Schlossstrasse 4 (Bonn)

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The building at Schloßstraße 4 in Bonn 's Südstadt district is a residential building that was built in 1905. It is including two associated garden houses , one of them dating back to 1904, when monument under monument protection .

history

The house was built for the client Jakob Ritzdorff, a merchant, according to plans by the architect Friedrich Giehl as one of the later buildings on Schloßstraße. Just one year before the establishment of the roadside building was on a planning application Ritz Dorffs from 24 August 1904 point to the rear of the property a garden shed in the form of a pavilion built that the planning application for the residence of 1905 as a shed was called. Another, smaller garden house was built in the course of the new building or a little later.

After Bonn in 1949 the seat of government had become the Federal Republic of Germany, set up the Kingdom of Spain in 1950 in the building, the law firm of its previously in Frankfurt am Main -based diplomatic mission one whose first as Consul General firmierender conductors up to renting a private residence in Bad Godesberg ( Am Kurpark 7 ) lived there the following year. Also in 1951 the mission received the status of an embassy , making the building at Schloßstraße 4 the historically first location of the Spanish embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany. In May 1967 the building was bombed. Most recently (as of 1995) the office building also housed the embassy’s finance department and press department, while the other departments were spread across the city. In 1999 the Spanish embassy moved there in the course of relocating the seat of government to Berlin (→ Spanish embassy in Berlin ). Today the building is used as a residential and office building.

The house, including the front garden with enclosure, was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn on January 27, 1993. The two associated garden houses were subsequently placed under protection as part of the monument. They are two of the very few buildings of their kind left in the row house development in Bonn's southern part.

architecture

The residential building is a three-storey plastered building with a basement and four-storey external axes projected as side elevations , which are connected by balconies on the upper floors. The entrance is located far back in the left axis and is accessed by a modernized, curved flight of stairs. The ground floor has a frilly ribbon quaderung . The stucco reliefs show, among other things, the coat of arms of the city of Bonn , a fisherman and, as allegorical representations for the Rhine and Moselle, the father Rhine with the trident Neptune and a river goddess . The floor plan of the building has largely been preserved in its original state on all floors. The property has a front garden area with an also original wrought iron fence .

The larger garden house from 1904 is a concrete construction that is open on two sides and erected at the angle of two high property partition walls in the form of a pavilion (→ garden pavilion ). The wall surfaces are provided with rough plaster, the pillars are also plastered without additional decoration and the roof edge is slightly profiled. The later built and smaller garden house, also a concrete pavilion, leans against a garden wall and is open on three sides on a square floor plan with a flat roof and four plastered pillars. The ornamentation is based on that of the house.

  • Relief of the Bonn city arms

literature

  • Gerhard Kirchlinne: The southern part of Bonn: One of the most splendid Wilhelminian style quarters in Germany . Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050248-4 , pp. 104/105.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 2629
  2. ↑ a b c d Federal City of Bonn, Lower Monument Authority : List of Monuments of the City of Bonn (Annexes: Building description for the building at Schloßstraße 4, Bonn , 1993; Object: Update for the residential building at Schloßstraße 4, Bonn. Extension to include the two garden houses , undated)
  3. ^ City of Bonn (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 , pp. 221–225.
  4. ↑ Extremists bomb Spanish Embassy on Bonn , AP Archive, May 25, 1967
  5. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
  6. ^ Gerhard Kirchlinne: The Bonn Südstadt: One of the most splendid Wilhelminian style quarters in Germany .

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '29.5 "  N , 7 ° 5' 44.9"  E