Darul Aman Palace
The Dar-ul-Aman Palace (from Arabic Dar , city like Darussalam; Persian قصر دارالامان; Pashto: (د دارالامان ماڼۍ) "Palace of the Safe City", also Darulaman Palace ) is the ruin of a palace , about ten kilometers from Kabul , the capital of Afghanistan .
The building was built in the 1920s after the Reichstag building in Berlin and was originally intended to house the parliament and seat of government as well as the Supreme Court. It was not until 1964 that the state terminology in the Pashto language was introduced.
On a hill behind the palace is the Tajbeg Palace of the former Queens of Afghanistan.
history
The classical palace was built in the 1920s as part of the reforms of King Amanullah Khan . At that time, King Amanullah also devoted himself to the urban development of Kabul. He had the new Darulaman district built eleven kilometers from the old town center with the palace of the same name in the center. The building documents the work of the German architect Walter Harten , whom King Amanullah had entrusted with his modernization plans.
The project goes back to the original initiative of the then Berlin secret government councilor Josef Brix . In the ten years up to 1929 a team of 22 German engineers erected 70 modern buildings in Kabul and trained around 700 local skilled workers for the construction of the palace.
The palace was supposed to house the new parliament of Afghanistan (today's parliament has had two jirga or jirga (Mongolian / Turkish-Altaic tent) since 1964 : Wolesi Jirga ("tent of the people" or "House of Representatives") and Meschrano Jirga ("tent of the elders "like Senate )), but this plan was not carried out due to the overthrow of Amanullah. The property was connected to Kabul by the Kabul – Darulaman Tramway in the 1920s . Loja Jirga ("Big Tent") is a traditional gathering of the Turan peoples , in which the tribal elders met for days in the round tent "Jer" or "Ger" on the major issues of the country. This great meeting was called three times by Amanullah. In the time of Hamid Karzai, this anachronistic form of the meeting like the Germanic thing was given a "democratic" expression, especially since Germany provided the big tent and the moderation of the first big meeting (Loya Jirga) by the SPD-affiliated Friedrich- Ebert Foundation moderated in the background and was heavily influenced by Zalmay Khalilzad (US envoy) in 2004.
The palace stood empty for a while. In 1969 it burned down and was then converted into the Kabul National Museum . The Afghan Ministry of Defense resided there in the 1970s and 1980s, although the building burned again during the communist takeover in 1978.
After the withdrawal of the Soviet troops in the Soviet-Afghan war , the palace was finally in ruins during the civil war in the 1990s due to artillery fire from the mujahideen .
Today the ruins are used by ISAF and the troops involved in Operation Enduring Freedom as an observation post.
In 2005 a plan to rebuild the palace and the surrounding park was presented. The building is to become the seat of a future Afghan parliament. The reconstruction is to be borne primarily by foreign investors. To this end, the Darul-Aman Foundation was established in Germany, with Walter Scheel's patron .
In the reconstruction of the palace and park, as in the original construction, local specialists are to be trained and deployed. First a school for builders and gardeners is to be built. The prospective specialists learn their craft during the reconstruction and do it there first.
reconstruction
After endless discussions and restructuring of the plans in the government, the reconstruction of the historic building was finally decided several times by the presidents, so that the plant was finally built in three periods, around May 21st (Leo) of the solar year 1398 (September 12th) 2019 or on the 12th Muharram 1441 Islamic according to the lunar year) on the 100th anniversary of the so-called independence of Afghanistan. According to the project spokesman, 90% of the construction work was completed on July 9, 2019.
Videos
- Darlaman Palace is not intended to be used as the Kabul National Museum , but as the Afghanistan National Museum and accommodation for foreign government guests
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The story of friendship between peoples. (No longer available online.) Darul-Aman Foundation, archived from the original on August 21, 2007 ; Retrieved August 2, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wilhelm Rieck's trip to Afghanistan to build the Darulaman Palace. Werner Müller, accessed on August 2, 2009 .
- ↑ dw.com, Afghanistan's Palace of Hope, Deutsche Welle, June 3, 2017
- ↑ dw.com, Violence overshadows Afghanistan's independence celebrations, Deutsche Welle, August 19, 2019
- ↑ express.de, Royal Palace in Kabul Cologne engineer creates giant hut in Afghanistan, by Inge Wozelka from August 22, 2019
Coordinates: 34 ° 27 '54.8 " N , 69 ° 7' 9.5" E