Reutersiedlung

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View of Renoisstraße (seen from the "single home")
Example of a residential development

The Reutersiedlung in Bonn was the first settlement for employees of the federal administration, which was built after Bonn was elected as the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. It is on the edge of the Kessenich district .

location

The Reutersiedlung extends between Reuterstraße on the north side and Luisenstraße on the south side. In the west the settlement is bounded by the Renoisstraße and in the east by the Bonner Talweg.

history

From September 1948 Bonn was considered a possible candidate for a future federal capital . In the search for suitable areas for the apartments required in this case, the allotment garden area between Bonner Talweg and Reuterstraße was turned to. The city of Bonn made the property available and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia financed the housing construction. At the instigation of the North Rhine-Westphalian interior minister Walter Menzel , the architect Max Taut received the order for the Reutersiedlung. The settlement was built between 1949 and 1952 according to the plans of Taut and the garden architect Heinrich Raderschall . The groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 4, 1949, before the official building permit was granted . Politicians and journalists accredited in Bonn were also entitled to live. The streets that were newly created as part of the settlement were named after Clemens August Graf von Galen , Heinrich Körner and Otto Renois by resolution of the Bonn City Council on August 5, 1949 .

The design consisted of single-storey terrace houses, two-, and three-story multi-family houses, and a six-story " Ledigenheim " with 72 apartments and shops on the ground floor, the so-called "high rise" (Graf-Galen-Strasse 1a-d). A garage and a wash house were also part of it. The expected sociological structure of the tenants is reflected by the building and floor plan types. The arrangement of the settlement around the dominant single home keeps the view of the Venusberg clear and aims to provide tanning and ventilation for all buildings.

In 2008, the now listed estate was partially renovated and sold by the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft (LEG) to the US hedge fund Whitehall . This involved a total of approx. 400 residential units, spread over six streets.

The then "Paul-Gerhard-Schule" (today "Till-Eugenspiegel-Schule") bordered the northwestern part of the settlement. It was built from 1957 to 1959 according to the designs of Ernst van Dorp in the Franz-Schuster system and in the course of the Territorial reform had to be renamed in 1969. In this, two classrooms with light from both sides are connected to several stairwells. The southern boundary is the Bonner Talweg with house numbers 182 to 200.

  • The "single home" of the Reutersiedlung

  • The wash house, no longer in use today

  • Garage building in the center of the Reutersiedlung

  • The settlement seen from Reuterstraße ...

  • ... and photographed from the inner courtyard

Well-known politicians who lived in the settlement

About the Reutersiedlung

Ernst Goyke , journalist and long-time editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Das Parlament , wrote:

"... the minister lived next to the driver, the member of parliament next to the secretary, the journalist next to the government council ... During the day they met to shop at 'Feinkost Jonas' on Reuterstraße and in the evening in the 'Sportpark Restaurant Zöller', of all just the 'Kaschemme' ' called. From the capital correspondents it was u. a. Franz Barsig , Johannes Gross , Dieter Gütt , Günter Müggenburg , Hilde Purwin and Carl Schopen . "

The journalist and diplomat Rüdiger von Wechmar remembered Walter Hallstein as follows:

“The inveterate bachelor lived in two small rooms in the Reutersiedlung in Bonn in a low-rise building directly opposite my parents. From there we could see how he made his coffee and on Sundays he studied his files in the tiny garden, which he pulled out of a bulging brown briefcase. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graf-Galen-Strasse in the Bonn street cadastre
  2. ^ Heinrich-Körner-Straße in the Bonn street cadastre
  3. ↑ Renoisstraße in Bonner Straße cadastral
  4. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), pp. 11/22/24/38/46/47, number A 1051
  5. ↑ State development company sold: tenants worry (General-Anzeiger from June 14, 2008)
  6. ^ Ernst Goyke: The Reutersiedlung. In: Rudolf Pörtner (Ed.): Children's years of the Federal Republic. Düsseldorf 1989, pp. 76-82.
  7. ^ Rüdiger von Wechmar: Actor in the Lodge. Worldly memories . Siedler Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88680-692-8 , p. 146 .

literature

  • Kerstin Kähling; City of Bonn, City Archives and City History Library (Hrsg.): Loosened up and structured: City and housing developments of the fifties and early sixties in the provisional federal capital Bonn (= Publications of the City Archives Bonn , vol. 63), Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3922832348 , ISSN  0524-0352 , pp. 71, 347-349. (also dissertation University of Cologne, 2001)
  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 44.
  • Rudolf Pörtner (ed.): Childhood of the Federal Republic . Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-430-17515-1 (Chapter IV: Ernst Goyke, Die Reutersiedlung).
  • Elisabeth von Werthern : From Weimar to Bonn. Memories , Burg Verlag, Stuttgart / Bonn 1985. ISBN 3-922801-95-1 (Chapter 15: Bonn in its beginnings).

Web links

Commons : Reutersiedlung  - collection of images

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 8 ″  E