District House (Bonn)

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Former district building, Mozartstrasse 4–10, entrance (2014)

The county house (originally District Office ) of the district Bonn was from 1892 until the dissolution of the district in 1969 in Bonn district of West Town . After the completion of a new building from 1892 to 1957, it was located there on the corner of Mozartstrasse / Gluckstrasse, then, with continued use of the previous location, in a new building of the district building on the corner of Bachstrasse / Wittelsbacher Ring. The building on Mozartstrasse consists of four originally independent houses (Mozartstrasse 4–10), which are listed as historical monuments .

history

Previous district offices

After the formation of the Bonn district in 1816, the first district administrator ( Anton Maria Karl von Belderbusch ) initially resided in the electoral palace . When the newly founded university took its seat there in 1818 , the district administrator's office was moved to the town hall on the market . From 1836 to 1854 the district office, then called “Officium”, was located in the so-called “Kleinhöfchen” (Am Hof ​​32 / corner of Martinsplatz). After another relocation, it was located in Wilhelmstrasse 1 until 1858. Under District Administrator Karl von Sandt (1854–1888), the District Office was located in his own house on the then southern edge of the city (Coblenzer Straße 24) from 1859. At this location it remained initially even after the end of Karl von Sandt's tenure under his son and successor in office Max von Sandt (1888-1903). Even after its spin-off from the Bonn district (now Bonn district ) in 1887, Bonn remained a district town.

District House in the Weststadt

From 1889 to 1892, a new district office building was built on the property at Mozartstrasse 10 at a cost of 130,000 marks . In 1899 the district acquired the neighboring building at Mozartstrasse 8, and the following year the building at Mozartstrasse 6 and incorporated it into the district administration. In 1928 the district bought a 4,520 m² plot of land that was already built on (Bachstrasse 36) in the immediate vicinity to set up accommodation for the district welfare office including the “medical department”, as well as the 2,008 m² plot of land at Bachstrasse 32 for the agricultural winter school . In addition to the welfare office, the health office (1930 at the latest) and the youth welfare office were located at Bachstrasse 36 .

On December 28, 1944, the district building on Mozartstrasse was badly damaged in a bombing raid during the Allied air war . The administration building at 36 Bachstrasse was completely destroyed in the same bomb attack. The district administration therefore had to be relocated and temporarily moved to Bad Godesberg . In March 1945 the American military government ordered them to be moved back to Bonn. Due to the war damage, only part of the premises in the previous district building was initially usable, so that a large part of the administration was housed in the building of the mining professional cooperative in Bonn's Südstadt (Schumannstrasse 8). The district building on Mozartstrasse was repaired in 1946 and 1947. In 1948, the Bad Godesberg health department also moved to this location, where it was housed in house 4 at Mozartstrasse.

New district building, Bachstrasse 36 / Wittelsbacherring 16 (2014)

Due to the enlargement of the district administration due to the increasing localization of state tasks, the office space in the previous administration building was no longer sufficient. Therefore, the district intended to build a new district building, and for this purpose acquired land on the nearby corner of Bachstrasse and Wittelsbacher Ring. Planning for the new building began in 1953 and the first phase of construction began in 1955, which was based on a design by the district master builder Wittmann and cost 1.9 million D-Marks . In March 1957, the new building was ready for occupancy, the inauguration took place on September 25, 1957. After its completion, it initially only housed the health department, the public order office and the education office . In 1963, the district building was enlarged in the second construction phase on the property at Bachstrasse 36 by adding an additional 1,200 m² office space and was able to accommodate additional authorities. The new district building consisted of three staggered, flat-roofed building complexes with a dominant 6-storey high-rise as well as 3-storey building sections connected on both sides and contained 130 office rooms. The exterior with brick walls and a natural stone plinth made of basalt and inside with wall paneling , oak parquet floors (in the large conference room) and modern technical systems were comparatively complex for the construction period. After the dissolution of the district of Bonn in the course of the local reorganization of the Bonn area on August 1, 1969, the property in Bachstrasse served as a branch of the district administration of the new Rhein-Sieg district in Siegburg until June 1983 , was sold in 1985 and is now the headquarters of the tax office Bonn-Außenstadt . The former district building on Mozartstrasse was given up and sold by the district. In the following period it was used as an office building, including in the mid-1990s as the consular department of the Embassy of the Slovak Republic . It has been the headquarters of IVG Immobilien AG since spring 2015 .

Web links

Commons : Mozartstrasse 4–10 (Bonn)  - Collection of images
Commons : Bachstrasse 36 / Wittelsbacherring 16 (Bonn)  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 42, numbers A 95 , A 96 and A 97
  2. ↑ Wilhelmstrasse 15 at the time
  3. ↑ a b c d Herbert Weffer: The files of the district of Bonn . In: Sources on the history of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Volume 13, Archive of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, 1992.
  4. ↑ Bachstrasse 62/64 at the time , later Bachstrasse 38
  5. ^ Heinz Stoob; Erich Keyser (Ed.): German City Book: Handbook of Urban History , Volume 3, Part 3, Kohlhammer, 1939, p. 70.
  6. ↑ formerly Bachstrasse 56
  7. ↑ General journal for psychiatry and their border areas, Volume 92 , W. de Gruyter, 1930, p. 483.
  8. ^ A b Peter Bergmann-Franke: A new district building for the district of Bonn. In: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. Edition 27, year 2012, Edition Blattwelt, Reinhard Zado, Niederhofen 2011, ISBN 978-3-936256-46-8 , pp. 120–121.
  9. ↑ 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. 148 .
  10. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
  11. ↑ Bonn IVG with new headquarters , General-Anzeiger , April 30, 2015

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