Olga Sunday

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Olga Sonntag (born August 1, 1923 in Hagen as Olga Vogt ; † May 25, 2010 in Bonn) was a German art historian and local historian.

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Sonntag came to Bonn in 1948 (or 1949) to study Latin and German . Together with her husband, the painter Hans Joachim Sonntag, she ran a sales department for laboratory technology . Sonntag was involved as a member of the FDP in local politics and in the Bonn homeland and history association , of which she became a board member. In 1972, the working group for the preservation of the historic city structure of Bonn was founded from this association , to which Sunday 1975 was delegated by their city council group. Since 1978 she has been chairman of the working group. In 1986 she put together the exhibition Bonn in the Imperial Era in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum , initiated on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, for the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein, which is counted among her special merits.

In 1970, Sonntag began studying art history (alongside the subjects of folklore and archeology ) at the University of Bonn with a focus on secular buildings from the 19th century. It began with many years of work on a dissertation on the villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn, which was initially supervised by Günter Bandmann and, after his death in 1975, by Christoph Luitpold Frommel (* 1933). In June 1994, Sunday was with this work his doctorate .

As chairman of the historical urban structure working group, Sonntag took an active part in shaping public opinion on the urban development of Bonn. The prevention of the demolition of the buildings on Maximilianstrasse / Poststrasse for the so-called “Cassius Bastei” in the area around the station forecourt (1980s), to which an art-historical report on Sunday for the house at Poststrasse 11 contributed, as well as the preservation , can be counted towards its success a row of houses on Münsterstrasse. In addition, it contributed to the failure of a massive rebuilding of the station forecourt on the basis of a referendum (2004). Sonntag campaigned in vain against the construction of the Post Tower (2000–2002), which, in their opinion, impairs the line of sight to the Siebengebirge .

Sonntag remained chairwoman of the historical urban structure working group until her death. As a board member of the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein she was elected honorary member in 2010 after she renounced her candidacy . After her death in 2013, the work group's collection of documents, which was held by Sonntag, was donated to the city archive.

Publications

  • Will Bonn train station lose face on its 100th birthday? An urban and art historical contribution to the current planning discussion about the Bonn train station area . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn (Hrsg.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter: Jahrbuch des Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV , ISSN  0068-0052 , Volume 34, Bonn 1982, pp. 173-224.
  • Bonn during the imperial period 1871–1914. An exhibition for the 100th anniversary of the Bonn Homeland and History Association in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn . Bonn 1986. [catalog]
  • Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 . 3 volumes, Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bonn's “highest monument conservationist” is dead. In: General-Anzeiger , May 31, 2010
  2. ↑ Sunday, Olga. In: Josef Niesen: Bonner Personenlexikon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 , p. 451.
  3. ↑ She sees herself as a keeper , General-Anzeiger, August 16, 2008
  4. ↑ An important piece of city history. In: General-Anzeiger , March 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Sunday, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogt, Olga (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2010
Place of death Bonn