State Representation of the Free State of Bavaria (Bonn)

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Former seat of the Bavarian State Representation (2014)

The Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the Federation had from 1955 to 1999 based in Bonn government quarter . The building, built in 1954/55 according to plans by Sep Ruf , is located in the center of the federal quarter in the district of Gronau on Schlegelstrasse (house number 1) immediately south of the Federal Government's Press and Information Office , not far east of Willy-Brandt-Allee ( Bundesstrasse 9 ). It is a listed building as a monument . Today the seat of the German Foundation for Monument Protection is located here .

history

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, the Bavarian state representation was initially housed in Block III of the makeshift so-called “press houses” at the Bundeshaus and in today's Villa Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse 10 . The Villa Bülbring (Koblenzer Strasse 121a), which was partially destroyed in the war and which the city of Bonn had prepared for the Free State by autumn 1949, served as the guest house of the state representation ("Bayernhaus") .

The new building for the Free State of Bavaria was built between 1954 and 1955 based on a design by the architect Sep Ruf, who was also responsible for the construction of the Chancellor 's bungalow. It was one of the first newly built state representations in the provisional federal capital, Bonn, and caused a sensation, because the lightness and elegance as programmatic characteristics of the architecture of the young state set it apart from the representations of other federal states and placed it in a row with the new federal buildings Bonn.

From May 1963, Bavaria also had a guest house in the Schweinheim district (Axenfeldstrasse 7) in the form of a villa with around 350 m² of living space, in which the Bavarian State Minister for Federal Affairs lived, held political talks and hosted receptions during his stay in Bonn. At the beginning of 1995 Bavaria gave up the guest house, partly due to the discontinuation of representative tasks as a result of a restructuring of the state cabinet, and sold the villa.

With the relocation of the seat of parliament and government , the Bavarian representation , most recently with 50 employees, moved to Berlin in 1999 . The building was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn in 2002. In May 2009 it was the last of the 16 previous state representations - with the exception of the North Rhine-Westphalian one - to be sold to a private owner. The new owners were two investors from Bonn who wanted to convert it into an office building by autumn 2009 and sold it on to the German Foundation for Monument Protection in November 2009 . The foundation moved there in October 2010 with its headquarters in Bonn, which had previously been spread over several locations.

architecture

“The former Bavarian State Representation shows a close relationship with many of Sep Ruf's simultaneous buildings. Pavilion-like arrangement and staggering of the buildings as well as great transparency through a slim skeleton construction, floor-to-ceiling windows and doors tie in with the American villa construction of the 1930s and 1940s. The building is a valuable testimony to both the modern architecture of the post-war period and the history of the early Federal Republic and its capital Bonn. "

Originally built in 1954/55

The building is a three-storey steel frame structure, a single-storey wing extends to the rear of the garden. The elongated main building is completed by a stacked floor with a roof terrace and a protruding flat roof. The facade is structured by a grid of white columns and three-part windows with parapets made of black artificial stone. The laterally offset, fully glazed entrance is accentuated by a swinging canopy. The entrance leads to a ground floor hall with windows on the garden side and to the rear low-rise building, in which u. a. the offices of the Bavarian Prime Minister and the envoy, as well as meeting rooms were housed. The windows of the main building and the low building facing the garden were provided with orange drop arm awnings . In contrast to the modern, open architecture, the design of the wood-paneled, rustic "beer cellar", the legendary social "heart" of the state representation, which became known beyond the borders of the Bavarian representatives at the federal government, stood in contrast to the design.

Sep Ruf was also responsible for the interior design of the building. The design of the ground floor hall and the stairwell are likely to be striking. The ground floor hall closes off from the garden with floor-to-ceiling windows and narrow round columns. To Ruf's annoyance, the filigree pillars were provided with voluminous asbestos sheaths for fire protection reasons . The staircase is based on a free-standing reinforced concrete wall that runs from the ground floor to the top floor and is around 10 meters high, which was provided with an anthracite-colored terrazzo covering with a high level of manual effort. The floor covering on the upper floors of the stairwell was made of petrol-colored linoleum . The north-western front sides of the ground floor hall and the stairwell were designed in red. The "black" of the stairwell wall, the red of the front side and a gold-colored decorative strip in the ceiling area of ​​the ground floor hall form a black, red and gold - the colors of the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Expansion in 1982

An extension was completed in 1981/82 under the direction of the Stieldorf planning group and with the participation of Sep Ruf († 1982). The building was expanded to include a caretaker's apartment and, instead of a flat side wing, an extension with an underground car park. As a result, the main building was expanded in full by about a third on the right-hand side. While maintaining the basic grid, closed wall surfaces with bulletproof glazing were implemented. The parapets of the windows were no longer made of artificial stone, but of reinforced concrete; the paint was chosen in the black color of the artificial stone of the previous building. The bulletproof glazing corresponded to the security needs of the time, which were characterized by threats from the RAF . The cultivation included u. a. an elevator and a vault.

Structural changes during use by the Bavarian state representation

During the use of the building by the Bavarian State Representation, there were some structural changes. For example, the facade was designed in white and blue, in the colors of the state flag of Bavaria , and the orange blinds were replaced by horizontal metal blinds.

Reconstructions and extensions after 2010

After the German Foundation for Monument Protection took over the building, they tried to reconstruct the building in the spirit of Sep Ruf. The white and blue paint on the facade from the 1980s was removed as early as 2009. In a further step, the colourfulness of the ground floor hall was reconstructed. Details were restored from old photographs, such as B. the shape of the wall lights that have been replaced by replicas. The asbestos coats of the slim pillars were removed and replaced with fire protection paints of fire resistance class F30. In the places where petrol-colored linoleum flooring was originally laid, a decision was made to use needle-felt carpeting for reasons of soundproofing, whereby care was taken to ensure that the color was identical to that of the earlier linoleum flooring. Even the pattern of the curtains in the ground floor hall was reconstructed using historical photos. The beer cellar was significantly reduced in area; the majority of the cellar is now used as an archive by the German Foundation for Monument Protection. Topics still open are primarily a reconstruction of the orange drop arm awnings. Furthermore, consideration is being given to replacing the bulletproof and therefore extremely heavy windows from the 1982 extension with lighter, more manageable windows.

The German Foundation for Monument Protection found that the usable area was insufficient when the building was moved into. For this reason, a three-story extension was built in 2010 in the rear area, adjacent to Karl-Carstens-Straße. It is connected to the low-rise building of the previous building with a glass corridor.

architectural art

In the garden there are reliefs by the sculptor Josef Henselmann as building art and a ceramic relief by the sculptor Karl Knappe on the wall at the front of the pavilion ; Like architect Sep Ruf, both had taught at universities in Munich.

Exterior and interior views of the building

  • White-blue facade (2008)

  • Ground floor hall with staircase

  • Staircase on the first floor

  • Relics of the beer cellar

  • Low rise; in the foreground the former office of the Prime Minister

  • Low rise; in the foreground on the right the conference room

  • Drop arm awning on the low building

  • Extension from 2010

See also

literature

  • Felix Wellnitz: Building climate improvement and sustainable repair of listed administrative buildings from the 1950s using the example of the former Bavarian state representation of Sep Ruf in Bonn , Diss. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 2014 (E-book: https://e-pub.uni-weimar.de / opus4 / frontdoor / index / index / docId / 2303 ).
  • Angelika Schyma : The houses of the state representations in Bonn . In: Kerstin Wittmann-Englert, René Hartmann (eds.): Buildings of the countries: The regional representations in Bonn, Berlin and Brussels , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2013, ISBN 978-3-89870-796-1 , p. 17 –55 (here: pp. 23–25).
  • Bredenbeck , Moneke, Neubacher (Ed.): Building for the Federal Capital (= Edition Critical Edition , Volume 2). Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-938803-41-7 , pp. 95-99.
  • Walter Schmid: The white and blue message , Nuremberg 1976.
  • Helmut Vogt : Bridgeheads: The Beginnings of the State Representations in Bonn 1949–1955 . In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , ISSN  0035-4473 , volume 64 (2000), pp. 309-362. ( online )
  • 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. 128 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 50, number A 3811
  2. ^ 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 , pp. 57/58, 236.
  3. ↑ a b c Sep-Ruf-Bau on Schlegelstraße in Bonn , a leaflet from the German Foundation for Monument Protection, September 2011 (without naming the author)
  4. ↑ Karl-Ulrich Gelberg (Ed.): The Protocols of the Bavarian Council of Ministers, 1945-1954: 5.1.1949-29.12.1949 . In: Das Kabinett Ehard II: September 20, 1947 to December 18, 1950 , Volume 2, Oldenbourg, 2005, ISBN 978-3486575668 , p. Lvi.
  5. ↑ The Bavarians sell their guest house in Schweinheim , General-Anzeiger , February 4, 1995
  6. ↑ Selling, renting, exploiting: Farewell to the Länder , General-Anzeiger , February 9, 1998, Bonn city edition, page 3
  7. ↑ Open Monument Day, September 9, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baukultur-bonn.de 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. (PDF; 2.2 MB), s. 12
  8. ↑ Bavaria sells its representative office , General-Anzeiger, May 29, 2009
  9. ↑ A photo of the building with the orange blinds and the caption "The building after moving in in 1955" can be found in the article Climate-friendly post-war modernism on www.monumente-online.de, an online magazine of the German Foundation for Monument Protection.
  10. ↑ Angelika Schyma:  The houses of the state representations in Bonn .
  11. ↑ Felix Wellnitz: Building climatic upgrading and sustainable repair of listed administrative buildings from the 1950s using the example of the former Bavarian state representation of Sep Ruf in Bonn , Diss. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 2014, pp. 49, 51. (E-book: https: // e -pub.uni-weimar.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2303 )

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 2.4 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 18.6 ″  E