Building of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture

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The entrance area of ​​the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture in Bonn
The portal with the sculptures by Karl Menser

The building of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture in Bonn is a neo-baroque building that was used from 1915 to 2004 by the eponymous Chamber of Agriculture . It is located on Endeicher Allee 60 in Weststadt, right next to the Poppelsdorf sub -campus of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , whose mathematical institutes have used it since 2009. Since 1984, the building stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The building was constructed from 1914 to 1915 based on a design by the Prussian government architect Heinrich Roettgen (1863–1932), who was then working in Bonn . The magnificent figurative decoration on the facade is the work of the sculptor Karl Menser (1872–1929). In 1935 the building was extended to the Kaufmannstrasse.

After the end of the Second World War, the building of the Chamber of Agriculture was for a short time from June 4, 1945 the seat of the High Presidium for the Rhineland, Hesse and the Saar, which in the same month was limited to the northern part of the former Rhine province due to the establishment of the French occupation zone was then relocated to Düsseldorf . After the Parliamentary Council started working in Bonn in September 1948, the Free State of Bavaria rented some rooms in the building to accommodate the Bonn office of the Bavarian State Chancellery . It was headed by Government Director Hans Wutzlhofer and had the official task of looking after the Bavarian members of the Parliamentary Council. The office of the State Chancellery was closed on June 4, 1949, but the rooms in the building of the Chamber of Agriculture had been given up a few months earlier. After Bonn was designated the provisional seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany, the building housed part of the Federal Ministry of Transport from 1949 to 1960 .

After the merger of the Rhineland and Westphalia-Lippe Chamber of Agriculture into the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Agriculture in 2004 and the subsequent move to Münster Zentrum Nord, the construction and real estate company of North Rhine-Westphalia acquired the building. He subjected it to an extensive renovation by 2009 at a cost (including the purchase) of around 24 million euros. The lettering of the Chamber of Agriculture above the main entrance was retained, but the building is now called the Mathematics Center and houses the Mathematical Institute and the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the University of Bonn .

architecture

The building is a symmetrically proportioned building in the style of the Wilhelmine Baroque with Art Nouveau elements . The striking facade is structured by five differently designed rows of windows and six wide pilasters in the area of ​​a double flight of stairs . On both sides of the portal there are larger-than-life sculptures created by Karl Menser that support a balcony.

Inside the building there is a fully preserved Art Nouveau staircase, several wall reliefs with agricultural motifs and colored glass windows from the Art Nouveau era.

Photo gallery

  • Aerial photograph (2018)

  • Building of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture

  • Art Nouveau stairwell indoors

  • Stairwell window

  • Indoor staircase

  • Marble columns in the entrance area

  • Stairwell window

  • Wall relief in the entrance area

  • Courtyard side

literature

Web links

Commons : Building of the Rhineland Chamber of Agriculture  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 17, number A 504 .
  2. ^ Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: Architekturführer Bonn
  3. ^ Helmut Vogt : City, Country, River, Occupying Power. The construction of the Bonn Rhine Bridge (1946–1949) as a joint task . In: Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 57/58, 2008, ISSN  0068-0052 , pp. 405–439 (here: p. 407).
  4. ↑ Helmut Vogt : “I need quarters for me, driver and car”. The working environment of the Parliamentary Council in Bonn 1948/49 . In: Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 57/58, 2008, ISSN  0068-0052 , pp. 441–470 (here: pp. 466–467); Helmut Vogt: The Parliamentary Council in Bonn . In: Federal Agency for Civic Education : From Politics and Contemporary History , supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament , 18–19/2009 , April 27, 2009, pp. 41–46 (here: pp. 45/46).
  5. ^ Mathematics center is inaugurated - University of Bonn. In: www.uni-bonn.de. Retrieved October 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ University of Bonn has a new mathematics center , General-Anzeiger , July 7, 2009.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '42.9 "  N , 7 ° 5' 2.3"  E