Rheinallee 24 (Bonn)

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Villa Rheinallee 24 (2012)

The building Rheinallee 24 (also called Villa Schorlemmer ) is a villa in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn , which was built from 1903 to 1905 and is now used as an office building. It is located in the center of the Godesberg villa district . The villa stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The villa was built as part of the “second” Godesberg villa district, which was intensively developed after 1900, for the client Hermann Esser, a private individual , based on a design by the Koblenz architecture firm Bock & Noelte. Later it passed into the possession of Rudolph Schorlemmer, who ran a sanatorium in another property on Rheinallee . 1936 acquired the German College , a group attached to any religious community high school, the villa and used it as one of three school buildings next to the neighboring houses Rheinallee 26 and 28. In the summer of 1939, the German college with was Aloisiuskolleg for urban high school together, after the School was closed due to the war in autumn 1944, and it was not re-established.

In 1952, the state of Pakistan established the office of its embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn (→ list of diplomatic missions ). The consular section was also housed here. As a residence, the residence of the ambassador , who served Villa Leonhart in Koenigswinter . In 1999 the embassy moved with the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (see Pakistani embassy in Berlin ), whereupon the villa was sold in private ownership in 2000. It is currently the seat of the German representative office of the software manufacturer ESRI .

architecture

The villa is a two-storey sandstone building with a mezzanine ( mezzanine ). Stylistically , it can be attributed to the Italian Renaissance . The street-side facade comprises three axes and has a single-axis central projection , which is designed as a single-arched loggia on the upper floor . The masonry is rusticated on the ground floor and on the edges of the upper floor .

The two windows on the ground floor are designed as coupled arched windows with circular tracery , the parapet of which is drawn in below the sill and shows lions' heads. On the upper floor, the two outer windows are framed by aedicules with triangular gables. Below the eaves , an inscription by the Roman poet Horace stretches across all three axes : Aeqam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem - an invitation to keep your mind in difficult times.

Web links

Commons : Rheinallee 24  - Collection of images

literature

  • Walfried Pohl: The architecture of the Godesberg villa district at the beginning of the century. In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Annual booklet of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg. Issue 12, 1974, ISSN  0436-1024 , pp. 39-41.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 47, number A 3084
  2. ^ A b c d Herbert Strack: The German College in Bad Godesberg . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Annual booklet of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg. Issue 38, 2000, ISSN  0436-1024 , pp. 112-132.
  3. ^ Address book of the federal capital Bonn 1952/53 , JF Carthaus, Bonn 1953, p. 540 .
  4. ↑ Tour through the former embassies of Bad Godesberg , General-Anzeiger , September 15, 2007

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 13.4 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 45.2"  E