Petersberg (Siebengebirge)

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Petersberg
Bonn Petersberg 2009 06 01 cropped.JPG
height 335.9  m above sea level NHN
location Koenigswinter , Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia
Mountains Siebengebirge
Coordinates 50 ° 41 '10 "  N , 7 ° 12' 35"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '10 "  N , 7 ° 12' 35"  E
Map of Petersberg
rock Alkali olivin basalt
Age of the rock Miocene
Development Road to the summit plateau
particularities Grand hotel / guest house and chapel on the summit plateau
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The Petersberg seen from the south
Petersberg, vertical view

The Petersberg , formerly also called Stromberg , is 335.9  m above sea level. NHN high summit of the Siebengebirge in the Rhein-Sieg district , North Rhine-Westphalia . It rises east of the Rhine above and in the urban area of Königswinter . The Bad Godesberg district of Bonn is located on the opposite bank .

The mountain gained great importance for recent German history with its hotel, which opened for the first time in 1892, between 1949 and 1952 as the seat of the Allied High Commission , which was made up of the highest representatives of the western victorious powers in Germany after the Second World War . From 1955 to 1969 and after extensive renovation again from 1990, the Grand Hotel on the Petersberg served as the guest house of the Federal Republic of Germany . After the seat of government was relocated to Berlin in 1999, it remained in the possession of the federal government and continued to be used as a guest house at irregular intervals for national and international conferences for special occasions. He is the namesake of the Petersberg Agreement or the Petersberg Climate Dialogue .

Geographical location

The Petersberg lies on the western edge of the Siebengebirge and was created during its last volcanic activity in the Miocene . It rises east of the Rhine above and in the urban area of Königswinter and opposite the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn on the left and thus on the other side of the river . To the west is the old town of Königswinter, to the west and northwest are the Königswinter districts of Nieder- and Oberdollendorf and to the northeast is the Königswinter district of Heisterbacherrott .

The neighboring hill to the east is 335.3  m above sea level. NHN high Nonnenstromberg . To the southeast of the Petersberg, next to the Wintermühlenhof, lies the tunnel system of the Ofenkaulen , which was created when trachyte tuff was extracted . In this direction, the Petersberg falls to the Kutzenberg , while in the north it merges into the lower Falkenberg and in the north-west it ends in the Kellerberg, which is not designated as an independent hill . The red beech forest is the dominant vegetation on parts of the Petersberg. At the northern Upper Dollendorfer mountainside there is skimmed grassland . The Petersberg is the namesake for the large wine-growing area Petersberg within the Siebengebirge wine-growing area . The individual layers are not geographically on the Petersberg, but the Heisterberg individual layer is on its northwestern, Niederdollendorfer mountainside.

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View of the Rhine from the summit of the Petersberg

history

Early history

Foundations of the medieval church
Aerial view of the foundations (2015)
chapel

Archaeological finds show that as early as 3500 BC BC people settled on the Petersberg. During construction work in 1936 a ring wall was uncovered on the top , which had been built by the Celts in the first century BC . This dry stone wall was over a kilometer long and its original width was around three meters and its height was probably three to four meters.

middle Ages

In the first half of the twelfth century, the knight Walter settled as a hermit on the then uninhabited mountain. Other men of the community of Augustinian canons joined him later and built around 1131, the building of the Augustinian hermit hermitage. During excavations in 1980 the foundation of a five-aisled church complex was found, which was probably built in two sections from 1136 onwards. The first construction phase was the ten meter wide and 27 meter long church core. This Marienkirche and the whole location were given up again by the Augustinians in 1176.

In 1189, the abandoned buildings were taken over by Cistercian monks from the Himmerod Abbey on the orders of Archbishop Philip I of Cologne from Heinsberg . About three years later the Cistercians moved to a settlement at the foot of the mountain. The result was the new Heisterbach Abbey in Peterstal. The Cistercians consecrated the church to Saint Peter and added two long aisles and two shorter outer aisles. The outer naves were each their own chapels, the complex had two square towers. It is documented in 1312 as a pilgrimage church located on the highest point of the mountain . It was repaired in the 16th century. It is mentioned for the last time in documents in 1556 and presumably existed until the 18th century.

Chapel around 1860

The St. Peter chapel , a baroque hall building, which is now on the Petersberg , was built around 1763 by the Heisterbach abbot Augustin Mengelberg and consecrated as a pilgrimage church by his successor Hermann Kneusgen at Easter 1764. The interior furnishings are essentially from the time they were built. Its specialty was a mobile pulpit that could be rolled to the waiting crowd. Between 1934 and 1936 the chapel was restored with a modified roof turret. The federal government co-acquired the chapel in 1979 and also the obligation to keep it for the service. From May to September, a mass is held here at 10 a.m. on the first Sunday of each month.

Interior of the chapel

Initially known as Stromberg (first documented name under this name in 1142), the mountain got its current name through the St.

The four Bittwege leading to the summit brought pilgrims from the Middle Ages from Königswinter ( Petersberger Bittweg ) , Ittenbach , Heisterbacherrott and Oberdollendorf and Niederdollendorf to the pilgrimage site of St. Peter. Documents indicate that pilgrimages to the Petersberg have taken place at least since the early 14th century. The Bittweg, which begins in Königswinter, is marked by twelve stone crosses made of trachyte and latite , which were made in the period after the Thirty Years' War and are well preserved. The oldest cross was erected in 1638 by a donor from Vinxel . Until the construction of the Petersbergbahn (1889) and the construction of a carriage path (1890), the Bittwege were the only routes to the summit.

Developments from the 19th century

Hotel Nelles (around 1900)
Greetings from Petersberg (1901)

In the 19th century basalt was mined in three quarries on the north, east and west sides of the Petersberg . A cable car transported the material extracted in the north of the mountain to Oberdollendorf . The basalt quarries have been closed since 1889.

In 1834 the Petersberg domain was sold to the Cologne merchant Joseph Ludwig Mertens . His wife Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen , a banker's daughter who was also known as the Rhine Countess , had a summer residence built there for her. It became famous as a meeting point for romantics such as August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ernst Moritz Arndt . In 1885 the Petersberg residential area of the Niederdollendorf community had one building and four residents. At the end of the 19th century, the Cologne brothers Paul and Joseph Nelles, who had acquired the site after Joseph Mertens' death, had additional buildings and a pavilion built. In 1888/89 construction of a hotel in the German Renaissance style began, which was essentially completed by spring 1891. The core of today's park originates from this time. The hotel was opened in 1892 and soon received a visit from the European nobility , along with Empress Victoria , the Swedish Queen Sophie and the Serbian King Aleksander .

At that time, built in 1889 led Petersberg train on the Petersberg (1958 adjusted and later demolished). The hotel had no economic success and, after being foreclosed on November 28, 1911, went to Ferdinand Mülhens , the owner of the Cologne company 4711 and the Wintermühlenhof at the foot of the mountain. It was through the efforts of the new owner that the mountain became famous. From autumn 1912 to spring 1914 he had the hotel converted into a neo-baroque spa hotel by the architect Heinrich Müller-Erkelenz and significantly expanded on the south side. The opening took place on May 27, 1914 and initially led to a considerable increase in tourism and the beginning of the use of the hotel as a conference venue, before it was closed for six years as a result of the outbreak of the First World War (August 1914). After the end of the war, Niederdollendorf belonged to the occupied territory in the Rhineland for a short time in December 1918, including in part the Petersberg plateau . Mülhens had to provide 90 beds for the British troops.

In 1925/26 the new "Rheinterrassen Petersberg" belonging to the hotel was created with the demolition of the independent beer and wine restaurant. In May 1927, the extension of the access road to the summit, designed by Ludwig Paffendorf , was completed in 1910. Two new Rhine terraces were opened in May 1936, followed by major renovations and extensions by Wilhelm Koep in 1937 - since then, the spa hotel and restaurant have been connected to one another via a hall with 280 seats. At that time the hotel had 125 employees and was largely self-sufficient; it had its own garage , gas station , steam laundry and tailoring . Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler visited the Petersberg at least four times between 1935 and 1937. The hotel made its first international appearance in 1938, when the British politician Neville Chamberlain lived there and negotiated with Hitler, who resided on the other side of the Rhine in the Rheinhotel Dreesen . In the spring of 1939, the Niederdollendorf community ceded its share of the Petersberg plateau, an area of ​​4.6 hectares , to Königswinter.

Kurhotel Mülhens (around 1920)

Shortly after the start of World War II , the hotel was closed. Towards the end of the war it suffered damage from artillery fire and was initially confiscated by American troops in March 1945 , who took up temporary quarters there several times - including General and later US President Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 26th . In June 1945 British occupation troops took over the region, and Royal Engineers with a workshop and 300 engineers were housed on the Petersberg . After further renovations by Wilhelm Koep, the hotel later served as a rest home for Belgian occupation troops . Since the spring of 1949 it was intended as the seat of the Allied High Commission . After the Belgian general Jean-Baptiste Piron refused to clear the mountain, British troops threatened to take the hotel by force. On August 16, 1949 finally handed over to the Allied High Commission was held for the Peter Berg (again by Wilhelm Koep) to the office building with 340 day rooms on an area of about 12,000  sqm at a cost of 2.4 million German marks was rebuilt . Here, on November 22, 1949, after 25 rounds of negotiations , Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Petersberg Agreement presented to him by the Allied High Commissioners .

Since the hotel was privately owned, the Allies had to pay a fee for its use. A conversation between Chancellor Adenauer and the British High Commissioner Ivone Kirkpatrick on November 20, 1950, about which the diplomat Herbert Dittmann wrote a note, is informative in this context . There it says under the heading Occupation Burdens: “Sir Ivone went on to say that he was very positive about the Federal Chancellor's suggestion to have German economic performance checked by independent experts, taking into account the special social burdens. He explained his assertion that the rents for German houses were in many cases excessive and remarked u. a. that the Muehlhens family received 144,000 DM annually for the hotel on the Petersberg and 28,000 DM for the Röttgen Castle without park, despite the fact that the maintenance costs would have to be borne by the occupying powers and it was common knowledge that the hotel on the Petersberg in I had hardly made any net income in previous years. "

From a telephone point of view, the hotel was part of the Bonn local network . In June 1952 (collection of the Allied flags on June 25th) the Allied High Commission moved to the Mehlemer Deichmannsaue , whereupon the Petersberg could be released from the confiscation in August 1952 .

As early as August 30, 1952 , the “Rheinterrassen-Restaurant” was reopened , symbolically underlined by the raising of the North Rhine-Westphalian flag . The resumption of hotel operations took place after further renovations by Wilhelm Koep, on April 15, 1954 for the first time under the name "Hotel Petersberg" and under the management of the Breidenbacher Hof in Düsseldorf.

Federal Guest House

Sign of the federal guest house at the beginning of the access road (1999)
Former monitoring center in the guest house

The federal government rented the hotel on the Petersberg, which was run by the Breidenbacher Hof, from 1954 for high-ranking state guests; For example, for the first visit to Germany by the British Queen Elizabeth II in 1965. The first state guest in 1954 was the Ethiopian regent Haile Selassi . Because the hotel was unprofitable for the operators, it was closed in 1969 and has been falling into disrepair ever since. On the occasion of a visit by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Leonid Brezhnev , it reopened for a short time in May / June 1973 after a partial renovation. The lack of representation opportunities for the federal government in Bonn, which has been increasingly recognized as the capital since the early 1970s, led to the search for a new guest house in which international conferences could also be held. Gymnich Castle near Erftstadt was rented as such from 1971 onwards , but it seemed to the federal government to be unsuitable in the long term due to the great distance from the seat of government and its small size. In addition, the Foreign Office guesthouse on Venusberg ( Kiefernweg 12 ) often had to be used; State guests were also temporarily accommodated in the Chancellor's bungalow . State receptions by the Federal President for state guests, on the other hand, usually took place at Augustusburg Castle in Brühl .

The new construction of the federal highway 42 between Königswinter and Bonn, which was still being planned at the time, would improve the accessibility of the Petersberg. The property protection required to ensure security also made the easily shieldable summit hotel a favorite. That is why the Federal Republic , especially at the insistence of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , acquired the Petersberg in March 1979 with all the buildings and the approximately 109 hectare site for 18.5 million marks from the Mülhens family. The old hotel inventory was auctioned on site in 1184 auctions in September 1979 . The necessary renovation and renovation of the hotel were politically controversial even after the purchase. After a delay of several years, the complex renovations began in 1985 based on a design by Horst Linde , the scope and costs of which, at 137 million marks, were significantly higher than planned and ultimately led to the almost complete demolition of the previous hotel. The access road from the L 331 was also expanded, and premises for the Federal Border Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office were created. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on December 16, 1987, the design of the outdoor facilities began in March 1990, the handover to the Foreign Office was scheduled for July 1, 1990 and the opening took place in August 1990. The first state guest on the Petersberg was on August 27, 1990 the Prime Minister of Benin .

Side wing of the then presidential suite in the Steigenberger Grandhotel Petersberg (2015)

After it was reopened as a guest house not only for the federal government, but for all constitutional organs of the Federal Republic of Germany, almost all the heads of state and government of the countries with which the Federal Republic maintains diplomatic contacts lived on the Petersberg . These could or can land on the helipad on the mountain. The guest house has been operated by the Steigenberger chain since it reopened in 1990, originally with 72 (later 99) rooms and could also be rented by private individuals from the start. However, as the owner, the federal government was granted priority of use. The federally owned Gästehaus Petersberg GmbH (founded in March 1989) was brought into being as the operating company of the guest house. The interior is complemented by loans from the federal states , after which individual suites are named, and the city of Bonn. By 1996 over 13,000 state guests had stayed there and almost 1,000 federal events had taken place. After reopening, the hotel received a winter garden and a new Rhine terrace in the 1990s . In 1998/99, Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder lived on the Petersberg during his overnight stays in Bonn.

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin in 1999, a new usage concept was agreed, according to which the federal government waived its first occupancy right for the hotel, but it should continue to serve as the federal guest house. He remained the owner of the property and the Gästehaus Petersberg GmbH, but had been planning to privatize the guest house since the mid-1990s after making it competitive. In December 2001, the Petersberg was again the focus of world interest as the venue for the Afghanistan conference . The follow-up conference on December 2, 2002 also took place at the same location. Until the middle of 2004 the hotel was still marketed as "Gästehaus Petersberg", shortly afterwards it was changed to "Steigenberger Grandhotel Petersberg". In the same year, the management contract between Gästehaus Petersberg GmbH and the Steigenberger hotel group was extended by 15 years. As a regular guest of the federal government since 2007, owned by the serving Messerschmitt Foundation located Meseberg Palace near Berlin, while the Petersberg at least initially continue as a guest house of the Federal constitutional organs for special occasions - especially international conferences of the federal - acted.

Access road to the Petersberg summit
Hotel terrace (1999)
rotunda

Since 1999, the Rhein-Sieg district, in cooperation with the Foundation Chancellor Adenauer House , the Foundation Haus der Geschichte of the Federal Republic of Germany and the guesthouse Petersberg in the autumn on the Petersberg under the title "Peter Berger Perspectives" organized a symposium. This series of events, which takes place every autumn, deals with historical-political topics with a relevance to the present and future perspectives, which deal with important milestones in history from the early days of the development of the Federal Republic of Germany controlled from Bonn in a current context. From 2005 to 2012 the series "Science Forum Petersberg" was also produced on the Petersberg. Six times a year, experts and politicians talked in the Phoenix discussion round in the glass rotunda on various scientific topics with the moderators Ranga Yogeshwar and Nina Ruge .

The Federal Ministry of Finance was in the updates of the Federal Report to reduce investments (as of 2006) that a sale of the GmbH Petersberg Guest House to consider. Politicians from the region spoke out against a sale because it would not take into account the historical significance and the Berlin / Bonn law . In March 2009 the Federal Ministry of Finance announced that the privatization of the Petersberg guest house would not be pursued any further; the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) continued to examine the sale of the property. In February 2011 the Federal Ministry of Finance resumed its privatization plans for the Petersberg. Local political representatives again rejected this; then the local CDU supported the sales intentions since May 2011. On August 12, 2011, the official invitation to tender for the guest house for sale began as part of a bidding process. One of the numerous conditions for the sale of the property was the assurance that the site would remain open to the public. In September 2012 the end of the federal government's intention to sell was announced; Regardless of this, at the end of 2012 the business purpose of Gästehaus Petersberg GmbH was limited to operation as a hotel and restaurant .

At the beginning of 2013, plans for a comprehensive renovation and conversion of the grand hotel became known. At the beginning of the year, the Gästehaus Petersberg GmbH was transferred from the Federal Ministry of Finance to the area of ​​responsibility of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA), which was already managing the property; Any construction tasks are supervised by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning . In September 2014 it became known that the federal government intends to invest 35 million euros in the property - including the modernization of the guest rooms - but that it is subject to the condition that the use as a hotel is waived under planning law . The city council of Königswinter approved a corresponding agreement with the BImA on September 15th. On November 7, 2014, the budget committee of the German Bundestag approved the investment. At the same time, the management contract with the Steigenberger hotel group was extended for another five years from 2019 in 2014/15. Preparatory work (including the construction of a new beer garden) was carried out in spring 2016, the main construction phase, which was divided into two construction phases (north and south wing), began in spring 2017 and was completed in June 2019, with the exception of a few remaining measures that were still outstanding at that time. In the long term, selling the property is still being considered.

Grandhotel & Spa Petersberg

On September 23, 2019, the hotel - the only German state-owned - was reopened as the “Steigenberger Grandhotel & Spa Petersberg” after two and a half years of renovation and renovation. The cost was a good 40 million euros. Instead of the previous 99 rooms, the building now has 112. After the reopening, the name Gästehaus Petersberg was reintroduced as a secondary name .

Events and conferences on the Petersberg

- selection -

  • 1949, September 21: Federal Chancellor Adenauer presents his cabinet to the High Commissioners; Handover of the occupation statute
  • 1949, November 22nd: Signing of the Petersberg Agreement
  • 1950, May 16: The High Commissioners give Adenauer their consent for the Federal Republic to begin planning internal security (step on the way to establishing a Ministry of Defense )
  • 1992, end of June: Summit of the Council of Ministers of the Western European Union (WEU) to define the Petersberg tasks
  • 1992: Petersberger Wende or Petersberger Resolutions , repositioning of the SPD in asylum and foreign policy in August 1992
  • 1995, August 5th: Church wedding of Michael Schumacher and Corinna Betsch
  • 1998, September: Conference of the Schengen Contracting States (on the controls of external borders and the relationship with Switzerland)
  • 1999, February 26th: informal meeting of European heads of state and government
  • 1999, May 6th: Meeting of the seven leading industrialized countries and Russia to discuss the Kosovo crisis
  • 2000, 15th EU Foreign Ministers Conference with various Central American countries
  • 2001, November 27 to December 5: Afghanistan Conference
  • 2002, December 2nd: Afghanistan follow-up conference
  • 2005, 5th - 6th November: First conference "Partnership with Africa"
  • 2007, 12.-13. March: Informal meeting of development ministers and informal AKP - EU dialogue within the framework of the German EU Council Presidency
  • 2010, May 2-4: 1st " Petersberg Climate Dialogue ", informal conference of international environment ministers
  • 2011, 3rd to 5th December: Afghanistan Conference (Afghan delegation accommodation and reception)
  • 2014, 27.-28. March: Meeting of the German-speaking environment ministers (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
  • 2014, 28-29 April: Closed meeting of the leaders of the grand coalition in the Bundestag
  • 2016, June 4th: Daniela Katzenberger and Lucas Cordalis married
  • 18.-20. July 2019: Petersburg Dialogue with Foreign Ministers Heiko Maas and Sergei Lavrov .

State guests on the Petersberg

The list only includes immediate state guests; the presence of state presidents at international conferences is not taken into account.

1938

1954-1969

(Total of 31 visits)

1973

  • Leonid Brezhnev , General Secretary of the CPSU (At his request, the hotel was reopened for a few days. During his stay, he damaged the guest gift from the Federal Republic of Germany, a Mercedes 450 SLC , during the first test drive when he did not turn around in the curve at the foot of the Petersberg .)

After the renovation in 1990

Furnishing

Fence around the mountain top

When furnishing the federal guest house, attention was paid to both security and luxury. A security fence with surveillance cameras and spotlights has been drawn around the mountain top. On the plateau and at the beginning of the access road there are several security barriers and an original sentry box on the edge. There is also a helicopter landing pad for up to three helicopters in the north of the area, which is now used as a car park .

The Petersberg guest house has several conference rooms with all the facilities that are usual for 5-star hotels. In the southern wing there is the glass rotunda, also used as a conference room, with its representative staircase (“reception pavilion”), which is considered the showpiece of the guest house. From there a parade leads down to a banquet hall for 200 guests. In the basement of the hotel there is a protective room (50 m²) with an emergency exit accessible via a lock area . Around the building there is a landscaped park that was created around 1889/1890 when the first hotel was built. The guest house is surrounded by irregularly guided paths that lead to the Rhine terrace in the north with outdoor catering.

The Rhine terrace offers a good view of Bonn and several surrounding places, and a lookout point has been set up on the path below . There is a smaller vantage point with a view of the mountain districts of Königswinter's Heisterbacherrott , Vinxel and Stieldorf and various mountains of the Siebengebirge on the east side.

Architectural monuments

Processional altar, first stop on the Bittweg

The Petersberg is under monument protection with its entire appearance, the silhouette of the hotel and the plants . The protected individual objects on the summit plateau include the prehistoric ramparts, the foundation walls of the monastery church (both ground monuments ), the St. Peter's chapel and the park.

Outside the plateau, the so-called Petersberger Bittweg from Königswinter to Petersberg with its twelve station crosses and processional altars is listed. At the foot of the Petersberg in the valley of the Mirbesbach , the area of ​​the Wintermühlenhof, also classified as a monument, extends . The route of the former Petersbergbahn was also placed under protection . The hotel building itself is not a listed building due to the destruction of the original structure during the various renovations.

Traffic development

From 1889, the Petersberg was made accessible by a narrow-gauge rack railway, the Petersbergbahn . For economic reasons it was shut down in 1958.

Forest cover

There are around 93 hectares of forest below the plateau. These were transferred free of charge by the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks ( BImA ) to the NRW Foundation as part of the national natural heritage following an agreement from March 2015 .

literature

Films (selection)

  • In the shadow of history - a journey to the Siebengebirge. Documentary, Germany, 2020, 29:45 min., Script and director: Thomas Radler, camera: Harald Schmuck, production: Krell und Partner, SWR , series: Fahr mal hin , first broadcast: June 5, 2020 on SWR television , summary of ARD , online video available until June 4, 2025; Petersberg from 6:30 min. To 11:05 min., (With representation of the Brezhnev accident).
  • Secret Petersberg. Documentary with archive footage and contemporary witnesses, Germany, 2014, 43:30 min., Script and director: Ulrike Brincker, production: WDR , series: Mysterious Places , first broadcast: September 15, 2014 on Das Erste , summary by ARD , preview, 1: 48 min. , Available until December 30, 2099.
  • The Petersberg myth - the story of a hotel. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 13:42 min., Script and director: Ute Waffenschmidt, camera: Holger Hahn, production: ZDFinfo , broadcast: November 18, 2012 on Phoenix, synopsis by ARD , online video.
  • White hats in the gold rush. TV reportage, Germany, 2007, 14:00 min., Script and direction: Stefan Quante , production: WDR , series: culinary reportage , editing: here and now , summary by ARD.

Web links

Commons : Petersberg  - Collection of Images

References and comments

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