State Central Bank (Bonn)

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Building of the former Landeszentralbank Bonn (2016)

The Landeszentralbank Bonn went back to a branch of the Reichsbank opened in 1892 and existed in the form of a branch of the Deutsche Bundesbank until 2007. The office building last used, built in 1977, is located in the Gronau district at Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 37-39 ( Bundesstrasse 9 ) Corner of Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee. Today it is rented as an office and residential building.

history

In December 1892, a branch of the Reichsbank office in Cologne was opened in Bonn, the establishment of which the Bonn Trade and Industry Association (later Bonn Chamber of Commerce) had previously worked in vain. In 1905 she got her own house in today's Fritz-Tillmann-Strasse (until 1933 and 1945–57 Hofgartenstrasse , 1933–45 Reichsbankstrasse ) in the southern part of the city . In 1921 the branch was converted into its own Reichsbank branch. In October 1944, the service building was destroyed in a bombing raid in the Allied air war, except for the safe, and was later rebuilt. After an architectural competition was held in the early to mid-1970s, to which the Stieldorf planning group also contributed a design that had not been considered, the new building of what is now the main office in Bonn of the state central bank North Rhine-Westphalia as the main administration of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Friedrich-Ebert-Allee was moved into in 1977 . On May 1, 2002, the previous state central banks were transformed into independent administrative subdivisions of the Deutsche Bundesbank and thus the main office in Bonn was converted into a branch of the Bundesbank. At the end of August 2002, the former main office was assigned the tasks of the former Siegburg branch, which was closed at that time .

As part of a structural reform of the Deutsche Bundesbank, the branch with its last 74 employees was closed on September 30, 2007 and its tasks were taken over by the Bundesbank branch in Cologne. The Bundesbank then offered the property for sale, which took place in June 2011. Deutsche Post DHL became a new user with several corporate divisions, including a subsidiary with a market research service provider.

The Bonn-based real estate entrepreneur Marc Asbeck acquired the property and carried out a technical and visual revitalization including an increase in 2017 , which was completed in 2019. Many elements were to disappear from the former structure - except for the safe (Asbeck: “It can't be blown away.”) And the stairwell with handrails and idiosyncratic brass rings. The oversized air conditioning with thick pipes and large snorkels and the control center, which took up an entire floor, were removed, as were 18,000 neon tubes that were replaced by LED lamps. The core should remain, the building is in the "new construction status" (Asbeck). Standards for fire protection, statics, energy efficiency and air conditioning had changed since 1977, so extensive construction work was necessary. 4,200 m² of office space and 22 luxury apartments have been available since the 3rd quarter of 2019. Since then, the building has served as the headquarters of the software company LeanIX and will continue to be rented by Deutsche Post DHL.

architecture

The building complex is divided into a two-part office building (Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 37–39) and a two-part residential building (Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 41–43) with a usable area of around 7,500 m² (formerly 7,000 m²) on a plot of 6,160 m² . The office building on the street side (Friedrich-Ebert-Allee) was originally four-story and two-story at the rear, it has windows with sun and privacy protection and dark-tinted glass. The residential building is three-storey and in its original state consists of 17 residential units and five apartments with accessible flat roofs. An underground car park with 72 parking spaces underneath both buildings.

In the basement there is a 200 m² and ten meter high safe. Under the impression of the " German Autumn " in 1977, the building was equipped with security components: The safe was equipped with a lock and secret passages for the police in the event of an attack, on the office floor there were escape routes around the facade as protection in the event of attempted hostage-taking .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 37–43 (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Bonn street cadastre
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Leyendecker: Kaiser Wilhelm II spoke a word of power . In: General-Anzeiger , Bonn city edition . December 16, 1992, p. 6 .
  3. ^ Wilfried Täubner : Stieldorf planning group. Buildings and projects . Cologne 1974, p. 75.
  4. ↑ Landeszentralbank closes Siegburg branch , General-Anzeiger , April 22, 2002
  5. ^ Bundesbank closes Bonn branch by 2007 at the latest , General-Anzeiger , October 31, 2003
  6. ^ Bundesbank branch closed on Friedrich-Ebert-Allee , General-Anzeiger , October 10, 2007
  7. ^ Bundesbank is looking for buyers for its Glaspalast , General-Anzeiger , June 3, 2008
  8. ↑ Bernd Leyendecker: Ex-Bundesbank-Dependance on the B 9 still empty , General-Anzeiger , February 9, 2009
  9. ↑ a b Bundesbank branch is sold , General-Anzeiger , June 29, 2011
  10. ↑ Notice board at the entrance to the building 2016 , Wikimedia Commons
  11. ↑ Market Research Service Center (MRSC) ( Memento from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Deutsche Post DHL Group
  12. ^ A b Thomas Kliemann: GA series "Bonn builds" - Trajektkreisel: In the carousel of Bonn history. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de . May 17, 2017. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
  13. ↑ a b Former state central bank. In: asbeck.com. MAG-Grundbesitz Bonn, accessed on January 2, 2020 .
  14. ↑ LeanIX GmbH: Imprint | LeanIX. Accessed January 24, 2020 (English).
  15. ↑ Bonn: DHL rents 4,200 m² in the former Landeszentralbank , Thomas Daily, November 30, 2017

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 48.3 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 31.5 ″  E