Adenauerallee 131a (Bonn)

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House Adenauerallee 131a (2013)

The building Adenauerallee 131a is an office building in the Bonn district of Gronau , which was built in 1953 as the House of German Crafts . It is located in the north of the federal district on the east side of Adenauerallee ( B 9 ) at the corner of Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße opposite the Museum Koenig and forms a joint building complex with Villa Adenauerallee 131 .

history

The building was created as the "House of German Crafts" for the Central Association of German Crafts (ZDH) based on a design by the Bonn architect Ernst van Dorp . After its founding in November 1949, the ZDH initially set up its office in the building of the District Craftsmen's Association in Bonn (Meckenheimer Allee 67). In order to cope with the growing tasks, the association decided to build its own, representative business building. He acquired the Villa Adenauerallee 131 (built in 1900/01) including the property on what was then Koblenzer Strasse, had it renovated and the new building built right next to it. Craft firms also took part in this through the foundation of arts and crafts . It was completed in 1953, and the inauguration took place on November 3rd in the presence of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Federal President Theodor Heuss . The Bonn photographer Hans Schafgans created a photographic documentation of the new building in the same year.

"One of the most representative and, in its tasteful interior design, one of the most beautiful administrative buildings that Bonn currently has to offer."

- Theodor Heuss on the occasion of the inauguration of the House of German Crafts on November 5, 1953

The Central Association of German Crafts built a new "House of German Crafts" on Johanniterstrasse from 1964 to 1966. In mid-1965 (purchase contract of June 18), the German Foreign Policy Society acquired the now vacant building complex from the ZDH with funds from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation for 2.4 million DM and took its seat there in April 1966, moving to Villa Adenauerallee 131 1983 / 84 also the Atlantik-Brücke eV . As a result of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin , the DGAP and the Atlantik-Brücke moved there in 1999. At the end of 2002, Log GmbH (Logistik-Systembetreuungs-Gesellschaft) with around 70 employees, a consulting and service company that works for the German Armed Forces in the solution and implementation of tasks in logistics and information management, moved into the property.

architecture

The office building has three floors and a recessed top floor . It consists of two tracts offset from each other in front of a square-like open space, one of which is directly adjacent to the listed Villa Adenauerallee 131. A fully glazed entrance hall for access to the building is located between the wings . The facades are clad with shell limestone and edged with copper . The original interior of the building included colored glass windows, ceramics and wrought iron bars.

literature

  • Andreas Pellens: A Bonn native builds. Ernst van Dorp 1950-2000 . Bouvier-Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-416-03033-5 , pp. 28/29.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ to 1967 Koblenzer Straße (→ list of streets in the Bonn district of Gronau ), formerly with the house number 133
  2. ^ Valentin Chesi: Structure and functions of the craft organization in Germany since 1933 , Duncker & Humblot, p. 178
  3. ^ Press and Information Office: Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1953, p. 1779.
  4. ↑ a b Central Health Services , Boldt, 1968, p. 61/62
  5. ↑ a b Tuya Roth: Hans Schafgan's photographs. Bonn architecture of the fifties and sixties , inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, Bonn 2007, pp. 69, 157.
  6. ^ Daniel Friedrich Eisermann: Foreign policy and strategy discussion: the German Society for Foreign Policy 1955 to 1972 , Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56338-6 , p. 83. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1995)
  7. ↑ Walporzheimer Log GmbH moves to Bonn , General-Anzeiger , March 1, 2002
  8. ↑ Andreas Pellens: A Bonner builds. Ernst van Dorp 1950-2000 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 21.8 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 51.1"  E