Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 14 (Bonn)

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Villa Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 14 (2013)

The building at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 14 is a villa in the Bonn district of Gronau , which was built in 1921/22. It is a solitary building with an extensive park on the edge of the Johanniter district . The villa stands including associated carriage house and garden as a monument under monument protection .

history

The villa was built for the client Hermann Heinrich Wilhelm Böker jun. (1889–1964), a knife manufacturer from Remscheid , based on a design by Bonn architect and government master builder Julius Rolffs, as a country house on what was then the southern outskirts of Bonn. From March to September 1921, Böker had acquired twelve plots of land previously used for agriculture with a total area of ​​13,954  m² . In response to the building application from August 6, 1921, the building permit was granted on September 12, and the acceptance test took place on October 9, 1922. The villa was the first building on the right-hand side of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse. From July to September 1928, Böker had a two-storey chauffer's house (Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 16) built on the corner of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse and Johanniterstrasse according to a design by the government architect Benhard Gelderblom (1892–1982), which included a garage, a kitchen and one Staircase to the converted roof included. After the Second World War , Böker emigrated to live with his relatives in Argentina , but remained the owner of the property.

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the Kingdom of Belgium rented the villa in early 1951 at the latest in order to set up the office of its diplomatic mission there. In May 1951 the mission was converted into an embassy and the villa was the first seat of the Belgian embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany. On June 30, 1954, the office was moved to Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 22.

In the spring of 1954, the Republic of Austria was looking for a new residence for the head of its liaison office in Bonn, which performed the function of a diplomatic mission in the Federal Republic of Germany. At this point in time, the abandonment of the property at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 14 by the Belgian embassy was already foreseeable. Therefore, Austria acquired by decision of the Council of Ministers of 8 July 1954 purchase contract on the following day the villa, including 12,850 sq m site of Boker for 350,000 German marks . Immediately afterwards, the repair and renovation work required for use as a residence was initiated, which was carried out from August to December 1954 and cost 68,000 DM. After the purchase price had been received in four installments from September 1954 to March 1955 on the Bökers account, the change of ownership was sealed by a notary hearing on May 18, 1955; the entry in the land register took place on June 6, 1955. On December 20, 1955, the previous liaison office was converted into an embassy, ​​making the villa the first residence of the Austrian ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany. The first Austrian Chancellor visited Julius Raab of October 1956 on the occasion of a state visit the residence.

In 1968 the chauffeur house was expanded to include new living space. In 1971/72 the dining room was extended in the direction of the garden and the garden salon was rebuilt, removing two free-standing columns. From 1975 to 1977 a new office building was built on part of the property on Johanniterstraße as the embassy office. The villa then continued to serve as a residence. In 1979 security requirements led to the driveway to the building being closed by a gate system. In 1987/88 the villa was completely renovated. The residence was equipped, among other things, with neo-baroque furniture from the Vienna Hofburg in the dining room and with 60 gold “cotillon” armchairs.

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the main office of the embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 , the villa was the official residence of the Austrian ambassador until August 12th (→ Austrian embassy in Berlin ). A branch office was left in Bonn, the head of which (most recently Rudolf Agstner ) also resided in the villa. After Austria sold the property including the former office building on June 23, 2006, the branch office was closed on August 31, 2006 and the keys were handed over to the new owners at the same time. While the office building and the chauffeur's house were demolished in 2007 and new residential buildings were built on the site, the villa was retained and renovated.

literature

  • Rudolf Agstner : Representation - Embassy - Branch Office: an obituary for Austria's diplomatic mission in Bonn from 1950 to 2006 . 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. 293–326.
  • 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. 68-69.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 14 (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ until 1965 Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 10
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 19, number A 3933
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Rudolf Agstner: Representation - Embassy - Branch Office: an obituary for Austria's diplomatic mission in Bonn from 1950 to 2006
  4. ↑ The Guide for Press and Advertising, Volume 4 , W. Stamm, 1951, p. 427.
  5. ↑ Rudolf Agstner: 130 years of the Austrian Embassy Berlin: from Moltkestrasse to Stauffenbergstrasse , Philo, 2003, pp. 79–92.
  6. ↑ The envoy leaves Bonn very unwillingly , General-Anzeiger , July 26, 2006
  7. ^ Former Austrian embassy makes room for residential buildings , General-Anzeiger, May 3, 2007

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 45.9 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 44.5 ″  E