Foreign Office Building (Bonn)

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The building of the Foreign Office in Bonn, Rhine side
Aerial view

The Foreign Office building (officially the Adenauerallee Nord property ) in Bonn was the seat of the Foreign Office from 1954 to 1999 and has been the second headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Foreign Office since 1999 . The Federal Office of Justice, founded in 2007, with its central federal register is also located in the property . The building is a stop on the Path of Democracy history trail .

location

The area is located on the east side of Adenauerallee ( Bundesstraße 9 ) with the address Adenauerallee 99-103 between the property of the Federal Audit Office in the north and Tempelstraße (entrance) in the south, immediately west of the banks of the Rhine (Wilhelm-Spiritus-Ufer) in the extreme north of the district Gronau and at the same time the federal district .

history

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the Foreign Office, which emerged in 1951 from the office of the Federal Chancellery for Foreign Affairs, was initially located in the Villa Ingenohl (headquarters) and up to 20 other, partly makeshift buildings - language service and press department at Adenauerallee 214 , the consular service at Villa Dahm . Also on the property of the later new building on the northern edge of the new parliament and government district stood several houses and five villas belonging to the Foreign Office (including the Crown Prince Villa ), which were acquired from 1950 to the end of 1951 and finally (with the exception of the Bleibtreu , Bungarten , Scheidgen and Schumm ) were demolished.

The World Hall (1965)

The building complex was built from 1953 to 1955 under the direction of the Federal Building Directorate (BBD) based on a design by Hans Freese († 1953), after whose death Robert Glatzer completed the planning and execution of the project for the BBD. The first 69 rooms were already occupied in January 1954. The new seat of the office was one of the first new buildings of the federal government after the decision of the German Bundestag for Bonn as the provisional seat of government and with 992 office rooms the largest administrative complex in Germany. The post office to the north was established at the same time. In the 1980s, the facade of the main building was renovated, but the original architectural quality could not be fully preserved. A general renovation planned for the beginning of the 1990s was stopped after the fall of the Berlin Wall, reunification and the decision of the Bundestag to relocate the seat of government to Berlin . A new use had to be found for the property. In 1993 the Foreign Office opened a new telecommunications center, some of which was underground.

After the Berlin / Bonn Act was passed , planning for the new users of the facility could begin. A second seat of the Foreign Office should be left there, the second seat of the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Federal Central Register move into the remaining rooms. The general renovation was carried out from 2000 to 2002 and the interior of the building was rebuilt for the new users according to plans by the architects' office Walter von Lom . The focus of the work, which cost 47 million euros, was structural, fire protection , building regulations and technical building measures. Further measures were carried out from 2003 to 2005. In 2014, an architectural competition was carried out for a structural expansion of the property on two building plots, which, after repeated delays, is to come into being from 2020 at the earliest with the aim of merging the Federal Office of Justice, which has so far also had two other locations in Bonn . For this purpose, the federally owned corner building at Adenauerallee 91-93 will be demolished; on the other hand, Villa Adenauerallee 91a is to be included in the property.

As a monument worthy addition to parts of the inner space structures of Ministerbau, the foyer of the main staircase and the World Hall with the relief of a world map apply Fritz Melis . The property of the Federal Foreign Office also includes the twin villa Tempelstrasse 1/3 located south of Tempelstrasse . The protocol department was last located on the opposite side of the road from the B 9 in Villa Adenauerallee 120/122 ; Further locations of the Foreign Office were from 1976 the "Old Chancellery" from 1954/55, from 1989 the neighboring former Ministry of Post and at times the House Ax built in 1960/61 on the corner of Adenauerallee and Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse.

description

The building complex consists of eight connected components with two to nine floors above ground and has a gross floor area of 32,113 square meters. The nine-storey main building (“Thousand Window House”) is joined to the south by a three-storey conference room building with its two-storey Weltsaal , converted in 1977 for larger press and interpreter booths, and four to five-storey wing buildings to the north and west. The top floor with a continuous ribbon of windows accommodates the canteen with space for 900 people. The two-storey, separate ministerial building on the Rhine side is connected to the high-rise building via a bridge. Establishing the reinforced concrete buildings was Ytong - aerated concrete for the facades with narrow window bars a used furring of Jura - travertine (obtained only at Ministerbau). The concrete frame was clad with dolomite slabs. In front of the meeting room building, facing the street, there is the original telecommunication center with a pyramidal skylight, which was sunk into the ground and was built between 1985 and 1990.

architectural art

In and on the building of the Foreign Office, some works by visual artists were installed as art on the building , including the relief Giant World Map (1954) by Fritz Melis on the head wall of the eponymous world hall (meeting room), also from Melis in 1954 a mosaic work depicting a deer hunt in the small conference room, in the vestibule of the staircase to the ministerial building a work by Ferdinand Just from 1980 consisting of an aluminum relief and an aluminum sculpture and the light sculpture Kristallbaum (1990 ) with rock crystals on prismatic steles made of Plexiglas by Mary Bauermeister . The work of local artists from 1954 by Yrsa von Leistner , who created a fountain and a bust of the Chancellor, and the Siegburg sculptor Ulrich Bliese (1917-2008) with his column design in the casino have not been preserved due to later renovation work on the building .

literature

  • Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49–69. Attempt to take stock . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Art and antiquity on the Rhine . Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 21 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 133/134 .
  • Ingeborg flag : architecture in Bonn after 1945 . Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7928-0479-4 , p. 46.
  • Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , p. 226/227.
  • Bredenbeck , Moneke, Neubacher (Ed.): Building for the Federal Capital (= Edition Critical Edition , Volume 2). Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-938803-41-7 , pp. 52-56.

Web links

Commons : Building of the Foreign Office  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819-1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , volume 2, catalog (1), pp. 135-143, 159-162, 173-199, 343-351. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  2. ^ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 150–157. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  3. ^ A b c Walter von Lom : Foreign Office and Federal Audit Office in Bonn - conversion and renovation . In: Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning : Building and Space. Yearbook 2004 , Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-8030-0640-6 , pp. 42–49.
  4. ↑ Karl-Heinz van Kaldenkerken , Oberstadtdirektor Bonn (ed.); Friedrich Busmann : Expansion of the federal capital. 10 years capital city agreement 1975–1985 . Bonn 1986, p. 29.
  5. ↑ a b c d Bredenbeck, Moneke, Neubacher (ed.): Building for the federal capital .
  6. ^ Federal Office of Justice - Construction of extension buildings , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  7. ↑ Ulrich Kelber : BImA reduces vacancies in office properties and invests in apartment renovation , press release, March 18, 2014
  8. ^ New building for the Federal Office of Justice , General-Anzeiger , November 14, 2014
  9. ↑ BImA is again the client , Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks, December 18, 2014
  10. ^ Competition expansion of the Federal Office of Justice , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  11. ↑ Soon 1000 employees in the Federal Office of Justice , General-Anzeiger , April 7, 2016
  12. ↑ Diplomats and officials left empty offices , General-Anzeiger , August 10, 2003
  13. ↑ Entry on the former seat of the Federal Chancellor in Bonn in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , 2008)
  14. ↑ Entry on administrative building, Adenauerallee 133 / corner Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 2–6, temporarily Federal Ministry for Special Tasks / Foreign Office in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland , 2005)
  15. ↑ Diplomatic entry into the computer age , General-Anzeiger , April 11, 1986, Bonn city edition, p. 6
  16. ↑ a b Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (ed.); Martin Seidel, Johannes Stahl: Short documentation of 200 art-in-building works on behalf of the federal government from 1980 to 2010 . BBSR online publication 13/2014, December 2014, pp. 106-108. ( online PDF )
  17. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development : Short documentation of 200 works of art on construction commissioned by the federal government since 1950 ( memo of December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) , BMVBS online publication No. 25/2012, December 2012 , Pp. 33-35. ( online PDF ( memento of December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ))
  18. ↑ Ute Chibidziura: Inventory of art in building at the federal government . In: Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development (Ed.): Art value, asset value, monument value. What is the value of art in architecture? - 11th workshop talk (PDF), September 2012, pp. 2–10 (here: p. 3).
  19. ↑ a b Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (ed.); Claudia Büttner: History of Art in Architecture in Germany . Berlin 2011, p. 69. ( online PDF )
  20. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development : Short documentation of 200 works of art on construction commissioned by the federal government since 1950 ( memo of December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) , BMVBS online publication No. 25/2012, December 2012 , Pp. 286-288. ( online PDF ( memento of December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ))
  21. ^ Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research (ed.); Claudia Büttner, Christina Lanzl: Short documentation of 200 art-in-building works on behalf of the federal government from 1950 to 1979 , BBSR online publication 12/2014, December 2014, p. 17. ( online PDF )
  22. ↑ Sankt Augustin Monument Preservation Plan (PDF), p. 324
  23. ↑ The essence behind things explored , Kölnische Rundschau , February 4, 2009

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 35 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 44.9"  E