Robert Schuman Square
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 View of the square and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure |
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| place | Bonn |
| District | Hochkreuz |
| Created | 1983-1987 |
| Confluent streets | Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger-Allee |
The Robert-Schuman-Platz is a square in Bonn district Hochkreuz in the north of the district Bad Godesberg . It was named after the French Prime Minister Robert Schuman .
description
The polygonal space with gray paving stones and cobbled paved and is located above a parking garage about 1.50 m above ground level on two levels, connected with a red ramp. It is located in the southern part of what is now the federal district and the former government district and was the second architecturally uniform public square there after the tulip field ensemble ("Allianzplatz") in the northern part.
Development
The place is almost completely built. In the north-east and south-east there are two building complexes of the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (draft: Heinle, Wischer und Partner ). In the south-west is the headquarters of the federal railway assets , in the north-west is the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (design: Heinle, Wischer und Partner). In the west, Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger-Allee leads to the square and provides access to the underground car park of the Federal Ministry of Transport; in the east, a footpath leads to the Rheinaue . A large roundabout forms the north exit.
history
The square and the surrounding buildings were built from 1983 as part of the planning for the Godesberg-Nord ministerial site , for which the first urban development competition was organized in 1978 . After the publicly inaccessible Kreuzbauten, it was the first urban development ensemble in the southern part of the former government district. For the design of the federally owned square, the Federal Building Directorate launched a limited art competition in 1983, in which the jury chaired by Thomas Grochowiak awarded the Munich sculptors Alf Lechner and Leo Kornbrust first prize. The naming of the square was made on the decision of the Main Committee of the City of Bonn on June 12, 1986. The design and development of the square was completed with the Ministry of Post (1983-87) and Ministry of Transport (1986-89) by the end of the 1980s. Only the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices was only completed in 2002 and expanded in 2010/2011. The north-east building was the seat of the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications between 1988 and 1997 and then until 2002 the seat of Deutsche Post AG .
traffic
In the north there is access to the underground tram stop Robert-Schuman-Platz (originally Heinemannstraße ). The stop is part of the section opened in 1981 through the Rheinaue and over the south bridge to Ramersdorf , which runs under the square. The lower part of the square is approached by employees of the federal ministries in order to get into the underground car park as well as by several bus lines of the Stadtwerke Bonn . The upper part of the square is only released for delivery traffic.
Public art
In the northeast of the square is an iron spiral created by Alf Lechner as a work of art. In the west there is a huge red granite ball , a work of art by Leo Kornbrust . Both works of art are conceived as points of reference for a geometric system.
Federal Institute for Pharmaceuticals and Medical Products
Robert-Schuman-Platz underground station
Alf Lechner: untitled (1987)
Leo Kornbrust: Granite Ball (1987)
literature
- Gabriele Zabel-Zottmann: Sculptures and objects in the public space of the federal capital Bonn - installed from 1970 to 1991 . Dissertation, Bonn 2012, p. 170 ff. ( Online PDF ; 6.3 MB) [not yet evaluated for this article]
Web links
- Square design Robert-Schuman-Platz , Museum of 1000 Places ( Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Karl-Heinz van Kaldenkerken , City Director Bonn (ed.); Friedrich Busmann : Expansion of the federal capital. 10 years capital city agreement 1975–1985 . Bonn 1986, p. 84 ff.
- ↑ a b c The Lord Mayor of Bonn (Ed.); Friedrich Busmann : From the parliament and government district to the federal district. A Bonn development measure 1974-2004 . Bonn, June 2004, pp. 141/142.
- ^ Entry in the Bonn street cadastre
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure - Robert-Schuman-Platz property , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
- ↑ Federal government is building in Bonn for almost 900 million euros , General-Anzeiger , March 18, 2002
- ^ The big move begins , General-Anzeiger Bonn, December 11, 2002
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development : Short documentation of 200 works of art on construction commissioned by the federal government since 1950 ( memo of December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) , BMVBS online publication No. 25/2012, December 2012 , Pp. 14, 393-400. ( online PDF ( memento of December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ))
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 21.5 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 18.1 ″ E