Kronprinzenstrasse 2 (Bonn)
The building at Kronprinzenstraße 2 is a villa in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn , which was built in 1911/12. It is located in the Rüngsdorf district and is comprised of Rüngsdorfer Strasse, Kronprinzenstrasse and Sedanstrasse. The villa stands as a monument under monument protection .
history
The villa was created according to a design and commissioned by the local architect Willy Maß as the client, who designed numerous buildings in Bad Godesberg. He lived in the property with his family until 1916; his studio was behind the house in a courtyard belonging to Rüngsdorfer Strasse. In 1919 Maß rented the villa to a steel goods manufacturer from Solingen , who later bought it.
After the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany in 1953, Syria set up its embassy (including consular department ) at the seat of government in Bonn, after its initial location in Cologne, in the villa until 1954. With the merger of Syria and Egypt to form the United Arab Republic (UAR) in 1958, the former Syrian embassy was transformed into a joint embassy for both countries. After the Union broke up in 1961, the villa was no longer home to the Syrian embassy, but to the Egyptian embassy (initially under the name VAR). When diplomatic relations between Egypt and the Federal Republic of Germany were interrupted at the end of the 1960s, the Afghan embassy carried out business for the country from there with a "Department for the Interests of the UAR". With the resumption of relations in June 1972, a regular embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt opened in the villa.
In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the Egyptian embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 . The villa is now used as a private residence. The house was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn in 2000.
architecture
The villa is built on two floors over a high base ( basement ) and has side extensions, one of which carries the entrance stairs. Stylistically , it can be attributed to neoclassicism . The main building comprises six window axes , the middle four of which are located on a projecting central projection with the entrance portal . A triangular gable forms its upper end , the tympanum (gable field) of which is decorated with garlands and putti . The facade is structured by pilasters with Ionic capitals . The keystone of the portal arch shows two intertwined rings and a frog sitting above them. The building's ceilings are made of reinforced concrete , which the architect used here for the first time.
literature
- Horst Heidermann : 100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund: Godesberg traces . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN 0436-1024 , Issue 44 (2006), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2007, pp. 90/91, 95/96.
- Walfried Pohl: The architecture of the Godesberg villa district at the beginning of the century . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN 0436-1024 , Issue 12 (1974), pp. 43/44.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 35, number A 3619
- ↑ a b c Horst Heidermann: 100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund: Godesberg traces .
- ↑ Diplomatic and other official foreign missions as well as representations of international organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of September 1954). In: Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1954, p. 1554 ff.
- ^ Stamm-Leitfaden durch Presse und Werbung , Stamm-Verlag, 1965, p. 191
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Justice: Federal Gazette, issues 1-28 , 1971, p. 4.
- ^ Walfried Pohl: The architecture of the Godesberg villa district at the beginning of the century .
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 6 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 1.4 ″ E