Gudenauer Weg 134-136

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The building Gudenauer Weg 134-136 in the Bonn district of Ippendorf is the former training and further education facility of the Federal Foreign Office (1973-2005).

Education and training facility of the Federal Foreign Office, aerial photo (2013)

location

The building complex is located in the south of the district of Ippendorf in the Kessenich district on the edge of the Kottenforst at around 173  m above sea level. NHN .

history

With the establishment of the forerunner of the Foreign Office in 1950, the office of the Federal Chancellery for Foreign Affairs, a diplomatic school was also set up to train candidates for the foreign service . It initially took its seat in Speyer , which was already home to such an institution, in a building shared with the University of Administrative Sciences . The first attaché course began on April 1, 1950. In 1955, the diplomatic school was relocated to the government seat of Bonn, where it was located in a "barrack" of the Foreign Office near Villa Ingenohl .

The new training and further education facility in Ippendorf was created according to a design by the Bonn architect Ernst van Dorp in a joint venture with Karl Rudolf Hautz, who emerged victorious from a competition announced in 1966 . The city ​​of Bonn provided the property in a later phase. Planning for the building began in 1967, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated in August 1971, and construction work was completed in December 1972. The inauguration took place on June 7, 1973. The building was designed from the beginning for a possible alternative use as a hotel. From 1992 to 1995 the training and further education facility was renovated at a cost of seven million euros and an extension was added, which van Dorp was once again commissioned to implement. The gardens were also revised.

Following the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the training and further education facility with its last 50 employees moved to the Borsig Villa Reiherwerder in Berlin-Tegel at the beginning of 2006 . The property in Ippendorf has been empty since then, and proposals for a new use by other federal agencies have so far failed. At the beginning of 2013, the Cologne District Government placed the building complex (excluding the additions from 1992–1995) under monument protection , against which the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks successfully filed a lawsuit as the owner. After a decision in January 2016, an extension was prepared from 1992–1995 to May 2016 as an emergency shelter for up to 50 refugees who should move in from the end of June.

architecture

description

The original building from the years 1968–1972 is a skeleton structure made of reinforced concrete and consists of four structures arranged in a cross, of different lengths and widths, as well as terraced structures, which are accessible from a four-storey access wing. A flat warm roof with a gravel layer forms the upper end . The main façade features are the sloping balcony and terrace balustrades as well as the horizontal alternation between white- banded parapet fields and dark-framed ribbon windows. The building has a gross floor area of 42,000  m² . The roof terraces are green . The ground floor accommodates the former social and classrooms and the upper floors a total of 206 apartments (of which 23 are double rooms). The buildings added between 1992 and 1995 are the north and south extensions and a gatehouse .

The connecting wing between the old and the extension is equipped with glass works of art by Johannes Schreiter . Since the expansion, the gardens have been designed on the model of Japanese gardens .

Architectural-historical classification

The diplomatic school refers to two motifs and forms that go back to the 1920s and were continued or resumed in the 1960s: the “steamer motif” and the cross plan. In addition to the white color, the horizontal alignment of the individual structures, which, due to the banding of the parapets - alternating with the ribbon windows - resembles the shape of an ocean liner, in the staggered and stepped outside terraces reminiscent of a deck , and in the bow-like cantilevered balconies on the front side to expression. The steamer motif can - in keeping with the function of a diplomatic school - convey the character of a closed community and coexistence for a limited time as well as the subsequent (departure) journey. The cross ground plan, which is identified in particular with the Plan Voisin (1925) by Le Corbusier , has a construction-time equivalent in the cross structures erected for federal ministries in Bonn (1969–1975).

“Thanks to its symbiotic connection, Ernst van Dorp has succeeded in bringing the building volumes to be mastered to a scale that integrates the large complex with all its functions in a way that is compatible with the landscape. He avoids monotony and designs the building task artistically and in terms of appearance. "

- Angelika Schyma : The former diplomatic school in Bonn-Ippendorf . 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann: The office and the past: German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. Karl Blessing Verlag, 2010, p. 474.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Angelika Schyma: The former diplomat school in Bonn-Ippendorf.
  3. ↑ The federal government cannot find buyers for its real estate . In: General-Anzeiger . December 21, 2005.
  4. ↑ Bernd Leyendecker: Former diplomatic school in Ippendorf holds up like sour beer . In: General-Anzeiger . April 2, 2008.
  5. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (PDF), p. 65
  6. ↑ The ex-diplomatic school is not a monument. In: General-Anzeiger . 18th October 2013.
  7. ^ Authorities argue about a memorial , General-Anzeiger, March 6, 2013, p. 19
  8. ↑ The city ​​can use Ermekeil barracks . General-Anzeiger , December 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ The Wasserland sports hall is occupied first . In: General-Anzeiger . January 25, 2016
  10. ↑ The city ​​accommodates up to 50 refugees . In: General-Anzeiger . June 1, 2016.
  11. ↑ Angelika Schyma: The former diplomatic school in Bonn-Ippendorf . P. 284.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 19.3 "  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 3.9"  E