SAS pavilion

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SAS pavilion (2013)

The SAS pavilion is a small round building on the Bundeskanzlerplatz in Bonn , built in 1952/53 and previously used as the flight agency of the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The pavilion is located in the district of Gronau on a sidewalk that has expanded to become a square on the north side of Bundeskanzlerplatz, the intersection of Adenauerallee ( Bundesstrasse 9 ) and Reuterstrasse, with the address Adenauerallee 216.

history

When Bonn was designated the federal capital in 1949, Koblenzer Strasse (now Adenauerallee), at that time a rural arterial road between Bonn and Bad Godesberg , became the main artery of the new parliament and government district . At the intersection of Koblenzerstraße and Reuterstraße the stops were Palais Schaumburg the tram Bonn-Godesberg-Mehlem and the O-bus Lengsdorf- station -Gronau. Exactly at this point the city had a kiosk built in 1952/53 according to plans by the Bonn architect Wilhelm Denninger to improve the infrastructure for passengers, members of parliament and ministerial officials .

Shortly after completion, the pavilion was taken over by the Scandinavian airline Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) , which opened an airline there and gave the building its current name. As the landlord, the SAS had offered the city of Bonn better conditions. The function of the former kiosk for the parliament and government district was taken over in 1957 by the oval federal booth in front of the Federal Council building, which is also listed . The SAS flew unrivaled at that time with its Douglas DC-6 propeller aircraft over the North Pole to North America. Customers of the branch were therefore in particular politicians and employees of the diplomatic missions based at the Bonn government seat . The SAS faced competition at the end of the 1950s from Lufthansa , which then resumed its scheduled flights to New York .

When the lease expired at the end of the 1960s - at the same time the Bonn Center with a Steigenberger hotel was also opened on Bundeskanzlerplatz - the car rental company HERTZ took over the pavilion, in which it set up its office and a waiting hall. The Cafe Alter Schwede has been located in the pavilion since 2020 . The building was entered in the city ​​of Bonn's list of monuments on January 30, 2006.

"The tiny pavilion (...) is a curiosity in terms of building history."

- Ingeborg flag (1984)

"As a largely original pavilion in an exposed location, the property is of particular importance in terms of the history of the genre and urban development."

- Angelika Schyma (2005)

building

The architect designed an approx. 70 m², single-storey round pavilion - with sales and ancillary areas - based on the basic geometric shape of a regular polygon divided into 15 degrees, with a facade edge length of 1.25 with 24 elements. Constructively it is a "mushroom building", i. H. A prestressed concrete slab - freely cantilevered - is clamped as a flat roof pane on a round reinforced concrete core in the inner center . On the sales side, the glass elements connect the approx. 50 cm high plinth to the back of the approx. 1.80 m high wall with the lower edge of the flat roof, which reinforces the effect of the floating plate through the all-round glazing. In keeping with the zeitgeist of the 1950s - in which the kidney shape was a predominant design feature (" kidney table age") - the large circular shape was dented and the roof edge shifted eccentrically and cut out so that an existing old maple tree could continue to grow through the recess. Today this formal trick is considered to be a curiosity of the early eco-movement.

literature

  • Ingeborg flag : Architecture in Bonn after 1945: Buildings in the federal capital and its surroundings . Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7928-0479-4 , p. 105.

Web links

Commons : SAS Pavilion  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 3893
  2. ↑ Federal City of Bonn, Lower Monument Authority : Monument List of the City of Bonn (Annex: Object: Business building (SAS pavilion) Adenauerallee 216, Bonn , Künstler-Brandstädter, November 28, 2005)
  3. ^ Ingeborg flag: Architecture in Bonn after 1945
  4. ↑ Entry on the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) pavilion, Adenauerallee 216 / Bundeskanzlerplatz in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association (with a brief description of the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland , 2005)

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 9.8 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 59.5 ″  E