Duerenstrasse 33

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Dürenstrasse 33 (2012)

The building at Dürenstrasse 33 is a residential and office building in Bad Godesberg , a district of Bonn , which was built in 1891. It is located in the center of the Godesberg-Villenviertel district . The building stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The building was built by Protestant deaconesses as a retirement home for men. In 1910, according to plans by the local architect Willy Maß, it was expanded to include a rear kitchen extension including a balcony, a side terrace and a rear porch . Between 1918 and 1935, the building was also the residence of Maß for a time. In 1981, the Republic of Iraq set up the office of its embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn, after the building had previously been acquired and converted by the real estate company Domscheit for this purpose (→ list of diplomatic missions ). The ambassador's residence was in the Friesdorf district . The embassy chancellery was a control center for arms deals between Iraq and German arms manufacturers , including Degussa , Ferrostaal and MAN , at least until the end of the 1980s .

On the occasion of the third anniversary of the poison gas attack by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in a Kurdish area, Kurds occupied the embassy building on March 16, 1991. As a result of the UN embargo issued at the beginning of the Second Gulf War and the associated financial bottlenecks for Iraq, the rental costs for the The property at Dürenstrasse 33 is no longer contestable, so that the embassy office was relocated to the previous residence in Friesdorf after 1994. After Iraq gave up the location, the building was converted into a residential and office building and has since been partially re-used by the Domscheit company.

The building was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bonn on August 17, 1983. The extensions from 1910 are not listed.

architecture

The building is a two-storey brick building with a hipped roof , which has six axes on the street side - the two outer ones protruding like a risalit - and three axes on the sides. The facade, the windows and the interior of the building have been preserved in their original state, while the brick-faced exterior facades had already been painted over at the time it was placed under protection as a monument (1983).

literature

  • Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger Messages , 2nd edition 2011, p. 59.

Web links

Commons : Dürenstrasse 33 (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 29, number A 193
  2. ↑ a b c d City of Bonn, Lower Monument Authority : Monument List of the City of Bonn
  3. ^ Horst Heidermann : 100 years of the German Werkbund: Godesberg traces . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 44/2006, p. 91.
  4. ^ Justified Skepticism , Der Spiegel , August 27, 1990
  5. ↑ Tagesschau , March 16, 1991 ( online , report from 8:03 am)
  6. ↑ flight into ungelobte country , Shz.de 10 April, 2012.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 11.2 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 49.5"  E