Province (restaurant)

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The small restaurant Provinz was a left-alternative pub in the then federal capital Bonn in the Adenauerallee 228 (today Willy-Brandt-Allee), of which only the foundation walls under a piece of lawn remain today. It was run by the Berlin restaurateurs Heike and Dieter Stollenwerk. Next to her was the former Bonn Center on Bundeskanzlerplatz .

history

The house originally existing on this property was built between 1875 and 1877. From 1900/01 it was used as a café and pastry shop, from 1903/04 under the operator Kleimann.

In the 1950s, there was only the Rheinlust restaurant and the owner-run Café Kleimann about 100 meters to the north , which was mainly visited by the neighboring allotment gardeners, in the entire government district of Bonn - between the banks of the Rhine and the railway line . With the opening of the restaurant in 1970 in the newly built Bonn Center complex Kleimann gave up and leased to Stollenwerk, the already successful in Berlin a left scene eatery had led and Café Kleimann in "PROVINCE" renamed. At the beginning of the 1980s, the province - now located exactly opposite the new building of the Federal Chancellery - was the meeting place for the Jusos and the young Greens MPs: Gerhard Schröder , Joschka Fischer and Otto Schily drank and dreamed of a red-green government coalition here . Schröder's “bar team” also included Heide Simonis , Antje Vollmer and Waltraud Schoppe ; The then 24-year-old Doris Köpf (parliamentary correspondent for Bild ) and Red Heidi were also welcome . They all designed a finished future government cabinet on their beer mats. Now you just had to go to the Chancellery opposite. One morning and after a night, some provincials moved to the other side of the street and Gerd Schröder tried symbolically to shake the fence bars with the cry: "I want to get in here".

“The“ province ”was the ugly duckling among the Bonn inns - the house looked like an underground car park that was too high - but it became the most famous political pub of the 1980s. For a while it was the funniest and most turbulent meeting place for journalists and politicians. "

- Ursula Kosser (2012)

In 1988 the cult pub Provinz was closed and the house was demolished on December 9th of the same year. After the death of her husband, the landlady Heike Stollenwerk went back to Berlin and worked there temporarily for the SPD , and later for the Greens, in the Berlin Reichstag.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nearyoude.com
  2. ↑ From Bonn to Berlin: Bonn was just a stopover for Heike Stollenwerk - Ms. Stollenwerk for 25 years, we heard that you once had a pub in Bonn: “I've never had such a crush on a city” . In: Berliner Zeitung . September 21, 1999 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).
  3. ^ Address book of the city of Bonn , printed and published by P. Neusser, Bonn ( 1875 , 1877 )
  4. ^ Address book of the city of Bonn , printing and publishing by JP Carthaus, Bonn ( 1901 , 1904 )
  5. ↑ Hartmut Palmer: The Province as Republic: Almost 50 years of the Bonn capital era are coming to an end . In: Der Spiegel . January 15, 1997 ( spiegel.de ).
  6. ↑ a b Matthias Geyer, Horand Knaup, Hartmut Palmer, Gerd Rosenkranz: Power: Schröder's game . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 2003, p. 46-60 ( spiegel.de ).
  7. ↑ The Lord Mayor of Bonn (Ed.); Friedrich Busmann : From the parliament and government district to the federal district. A Bonn development measure 1974-2004 . Bonn, June 2004, p. 50.
  8. ↑ Ursula Kosser: Mutton jumps: Sex and power in German politics . Dumont, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-8623-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  9. ↑ Wolfram Bickerich: The virtue of cosiness: the republic was still idyllic in Bonn - and what will become of it in Berlin? In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1999, p. 64–65 ( spiegel.de ).
  10. ↑ That was red-green: R as in Rein, I want there. In: FAZ.net. June 29, 2005, accessed August 24, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Ursula Kosser: Mutton jumps - sex and power in German politics . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9656-1
  12. ↑ General-Anzeiger , city edition Bonn . December 13, 1988, p. 5 .
  13. ↑ A Rhenish pub as a meeting place for members of parliament . In: General-Anzeiger , city edition Bonn . January 28, 1991, p. 6 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 6.6 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 0.3 ″  E