Settlement in the Etzental

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The settlement in Etzental is a settlement in Bad Godesberg , a district of Bonn , which was built in 1950/51 and 1953 in three construction phases for employees of the British and French high commissions . It is located in the Alt-Godesberg district on the northern edge of Muffendorf . The complex consists of 20 houses and stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The settlement extends along the eponymous street Im Etzental (house numbers 1–3, 13–21 and 12–24) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Straße (house numbers 63–67) branching off from it on the eastern slope of the so-called "Wacholderhöhe". The name Etzental can be traced back to the nearby parcel of Metzental .

history

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the national offices of the High Commissioners took their seat in the Bonn area as part of the newly founded Allied High Commission (AHK). The “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Besatzungsbauten Köln, Siegburg, Bad Godesberg” built residential buildings for members of the high commission, mostly as part of settlements. A smaller settlement was to be built in Bad Godesberg for employees of the British and French high commissions in managerial positions. The choice fell on an eight- acre plot of land which, as a former part of the property of the Villa Schloss Rigal (later the Chinese embassy ) below, belonged to the community of heirs of Rigal-Grunland. Against the express protest of the heirs to the Federal Ministry of Finance , the land required for the construction of the settlement - initially called the "Rigal settlement" after the property owners - was confiscated .

The first construction phase was carried out in 1950 on behalf of the Ministry of Reconstruction of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for the French high commission in assembly construction under the developer of Montagebau GmbH in Sigmaringen . In 1950/51, the second followed for the British High Commission - especially British officers - which was established by the Gemeinnützige Aktiengesellschaft für Wohnungsbau Köln (GAG) as the managing company of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Besatzungsbauten. For this part of the estate, a development and overall plan was drawn up under the direction of Herbert Neubert, and type sketches for the individual houses were made by Hans J. Lohmeyer, Fritz Ruempler and Hans Schumacher . In 1953, two more houses for the French high commission were added in the third construction phase.

The settlement was one of the smallest housing projects of the AHK in Bad Godesberg. It took 212,000 D-Marks per house and significantly exceeded the standard of equipment and land area customary at the time of construction. In one of the houses claimed by the French High Commission (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 63), a multi-class French elementary school was set up from 1955 to 1957 (today's École de Gaulle-Adenauer ). After the Allied High Commission was dissolved when the occupation statute expired (1955), the estate became the property of the Federal Republic of Germany. The house Im Etzental 20 was temporarily (as of 1992) the residence of the Ambassador of Uruguay . Towards the end of the 20th century, structural and color changes were made to some houses, which impaired their original character and monument value . The settlement was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bonn on March 18, 1999. The monument protection also includes the green and traffic areas, while it is limited to the outer walls of some houses.

description

The estate comprises 18 two-story single and multi-family houses - six of which were built in 1950 in the first and twelve in 1950/51 in the second construction phase - and two three-story apartment buildings constructed in the third construction phase. The houses are arranged along a curved road and path with a staggered construction, which, in addition to the large property areas, contribute significantly to the residential quality of the settlement.

First construction phase

The one- and two-family houses of the first construction phase, built for members of the French High Commission, were built using the assembly method . The houses Im Etzental 1 and 3 are detached two-story single-family houses, the houses Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 61 and 63 are two-story four-family houses in the form of couples . Another building in the construction phase is the mirror-inverted semi-detached house at Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 65/67.

Second construction phase

The single-family houses built for the British military in the second phase of construction are divided into three types. Building type I (design: Hans Schumacher) includes the - today heavily modified - houses Im Etzental 22/24, building type II houses Im Etzental 13-21, 18 and 20 and building type III houses Im Etzental 12, 14 and 16. They are free-standing, have a floor area of up to 220  m² and each have plots of up to 3000 m². In the original room layout, the ground floor included the living room, master bedroom , dining room and kitchen wing, the upper floor four bedrooms (one of which has a dressing room), two girls' rooms, three bathrooms and three additional toilets.

Third construction phase

The two houses, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 63a and 63b, built in the third construction phase are three-storey, flat-roofed apartment buildings and both have only been preserved in terms of plastering and windows.

  • First construction phase, four-family house

  • Third phase of construction, apartment buildings

literature

  • Kerstin Kähling; City of Bonn, City Archives and City History Library (ed.): Loosened up and structured: City and housing developments in the fifties and early sixties in the provisional federal capital Bonn (= Publications of the Bonn City Archives , vol. 63), Bonn 2004, ISBN 978-3922832348 , ISSN  0524-0352 , pp. 403/404. (also dissertation University of Cologne, 2001)
  • Herbert Strack: The "In Etzental" settlement . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Issue 36 , Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 1998, p. 172 f.

Web links

Commons : Siedlung Im Etzental  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), pp. 19/27, number A 3459
  2. ↑ until 1955 Ludwigstraße ( entry in the Bonn street cadastre)
  3. ↑ a b Herbert Strack: The settlement "Im Etzental" . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Issue 36
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Federal City of Bonn, Lower Monument Authority : List of Monuments of the City of Bonn (Annex: Object: "Im Etzental" settlement in Bonn-Bad Godesberg , April 14, 2000)
  5. ↑ a b c Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 .
  6. ↑ a b Susanne Willen: The Cologne architect Hans Schumacher: his life's work until 1945 . In: Günther Binding (Ed.): Publications of the Department of Architectural History of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne , 57, Cologne 1996, p. 326/327, ISSN  0940-7812 (also dissertation University of Cologne, 1995)
  7. ↑ Kerstin Kähling: Scattered and divided: Towns and settlements of the fifties and early sixties in the provisional capital of Bonn
  8. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of March 1992

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 36.3 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 16.6 ″  E