Press and Information Office of the Federal Government (Bonn)

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Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Welckerstraße 11 (2015)
Press and Information Office of the Federal Government (2006)

The building of the press and information office of the federal government in Bonn was constructed between 1954 and 1956. It is located in the center of the federal district on Welckerstraße (house number 11) and on the east side of Willy-Brandt-Allee ( B 9 ), directly south of the former Federal Chancellery building .

history

After its founding in September 1949, the Federal Government's Press and Information Office , which was then still a department of the Federal Chancellery , had its headquarters in Villa Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 10 (at that time Drachenfelsstraße ) in the middle of the newly created parliamentary and government district until May 1950 . Then it moved to the Ermekeil barracks in Bonn's southern part .

Between Görresstrasse and Welckerstrasse, cows that belonged to a farm owned by the Hennen family from Simrockstrasse grazed until 1954 . The first new building of the press and information office was built here from 1954 to 1956 under the overall direction of the Federal Building Department according to plans by architect Dirk Denninger, in the immediate vicinity of the former seat of the Federal Chancellery, the Palais Schaumburg . At the beginning of 1970, the first IT system for the Federal Chancellery was installed in the Press and Information Office.

Press and Information Office Pavilion (1989)

When it was completed, the building was outside of an urban context on the edge of a large meadow, the so-called Görreswiese . The new Federal Chancellery was built on this from 1973 to 1976 . With this, the press and information office was technically connected to an information network and a teletypewriter connection was established between the two buildings . In 1974 an information pavilion was built for the press and information office directly southwest on the corner of Willy-Brandt-Allee as a building project by the Federal Building Department (2000–2004 ifa gallery , today House of History ). In the course of the plans for a new building by the German Bundestag and Bundesrat , which began in the early 1970s , the "parliamentary pre-zone" was also to be reorganized and - this was the result of urban planning reports in 1978 - a new park was created as a "green zone" based on the model of the built-up Görreswiese become. In the long term, the relocation of the press and information office, i.e. the demolition of the building, was also planned.

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), another seat of the press and information office of the federal government was established there in August 1999, which as the main seat takes up most of the agency's work. Due to the office capacities that became available with the partial move, the property at the Bonn office has since been made available to other federal offices. In April 2001, Fiscus GmbH , which had been organisationally built up at the end of the previous year and owned by the federal and state governments and initially had around 100 employees, began its official work in the building. The company was liquidated from 2005 to 2008. From 2009 to 2010 an energetic renovation of the building took place, which affected the roof, the facade, the windows and the sun protection. Currently (as of 2017) around 70 of the 440 employees of the office, who work primarily in the administrative area, as well as part of the Federal Office for Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services of the Bundeswehr, are employed in the Bonn headquarters of the Press and Information Office . Since the renovation of Palais Schaumburg, which was initiated in August 2013 and is expected to last until 2022, the Press and Information Office building has also been home to the second headquarters of the Federal Chancellery with around 20 employees.

architecture

The building of the press and information office is a two- wing reinforced concrete skeleton construction with brick or concrete infills . The main building, which is parallel to Friedrich-Ebert-Allee, but at a distance of 40 m, is clearly withdrawn from the street and has five floors. It is three-justified in the middle part with a double-floor and internal light shafts opened , the offices are lined up on the outer walls. The wing adjoining at a right angle at the rear is four-storey and originally housed official apartments on the ground floor.

literature

  • Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49–69. Attempt to take stock . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Art and antiquity on the Rhine . Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 21 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 134 .

Web links

Commons : Press and Information Office of the Federal Government (Bonn)  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ^ Bonn / Berlin: The Province as a Republic . In: Der Spiegel . No. 0 1997 ( online - Jan. 15, 1997 ).
  2. ^ Andres Kübler: Chronicle of construction and space: history and prehistory of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning . Wasmuth, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8030-0667-7 , p. 128.
  3. ^ Hermann Hill (Hrsg.): State culture in change: Contributions to the 69th State Science Advanced Training Conference from March 14 to 16, 2001 at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer . In: Speyer University of Applied Sciences , Volume 150, Duncker & Humblot, 2002, ISSN  0561-6271 , p. 53.
  4. ↑ Merle Ziegler: Rule Cybernetic. Architecture of the Bonn Federal Chancellery 1969–1976 (= Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties : Contributions to the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Volume 172; Series Parliament and Public , Volume 6). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-7700-5331-5 , p. 222.
  5. ↑ Merle Ziegler: Rule Cybernetic. Architecture of the Bonn Federal Chancellery 1969–1976 (= Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties : Contributions to the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Volume 172; Series Parliament and Public , Volume 6), Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2017, ISBN 978- 3-7700-5331-5 , p. 235.
  6. ↑ After 25 years: One last tango with DJ Tom Tom , General-Anzeiger , May 18, 2004
  7. ↑ Entry on the corner of the pavilion Willy-Brandt-Allee / Welckerstraße in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland , 2014)
  8. ↑ Karl-Heinz van Kaldenkerken , Oberstadtdirektor Bonn (ed.); Friedrich Busmann : Expansion of the federal capital. 10 years capital city agreement 1975–1985 . Bonn 1986, pp. 48-56.
  9. ↑ The Foreign Office moves into the Volkskammer building , the daily newspaper , August 9, 1999
  10. ↑ Modernization of the tax administration does not get going , Handelsblatt , No. 206, October 25, 2000, p. 8
  11. ↑ Press office wants to stay on B 9 , General-Anzeiger , February 8, 2001, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 7
  12. ↑ Bernd Leyendecker: Office buildings should remain standing for another four years . General-Anzeiger , December 5, 2002
  13. ^ Bonner Fiscus GmbH is liquidated . General-Anzeiger , September 20, 2005
  14. ↑ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government - Adenauerallee Süd property , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  15. ^ Federal press office is being restructured , General-Anzeiger , September 1, 2010
  16. ^ Federal Press Office - History and Tasks , Press and Information Office of the Federal Government
  17. ^ Federal government is renovating Palais Schaumburg for 6.5 million euros , General-Anzeiger , March 1, 2013
  18. ↑ Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49-69. Attempt to take stock.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 6.6 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 10.9 ″  E