Rheinlust (Bonn)

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The Rheinlust was a restaurant in the Gronau district of Bonn, built around 1874 , which was demolished for the new museum building for the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany . It was located on the corner of Coblenzer Straße (today Willy-Brandt-Allee) and Rheinweg with the address Coblenzer Straße (later Adenauerallee) 260.

history

The restaurant was known for its elongated beer garden parallel to the Rheinweg. The location was pretty much in the middle between Venusberg and the banks of the Rhine or between the Rosenburg and the town hall in Gronau, near the Bismarck Tower on the Rhine, which was built at the same time - all popular excursion destinations and now easily accessible by the new electric tram from Bonn to Mehlem with the Rheinlust stop. From the slightly raised restaurant terrace, there was initially a clear view - not available since 1912 - over the undeveloped tulip field and the Rheinauwiesen , further over Plittersdorf to the Siebengebirgspanorama .

At the end of the 1930s, when the German Reich acquired the Palais Schaumburg 200 m away , which then housed the staff officers of Army Group West, the Rheinlust kitchen functioned as an officers' mess . Until the end of the Second World War there was a full menu for party and military members - even without ration cards.

After Bonn had been named the federal capital in 1949 and the Pedagogical Academy was converted into the Bundeshaus , the Rheinlust was visited by a large number of card-playing, debating and drinking MPs and journalists who had chosen this house as the pub closest to parliament . Apart from the Rheinlust, only the Bundeshaus restaurant and Café Kleinmann were within the ban mile .

In the 1960s and 1970s, Rheinlust was the conspiratorial , then well-known meeting place for conservative-social democratic canal workers . Helmut Schmidt , Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski and Egon Bahr , among others, also traveled there .

The traditional house "Rheinlust" was closed in the mid-1980s because the House of History was to be built on the site as part of the museum district (now the Museum Mile ) of the then federal capital Bonn. The long-standing canal workers' get-together now moved entirely to the Kessenicher Hof (Mechenstrasse 55), which had been used as an alternative for several years.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book of the city of Bonn , printed and published by P. Neusser, Bonn ( 1873 , 1875 )
  2. ^ Thorben Müller: Historical rail vehicles. Bonn-Godesberg-Mehlem. (No longer available online.) In: Historische Schatzkiste. Historical association SWB e. V., archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; Retrieved November 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hvswb.de
  3. ↑ after the completion of the villas belonging to the later Indian embassy (corner of Rheinweg / Coblenzer Str.)
  4. ↑ Friedhelm Boll (ed.): The SPD in the German Bundestag: the illustrated book on the history of the social democratic parliamentary group 1949–2009 , Dietz, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-8012-0396-2 , p. 129.
  5. ↑ SPIEGEL SPECIAL 4/1999: The virtue of comfort (accessed on November 28, 2015)

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 2 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 7 ″  E