Godesberger Hof

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Godesberger Hof, Rhine side (2011)
Godesberger Hof, Rhine side (1914)

The Godesberger Hof is a hotel in Rüngsdorf , part of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn . It is located on the banks of the Rhine (Von-Sandt-Ufer) south of the Panorama Park .

history

The hotel was built in 1895 in the Wilhelminian style and was initially run under the name "Kaiserkrone". The Godesberger Hof was next to the Rheinhotel Dreesen as the best located and most renowned hotel on the Godesberger Rheinufer. In September 1938 the Godesberger Hof accommodated journalists from all over the world during the negotiations between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain about the Sudeten crisis taking place in the Rheinhotel Dreesen . After the establishment of the Allied High Commission in 1949, the Godesberger Hof was confiscated and converted into a guest house and transit hotel (including an in-house cinema ) for members of the American High Commission by July 1950 according to designs by Eugen Blanck and Walter Kratz , whereby the building lost its original character.

After being reopened in 1954, the Godesberger Hof - now owned by the federal government - was the official seat of the Federal Ministry for Atomic Affairs , the forerunner of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. As a remnant of the hotel operations, the ministry's offices still had a bathroom. Subsequently, the Federal Ministry of Treasury was temporarily located here, then until the relocation of the seat of parliament and government to Berlin in 1999, the Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag .

From 2008 to 2010 the one hectare property was converted into an upscale housing estate. This resulted in nine additional single-family houses and residential buildings, and the Godesberger Hof was converted into an apartment building with eight residential units. A cul-de-sac with the name Godesberger Hof, starting from Basteistraße , reminds of the location of the former hotel .

Web links

Commons : Godesberger Hof  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger Messages , 2nd edition 2011, p. 28.
  2. ^ Godesberger Hof . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Annual booklet of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg . Issue 33, 1995, ISSN  0436-1024 , pp. 131-133.
  3. ↑ Werner Keyl: Hotel "Godesberger Hof", Bonn-Bad Godesberg , In: Bauen und Wohnen , 6th year, issue 2, Otto-Maier-Verlag Ravensburg , 1951, 73-80.
  4. ↑ Dietrich von Leszczynski: Bad Godesberg: an economic and socio-geographic study with special consideration of the development after the Second World War , Cologne 1966, p. 133
  5. ↑ Apolis near Rhöndorf , Der Spiegel , September 13, 1961
  6. ↑ Where Sheep Graze , Der Spiegel, August 12, 1968
  7. ↑ Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , pp. 65, 103, 224.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 19.6 ″  E