District House (Siegburg)

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District House (2007)

The district office in Siegburg is the seat of the district administration of the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district . The building was constructed in two phases from 1974 to 1981.

location

The district building is located at the entrance to the city on the north side of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz (house number 1), the intersection of Mühlenstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse. To the north is the Siegburger Mühlengraben , over which pedestrian bridges lead.

history

Former district office in Siegburg (1907)

After the expansion of the Siegkreis to include the Bonn district to the Rhein-Sieg district as part of the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area on August 1, 1969, planning began for the construction of a new district building on the site of the previous district office or district building . The Bonn architect Ernst van Dorp was commissioned to design the new building in 1973 at the latest . After demolition of the existing county building in 1974 began the construction, adjacent to the previously five floors in bricks built health department , together with the planned also by van Dorp parking garage hills emerged. In 1978, the first, in 1981 the second construction phase at a total cost of 94 million was Deutschmark completed. In connection with the construction of the district building , a park was completed by 1982 according to plans by the architectural office run by the Bonn garden architect Heinrich Raderschall , which is intended to convey the building to the city.

From the 1970s until 1988, the Rhein-Sieg district gradually acquired the houses and land on Mühlenstrasse between Kreishaus and Mühlengraben and some of them were used as additional office space. From 2002 to 2004 originated in this area, demolition of existing buildings a two wings of office, residential and commercial building ( "Mill Quarter"), whose main tenant in Erbbaupacht the county government - originally with the purpose association "Society for municipal data processing" and the "Office for psychological counseling services" - is. The health department then moved to the vacant rooms in the district building; the previous building was demolished in 2004/05. Since July 2014, the district building has been undergoing a comprehensive renovation in nine construction phases for the first time, expected to last until the end of 2019, for 37 million euros , in particular to meet fire protection requirements. Currently (as of 2014) around 1100 employees of the district administration work in around 600 offices in the district building.

architecture

The district building is a building complex staggered in height , which has up to twelve floors in its center and is oriented in the lower tracts to the surrounding buildings. The individual wings of the building are at a 45 ° angle to each other. In front of the building is a concrete sculpture ( tetrahedron / pyramid ) by the Hennef sculptor Leo Müllenholz (* 1921), which was erected on July 9, 1982 as art in the building , which is a symbol of the district with its 19 parts - the towns and communities belonging to the district should. It is popularly known as an anti-tank barrier .

literature

  • Andreas Pellens: A Bonn native builds. Ernst van Dorp 1950-2000 . Bouvier-Verlag, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-416-03033-5 , pp. 120-123.

Web links

Commons : Kreishaus  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the district building , Siegburg honor guard
  2. ↑ a b Fire protection renovation should start in mid-July , General-Anzeiger , March 14, 2014
  3. ↑ Edgar Haupt (Ed.): 5x11. From the architectural in the landscape. RMP Stephan Lenzen Landscape Architects , Pellens Verlag, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-9810534-2-7 , p. 122/123.
  4. ↑ New major project planned in Siegburgs City , General-Anzeiger , February 3, 2000
  5. ↑ The wrecking ball will swing in three weeks , General-Anzeiger, March 6, 2002
  6. ^ A "masterpiece" is growing next to the district building , General-Anzeiger, October 9, 2002
  7. ^ Loss of time made up by rain , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, September 26, 2003
  8. ↑ With full steam and double bottom , Kölnische Rundschau / Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau, December 12, 2003
  9. ↑ The days of outbuilding C are numbered , General-Anzeiger, August 25, 2004
  10. ↑ Refurbishment is delayed - fire protection renewal begins in mid-2014 , General-Anzeiger, August 3, 2013
  11. ↑ 34.6 million euros for renovation , Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger, September 6, 2013
  12. ↑ Forecast: costs will remain at 33.7 million euros , General-Anzeiger , 23 September 2014
  13. ^ District building until the end of 2018 construction site , General-Anzeiger , January 23, 2015
  14. ↑ Imtech bankruptcy leads to delays , Kölnische Rundschau / Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau, August 20, 2015
  15. ↑ Work in Siegburg is further delayed , General-Anzeiger , March 12, 2016
  16. ↑ This is how the construction work in the Siegburger Kreishaus is progressing , General-Anzeiger , September 21, 2017
  17. ↑ Fire protection renovation must bring current requirements and old construction in line , General-Anzeiger , November 25, 2014
  18. ^ Circle lets art overgrow , Kölner Stadtanzeiger from July 19, 2007, accessed on October 15, 2016
  19. ↑ Wilder Wein is supposed to beautify the "Panzersperre" , General-Anzeiger, July 21, 2007
  20. ^ Siegburg artwork is aging , General-Anzeiger, October 15, 2011


Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 36.2 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 25 ″  E