Rheinallee 76 (Bonn)

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Building Rheinallee 76 (2014)
Rheinallee 76 building as the headquarters of the Embassy of Cameroon (2006)

The Rheinallee 76 building in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn is an original office building that was built in 1968 for the Greek embassy . From 1980/81 to 2009 it was the seat of the Cameroon embassy , is still owned by the state today and is used by the HEBO private school in Bonn. The building is located in the district of Godesberg-Villenviertel on the Rheinallee corner of Otto-Kühne-Platz and the border with the district of Rüngsdorf .

history

The building was created as the office of the Royal Greek Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn, the individual departments of which were spread over several locations in the Bonn city area even after the completion of the new building. The Bad Godesberg architect Hans Schmitz was the client and also responsible for the design and planning of the building. In 1980/81 the office of the Embassy of the Republic of Cameroon, which also became its new owner, moved into the building in place of the Greek embassy. The ambassador's residence was in the Plittersdorf district (Plittersdorfer Strasse 115). 1993/94 the embassy was hit twice by a slump by two heroin-dependent roofers, the 62,000 at one of the break-ins Deutsche Mark stole and two rifles.

After the seat of government moved to Berlin (1999), the Cameroon embassy did not move to the German capital for financial reasons. The state no longer raised the necessary funds to maintain the embassy building, so that it was left to gradually deteriorate. The staffing of the embassy had been reduced from 10 to three diplomats (as of 2002). On October 1st, 2002 supporters of the National Council of South Cameroon occupied the embassy building. After the newly appointed Cameroonian ambassador began his work in Berlin at the end of 2008, the embassy moved to the capital at the beginning of March 2009 as the third-last diplomatic representation, which was still based in Bonn. The previous embassy building was then empty until, after several weeks of renovation, it was moved into a secondary location in November 2011 by a private school that teaches around 180 students there (as of 2011) and also uses it as a boarding school . The Republic of Cameroon remained the owner of the property.

description

The former embassy building is a four-storey reinforced concrete skeleton structure , some of which is equipped with exposed concrete . The lower floor is designed as a garage floor for originally 12 cars, the three upper floors originally accommodated 10 to 11 office rooms each. The windows are set back slightly and have parapets made of Eternit glass panels. The most important facade element is the surrounding company balconies connected to one another by steel rods.

See also

literature

  • Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49–69. Attempt to take stock . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Art and antiquity on the Rhine . Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 21 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 126 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Federal Republic of Germany State Handbook: Landesausgabe Land Schleswig-Holstein , C. Heymanns, 1968, p. 187.
  2. ↑ a b Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49–69. Attempt to take stock.
  3. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (status: February 1980 / February 1981)
  4. ↑ Roofers got into Bonn embassies , General-Anzeiger, 23 September 1994, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 6.
  5. ^ Michael Wenzel: Small stories Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, p. 26.
  6. ^ Scrambled and forgotten , Die Welt , July 28, 2002
  7. ↑ Singing for Cameroon's Embassy , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, October 2, 2002
  8. ^ Embassy occupied by Cameroon. District court dropped criminal proceedings against demonstrators (47) , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, April 10, 2004
  9. ↑ Representation of the Republic of Cameroon moves to Berlin , General-Anzeiger , March 5, 2009
  10. ↑ Private school moves into former embassy in villa district , General-Anzeiger , November 16, 2011
  11. ↑ Condominiums are being built in ex-embassies , General-Anzeiger, October 29, 2011
  12. ↑ Learning in the former message ( Memento from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , General-Anzeiger , 17./18. December 2011

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 20.9 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 2.9 ″  E