Rheinallee 26 (Bonn)

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Building Rheinallee 26 (2012)

The Rheinallee 26 building in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn is a school building that was built in 1863 and received its current facade in 1910. It is located in the center of the Godesberg-Villenviertel district and is now the seat of the Paul Klee School. The building stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The building was built in 1863 as a boarding school for boys. Later it was used as the “Pension international” under the name Villa Recreation , which applied as accommodation for summer and winter stays for single people and had facilities for the cold water cure in the house (status: 1897). In 1896 an anteroom was added. In 1908, the Keplerbund, founded the year before, acquired the building to promote knowledge of nature and started work there on April 1, so that it now served as an office building. In 1910, the Keplerbund had the facade of the building rebuilt according to plans by the Godesberg architect Willy Maß .

In February 1920 the Keplerbund moved its headquarters to Detmold . Immediately afterwards, at the latest, Edmund Schopen (* 1882), former chaplain at St. Marien in Godesberg, acquired the building and set up the German College he founded there , a nationally oriented secondary school with boarding facilities that is not linked to any religious community . It started working in the house on April 15, 1920 with initially 22 students. In the same year a small dining room was added, and a large wing was added in the summer and autumn of 1921. In 1921/22 the school was converted into a foundation without the involvement of the original founder Schopen. In 1924/25 the neighboring house Rheinallee 28 was added as a school and boarding school building, and in 1936 the neighboring Villa Rheinallee 24 . In summer 1939, the German college was with the Aloisiuskolleg for urban high school together, after the war-related closure of the school operation in the autumn of 1944, there has not been re-established.

After the Second World War, the building was initially used as a Protestant elementary school. A new building was later built for this in the rear area of ​​the property. Today both buildings belong to the Paul-Klee-Schule, a community elementary school sponsored by the city of Bonn. A Japanese school has also been housed there since the early 1990s at the latest.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 2909
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Herbert Strack: The German College in Bad Godesberg . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 38 (2000), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2001, pp. 112–132.
  3. ↑ a b Uwe Hossfeld: History of biological anthropology in Germany: from the beginnings to the post-war period . (= Science Culture around 1900 , Volume 2) Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3515085632 , p. 249/250.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 14.2 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 46.5"  E