Metropol (Bonn)
The Metropol was a cinema in the center of Bonn . Its large house with 864 seats was the last large cinema in the Art Deco style in Germany. The building has been a listed building since 1983 . After it passed into the hands of a new owner in December 2005, the cinema was closed in March 2006. According to initial plans, the building was to be converted for "large-scale commercial use" . After the new owner's initial renovation plans had been rejected by the City Council of Bonn, Lord Mayor Bärbel Dieckmann advocated modified renovation plans in May 2007, but their implementation was stopped in autumn of the same year. A citizens 'initiative collected more than 16,000 signatures from September 2007 to May 2008 as part of a citizens ' initiative aimed at preserving the monument and its further use as a site of culture. In May 2008, the city administration submitted a draft resolution to the relevant council bodies to reject the new owners' latest renovation plans and referred them to the possibility of selling the building to a user who would like to use the building for cultural purposes while preserving the monument. On August 26, 2008, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster (OVG) decided that only the facade of the building was listed as a monument. The court did not allow an appeal. The city appealed against the non-admission of the revision. This was rejected; The OVG decision is therefore final. The conversion to a bookstore began in 2009 and was completed in autumn 2010.
history
The “Metropol-Theater” cinema on Bonn’s market square was built in 1928 to a design by the local architects Toni Kleefisch (1888–1975) and Jacob Stumpf in place of the earlier cinema of the same name that opened in 1911 and began operating on January 29, 1929 with a performance of the film "Battle for the Matterhorn" by Luis Trenker . The film was accompanied by an in-house orchestra and a cinema organ from M. Welte & Sons .
Prominent actors like Charlie Rivel (1936), Zarah Leander (1963) and Claudia Cardinale (1971) came to the Metropol for premieres in the years and decades that followed.
During the Second World War , the metropolis was damaged by British aerial bombs. After its quick repair, it was the only functional hall in Bonn for a while. Concert, variety and theater events were held here, even boxing matches.
In the 1970s, the "Bambi im Metropol" was added to the Great Hall, a small cinema on the first floor on the site of the former café.
The Metropol's cinema organ is now in Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet ( Rüdesheim ), and has been ready to play again since 2009 in a newly built cinema.
Failed demolition plans in the 1980s
In the 1980s, the Metropol was sold to WWK , which closed the cinema. Plans to tear down the Metropol and build a business and residential building in its place failed after violent public protests in front of the OVG Münster .
Entry in list of monuments
The Metropol was opened on October 27, 1983 by order of the Supreme Monument Authority. 3 DSchG NRW entered as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn. The entry has the following wording:
“It [the Metropol] is significant for human history and thus also for the city of Bonn, since it was built in 1928, i.e. at a time when the cinema had reached a level of development that for society at the time was next to theater, opera and Concert had become an essential entertainment factor.
With the development of the cinema, a new building task arose from an architectural-historical point of view, namely to build large movie theaters in the cities. The latter, like the Metropol in Bonn, are related to building typology and building design in particular with theaters. It is of particular importance for the Metropol that it has a stage so that it could not only be used as a cinema but also, for example, for variety events. Functionally, the Metropol thus still follows a tradition that goes back to the original time of cinema, according to which cinema screenings (especially during the silent film era) were combined with musical and other performances. This is of great importance for a documentation of the history of the play of light. In the Metropol, the type of movie theater with entrance and ticket area, cloakroom in the basement, foyer and refreshment room (café) in front of the entrances to boxes or tiers on the 1st floor, a festively domed projection hall with a balcony that extends to the sides of the stage has been preserved. Since the large cinemas were no longer economical since the 1960s due to the increasing spread of television, an abundance of large movie theaters were demolished or converted for other uses. This negative development of the large cinema gives the Metropol its considerable monument value, since the construction task of large cinema has meanwhile become history and with the Metropol only one of the few theaters of this type in our country has survived.
In addition to the original details only partially preserved inside, the facade of the metropolis facing the market proves the building to be a typical work with the design language of the 1920s influenced by the Bauhaus . This is evidenced by the geometric structuring elements in the arrangement of the simple pillars of the three-axis entrance zone with a broad emphasis on the center, the area of the first floor (cafe) formed by five large rectangular windows above it, with a balcony in front of it, as well as those joined to form a group of three Windows in the middle of the second and third floors, flanked by narrow doors with semi-circular small balconies in front of them on the second floor and correspondingly narrow windows on the third floor. These narrow doors, balconies and windows lie in a high , narrow field that extends into the facade and extends to the eaves . This facade design ensures that the five-axis structure indicated by the windows on the first floor is preserved in the floors above, but the three-way rhythm with emphasis on the center in the entrance area remains visually effective for the entire facade, especially on the 2nd and 3rd floors . "
Restoration according to the original plans
After the former owner had already started demolishing the building, it was largely demolished in the rear area of the building as a result of legal proceedings and the entry in the list of monuments (with the consent of the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation ) and rebuilt in detail in the period 1988/1989. Among other things, the Rabitz dome and the stage portal were completely renewed.
In addition, the usage has been changed and expanded. In addition to the large (cinema) hall, three more cinema rooms were set up, the small cinemas “Metropol A” and “Metropol B” in the basement , and the so-called “Kuppelsaal” above the dome of the large hall in the attic. Apartments and offices were housed in parts of the building.
Since the renovation, the building has been in a condition corresponding to the original from 1928.
Cinema operation 1990–2006
In the early 1990s, the Ufa cinemas acquired the Metropol. After a thorough renovation, the Metropol was reopened in 1990. Instead of the “Bambi”, there was now a café again, for which three additional cinema halls were installed: the “Dome Hall” above the Great Hall and the “Metropol A and B” cinemas in the basement.
After Ufa went bankrupt in 2002, the Great Hall and the Dome Hall continued to be operated by Cinestar , and Halls A and B were operated by Theater Krüger GmbH & CO. KG ". Both companies stopped operating the cinema in 2006 after the house was auctioned from the UFA bankruptcy estate to a new owner who has no interest in running the cinema.
Reconstruction plans 2005–2009
On December 14, 2005, the Metropol changed hands in an auction . The listed building was transferred from WWK to the newly founded "Metropol Immobilien- und Management GmbH" based in Ratingen . Managing director Rainer Götzen, who is also managing director of " Interboden Innovative Gewerbeimmobilien GmbH & Co. KG ", bought the building for 3,125,000 euros and just outbid Frank Asbeck, the SolarWorld founder, who, unlike Götzen, originally received the building as a cultural center wanted to. The Bonn businessman Klaus Töpfer (not related and by marriage to the well-known CDU politician and former environment minister) is also involved in "Metropol Immobilien- und Management GmbH". Potter owns u. a. the department store next to the Metropol with the address Wenzelgasse 1.
A calculation of the market value of the metropolis with monument protection by an expert had resulted in 1.9 million euros. Without a preservation order, the building would have been worth 3.7 million euros.
The new owner no longer wants to use the building as a cinema in the future. Instead, a “future-oriented retail concept” is to be implemented that “does not yet exist in the Bonn region”, says Vanja Schneider, Managing Director of “Interboden GmbH & Co. KG”. An “economically sustainable use of the metropolis as a cinema and stage” is “not guaranteed” in the future. The plans of the new owners were to combine the buildings Wenzelgasse 1 and Metropol into a large department store using wall openings.
The head of department responsible for the city of Bonn indicated that they agreed to the new owner's plans . In contrast, by the end of 2006, more than 40,000 people supported the efforts of the citizens' initiative RETTET DAS METROPOL in a signature campaign to preserve the building "in its current construction and function for the present and posterity".
At the end of February 2006, Cinestar announced that it would close the doors of the metropolis on March 16. A spokesman for the group justified this decision with the low occupancy of the two halls of 7.6 percent. The last performance took place on March 15th.
Bonn artists, including the Springmaus Ensemble and Curt & Alan Delander, held a benefit concert on May 30th in support of the demand for the preservation of the metropolis on Museum Square .
Pre-construction request from the owner
For the meeting of the “Committee for Planning, Transport and Monument Protection” on March 30, 2006, the city administration announced that on February 13, 2006 the new owner of the metropolis “ submitted a preliminary building request for the conversion of the listed building complex of the Metropol-Kino near the city of Bonn submitted ". According to the notification for the Monument Committee, the preliminary construction inquiry aimed at a change of use - "large-scale commercial use". After the preliminary building request had been submitted, the city administration held talks with the owner and the architect, "with the aim of changing this planning and the long-term preservation of the monument." In this context, the city pointed out that the registration of the building in the list of monuments, "final after exhaustion of all legal remedies (rejection of the appeal by judgment of the Higher Administrative Court of Münster of April 14, 1987), d. H. unimpeachable ". "Since then, all (structural) changes are subject to the reservation of permission from the Lower Monument Authority (§ 9 DSchG NRW)."
“Relevant to historic monuments” was the name given by the city administration to the following individual measures, which the administration reported on at the meeting on March 30, 2006:
- Removal of the entrance stairs
- Moving in an additional level in the balcony area and in the stage building
- Installation of an escalator system in the previous spectator area under the dome
After the deliberations in the monument committee, the main committee of the city decided unanimously on April 27, 2006 to instruct the administration “to exhaust all possibilities in order to preserve the Metropol monument without burdening the city budget”.
Attempt to fix the use of culture
As a template for the meeting of the council on June 14, 2006, the administration submitted a statement in which it stated that, for reasons of monument protection, a positive decision had not been possible for the owners of the previously intended planning.
After the owner had been informed of this, his lawyer expressly restricted the preliminary building inquiry in April 2006 to a statement on the permissibility of the type and extent of the planned use as retail space .
At its meeting in June, the council decided to instruct the administration to present “a plan for the realignment of the marketplace”. This should be designed in such a way that it excludes a further concentration of urban retail trade on the market and “in this context, the definition of the property Bonn, Markt 24 / Wenzelgasse 1 and 9 on a cultural and / or event use, which is an indispensable part of a City center with high quality of stay and user quality ”. In addition, the council issued a ban on changes in the area.
Planning approval for retail
Because the administration had neglected to inform the council about deadlines for the preliminary inquiry, the mayor announced on June 28, 2006, that despite the council decision, the owner's application would be dealt with "quickly". An appraisal commissioned by the city sees an obligation to positively modify the conversion requested in a preliminary building request. If the city does not do that, it is acting unlawfully and thereby making itself liable for damages .
“Even with an earlier decision to draw up a development plan with a subsequent ban on changes,” the city said in a statement dated September 29, 2006, “a stipulation of the use of the cinema or cultural use could not have been achieved. In terms of urban planning, it is not possible to specify the use of the Markt 24 property as an entertainment venue or facility for cultural purposes or as a cinema. "
However, the city also emphasized that the building law approval for a conversion does not constitute a building permit. As before, there were considerable reservations under monument law against the conversion plans submitted by the owners.
Rejection of the renovation plans under monument law
After coordination with the Upper and Supreme Monument Authority in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Bonn city curator explains the architecture of the metropolis and the new owner's renovation plans to the council committees. He named the architecture as special features
- the semi-public entrance area,
- the stairs and entrance doors and their distribution function to cafes, cinemas and offices,
- the foyer with the central ticket booth,
- the stairs to the Great Hall and
- the great hall with balcony and stage.
The owner's plans were
- to integrate the entrance area into the non-public sales area,
- to remove the stairs in the vestibule and completely change the distribution function using escalators,
- to dissolve the foyer and to integrate it into the sales area and to remove the ticket booth,
- to remove the stairs to the Great Hall and the partition walls and thus dissolve the Great Hall as a unit,
- to pull a false ceiling into the stage portal and
- To create breakthroughs on all floors to the neighboring house Wenzelgasse 1 in order to merge the sales areas of both houses.
In a draft resolution dated July 25, 2006, the administration rejected the owners' renovation plans for reasons of monument law. The reasoning concludes: “From the point of view of the monument authority, the sum of the interventions means that the experience of the entire complex is impaired to such an extent that permission under monument law cannot be granted for the project in this form. The monument would in fact be destroyed. "
All council groups agreed with this view in meetings of the subcommittee on monument protection and the planning committee on August 9th and 10th. In the same draft resolution, the administration voted in favor of the application for a temporary change in use of the foyer of the Metropol-Kino to retail space.
New use of the foyer
On August 30, 2006, the council dealt again with the Metropol. He unanimously rejected the application dated June 23, 2006 for a permit under monument law in accordance with § 9 Monument Protection Act for the renovation of the Metropol-Kino, Markt 24, in Bonn. At the same time, with the votes of the CDU, SPD and FDP against the votes of the Greens and the Bonn Citizens' Union, he agreed to an “interim use” of the foyer for retail purposes.
As a result of the council decision, a few days later a shop with paper and plastic flowers and other gifts opened in the entrance area.
The citizens' initiative Pro Metropol lodged a complaint with the district president in Cologne against the permission for interim use . This was refused on October 30, 2006. Head of Department Norbert Hundt from the Cologne district government pointed out that the temporary use was limited to August 31, 2008. Contrary to the concerns of the initiative, he saw no substance danger to the monument. He emphasized that the Metropol as a monument has “undeniably a very special value” and hopes that “in the struggle for a use of the Metropolis that is compatible with historical monuments, a solution will be found that does justice to the value of the monument and its importance rather than the current use, which does not correspond to the dignity of the building. "
Expansion of the cinema seats by the owner
While buyers have been able to purchase gift items in the foyer since the beginning of September, proceedings against the new owner were initiated at the same time. After it was announced at the end of August that he had removed most of the seats from the large cinema, the city asked for it to be replaced by September 10th. The lower monument authority ordered the immediate execution of the administrative order and set a fine of 5000 euros. In addition, a fine procedure for violating monument law was initiated.
On October 28, 2006, the Cologne Administrative Court ruled that the armchairs should be reinstalled immediately. "The fact that such a screening room also has appropriate seating," said the judges, "does not require any further explanation."
Against this decision, the owners had again filed an objection on the grounds that the chairs of the unused cinema had been removed because of “expensive filming” and “temporarily stored” in the hallways of the building. This contradiction was later withdrawn. According to the owner company, the seating was reinstalled at the end of November 2006.
No permission to demolish
By decision of October 9, 2006, the administration refused to grant permission under monument law to demolish the Metropol-Kino. The owner had applied for this in August, whereupon the city council of Bonn decided in its meeting on August 30, 2006 to ask the administration to negate the application.
In support of the application for demolition, the owners submitted that the cinema had lost its monument status due to numerous and massive interventions in the historical building fabric. They related to interventions that occurred after the judgment of the OVG Münster on April 14, 1987. With the judgment from 1987, the status of the Metropol-Kino as a monument was finally confirmed.
The administration found that - with one exception - all the construction measures mentioned by the owners concerned parts of the building that were not particularly interested in preserving them, so that the Metropol-Kino's monumental character has not been lost. Even the permission granted on July 23, 1987 to demolish the stage frame did not mean that the metropolis was no longer a monument. This approval was u. a. granted on the condition that the new stage frame, with the exception of the foundation, is rebuilt in the same form, in the same place, in the same material as an exact copy of the demolished original. The new stage frame has taken over most of the historical information that belonged to the original. “Neither the overall historical impression of the Great Hall”, according to the administration, “nor the testimony of the Metropol-Kino were significantly reduced by the reconstruction. Since the historical expressiveness and the identity of the Metropol-Kino has not suffered from the restoration and renovation work carried out to this day, all of which were carried out in consultation with the Rhenish Office for the Preservation of Monuments, the building's status as a monument still exists, the application for termination has been rejected by the administration. "
The new owners started a new attempt to deny the building's monumental character at the end of 2006. They again sued the city at the Cologne Administrative Court. The court should examine whether the Metropol has lost its monument status as a result of modifications that were carried out after it was entered in the list of monuments.
Roncalli shows interest
At the end of April 2007, Circus Roncalli boss Bernhard Paul expressed an interest in the Metropol. Paul, who runs variety shows in Düsseldorf and Berlin, wrote in a letter to the citizens' initiative “Pro Metropol” that the building “with its tradition, its splendid furnishings and the large stage (has) the right conditions for this. Variety show in the Metropol, we could well imagine. ”The basis, however, is a landlord who is interested in maintaining the house and who is open to culture.
Mayor wants to renovate
Mayor Bärbel Dieckmann took a position against a submission by the administration from May 2007, which provided for the rejection of modified renovation applications from the owners . The General-Anzeiger reported on May 10, 2007 that the mayor had "refused to sign the draft of the template and commissioned the incumbent planning officer, Volker Kregel, to examine the specific conditions under which the conversion of the building into large-scale retail could be approved."
In July 2007, the parliamentary groups in Bonn's city council were then sent invitations to a meeting on a new submission from the city administration, according to which the revised building application from the current owners of the metropolis was now "approved". In detail, the building application now provides for the initially planned openings on the ground floor to the neighboring building Wenzelgasse (to the right of the entrance) to be dispensed with. The same applies to the escalators planned in the foyer to access the 1st floor. Instead, the two curved stairways should be reactivated. The owner still wants to hold on to the installation of three escalators in the Great Hall. The General-Anzeiger quotes “urban planners and monument protectors”: “Despite the total of three escalators that are to be installed in the Great Hall, this room with its historical design details with stage frame, dome, balcony and painting remains as the central heart of the cinema thus also understandable. "
Immediately after it became known, the citizens' initiative RETTET DAS METROPOL expressed their rejection of this plan: “Due to the intervention of the Lord Mayor,” it said in a statement on July 18, 2007, “the administration is evidently compelled to submit an irrelevant proposal to the Bonn City Council To enable extensive destruction of the listed Metropol Theater. ”The plans are also rejected by the GREENS. In contrast, the CDU and SPD announced their approval of the “compromise”.
Investors want to buy Metropol and continue to operate it as a cinema
In August 2007, investors expressed their continued interest in acquiring the monument and using it as a cinema and cultural site in the future. They had already expressed this interest to Mayor Bärbel Dieckmann in 2006. The interested parties are a group of four investors. It includes the Bergisch Gladbach cinema multi, Helmut Brunotte. He ran the Metropol once before - from the end of the 1980s to the mid-1990s, before selling it to what was then UFA in order to devote himself to multiplex projects.
Instead of women's clothing, books
According to a report in the General-Anzeiger dated August 25, 2007, the owners of the Metropol deviated from their original plan to sell “high quality” women's clothing in the Metropol. According to the Bonner Blatt, you have signed a rental agreement with “a market leader in the book industry that has a term of at least ten years”. The tenant wanted to "implement a unique and innovative book concept with an integrated café in the historical ambience". A competition is to be held for the interior design.
The tenant, according to General-Anzeiger, is the Thalia bookstore chain owned by Douglas Holding AG , to which the Bouvier bookstore in Bonn has been part for some time. Thereafter, in the previous business premises of the bookstore, primarily scientific literature and the other books will be sold in the premises of the Metropol.
Administrative court: closer to the original today
On the basis of the modified construction plans, the city council of Bonn was to decide on August 30, 2007 about the further use and conversion plans of the monument. The day before, on August 29, 2007, the city surprisingly announced that parliamentary group chairmen and parliamentary group leaders of the CDU and SPD, together with Mayor Dieckmann, were of the opinion that a decision on future use could not be made after all. "In consideration of the objection decision of the Cologne district government of August 20, 2007", the city said in a press release, "and the hearing with the administrative court on August 29, 2007, it must be checked very carefully what is legally permissible."
The judgment was announced by the Cologne Administrative Court on October 12, 2007. It dismissed the new owner of the Metropol's lawsuit to delete the building from the list of monuments. The judges decided "that the monument protection has not expired through subsequent structural changes to the building." In the time after the judgment of the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia of April 14, 1987, with which the complaint by the plaintiff's previous owner against the entry of the Metropol in the monument list was legally rejected, in the opinion of the court no changes have been made to the Metropol that would affect the property of the monument. The judges stated that the changes approved after the above-mentioned ruling by the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia (essentially: demolition and reconstruction of the stage frame and parapet of the gallery, renewal of the flooring in the foyer, renovation of the facade, installation of the lift for the disabled) had not led to this the overall impression and the identity of the building have been lost. Rather, the detailed restoration of the replaced components, carried out with close involvement and according to the specifications of the monument preservation department, led to the fact that this overall impression is closer to the original from 1928 than it was before the changes mentioned. The changed components would therefore not only not conflict with the monument value of the building, but would also participate in the monument quality of the entire building.
Citizens' initiative collects more than 16,000 signatures
On September 2, 2007, the initiative “Save the Metropolis” started a petition for the preservation of the monument. The voting text read: “Yes, the city of Bonn should not grant this permit in the event that the owners of the Metropol-Theater apply for a permit in accordance with Section 9 of the Monument Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia, if they want to abolish the unity characteristic of the cinema of the rooms and the sequence of the rooms would allow ... “On May 6, 2008 the initiative of the city handed over the signatures of over 16,000 citizens.
Rejection of the renovation plans by the city administration
On May 15, 2008, the city administration submitted a draft resolution to the responsible bodies of the council to reject the application of the owners of January 29, 2008 for the granting of a permit according to § 9 of the Monument Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia for the renovation of the metropolis.
“The administration is of the opinion,” it says, “that the owners have not provided evidence that it is actually and financially impossible for them to exercise another use that is more compatible with listed buildings.” And further: “Ultimately, however, from the administration's point of view, what is decisive is the fact that the owners could sell the monument if economic use does not seem possible to them. "
OVG Münster: Metropol is not a monument
A vote on the administrative bill did not take place in the June meeting of the city council with reference to a pending decision by the OVG Münster. In this decision, on August 26, 2008, the court found that only the facade of the building is a monument. Otherwise, after this decision, the movie theater must be removed from the city's list of monuments, as the judges believe that it does not have enough original structure. The Senate did not allow an appeal to the Federal Administrative Court.
Complaint against the non-admission of the revision and its rejection
The city of Bonn appealed to the Federal Administrative Court against the non-admission of the appeal . The Rhineland Regional Council (the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation ) joined this. The filing of the complaint prevented the OVG judgment from becoming final until the Federal Administrative Court had reached a final decision. A spokeswoman for the Federal Administrative Court informed the Bonner General-Anzeiger on July 14, 2009 that the complaints had been rejected as unfounded. The judgment of the OVG Münster has thus become final.
Conversion and use as a bookstore
The conversion into a bookstore began in 2009 and was completed in autumn 2010. After the opening, the bookstore will offer the same program as the existing Bouvier / Thalia bookstore, with the exception of the “University, Science and Education” subject areas.
literature
- Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 56-58. [not yet evaluated for this article]
Web links
- Witness to History - Documentation Part 1
- Witness to History - Documentation Part 2
- Cinema trailer for the Citizens' Initiative Metropol Bonn
- List of monuments of the city of Bonn - entry from October 27, 1983 (PDF; 99 kB)
- Homepage "Save the Metropolis"
- List of documents and press articles on the page of "Save the Metropolis"
- Statements in the BORIS - Bonn Council Information on the Metropol
- Article in the Internet magazine rhein: raum from August 24, 2007: Wikipedia saves Metropol
- Contribution to the metropolitan litigation on monument debates
- Web address (domain) for a future Metropol Theater in Bonn
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Conservator North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Yearbook of Rheinische Denkmalpflege 39 , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-937251-23-5 , p. 222.
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn - entry: October 27, 1983 (PDF; 102 kB)
- ↑ Reconstruction and conversion of the monument Metropol-Kino, Markt 24 in Bonn - draft resolution
- ↑ General-Anzeiger Bonn (October 31, 2006): Metropolitan interim use is permitted ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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.
- ↑ Rhein: raum: Metropol: Another victory for monument protection ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ General-Anzeiger Bonn, December 5, 2006 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Notification given to owner - notification for the council
- ↑ We should not be under any illusions , General-Anzeiger, December 20, 2006
- ↑ a b City wants to approve the redevelopment of the metropolis, July 19, 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kino-Multi Brunotte is interested in the Metropol , Kölnische Rundschau, 23 August 2007
- ↑ Resolution 1 for August 30, 2007
- ↑ Az: 61-02- UDB-A 238 ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Statement on the Metropol monument, August 29, 2007
- ↑ Cologne Administrative Court: “Bonner Metropol - Lichtspieltheater remains a monument” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The wording of the judgment of the Cologne Administrative Court
- ↑ Resolution of May 15, 2008
- ↑ The Metropol is no longer a monument. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn, July 15, 2009.
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 8.8 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 7.3 ″ E