Kennedyallee (Bonn)

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The Kennedy Avenue is a major city road in the Bonn district of Bad Godesberg . It forms the border between the districts of Plittersdorf and Hochkreuz and thus the southern end of the federal quarter .

course

Kennedyallee is located in the north of the Bad Godesberg district and leads over the districts of Friesdorf and Plittersdorf over a length of about 1.7 km from Godesberger Allee in the west, a section of Bundesstraße 9 , to Turmstraße / Martin-Luther-King-Straße in East. Between Godesberger Allee and Mittelstrasse, the border between the districts of Plittersdorf in the south and Hochkreuz in the north runs in the middle of the street, while the section east of Mittelstrasse in the area of ​​the HICOG settlement Plittersdorf belongs entirely to the district of Plittersdorf.

history

Kennedyallee goes back to a path that was already recorded in an address book from 1890 as Mötchgrabenweg or Mutschgrabenweg , but was only officially named by a resolution of the council of the then independent municipality of Friesdorf on March 1, 1894. This path ran between Mittelstrasse and the later submerged “Griesfeldweg”. By decision of the city council of Bad Godesberg of 29 July 1930, the Mötchgrabenweg effective was October 1, 1930 in Frankengraben renamed and the road only then created in its present form and settled in part.

After Bonn became the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the appearance of the street changed fundamentally. When the HICOG settlement in Plittersdorf was built in 1951, the section between Mittelstrasse and Turmstrasse / Martin-Luther-King-Strasse was newly laid out as part of this settlement and, on October 22, 1951, also named Frankengraben , including a side street that was fully booked to the south on Turmstrasse . The street was named in honor of US President John F. Kennedy , who had died the month before , on December 16, 1963 by decision of the Bad Godesberg City Council. In the 1950s and 1960s, numerous office and administrative buildings for federal authorities and their affiliated organizations were built on Kennedyallee, which are still the dominant development on the street today. In 1985 the crossing Kennedyallee / Godesberger Allee (B 9) was expanded into a square.

Buildings and sights

Kennedy statue, corner of Kennedyallee / Godesberger Allee

  • Kennedy statue, corner of Godesberger Allee / Kennedyallee
    In connection with the renovation of an office building on the corner of Godesberger Allee (B 9) / Kennedyallee (see below) on the initiative of the architects Dorothee Fiedler-Denninger and Dirk Denninger from the Cologne artist duo Herm-Jörg Barner ( * 1956) and Marlene Dammin (* 1941) created and erected on November 15, 1989, larger than life statue of the former US President John F. Kennedy. The statue measures 220 × 50 × 60 cm and consists of Weiberner tuff , with the view of the president shown on Godesberger Allee.

Branch of the Embassy of Cuba
German Research Foundation, Kennedyallee 40
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft , Kennedyallee 40
    Administration building of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, created in four construction phases. First construction phase 1953–1954 as a four-story main building, second construction phase 1956 as a two-story atrium building , third construction phase 1960 as a casino with a caretaker's apartment - all based on the design and planning by Sep Ruf - and the last construction phase with the participation of the planning group of the Federal Building Department 1966–1967 as a four-story building 1969-1970 was increased to seven floors. In 2000 an extension was completed with a hologram ( eye fire ) attachedto the west facade facing the inner courtyard.
  • German Academic Exchange Service , Kennedyallee 50 The
    main building of the German Academic Exchange Service, completed in 1962 and later given a new façade, has two further (rented) office buildings on Kennedyallee. Since the mid-1990s, it has been connected to the Bonn Science Center on Ahrstrassevia a rear wing. In front of the building was the kinetic sculpture Two lines oblique (1970) by the American sculptor George Rickey , which was moved a few meters to Ahrstrasse in 2010 and replaced by the sculpture Nach Vorn II (2010) by the Chilean sculptor and former DAAD scholarship holder Alejandra Ruddoff was replaced.
  • Office building, Kennedyallee 64–70
    Built 1968–1970 as an administration building for the Deutsche Siedlungs- und Landesrentenbank based on a design by Wilhelm and Dirk Denninger (garden architect: Heinrich Raderschall ), from a square four-storey block with a circular inner courtyard and a two-storey wing connected to it twelve-storey pyramid-shaped crossbar as the former seat of the Federal Ministry of Transport of an existing reinforced concrete skeleton structure. Used today by Postbank .
  • Former Embassy of Brazil, Kennedyallee 74
    Built around 1975 for the Brazilian Embassy based on a design by Dirk Denninger. With the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the embassy moved there in 2000.
  • Settlement, Kennedyallee 90–102 / Mittelstrasse 88–94 / Donatusstrasse 83–111, built in
    1959 by GAGFAH , consisting of eleven three-story apartment buildings with communal     green areas and 15 two-story single-family houses with private gardens. The houses are grouped into eight lines and contain a total of 81 residential units.
  • Office building, Kennedyallee 91–103
    Built 1964–1965 based on a design by Wilhelm and Dirk Denninger for Inter Nationes as a four-storey reinforced concrete frame building. From 1985 to 1990 also the seat of the Bonn Goethe Institute . Used today by the German Academic Exchange Service. In front of the building is the sculpture Großer Lichtpfeiler (1973) by the sculptor Günter Ferdinand Ris .

Stimson Memorial Chapel
  • Stimson Memorial Chapel , Kennedyallee 150 Chapel built in
    1951 as part of the HICOG housing estate Plittersdorf at the end of Kennedyallee on the Rhine side and inaugurated on July 18, 1952. In the possession of the city of Bonn since 1999 and used by the English-speaking American Protestant Church.

Web links

Commons : Kennedyallee  - Collection of Images
  • Entry in the Bonn street cadastre

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-Heinz van Kaldenkerken , Oberstadtdirektor Bonn (ed.); Friedrich Busmann : Expansion of the federal capital. 10 years capital city agreement 1975–1985 . Bonn 1986, p. 75.
  2. ↑ a b c Gabriele Zabel-Zottmann: Sculptures and objects in the public space of the federal capital Bonn - installed from 1970 to 1991 . Dissertation, Bonn 2012, part 2. ( online PDF ; 5.8 MB)
  3. ↑ The dreary building should become a modern office building , General-Anzeiger , January 13, 1989, Bonn city edition, p. 9.
  4. ↑ Rental agreements for properties of the federal ministries in Bonn , German Bundestag , 13th electoral period, printed matter 13/2779
  5. ^ Hochkreuz Eye Clinic Bonn
  6. ↑ The information is taken from the legally binding list of monuments of the city of Bonn. It is managed by the Lower Monument Authority , from which the entries for the individual monuments can be obtained for a fee.
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 1143
  8. ↑ a b c d Ursel and Jürgen Zänker (arrangement) with contributions by Edith Ennen , Dietrich Höroldt , Gerd Nieke, Günter Schubert: Building in Bonn's room 49-69. Attempt to take stock. (= Art and Antiquity on the Rhine. Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn. No. 21) Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969.
  9. ^ The buildings of the DFG head office , German Research Foundation
  10. ^ DAAD history
  11. ↑ New rooms at the old place for diplomats from Australia , General-Anzeiger , August 6, 1987, Bonn city edition, p. 9.
  12. ↑ Dirk Denninger shaped the cityscape , March 6, 2002, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 6.
  13. ↑ Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, p. 65.
  14. ↑ Kerstin Kähling; City of Bonn, City Archives and City History Library (Ed.): Loosened up and structured: City and settlement construction in the fifties and early sixties in the provisional federal capital Bonn (= publications of the Bonn City Archives , vol. 63), Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3 -922832-34-8 , ISSN  0524-0352 , p. 400/401. (also dissertation University of Cologne, 2001)
  15. ^ Goethe Institute leaves Bad Godesberg , General-Anzeiger, August 20, 2010
  16. ↑ Introduction of new Erasmus + university coordinators , German Academic Exchange Service
  17. ↑ Contact information , United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 10.5 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 12.6 ″  E