area west of the Federal Palace. However, the construction work was stopped in September 2009 due to a financial scandal that had not yet been overcome.

The WCCB is one of the most important congress centers in Germany. It hosts nationally and internationally important conferences (eg: 2000 the "UNCCD World Desert Conference", 2004 the " International Conference for Renewable Energies ", also 2004 the German Jurists ' Day , 2006 the German Nature Conservation Day ). The WCCB is also often used by the UN organizations based in Bonn for their conferences.

UN campus

Reconstruction of the "old parliament building" (April 2010)

Numerous United Nations (UN) organizations have settled in Bonn since 1996 . These were previously located in the Carstanjen house and its extension, the Federal Palace and a building in Kennedyallee . In November 2000, the federal government decided to bundle the organizations that are primarily active in the environmental and sustainability areas at one central point. In 2001 it was agreed to make the former parliament buildings available to the United Nations for permanent use, which was confirmed by the cabinet decision of May 28, 2003. In July 2006 eleven of the then twelve organizations moved into the former high-rise building, the Langen Eugen .

In autumn 2013, the climate secretariat with around 265 employees was housed in the old parliament building, the parliamentary building, the intermediate wing and the south wing of the federal building as the second part of the UN campus. For this purpose, the listed buildings were converted from September 2009 for 92 million euros and a glass-roofed atrium was created in place of the previous inner courtyard. In a second construction phase, a new building is to be erected to accommodate all of the approximately 1,000 United Nations employees in Bonn at a common location. The move was originally planned for 2008, but was delayed because the budget committee of the German Bundestag had imposed a budget freeze on the renovation of the old high-rise. The keys were handed over to the Climate Secretariat on October 31, 2012, and the building was officially taken over by the United Nations on July 15, 2013.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bundeshaus (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ The information is taken from the legally binding list of monuments of the city of Bonn. It is managed by the Lower Monument Authority , from which the entries for the individual monuments can be obtained for a fee.
  3. ↑ Winand Kerkhoff: Bonn is changing: architectural accents as signs of the times . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 55/56, Bonn 2006, ISSN  0068-0052 , pp. 327-360 (here: pp. 339 ff.).
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  5. ↑ a b c d e The information is taken from the legally valid list of monuments of the city of Bonn. It is managed by the Lower Monument Authority , from which the entries for the individual monuments can be obtained for a fee.
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  21. ↑ Printed matter no. 1412752: Resolution proposal: renovation and conversion of the kitchen in the former plenary building of the existing WCCB buildings Online PDF / Online in the Bonn Council and Information System
  22. ↑ Printed matter no. 1512627: Resolution proposal: renovation and conversion of the kitchen in the former plenary building of the existing WCCB buildings from August 25, 2015 Online PDF / Online in the Bonn Council and Information System
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