Poppelsdorfer Allee 55

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House Poppelsdorfer Allee 55, entrance (2015)
Memorial plaque for Kurt Wolff to the left of the front door

The building Poppelsdorf Allee 55 is a residential building in Bonn district of south town , which was built 1908th It is located on the southeast side of Poppelsdorfer Allee , which marks the border with Weststadt . The house stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The house was built after a draft of the Bonn architect Johann Schwister (1862-1921), also known as client occurred simultaneously with the forming together with it an architectural unit houses Poppelsdorf Allee 53, 57 and 59. It can be the late phase of Art Nouveau assign . The first occupant of the house was the musicologist, composer and conductor Leonhard Wolff (1848–1934), father of the publisher Kurt Wolff (1887–1963).

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the Republic of Austria set up the office of its diplomatic mission, which was known as the "liaison office" at that time, in 1954, initially in the Gronau district ( Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse 10 ) . From January 1, 1954, Austria rented three floors of the house for an initial five years. The firm's move probably took place the following February. The ground floor accommodated the offices of the chancellor and press attachés , the first floor that of the ambassador , first and second allotted, the attic housed the archive, office and switchboard, and the basement kitchen and press archive. The second floor was still inhabited by private individuals. On December 20, 1955, the previous liaison office, which, as evidenced by the official sign attached in front of the building , traded as the Austrian representation , was converted into an embassy, making the house the first seat of the Austrian embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the spring of 1977 the embassy moved to a newly built office building in the Gronau district (Johanniterstraße 2).

The house was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn on December 29, 1986. From the end of the 1980s at the latest, it was the seat of the German Society for the United Nations under the name “Dag-Hammarskjöld-Haus” , until it followed in 2000 Berlin moved. In March 2006, a plaque in memory of the publisher Kurt Wolff was attached to the house .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 1097
  2. ^ Gerhard Kirchlinne: The Bonn Südstadt: One of the most splendid Wilhelminian style quarters in Germany . Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050248-4 , p. 102.
  3. ^ Address book of the city of Bonn 1910/11 , JF Carthaus, Bonn, p. 188. ( online )
  4. ^ A b c Rudolf Agstner : Representation - Embassy - Branch Office: an obituary for Austria's diplomatic mission in Bonn from 1950 to 2006 . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein, Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 55/56, Bonn 2006, ISSN  0068-0052 , pp. 293–326 (here: p. 303).
  5. ^ Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (Ed.): Directory of German Information and Documentation Centers , Volume 5, Saur, 1989, p. 242.
  6. ^ The UN site in Bonn , German Society for the United Nations - State Association of North Rhine-Westphalia eV

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '39.6 "  N , 7 ° 5' 45.9"  E