Hansa House (Bad Godesberg)

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Hansa House (2011)

The Hansa-Haus is a commercial and office building in Bad Godesberg , a district of Bonn . It goes back to a hotel built around 1870 and has been owned by the city of Bonn since 1979.

location

The Hansa-Haus is located on the edge of the Godesberg center on the corner of Moltkestraße / Alte Bahnhofstraße (address: Moltkestraße 41 / Alte Bahnhofstraße 21) directly on the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine and at the Bad Godesberg Bahnhof underground station .

history

Tram Bonn – Godesberg – Mehlem at the stop Rheinallee, in the back the Hotel Hüttenrauch / Blitzler (around 1895)

The building was built around 1870 as a hotel for Anton Blinzler, previously host at Rolandseck station . Later it operated as a "hotel-restaurant with a garden economy". Under one of the subsequent owners from 1892 onwards, the company, now called "Hotel Hüttenrauch (formerly Blitzler)", had 70 rooms, bathrooms, salons, small and large halls and stables for riding horses (as of 1897). Around 1900 a large extension was built for the hotel facing the railway. Due to the major construction sites to raise the opposite railway line and to build the pedestrian underpass between Bahnhofstrasse and Rheinallee from 1909, the hotel had to cease operations and in 1911 came into the possession of the Bonn bank as part of the bankruptcy proceedings . The building then stood empty. During the First World War, the city of Godesberg rented some rooms as a soup kitchen, from August 1915 it also served as a soldiers' home and from the hunger winter of 1917/18 as a “people's food house”. After the end of the war, under the confiscation of the French occupying power (until 1926) and under the name Quartier Lannes, it housed a Center d`Instruction et de Rééducation Physique .

In 1926, the center politicians Peter Hensen and Peter Blumenthal (1881–1974) bought the building and set up the editorial office in the former hotel rooms and the print shop of the Rheinische Verlagsanstalt as publisher of the Godesberger Volkszeitung in the side wing with the former dining room . Around this time, a porch with a row of shops was built. The building has been called the Hansa-Haus since 1927/28 . In 1929 August Busch opened a branch of the Siebengebirgsbuchhandlung in Honnef, which was then the only Catholic bookshop in Godesberg. After the Godesberger Volkszeitung was discontinued due to a ban in 1934 during the Nazi era , Hensen and Blumenthal had to sell the property in 1936. The now confiscated printing works continued to operate. On February 15, 1945, the Hansa-Haus was badly damaged by an air mine in the Allied air war . After the end of the Second World War, the print shop was able to be put back into operation by the original owners of the Rheinische Verlagsanstalt, which was located in the house until at least the 1980s. In the 1960s, Bad Godesberg's first nightclub was opened in the Hansa-Haus. The office of the German Beekeeping Association was based here in the early to mid-1970s .

In 1979 the city of Bonn acquired the building because it was to be demolished in order to expand the federal highway 9, which was then on Moltkestrasse ( relocated to the Godesberg tunnel in 1999). After these plans were abandoned, the Hansa-Haus was preserved as a municipal building and renovated in 1983/84 so that, apart from the row of shops, it was mainly rented to clubs and other organizations. The upper floor of the porch now housed a sports and fitness center, and later the German Red Cross was on site here . The Bonner Rockmusiker Association (VBR), which operated the sound station , had an office and practice rooms in the Hansa House. Following a resolution by the city council in October 2012, the last run-down building was renovated in four construction phases for 1.8 million euros from 2013 to spring 2016 in order to establish the Rock & Pop Center Bonn founded by the Bonn Music Network . The renovated Hansa-Haus was opened with an open day on September 24, 2016 .

use

The main building with the entrance on Moltkestrasse is now home to 15 rehearsal rooms and a multi-purpose room with 100–130 seats for concerts, workshops and seminars after being converted into a Rock & Pop Center. Shops and a youth club are housed on the ground floor of the extension on Alte Bahnhofstrasse. On the upper floor it offers space for several clubs, including the Godesberg gymnastics club , which has been in the house since 1984 . The usable area of ​​the building is around 1800 m².

literature

  • Herbert Strack: The Hansa house in the center of Godesberg and the elevation of the railway line by Herbert Strack . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 41 (2003), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2004, pp. 113–177. [not yet evaluated for this article]

Web links

Commons : Hansa-Haus  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hansa-Haus should give way to the city motorway , General-Anzeiger , January 2, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Historisches Hansa-Haus expired , General-Anzeiger , April 28, 2010
  3. ^ Horst Heidermann : The Godesberger book trade . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual volume of the Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Volume 55/2017, Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2018, p. 7–51 (here: p. 34 / 35).
  4. ^ Horst Heidermann : The Godesberger book trade . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual volume of the Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Volume 55/2017, Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2018, p. 7–51 (here: p. 39) .
  5. ↑ Friedhelm Schulz: A piece of Godesberg - the old Moltkestrasse - is sacrificed to traffic . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual volume of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Volume 55/2017, Bad Godesberg 2018, pp. 63-75 (here: p. 65) .
  6. ↑ a b Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual booklet of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Volume 23/1985, pp. 246/247.
  7. ^ Address book of the federal capital Bonn 1972 , 92nd edition, JF Carthaus, Bonn 1972, p. 296. ( online )
  8. ^ Address book of the federal capital Bonn 1975 , 94th edition, JF Carthaus, Bonn 1975. ( online )
  9. ↑ Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual booklet of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Volume 49/2011, Bad Godesberg 2012, pp. 194/195.
  10. ↑ a b Hansa-Haus becomes a center for rock and pop , General-Anzeiger , October 7, 2012
  11. ↑ Hansa-Haus completed at the end of 2015 , General-Anzeiger , July 16, 2015
  12. ↑ a b The Hansa House is almost finished , General-Anzeiger , February 19, 2016
  13. ↑ Hansa-Haus in Bad Godesberg shortly before completion , press release from the city of Bonn, February 19, 2016
  14. ^ Hansa-Haus opened in Bonn , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, September 25, 2016
  15. ↑ a b More space for the One World Café , General-Anzeiger , May 29, 2013
  16. ↑ GA BONN: non-profit music network Hansa Haus: “The youth should find a home here”. Retrieved November 11, 2019 .
  17. ↑ A fixed point of contact for young people , General-Anzeiger , June 4, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 6.7 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 25.4 ″  E