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country Germany
local community Bonn
Coordinates : 50 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '4 "  N , 7 ° 2' 45"  E
Opened 1956
owner Federation
Workforce 5000
Stationed troops
Federal ministry of defense GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg
Hardthöhe (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Location of the Hardthöhe in North Rhine-Westphalia
Hardthöhe North Guard
Buildings on the Hardthöhe

The Hardthöhe in Bonn is the first official seat of the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg). The second office is the Bendlerblock in Berlin . The Hardthöhe property is located in the Hardthöhe district of Bonn of the same name , the entire area of ​​which it occupies. The barracks were built from 1956. Approx. 1500 employees of the Federal Ministry work there, with subordinate departments a total of around 5000 in 113 buildings.

Development

The main access to the Hardthöhe property is the Nordwache on Fontainengraben. There are also more than access the Südwache on Brüser dam and the Ostwache at the Pascal Street. The streets and squares on the site have been named after German cities since autumn 1990.

history

On June 7, 1955, the so-called " Dienststelle Blank " was converted into the Federal Ministry of Defense . At around the same time, planning began for the construction of buildings for the Ministry on Hardthöhe. Here was formerly a training area . Initially, the ministry still used the rooms used by the Blank Office in the Ermekeil barracks in Bonn, making this barracks the first seat of the Ministry of Defense. The plans for the new buildings on the Hardthöhe met with criticism from the opposition. The SPD called for an early 1956 building of new administrative building. In the opinion of the SPD MP Heinrich Ritzel, the federal buildings in Bonn had assumed a larger size than originally planned; in the event of the government moving to Berlin, a subsequent use of these buildings would be unclear. The food-enjoyment-restaurants union determined that 750 new apartments could be built instead of the barracks. The government under Konrad Adenauer pushed through the start of the work.

1000-man barracks

From 1956 a settlement-like barracks with two- and three-story houses with gable roofs was built. This facility was called the 1000-man barracks by the government because of the planned capacity . It was the first post-war barracks in the Federal Republic of Germany. The on Fontaine trench 150 complex situated stands today as monument under monument protection . Due to the arrangement of the buildings, it was also called "Wagenburg", probably also because there was no hierarchy of the facility: The decentralized building arrangement without special structures for military ranks and the U-shaped arrangement with a green area in the middle resulted in a barracks complex, which the endeavor of the young Federal Republic showed how to implement "the newly gained understanding of democracy in individual orders that are loosened up in terms of urban planning and architecture". This construction method was used for the first time in a German barracks and was trend-setting for other new barracks in Germany. An addendum to the federal budget for 1956 put the total costs of the plant at DM 16.2 million ( Tit .: 751 ).

The facility, which was built at high pressure, was inaugurated by the then Defense Minister, Theodor Blank , in June 1956. At the time, Hardthöhe still belonged to Duisdorf ; it was not incorporated into Bonn until 1969. The barracks buildings were not used by the troops, but only as offices for some outsourced departments of the Ministry of Defense.

Federal ministry of defense

In 1960 the Ministry began to move from the Ermekeil barracks to Hardthöhe. In addition to the existing buildings there, others were built. The move took place in 1960 under Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss .

As in 1960, the Federal Ministry of Defense with the plans to his transfer from the Ermekeilkaserne began to Hardthöhe existed there already a former training area and a voltage applied to form a settlement barracks. This “1000-man” barracks , which was built in 1956 and is also known as the “Wagenburg”, was adjoined by four row-built office buildings with gable roofs . By the mid-1960s, the Federal Building Department had built five six-storey and interconnected office buildings (“200s”), a ten-storey high-rise, a three-storey so-called “ministerial building”, a casino building and a two-storey meeting room building for a total of around 3,500 employees . From 1966 to 1968 the construction of what was then the main office for machine-technical reporting followed in the south , and a sanitary area in the west from 1967 to 1968 (architect: among others Ernst van Dorp ). The central entrance and guard building ( North Guard) was built in 1969 in the north of the site. In 1971 the troop area for the staff and supply battalion was expanded.

The Hardthöhe property underwent extensive expansion as a result of a building construction competition held in 1973 from 1979 to 1987, when 50,000 square meters of office space was added to the existing buildings with the internal service (until 1983) and the so-called central area (until 1987). The planning group Groth and Lehmann-Walter, which came first in the competition, was responsible for these buildings. In a further construction phase, the new ministerial building and a pyramid-shaped south-facing casino , planned by the Bad Nauheim architect Johannes Peter Hölzinger, followed on the basis of another architectural competition from 1986 to 1997 . In the 1990s, the renovation of the partially listed buildings from the 1950s and 1960s began. Buildings from the 1950s were restored to their original design.

In March 1997, the construction of a new direct road connection to the so far only provisionally connected Südwache began and opened in April 1998. In 2000 the on- site shooting range on the Hardthöhe was closed. From 2000 to 2002 the outdated medical center of the Bundeswehr was extended by a new building and by 2006 the existing building was also rebuilt.

The "1000-man barracks" was renovated again from 2004 to 2006 by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning . The redesign of the outdoor facilities is intended to honor the aesthetic and functional attitude of the 1950s. The buildings as well as supply and disposal routes were modernized on the basis of extensive inventories and analytical evaluations with regard to an ecological upgrade of the facility. Joint paving was partially placed in the parking area . Since then, surface water from the parking spaces and roof water has been channeled into modeled infiltration troughs.

The so-called North Guard was renewed in 2006-08 and 2010-11. At the beginning of 2013, the Federal Office for Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services moved from the Ermekeil barracks to Hardthöhe.

Offices in the property

The following offices are stationed in the "Hardthöhe" property (Fointainengraben 150):

Helipad

The southern boundary of Hardthöhe ( 50 ° 41 '47.4 "  N , 7 ° 2' 42.4"  O ) there is a helipad ( ICAO : ETHH). It was originally set up in the 1960s for occasional operation and later expanded as an airfield with landing lights , fire department and its own terminal building with customs clearance . In 1989 it recorded take-offs and landings in 2012. In order to reduce the noise nuisance for the nearby residential area Brüser Berg and the schools there, a noise protection wall was built on the east side of the landing site in 1990; a petrol station was planned for 1992 to reduce flight movements. Since it was or is only classified as an external landing site under the Aviation Act , the regular flight operations that existed in 2000 had to be considered illegal. Today the airfield is no longer operated on the previous scale.

Residence and office building of the minister

In 1964, on the northern edge of the Hardthöhe property ( 50 ° 42 ′ 13.8 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 27.2 ″  E ), the residential and office building for the Federal Minister of Defense was built according to the design and under the overall direction of the Federal Building Department. Still planned for the incumbent Franz Josef Strauss , as a result of his resignation, Kai-Uwe von Hassel was the first minister to move into the bungalow. The building is divided into a single-storey living, working and representative section and a two-storey private residential section facing the valley, arranged in a staggered manner, which included bedrooms and children's rooms. After the assassination attempt on the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble , he moved into the bungalow for security reasons, which was converted to make it barrier-free. Even without a ministerial office, Schäuble lived there until after the 1998 federal election . The bungalow has been unused since he moved out as a result of parliament and government moving to Berlin.

See also

literature

  • Karl-Heinz van Kaldenkerken , City Director Bonn (Ed.); Friedrich Busmann : Expansion of the federal capital. 10 years capital city agreement 1975–1985 . Bonn 1986, pp. 108-110.
  • 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. 137-142 .
  • Bredenbeck , Moneke, Neubacher (ed.): Building for the federal capital. (= Edition Critical Edition , Volume 2). Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-938803-41-7 , pp. 57-60.

Web links

Commons : Hardthöhe  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hardthöhe: 60 years of "Pentabonn" ( memento from December 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Westdeutscher Rundfunk , September 13, 2016
  2. ↑ Hardthöhe site plan (PDF), Bundeswehr Soldier Relief Organization , 2012
  3. ↑ The streets on the Hardthöhe site are given names , General-Anzeiger , July 30, 1990, Bonn city edition, p. 7
  4. ↑ a b c d Federal Ministry of Defense, Hardthöhe property , website of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  5. ↑ a b Federal Budget , Bundesdruckerei , 1956, p. 347
  6. ↑ a b Reiner Burger: Every farewell has its price. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 13, 2011, accessed July 1, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Unity: Central organ of the food-pleasure-restaurants union , Volume 7, Food-pleasure-restaurants union (ed.), 1956, ISSN  0420-8854 , p. 258.
  8. ↑ a b barracks are more important . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1956, pp. 12-14 ( Online - July 4, 1956 ).
  9. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 20, number A 3268
  10. ^ Art and antiquity on the Rhine , issue 21, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Landschaftsverband Rheinland , 1969, p. 137
  11. ↑ a b Former 1000 man barracks , website of Förder Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH (Essen)
  12. ↑ Johannes Peter Hölzinger : Synthesis of arts: the connection of art and architecture in the government buildings on the Hardthöhe in Bonn. Edition Axel Menges, 1998, ISBN 393-2-56509-6 , p. 66.
  13. ↑ German Bundestag, 2nd electoral period 1953, printed matter 3704: Oral report of the budget committee (18th committee) on the draft of a law on the adoption of a sixth supplement to the federal budget for the financial year 1956 (Sixth supplementary budget law 1956, printed matter 3418 , June 28, 1957, P. 107 )
  14. ↑ a b Extension / new construction of the Bundeswehr Sanitary Center , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  15. ↑ a b Extension / reconstruction of the North Guard , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  16. ^ Museum of 1000 Places - Federal Ministry of Defense , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  17. ↑ Federal Ministry of Defense - Minister Wing , Museum of 1000 Places (Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning)
  18. ^ Volker Rühe will soon get a new connection , Rhein-Zeitung , March 19, 1997
  19. ↑ Neither the back entrance nor the parade entrance , General-Anzeiger , April 25, 1998, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 10
  20. ↑ The shooting range is about to be closed again , General-Anzeiger , January 24, 2000, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 10
  21. ↑ a b "Unauthorized special airport" , General-Anzeiger , December 28, 2000
  22. ↑ Bundeswehr Medical Center, Bonn , TLBS architects
  23. ↑ The lights go out in the Ermekeil barracks , General-Anzeiger , December 22, 2012
  24. ↑ Location database of the Bundeswehr. In: http://www.zmsbw.de/ . Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , accessed on September 8, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Sanitary facilities in postcode area 5. In: https://www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de/ . Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr , April 24, 2019, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
  26. ^ German Bundestag , 12th electoral period, printed matter 12/1080 , 23 August 1991, p. 32/33
  27. ↑ Bundeswehr announces review of heliport , General-Anzeiger , October 12, 1991, Bonn city edition, p. 10
  28. ↑ New reference point for illegal flight operations at Hardthöhe , General-Anzeiger , November 29, 1991, Stadtausgabe Bonn, p. 10
  29. ↑ 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. 79-80 .
  30. ^ Cohabitation in Bonn , Der Spiegel , November 9, 1998
  31. ↑ Birthday without a minister , General-Anzeiger , September 14, 2016