HICOG settlement
HICOG settlements are residential complexes built in Germany between 1949 and 1952 for members of the US American High Commission under the direction of the High Commissioner of Germany (HICOG).
While the American High Commission was relocated from Frankfurt am Main to the provisional seat of government in Bonn as part of the Allied High Commission (AHK) in 1951/52, several settlements were built there under the direction of the architect Sep Ruf . The HICOG settlement Plittersdorf was created for American employees of the high commission, and the HICOG settlements Muffendorf / Pennenfeld and Tannenbusch for German employees . Within the settlements, a completely separate supply infrastructure was created according to the American way of life, which also included its own schools and kindergartens as well as its own energy supply . A residential complex built for British employees of the AHK was the Im Etzental settlement above Bad Godesberg city center, which was completed in 1951.
The employees and relatives of the American embassy were housed in the HICOG settlement in Plittersdorf after the office was closed. The other settlements became the property of the Federal Republic of Germany and were made available to the employees of the federal authorities based in Bonn.
literature
- Helmut Vogt : Guardian of the Bonn Republic. The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , pp. 99, 102, 103–118.
- Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 79.