Royal Dutch Embassy (Bonn)

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Conference and reception building of the former Royal Dutch Embassy, ​​rear extension from 2002 (2007)
Former main and administrative building of the embassy (2013)
Former residence of the embassy, ​​Fasanenstrasse 20 (2013)

The Royal Dutch Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany was located in Bonn's parliamentary and government district from 1964 to 2000 . The former office building of the embassy in the district of Gronau , built from 1962 to 1964, stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The former office building of the embassy (address: Sträßchensweg 10) is located on the eastern edge of the Johanniter district above the edge of the terrace sloping towards the Rheinaue . It stretches along Sträßchensweg to the corner of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse, where the former office building of the Canadian embassy adjoins.

history

The Netherlands was one of the eleven states that had been accredited with a diplomatic mission for the Federal Republic of Germany to the Allied High Commission at the seat of government in Bonn since December 15, 1949 . From the beginning, the mission's office was located in the building at Koblenzer Straße 96 (today Adenauerallee ). The Dietkirchener Hof in Urfeld served as the residence of the head of mission . From 1951 the mission had the status of an embassy.

When the Dutch government began to adjust to a longer presence at the Bonn seat of government, it planned in the early 1960s to build a new embassy office (including consular department ) in the center of Bonn's parliamentary and government district. The Bonn architect Ernst van Dorp was commissioned with the planning and design in 1962 . When construction began in the same year, the building was the first new embassy building in Bonn to be built after the later embassy buildings of the three western allies , which were built as a high commission . It was the first part of a new series on Sträßchensweg. The landscaping architect Heinrich Raderschall from Bonn was responsible for the design of the gardens . A house in the Bad Godesberg district of Rüngsdorf (Fasanenstrasse 20) was purchased in 1964 as the ambassador's new residence . Her interior also included loans of porcelain and paintings from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ; the dining room contained an 18th-century ceiling painting brought here from a Dutch house.

In the course of moving the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the Dutch embassy moved there in 2000 (→ Dutch embassy in Berlin ). In Bonn, a branch office of the embassy with around 20 employees was initially left, which opened in May 2000 in the Plittersdorf district in the previous rooms of the embassy of Morocco (Gotenstrasse 7/9) and was closed again on July 1, 2003. The former Dutch embassy building was sold to a private investor in May 2001 with a land area of ​​7,300 m². It was then - placed under monument protection in the same year - at a cost of 33 million euros until 2004 with extensive additions and has since been used as an office building under the name "Hollandhaus". The associated brick residential building was demolished in 2002. Since 2010/11, the property has also been home to departments of Deutsche Post AG , for which it operates as “DHL Parcel House”.

building

The original complex of the embassy building comprises three two-story, separate and differently designed reinforced concrete skeleton buildings with load-bearing walls. The elongated main and administrative building, clad with Dutch clinker , is largely windowless on the street side. The cubic conference and reception building (“pavilion”) made of glass and bronze , which is based on a pavilion created by Sep Ruf and Egon Eiermann for the Brussels Expo 58 , is connected to the street . Also in brick an associated house (staff housing) on the garden side, connected to the administrative building via a glass transition bridge was executed (2002 canceled).

The building was created with the aim of expressing a “generous shape” and “noble restraint”. It is considered a successful example of an embassy representing the nation and a role model for the often less successful early embassy buildings in Bonn. At the entrance area was the plastic Droomship ("moon ship") by the Dutch artist Hans Ittmann.

"In its striking contrast between the closed clinker brick wall and the fully glazed entrance pavilion, [the building] has proven itself to be a good example of rhythmically lively, well-proportioned and lovingly composed architecture."

- Frank-Lothar Kroll (1989)

"The almost 'Dutch' approach to construction and materials, oscillating between glass transparency and brick closeness, reveals the architect's special empathy for the difficult building task."

- Andreas Denk (1997)

"Van Dorp succeeded in establishing an appropriately speaking Bonn representation for the Dutch monarchy through the location, shape and building material."

- Michael Gassmann (2001)

“In terms of arrangement, form and material, we refer back to the rational modernism , which is often inherent in the new conception of architecture from the sixties, and also incorporate impulses from the transparent steel-glass constructions of the fifties. (...) Tradition and modernity represent a successful synthesis in the Dutch embassy. "

- Angelika Schyma (2003)

See also

literature

  • Angelika Schyma : With diplomatic restraint: Embassy architecture of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn from the founding of the state to the fall of the wall . In: Embassies in Berlin . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7861-2472-8 , pp. 29–41 (here: pp. 34/35).
  • Andreas Pellens: A Bonn native builds. Ernst van Dorp 1950-2000 . Bouvier-Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-416-03033-5 , pp. 68-70.
  • Angelika Schyma: »Holland's shop window on the Rhine« - The Royal Dutch Embassy in Bonn . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland , Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege : Denkmalpflege im Rheinland , ISSN  0177-2619 , Volume 18, No. 4, 2001, pp. 158–161.
  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 62-63.
  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 98.
  • Ingeborg flag: Architecture in Bonn after 1945: Buildings in the federal capital and its surroundings . Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7928-0479-4 , p. 59.
  • 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. 125 .

Web links

Commons : Royal Dutch Embassy (Bonn)  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 53, number A 3722
  2. ^ Helmut Vogt : Foreign missions in Bonn . In: Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , pp. 156–160.
  3. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 277.
  4. ↑ Employee: Rita Fink
  5. ↑ Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine.
  6. ^ The open house of the Dutch , General-Anzeiger , April 26, 2000, Bonn city edition, p. 7
  7. ↑ The view of "Holland's highest mountain" is missing , General-Anzeiger, May 4, 2000, Bonn city edition, p. 11
  8. ^ Saying goodbye would be the wrong signal , General-Anzeiger, June 19, 2003, Bonn city edition, p. 6
  9. ^ Albert Oeckl: Pocket book of public life, volume 50 , NfA sales and advertising company, 2001, p. 326
  10. ^ Signed sales contract for the Dutch embassy , General-Anzeiger, May 21, 2001
  11. ↑ a b Andreas Pellens: A Bonner builds. Ernst van Dorp 1950-2000.
  12. ↑ Reference projects - Q2 Business Park Bonn , Frankonia
  13. ^ Post rents Canada and Holland House in Bonn , Immobilien Zeitung , November 24, 2010
  14. ↑ Photo DHL parcel house , Foursquare .com
  15. ^ Frank-Lothar Kroll: Federal capital Bonn. A Danaer present? In: Federal Ministry for Building, Regional Planning and Urban Development (Ed.): Forty Years Federal Capital Bonn 1949–1989 . CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-7880-9780-9 , pp. 92-115 (here: p. 112).
  16. ^ Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: Architekturführer Bonn .
  17. ↑ Michael Gassmann: Built messages . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 26, 2001, No. 224, p. 52.
  18. ↑ Angelika Schyma: In diplomatic restraint: Embassy architecture of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn from the founding of the state to the fall of the wall .

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '49 "  N , 7 ° 7' 54.4"  E