Rosenburg (Bonn)

Rosenburg (2011)

Aerial photograph (2015)

Historical view (1860)

The Rosenburg is a castle-like villa in the Kessenich district of Bonn , which was built in 1831. It was the seat of the Federal Ministry of Justice from 1950 to 1973 . The Roseburg stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

In 1831 Georg August Goldfuß , a palaeontologist and zoologist at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , had the property built as a country estate based on a design by the architect Carl Alexander Heideloff in the neo-Romanesque style .

In 1862 the Düsseldorf silk manufacturer Gustav Schlieper acquired the Rosenburg, including the six hectares of forest surrounding it, for 8,000 thalers . In May 1918 the Rosenburg was sold by the Schlieper community of heirs to August Doerner, the head of the apostolate of the priestly and religious professions , who set up a priestly training center there. In 1939 the German Air Force moved into the castle, which after various extensions now consisted of three wings, and held officers' courses there. During the Second World War , the Rosenburg was a holiday accommodation for civilian employees of the Luftwaffe. Towards the end of the Second World War, the medical clinic at the University of Bonn moved into the Rosenburg as temporary quarters in 1944, before moving to the Venusberg in 1946 .

After Bonn had been designated the provisional seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , in January 1950 the Rosenburg was offered as the seat of the Federal Ministry of Justice, which had previously been housed in provisional quarters - mainly on Rheindorfer Strasse in Bonn-Nord . After removing the medical facilities that had previously been housed there, the castle was handed over to the Federal Ministry on April 1, 1950, and in June 1950 all departments were able to move into the new headquarters. The necessary reconstruction of the property took up costs of 300,000  D-Marks . In 1970 the federal government acquired the Rosenburg. After the Federal Ministry of Justice had moved to the newly constructed Kreuzbauten , the Armed Forces Office of the Federal Armed Forces became new users of the property in 1973 . The Federal Academy for Security Policy had from its inception in 1992 until her move to Berlin in March 2004, based in the Roseburg, who was elected from the start only as a temporary shelter. At the beginning of 2006, the last employees of the Bundeswehr left the building, which was then released for sale by the Federal Agency for Real Estate . Because the federal government wanted to sell the Rosenburg property since the decision to relocate the seat of government to Berlin in 1991, urgently needed maintenance measures were postponed .

A prospective buyer had contacted the authorities and submitted a preliminary building request to the city, which provided for the demolition of the outbuildings of the castle and the construction of new two- to four-story residential buildings as well as a conversion of the main building, which is under monument protection, for condominiums. The city administration initially refused the request, but wanted to look for solutions with the investor and has now been positive about a change in use. On July 15, 2008 the Rosenburg was handed over to the new owner, the Rosenburg GbR. The intended renovation was largely completed in 2010. Since then, the Rosenburg has been used exclusively as a residential complex.

literature

• Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (ed.): Die Rosenburg. 8th symposium. The Rosenburg - reflections on the German justice system after 1945. Lectures held on March 16, 2017 in Leipzig. Berlin 2017.
• Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the city and the district of Bonn (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 5, Section 3). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1905, pp. 230-232, 526-528 ( digitized version ).
• Manfred Görtemaker , Christoph Safferling (Hrsg.): The Rosenburg. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi past - an inventory. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-30046-6 .
• Wolfgang Langer: The former Rosenburg in Bonn-Kessenich . In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . No. 2, 2003, ISSN  0342-1805 .
• Dieter Partzsch: Do you know Kessenich? A local history walk through a Bonn district of Divossen, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-931543-58-7 .
• Martin Will: Ephoral Constitution. The party ban of the right-wing extremist SRP from 1952, Thomas Dehlers Rosenburg and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-155893-1

Web links

Commons : Rosenburg  - Collection of Images

• Entry on the way of democracy
• The Rosenburg in Kessenich
• Federal Academy for Security (with aerial photo) (cannot be reached)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 406
2. ^ Gabriel Adriányi : Apostolate of the priestly and religious professions , Cologne, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-412-05978-1 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 .
4. ↑ News from the Rosenburg: Apartments instead of offices , General-Anzeiger, April 15, 2008
5. ↑ Beautiful living in the church or in the tower , General-Anzeiger, July 22, 2008

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 7.7 ″  E