Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse 2 / Heussallee 40

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View from Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse (2013)

The building at Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 2 / Heussallee 40 is a twin villa in the Gronau district of Bonn , which was built in 1911/12. It is located in the center of the federal district . Both half-villas are listed as historical monuments .

history

The villa was created according to a design by the Bonn architect and government master builder Julius Rolff , as his fourth project on what was then Drachenfelsstraße (today Kurt-Schumacher-Straße) in the "Villa Colony Gronau" on the southern outskirts of Bonn. While Clara Freudenberg and Franziska Blume (wife of a mine director ) acted as builders for the northern half-villa located on what was then Siebengebirgsstraße (today Heussallee), Rolffs commissioned the southern half-villa, located on Drachenfelsstraße, to be sublet. In response to the respective building applications from May 5 and 19, 1911, the building permit for both semi-villas was granted on June 12 , and they were completed in June (Freudenberg / Blume) and August 1912 (Rolffs). The double villa was the last free-standing villa built on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn up to the First World War .

After the end of the war, an independent apartment was set up in the attic of the northern half-villa (Blume). The complete conversion of both semi-detached houses into multi-family houses with three separate floors each took place, again according to plans by Julius Rolffs, in 1933/34 (Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 2) and 1935 (Heussallee 40). At this point in time, after being vacant for two years, Rolff's former half-villa had become the property of a Nunkirchen union in Dresden .

After Bonn became the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, the villa was located in the middle of the new parliament and government district , immediately south of the Federal Palace . The ground floor of the half-villa at Heussallee 40 was taken over by the federal government in December 1951 at the latest, which now intended to divide it into two apartments by the federal building authorities . The half-villa at Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 2, the top floor of which again formed a separate apartment from 1951, later served as the headquarters of a press office . In April 1969, the medium-sized and business association of the CDU / CSU set up its first federal office at Heussallee 40 and stayed there until the government moved to Berlin (1999). The top floor of this half of the house was used by the German Bundestag for office purposes until at least 1972 .

Today, the half-villa at Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 2 under the name House of Consulting serves as the seat of various organizations, including since 2010 the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association of the German Society for the United Nations . The half-villa at Heussallee 40 is still the location of institutions that deal with medium-sized businesses , including the Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises .

  • Front elevation

  • Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 2, elevation of the side front

  • Heussallee 40, elevation to Heussallee

architecture

Rear of the double villa

The villa is built on two floors over a two meter high, slightly sloping base ( basement ) and has a slate roof . Its masonry consists of ring oven bricks (basement) or Keuper sandstone (ground floor) and the roof structure is made of fir wood . The facade shows a Terra Nova - plastering . As ironwork the window bars in the basement, as well as being executed enclosure of the land wrought iron grating on a sandstone base. The street front (Kurt-Schumacher-Straße) is characterized by a two-storey, two-meter-deep risalit below a loggia on the top floor and a semicircular porch. The rear front has a polygonal bay window on the southwest corner . The design language of Art Nouveau can be attributed , among other things, to prismatic bay windows. The original area of one of the half villas was 247  m² with an open area of 424 m².

literature

  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 309–316. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

Web links

Commons : Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 2 (Bonn)  - Collection of images
Commons : Heussallee 40  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 25, numbers A 916 and A 635
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Apel MdL
  3. ↑ Oral report of the budget committee (7th committee) on the draft of a law on the establishment of the federal budget for the budget year 1972 (budget law 1972) (PDF; 1.3 MB) , German Bundestag, 6th electoral period, printed matter VI / 3351
  4. ^ Regional association of the German Society for the United Nations moves to Bonn ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , press release of the city of Bonn, February 24, 2010
  5. ^ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, p. 296.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 4.5 "  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 33.1"  E