State Representation of Saarland (Bonn)

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Former building of the Saarland State Representation (2019)

The representation of the Saarland to the Federal Government had from 1969 to 1999 based in Bonn government quarter . The building, a double villa built in 1909/10 , is located in the district of Gronau on Kurt-Schumacher-Straße (house numbers 12/14) at the corner of Heinrich-Brüning-Straße in the center of the federal district opposite the Schürmann building .

history

Rolffs / Banze double villa

Outline of the executed design, Rhine front (1910)

The double villa was built between late summer 1909 and autumn 1910 based on a design by Bonn architect and government master builder Julius Rolff , as his third project in the direct Rhine location of what was then the "Villa Colony Gronau" on the southern outskirts of Bonn. The owner of the northern half-villa at Drachenfelsstrasse No. 8 was the steam carpenter's shop owner Adolf Banze, and the developer for the southern Drachenfelsstrasse No. 9 was initially the Kettwig Kommerzienrath Scheidt. The construction of wide terraces and high bay-like porches required special permits . The enclosure of the double villa was completed in 1911. During the construction period, Julius Rolffs decided to use the northern half-villa himself as an office. In 1932, the second floor was converted into a condominium .

After the Parliamentary Council began work in Bonn in September 1948, the parts of the Council's secretariat, whose presence in the building of the Pedagogical Academy was not required, were accommodated in 18 rooms on a usable area of 371  m² . After Bonn became the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the property was located in the middle of the new parliament and government district. In 1950 the Kingdom of Norway chose it as the seat of its first diplomatic mission in the Federal Republic of Germany. It was based at this location until 1964 and then moved to Bad Godesberg (→ List of diplomatic missions in Bonn ).

State representation of the Saarland

1968 had Saarland purchased a house Villa to where its been in Ippendorf based country representative to set up. The State Building Construction Office in Saarbrücken was in charge of the necessary renovation . The external appearance was retained except for a modernized flight of stairs . In 1969 the state representative office of Saarland moved in, and in 1972 the adjacent semi-villa was bought. Under the Prime Minister Oskar Lafontaine (1985–1998) a top chef was employed in the state representation , which met with public criticism in Saarland. After the Bundestag election in 1998 , an initial exploratory discussion between the SPD and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen about forming a government took place in the Saarland state representation on October 1, 1998 .

In the course of relocating the seat of parliament and government , the Saarland state representation with its last 26 employees moved to Berlin in 1999 . By early 2000, the property was sold to the Bonn entrepreneur Marc Asbeck , who had it renovated for around one (as of 2001) or three million (as of 2003) euros. Asbeck's company Asbeck Armoring and Solarworld AG , managed by his brother Frank Asbeck , with its 50 employees (as of 2002) headquarters, which relocated to the former Plittersdorf waterworks within Bonn at the end of 2008 / beginning of 2009, became new users . Since a renovation, which was completed in 2009, the double villa has been home to Deutsche Post AG offices under the name "Parc Offices III" (owner's project title) or "Haus Amazonas" . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

In front of the building is a cutter roller set up in March 1982 as a gift from Saarbergwerke AG to the state representative , which is intended to point out the importance of mining for the Saarland.

architecture

View from the Post Tower (2011)

The villa is two-storey built over a two-meter-high, slightly sloping base storey ( basement ). On the street front (Kurt-Schumacher-Straße) there are two single - storey bay-like porches, one semicircular and one rectangular. Oculi , including a stucco-framed one , decorate the two gable surfaces here . The upper and attic storeys of the southern side front are equipped with loggias the width of a gable risalit . The foundations of the building are stamped in concrete , hard ring furnace bricks were used as building material for the masonry and reinforced concrete for the ceiling construction .

See also

literature

  • Angelika Schyma : The houses of the state representations in Bonn . In: Kerstin Wittmann-Englert, René Hartmann (Hrsg.): 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 , pp. 17–55 (here: pp. 48–49).
  • 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. 285-293 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994).

Web links

Commons : State Representation Saarland Bonn  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ provisionally designated with the number I.
  2. ↑ Helmut Vogt : “I need quarters for me, driver and car”. The working environment of the Parliamentary Council in Bonn 1948/49 . In: Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 57/58, 2008, ISSN  0068-0052 , pp. 442-470 (here: p. 455).
  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. 221.
  4. ^ Joachim Hoell: Oskar Lafontaine. Provocation and politics. A biography. Dirk Verlag EK, Lehrach 2004, ISBN 3-9806151-8-9 , pp. 117/118.
  5. ↑ Generous connoisseur or penny pincher? , Die Welt , March 13, 1999
  6. ↑ Tagesschau from October 1, 1998 ( online )
  7. ↑ Selling, renting, exploiting: Farewell to the countries . In: General-Anzeiger , February 9, 1998, city edition Bonn, p. 3
  8. ↑ Luxury villas are in great demand with managers from Cologne and Bonn . In: General-Anzeiger , Bonn city edition . February 9, 2000, p. 6 .
  9. ↑ a b Bonner buys former Egyptian embassy . In: General-Anzeiger , January 6, 2002
  10. ↑ With em gudde beer un em Scheene Stick Worscht . In: General-Anzeiger , Bonn city edition . June 17, 2003, p. 7 .
  11. ↑ More than 2,000 Post employees are moving to the tower . In: General-Anzeiger , August 24, 2007
  12. ^ Parc-Offices III , Marc Asbeck real estate Bonn
  13. ^ Parc Offices III , Manstein Architects
  14. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 3602
  15. ^ 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. ( ulb.uni-bonn.de ; PDF, 5.8 MB)

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 37 ″  E