Raiffeisenstrasse 1 (Bonn)

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The building at Raiffeisenstrasse 1 is a former villa in the Bonn district of Gronau , which was built in 1908/09 and rebuilt after being partially destroyed during the war. It is located on a spur road that branches off from Adenauerallee ( Bundesstrasse 9 ) and is now part of the University Children's Clinic.

history

Draft, elevation of the front to Raiffeisenstrasse (1908)

The villa was built for the client Karl Bülbring (1863–1917), professor of English studies at the University of Bonn, based on a design by the Bonn architect and former government master builder . D. Heinrich Roettgen . In the spring of 1908 both Bülbring planned and Paul Clemen , provincial curator of the Rhine Province , the construction of each of a villa in the middle part of the former land of them commonly owned Villa Krantz (built in 1850 after the Second World War interrupted) at the former Coblenzer road that order In 1895 it was redistributed and opened up by a private road. Bülbring had sent a building application to the district president in Cologne . A representative of the royal government expressed doubts about the admissibility of the planned development, so that on April 23, 1908, Bülbring turned to the mayor of Bonn on behalf of himself and Clemens with a request to support the building application. On May 9, the district president made a preliminary decision on the building permit by returning the submitted systems to the mayor . Bülbring submitted the building application for his own villa on July 29th, and it was approved on August 31st, 1908 after a corresponding use by the mayor for Bülbring's concern on August 31st, 1908. There was one for a risalit that was 18 cm too wide on the northern side front Exemption required. On September 13, 1909, the acceptance test for the new building took place. It was equipped with a food elevator from the start.

Bülbring's heirs had a garage built between December 1938 and March 1939. During the Second World War , the building was severely damaged in the course of the Allied bombing raids on Bonn. The walls and the massive ceilings were preserved, while the first floor and the roof burned out completely. At the end of 1947, the University of Bonn intended to rebuild the house as an apartment for university professors. According to the respective plans of the university construction management, which were only partially implemented, the roof was rebuilt at a significantly reduced height, thus changing the overall appearance of the building considerably. According to a building description from 1949, the doors and sometimes the windows were missing in the basement and on the ground floor of the house, the plastering of the walls and ceilings on the first floor as well as the stairs were destroyed and the parquet floor was soaked; There were 200 m³ of rubble on the property.

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the property was on the edge of the new parliament and government district . From August 1949, the city of Bonn had it prepared as a guest house ("Bayernhaus") for the state representation of the Free State of Bavaria at the federal government , which initially operated as the Bonn office of the Bavarian State Chancellery . The future operator of this guest house received the restaurant license and the approval to set up a guesthouse on August 19th . The renovation of the building was financed from a loan from the Bayerische Staatsbank and a mortgage loan obtained from the federal capital office of North Rhine-Westphalia . In addition to repair work, it included the division of the previous five rooms on the first floor into eleven, the expansion of the top floor into an independent apartment and the establishment of a caretaker's apartment in the basement. On November 21, 1949, the acceptance test for the construction work was carried out. The Bayernhaus was run as a contract guest house under Bavarian management with three employees brought to Bonn by the operator. It contained both single and double rooms, almost all of which had a balcony, as well as two apartments. The guest house was especially available for Bavarian members of the Bundestag , who were granted a considerable discount; one of the apartments was also kept free for the Bavarian Prime Minister . If there was free capacity, other guests could also use the Bayernhaus. The Federal Minister of Finance Fritz Schäffer , who came from Bavaria, advocated greater political use of the guest house in the form of a “Bavarian Club”, which should also include meetings of all Bavarian members of the Bundestag.

At the latest after the completion of a new building for the state representative in the center of the parliament and government district in 1955, the guest house was closed. In 1967/68 the building was the seat of the office of the Embassy of the Republic of Senegal . It was later taken over by the adjacent university children's clinic.

architecture

In its original state , the villa was a two-storey brick building , stylistically assigned to the youth or reform style . It had six window axes and two side gables on the front (Raiffeisenstrasse) as well as high chimneys. The plinth on the east, south and west sides as well as the staircase and the window sills were made of Belgian granite . The beams and the solid ceilings of the building were made of reinforced concrete . Cement screed served as floor coverings in the basement , oak parquet, slabs and marble flooring on the ground floor and linoleum on the upper and attic floors . The entrance to the house was on the western front facing today's Adenauerallee. In the course of the partial war destruction and the subsequent reconstruction, the roof height was reduced from 6.70 m to 3.80 m, with the loss of the gable and the high chimneys.

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. 245–248. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

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References and comments

  1. ^ Until 1969 Adenauerallee 121a , until 1967 Koblenzer Straße 121a (→ list of streets in the Bonn district of Gronau )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , volume 3, catalog (2)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Vogt : Bridgeheads: The Beginnings of the State Representations in Bonn 1949–1955 . In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , ISSN  0035-4473 , volume 64/2000, pp. 309-362. ( online )
  4. ↑ a b City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt: "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 .
  5. ^ List of diplomatic missions and commercial missions of foreign states in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of September 25, 1968) . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1969 No. 4 , p. 133 , Annex 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5,8 MB ]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '26.3 "  N , 7 ° 6' 51.1"  E