State Representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Bonn)

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Former Hamburg State Representation, today FORIS AG headquarters (2013)

The representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg at the federal government was located in Bonn's parliamentary and government district from 1950 to 2000 . The former building of the state representative office , a double villa built in 1907-09 and a guest house at the rear, are located in the Gronau district on Kurt-Schumacher-Straße (house numbers 18-20) in the center of the federal district , opposite the Schürmann building .

history

Double villa basement

Semi-villa basement, front elevation (1908)

The double villa was created according to a design by the Bonn architect and government master builder Julius Rolff , as his second project in the "Villa Colony Gronau" on what was then Drachenfelsstrasse on the southern outskirts of Bonn. Alfred Keller, partner in the Rolffs & Co company in Siegburg and co-owner of the site in Gronau, acted as the builder of both half-villas . The northern half of the house was tackled first. In response to the respective building applications from March and May 1907, building permits were issued in April and June . In September 1908 the use of the northern half-villa (for the manor owner Roth) could be accepted, the southern half-villa in September 1909. Subsequently, the house halves over the terrace facing the Rhine received glass roofs, which were removed for use together with the last half-villa.

On the property of the southern half-villa (today Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 18) a coach house as a chauffeur house and garage was built in the garden in 1919/20 , for which Rolffs was again responsible. In 1926 it passed into the possession of the consul Ernst Kramer. In that year he had a stable with an apartment built according to plans by the architect Felix Krüger . After the Second World War , bombed out and displaced persons were housed in the twin villa .

State representation Hamburg

After Bonn had become 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 . In March 1950, the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg acquired the 45-room villa to accommodate its state representative (representation at the federal level). The previous tenants were initially supposed to be evicted , but were eventually given replacement apartments. The building was occupied in February 1951. In 1965, the remise belonging to the villa was converted for residential purposes. In 1978 a guest house was built in the park of the property. Hamburg had another guest house in the nearby Villa Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 18 . In the course of the relocation of the seat of parliament and government , the state representation with its last 31 employees moved to Berlin in 2000 . The FORIS AG took over the building and turned it into their headquarters one for which the top floor of the villa has been expanded. After 2000, parts of the historic fencing of an underground car park entrance fell victim; In addition, a porch was set in the garden at base height in front of the northern terrace. Today there is an Italian restaurant on the ground floor.

The Villa from 1907 stands as a monument under monument protection ; The entry in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn took place on January 24, 2002. In front of the building is an original anchor of a deep- sea ​​ship (Spek anchor) set up in June 1978 as a gift from the Hamburg shipyard Blohm + Voss to the state representative , which points to the importance of shipbuilding for Hamburg and is under protection as part of the monument.

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 offices in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2013, pp. 17–55 (here: pp. 32–33) . ISBN 978-3-89870-796-1 .
  • 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. 294–300. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

Web links

Commons : State Representation Hamburg Bonn  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ provisionally designated with the number I.
  2. ↑ As early as 1919, a Kramer client is listed
  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. 233/234.
  4. ↑ a b Angelika Schyma: The houses of the state representations in Bonn
  5. ^ Former guest house of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg , Marc Asbeck property
  6. ^ Selling, renting out, exploiting: Farewell to the Länder , General-Anzeiger , February 9, 1998, Bonn city edition, p. 3
  7. ↑ A lawyers' group with its own bus stop , General-Anzeiger, May 23, 2005
  8. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 3768
  9. ^ Gabriele Zabel-Zottmann: Sculptures and objects in the public space of the federal capital Bonn - installed from 1970 to 1991 . Dissertation, Bonn 2012, part 2, p. 153. ( online PDF ; 5.8 MB)

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 58.2 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 39.5 ″  E