Rolandstrasse 67 (Bonn)

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Villa Rolandstrasse 67, street front
Rhine front

The building at Rolandstraße 67 is a villa in Rüngsdorf , a district of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn , which was built in 1922. It is located on Rolandstrasse with a park extending to the banks of the Rhine . The villa stands as a monument under monument protection and was from 1951 to 1955 residence of the High Commissioner and then to 1999, the Ambassador of the United States in the Federal Republic of Germany .

history

The villa was built in 1922 for the client Otto Borcke based on a design by the Godesberg architect Karl Schwarz . In 1936 a swimming pool was built in the rear sheaf area.

At the end of the Second World War , the villa was rented to the Godesberg entrepreneur Hans Ringsdorff . From the end of February 1945 he made them available to the Swiss Consul General Franz-Rudolf von Weiss , who moved into the house on March 7th with a few employees as the official seat of the Consulate General and lived here with his wife and two consular officers. On September 27, 1945, the British military police searched the property, both in the part of the house inhabited by von Weiss and that by Ringsdorff. The Swiss government filed a protest against this .

After the war, the family reported by Borcke the property in the Landes flat place North Rhine-Westphalia on due to financial problems for sale. In this way, it came into the focus of the US High Commission in 1949 , which was looking for suitable objects for the residence of Deputy High Commissioner General Hays. After a corresponding inspection in November 1949, following a special request from Hay's wife, a decision was made in favor of Villa Borcke due to the modern construction and the good state of preservation. Although the villa was ready for sale, the high commission, against the resistance of German authorities, made use of its special rights and confiscated it by order of December 8th, with effect from December 22nd, 1949. While Hans Ringsdorff, the main tenant of the villa, had it in time in anticipation of Confiscated, the former correspondent of an American news agency Rüdiger von Wechmar , who had also been living here for a few months, had to be evicted . In 1950, garage extensions were added to the villa.

On June 1, 1951, the US government bought the villa for 350,000 D-Marks and then had it converted at a cost of 650,000 D-Marks. At that time, the US High Commissioner John Jay McCloy had moved into the property after his deputy Hays had been transferred to Austria . After the occupation statute ended on May 5, 1955, the villa remained in the possession of the USA, now as the residence of the ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the embassy moved to Berlin in the summer of 1999 . The former residence was now owned by the Federal Republic of Germany and was founded in early 2003 by the Federal Property Office sold privately m² with an associated land area of over 10,000.

The entry of the villa including the park in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn took place on February 9, 2001. As part of the property under protection, the front garden with its original fence as well as a pergola and the historical trees in the park are also located .

architecture

The villa is a single-storey plastered building with a high basement , a two-storey central building and a slated, hipped mansard roof . The street front has five window axes with side projections in the form of cantilevers on a semicircular floor plan and a balcony. On the east side facing the park and the Rhine, the three central axes are preferred as a central projection. This consists of a semicircular bow window with five wall openings on the ground floor, one with on this seated balcony baluster balustrade and a curly dormer gable as top end. The terrace facing the park is supported by a massive retaining wall with Grauwacke veneer.

The front garden has a fencing that has been preserved in its original state, which consists of a massive parapet with pillars and bars. To the south and east there is a park with original pathways that extends to the banks of the Rhine (John-J.-McCloy-Ufer) and then slopes downwards. On the rear part of the site there is a massive pergola with an arbor. The park has a historical tree population.

  • View over the park to the villa

literature

  • Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , pp. 58-59, 117.
  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 32-35.
  • Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger Messages , 2nd edition 2011, p. 57.

Web links

Commons : Rolandstraße 67  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 49, number A 3677
  2. ↑ a b c d e Federal City of Bonn, Lower Monument Authority: Monument List of the City of Bonn (Annex: Building description of the villa with park, Rolandstraße 67, Bonn-Bad Godesberg , March 21, 2000)
  3. ↑ Helmut Vogt : Entrepreneurs in National Socialism. The example of Hans Ringsdorff . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 50 (2012), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2013, pp. 188–189 .; Klaus-Dietmar Henke: The American occupation of Germany . In: Sources and presentations on contemporary history , Volume 27, 1996, ISBN 978-3-486-56175-3 , pp. 359 ff.
  4. ↑ The US diplomatic domiciles have been sold , General-Anzeiger , February 8, 2003

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 44.9 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 38.4"  E