State Representation North Rhine-Westphalia (Bonn)

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Former state representation of North Rhine-Westphalia, aerial photo, 2018
State representation of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1987

The representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal government was based in Bonn's parliamentary and government district from 1949 to 2000 . The former building of the State Representation is in the village Gronau on the Dahlmannstraße 2 (formerly Gorres road 13) in the center of the federal district , just east of the former Federal Chancellery building (now the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ) and northwest of the square of the United Nations . It is still owned by the land.

history

State representation Bonn, architect: Heinrich Bartmann , 1953/1954

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, the state representation was initially housed in Block IIb of the makeshift so-called "press houses" at the Bundeshaus . Then the land in the Bad Godesberg district of Friesdorf acquired a villa on the edge of the forest (Hochkreuzallee 246). It was unsuitable for the needs of a state representation, both functionally and representatively. In addition, office space was rented in the government district, which, however, did not appear to be sustainable due to the associated separation of business operations. Due to Bonn's proximity to the state capital Düsseldorf and the location of the seat of government in its own state, the state finance ministry had also considered dispensing with a state representation.

The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia acquired the 15,000 m² property of the later state representative on Görrestrasse in 1952 on the proposal of Federal Councilor Carl Spiecker . Up to now there were four of the “press houses” on it, the demolition of which, which was necessary for the new building, had to be politically enforced. After a positive vote by the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament , the state's reconstruction ministry launched a limited architectural competition in 1952 , in which the Darmstadt architect Heinrich Bartmann received the first prize and the Cologne architect Hans Schumacher the second prize. The first-placed design by Bartmann for an angled, two- and three-story office building, which was built by 1954/55, was determined to be executed . 1968–1969 the building was rebuilt and a three-story extension was completed, which is connected to the old building by a two-story wing. The glazed ground floor of the wing was designed as an entrance hall. The renovation and expansion measures were in the hands of the Recklinghausen architect Günther Marschall .

In 1992–1995 the building was enlarged by the Cologne architects Busmann + Haberer ( Peter Busmann , Godfrid Haberer ), the size of which was slimmed down as a result of the decision made by the capital city one year before construction began . Günther Marschall's extension was supplemented by an acute-angled extension with two conference halls and a garden foyer on the southeast corner . The entrance hall on the ground floor of the connecting wing was extended by a glass pavilion and a lobby . The architects replaced a commercial building on the side of the Federal Chancellery in the north-west of the state representation with a three-story new building with a multi-purpose hall for 200 people, guest rooms and service apartments. Furthermore, the original building from 1954 was rebuilt again. After this expansion, the state representation with its new conference rooms was repeatedly used for important state and federal political tasks; Coalition negotiations between the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen took place here both after the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1995 and after the federal election in 1998 , and the first coalition agreement at federal level between the two parties was signed here on October 20, 1998.

"The conversions and extensions of the second and third building phases developed the existing architecture in a contemporary interpretation and created an overall facility in a 'new look' while maintaining design continuity."

- Angelika Schyma (2013)

In the course of the relocation of the seat of parliament and government (1999/2000), the North Rhine-Westphalian state representation with 53 employees moved to Berlin in August 2000 . After one year of renovation work, the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology Foundation became the new user of the building in autumn 2004 , to which the state of North Rhine-Westphalia provided the premises free of charge until the institute moved out in February 2018. The property is the last of the former 16 state representations in Bonn that is still owned by the respective state. North Rhine-Westphalia intended to sell the property to the federal government in order to create additional office and event space for the settlement and work of international organizations and international non-governmental organizations . In January 2019 it was announced that the International Paralympic Committee , which is already based in Bonn, will have its headquarters there in the future. However, it is planned to leave the property in state ownership and rent it to the IPC.

See also

literature

  • Angelika Schyma : The houses of the state representations in Bonn . In: Kerstin Wittmann-Englert, René Hartmann (eds.): Buildings of the countries: The state representatives in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2013, pp. 17–55 (here: pp. 40–44) . ISBN 978-3-89870-796-1 .
  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 94.
  • 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. 129 .
  • Lutz Kaßmann: From the Rhine to the Spree. Representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the federal level from 1949 to 2009 . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-402-12883-1

Web links

Commons : State Representation North Rhine-Westphalia Bonn  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Gazette of the City of Bonn (pdf), No. 45, see last page for plan ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bonn.de
  2. ^ Official Journal of the City of Bonn (pdf), No. 27, Annex 1, see last page for map
  3. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 239.
  4. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 946.
  5. ^ Susanne Willen: The Cologne architect Hans Schumacher: his life's work until 1945 . In: Günther Binding (Ed.): Publications of the Department of Architectural History of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne , 57, Cologne 1996, p. 329, ISSN  0940-7812 (also dissertation University of Cologne, 1995)
  6. ^ Signing of the coalition agreement between the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen on October 20, 1998 , Marco Urban Photojournalist
  7. ↑ Angelika Schyma: The houses of the state representations in Bonn
  8. ^ Selling, renting out, exploiting: Farewell to the Länder , General-Anzeiger , February 9, 1998, Bonn city edition, p. 3
  9. ↑ B-IT moves into its new building. International elite courses got off to an impressive start. , Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT , November 16, 2004
  10. ^ Extract from the Budget Act 2007 , p. 276
  11. ↑ Draft law of the state government: Law on the establishment of the budget of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the financial year 2016 (Budget Law 2016) , Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia, 16th electoral period, printed matter 16/9300, 20 August 2015, p. 41
  12. ↑ The federal government is to take over the former NRW state representation , General-Anzeiger , December 30, 2015
  13. ^ Hochhaus am Wasserwerk , General-Anzeiger , April 13, 2016
  14. ^ Rüdiger Franz: Moving to a new location - Paralympic Committee binds to Bonn. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . January 24, 2019, accessed January 25, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 13.7 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 15.4 ″  E