HICOG settlement Muffendorf / Pennenfeld

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Skyscraper of the settlement (2014)

The HICOG settlement Muffendorf / Pennenfeld (originally only HICOG settlement Muffendorf ) is a settlement in the Bonn district of Pennenfeld , which was built in 1951/52 for employees of the US High Commission (HICOG). It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The HICOG settlement is located in the north of the Pennenfeld district, east of Muffendorf, and adjoins the Godesberg center to the south . It extends between Deutschherrenstrasse in the west, Theodor-Heuss-Allee in the north and Koblenzer Strasse ( B 9 ) in the east, and within it includes the streets Hans-Böckler-Allee, Röntgenstrasse, Zanderstrasse and Zeppelinstrasse. The southern half of the settlement is in the Muffendorf district , the northern half in the Godesberg district.

history

HICOG housing estate Muffendorf (1952)

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the US High Commission, as the service of the High Commissioner of Germany (HICOG) and part of the Allied High Commission, initially took its seat in Frankfurt am Main . At the end of 1950 the decision was made to completely relocate the US High Commission to the Bonn enclave and to set up its headquarters in the Bad Godesberger Deichmannsaue . For this purpose, housing projects were initiated in Bad Godesberg for both the American and German employees of the high commission. This first planned, the land for German settlement of the city, should fall to the rental income, deploy and develop to make and to finance the construction of the houses themselves. The city declined the offer, whereupon the Federal Ministry of Finance took over the tasks assigned to the city. It acquired 11.6 hectares of land in the then undeveloped "Pennenfeld" on Koblenzerstrasse, Muffendorferstrasse and Deutschherrenstrasse for the construction of the settlement from the Rigal  community of heirs . On April 18, 1951, the Federal Republic of Germany and the office of the US High Commissioner signed the land contract.

A working group consisting of the Munich architect Sep Ruf (overhead management) and the Frankfurt architects Otto Apel , Rudolf Letocha, William Rohrer and Martin Herdt (execution) was commissioned with the planning and design of the estate and the American technician was on hand. The planning of the open spaces was in the hands of the garden architect Hermann Mattern . The architects did not receive any specifications from the client , the US high commission, for the architectural and urban development . The high-rise building in the settlement (Röntgenstrasse 19) was the first high-rise residential building in Bad Godesberg. A structurally identical settlement with the same number of apartments, also for the German employees of the high commission, was realized at the same time under the direction of the same architects in the Bonn district of Tannenbusch ( HICOG-Siedlung Tannenbusch ). With the expiry of the occupation statute in 1955, the estate became the property of the Federal Republic of Germany. Since then, the living space has been provided in particular for the employees of the federal authorities based in Bonn. In 1996 the estate as a whole, including the interior furnishings, a garage yard and a sales pavilion, was placed under a preservation order. The property is owned by the Federal Real Estate Agency .

architecture

In terms of its structure and size, the settlement is largely identical to the Tannenbusch HICOG settlement , but its topographical location and access method give it a different character. It comprises five to six different house types, including a high-rise building as the centerpiece of the complex, and contains 412 apartments. There are extensive, partly tree-covered green spaces between the houses. The change between different structures, facade structures (closed, open, glazed) as well as the open spaces leads to a loosening up and establishes the urban and architectural quality of the entire complex.

The appearance of the HICOG settlement, which was different from that in Tannenbusch from the beginning, lies in a different course of the street, justified to develop a polygonal area in the middle of a neighboring development. The arcade houses of the settlement were originally flat-roofed and have had hip roofs since 1987 . Another difference compared to Tannenbusch is the roof structure of the high-rise, in which the square pillars support a concrete slab that protrudes in the middle and protrudes on all sides.

"The HICOG settlements [Tannenbusch and Muffendorf] are among the outstanding early housing projects in Germany thanks to their urban development and architectural quality (...)."

- Andreas Denk (1997)

literature

  • City of Bonn, City Archives and City History Library (ed.); Kerstin Kähling: Loosened up and structured: Town and settlement construction in the fifties and early sixties in the provisional federal capital Bonn (= publications of the Bonn City Archives , ISSN  0524-0352 , volume 63). Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3922832348 , pp. 410-412. (also dissertation University of Cologne, 2001)
  • Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , pp. 107-111.
  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , pp. 79/80.
  • Workshop Baukultur Bonn (ed.): HICOG-Siedlungen (= architectural guide of the workshop Baukultur Bonn , ISSN  2196-5757 , volume 13). Dreiviertelhaus publishing house, Berlin 2019.

Web links

Commons : HICOG-Siedlung Muffendorf / Pennenfeld  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), pp. 26, 49, 54, 59, number A 3190
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Vogt: Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 .
  3. ↑ 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. 43/44 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Kerstin Kähling: The HICOG settlement in Bonn-Tannenbusch. A contribution to the settlement and urban development of the post-war period . In: Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments. Volume 38. Researches and Reports . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7927-1700-X , pp. 45–110. (also Verlag Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 1999, ISBN 3-7666-0177-6 )
  5. ↑ Kerstin Kähling; City of Bonn, City Archives and City History Library (Ed.): Loosened up and structured: City and housing developments in the fifties and early sixties in the provisional federal capital Bonn (= publications by the Bonn City Archives , vol. 63)
  6. ↑ A paradise for parrots and moles , General-Anzeiger , July 1, 1999, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 10
  7. ^ Pennenfeld , General-Anzeiger
  8. ↑ a b Andreas Denk , Ingeborg Flagge : Architekturführer Bonn

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 38.7 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 45.7"  E