Rüdigerstrasse 10 (Bonn)

Villa Rüdigerstraße 10, street view (2015)

The building at Rüdigerstraße 10 is a villa in Mehlem , part of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn , which was built in 1896/97. It is on the banks of the Rhine. From 1976/77 until at least 2004 the villa housed the offices of the Embassy of the State of Benin .

history

Draft, elevation of the Rhine front (1896)

The villa was built for the client Jakob Paffendorf, a building contractor and roofer from Cologne , based on a design by his son and architect Ludwig Paffendorf, who was then working in Friedrich Ohmann's studio in Prague . As early as 1894, Paffendorf and the Cologne architect Anton Leinen - a business partner with whom he later had the Hotel Monopol (now WDR-Funkhaus ) built in Cologne on Wallrafplatz - had the construction on the neighboring property (now Rüdigerstrasse 6 ), which initially also belonged to Paffendorf planned a villa. The building application submitted by Leinen on January 15, 1894 was approved, but the submitted design was not carried out. Linen presumably acquired the property and had a villa built there on its own according to new plans. For his own new building - named "Villa Sophia" after his wife - Paffendorf submitted the building application on January 9, 1886, on May 21, 1886 the shell was completed and in 1897 it was completely completed. The construction was carried out in a slightly different way compared to the plans; Stylistically , the villa can be assigned to the virtuoso Picturesque with Art Nouveau influence. Kaiserstraße (today's Rüdigerstraße ) was still in the planning stage when the house was built and was not completed until 1898, so that it was initially accessed via Bodenstaffgasse between Kaiserstraße and the banks of the Rhine as an extension of today's Am Glückshaus street .

The subsequent owner had the house connected to the canal in 1905 and an enclosure built . In 1925 the villa was rebuilt, again under a new owner, according to plans by the Mehlem architect Peter Wald (1883–1954). The building was expanded by a yoke on all floors to the west to today's Rüdigerstrasse; the living room was lowered three steps.

After the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany on January 9, 1961 , the Federal Republic of Cameroon temporarily used the villa as the residence of its embassy , residence of the ambassador, at the government seat of Bonn. Also at this time (as of 1962), the Republic of Dahomey (from 1975 People's Republic of Benin ) established its embassy on June 15, 1961 in the neighboring Villa Rüdigerstrasse 6 after establishing diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany and acquired it for this purpose. It was home to both the office and the residence of the embassy. In 1971/72 the office moved to another location within Bad Godesberg (Viktoriastraße 7). The residence initially remained in Villa Rüdigerstrasse 6, in 1973 it was expanded to include the property at Villa Rüdigerstrasse 10. In 1974 the building at Rüdigerstrasse 6 was demolished, so that afterwards only the villa at Rüdigerstrasse 10 initially served the embassy as a residence. A newly built house on the adjoining property at Rüdigerstrasse 6 replaced Villa Rüdigerstrasse 10 as a residence in 1976/77, while from then on it served as the office building. As a result of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the Benin Embassy moved there as one of the last 17 diplomatic missions around 2005.

literature

Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 12/13, 103–105. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

Web links

Commons : Rüdigerstraße 10 - Collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ 1898–1935 Kaiserstraße 46 , 1935–1947 Richthofenstraße ( entry in the Bonn street cadastre)
↑ ^a ^b Wolfram Hagspiel : Well-known architects and their buildings in the south of Cologne: Ludwig Paffendorf (1872–1949), architect, craftsman and reformist . In: stadtMagazin Köln-Süd, Volume 23, No. 6/2012, December 2012 / January 2013 , pp. 12–15.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 3, Catalog (2)
↑ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 1, p. 292.
↑ Hans Kleinpass: The street names of the Mehlem district. 4: Part: banks of the Rhine to the trench. In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Annual booklet of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg . Issue 27. 1989, ISSN 0436-1024 , pp. 38-59 (here: p. 53).
↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 239.
↑ ^a ^b Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of March 1962)
↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 65.
↑ Foreign Office (Ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of January 1964)
↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (status: December 1971, May 1972)
^ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (status: March 1973, August 1973); new address: Rüdigerstraße 6-10
↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of September 1974, April 1975)
↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of June 1976, June 1977)
↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
↑ Info: Embassy , Berliner Morgenpost , May 3, 2004
↑ Addresses of the diplomatic and consular missions in Germany ( Memento of January 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 538 kB), as of May 3, 2005.

50.661644 7.196335Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 41.9 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 46.8" E

[1] 1898–1935 Kaiserstraße 46 , 1935–1947 Richthofenstraße ( entry in the Bonn street cadastre)

[Hagspiel-2] Wolfram Hagspiel : Well-known architects and their buildings in the south of Cologne: Ludwig Paffendorf (1872–1949), architect, craftsman and reformist . In: stadtMagazin Köln-Süd, Volume 23, No. 6/2012, December 2012 / January 2013 , pp. 12–15.

[Sonntag-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 3, Catalog (2)

[Sonntag1-4] Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 1, p. 292.

[5] Hans Kleinpass: The street names of the Mehlem district. 4: Part: banks of the Rhine to the trench. In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Annual booklet of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg . Issue 27. 1989, ISSN 0436-1024 , pp. 38-59 (here: p. 53).

[6] Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 239.

[Liste196203-7] Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of March 1962)

[8] Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 65.

[9] Foreign Office (Ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of January 1964)

[10] Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (status: December 1971, May 1972)

[11] Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (status: March 1973, August 1973); new address: Rüdigerstraße 6-10

[12] Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of September 1974, April 1975)

[13] Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of June 1976, June 1977)

[14] Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995

[15] Info: Embassy , Berliner Morgenpost , May 3, 2004

[16] Addresses of the diplomatic and consular missions in Germany ( Memento of January 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 538 kB), as of May 3, 2005.