Tram depot Bonn

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Front facade of the former depot. The original three entrance gates per hall are now glazed
Rear of the building renovated in 2000, photo from 2015
The depot between an office building (headquarters of the Telekom Foundation , Graurheindorfer Strasse 153) and the 565 federal motorway . On the left, on the site of the former depot, is the historic “director's villa”, while the former position of the cobblestone tracks in the parking lot is modeled on it

The former tram depot of Bonn is located on the Graurheindorferstraße 157 in Bonn district of Bonn-Castell . It is an important example of industrial Art Nouveau architecture of the time, is a listed building and has been used as an office property since 2000.

history

In 1905 the city of Bonn had the tram depot (wagon hall), an associated "director's villa" and a coach house (consisting of a caretaker's building and two horse stables) built on what was then Rheindorfer Straße according to plans by the civil engineering department . The large car hall, which was used for the maintenance and repair of the trams, was designed in Art Nouveau architecture. The other objects in the ensemble are also designed in Art Nouveau style. The four-aisled depot hall received four curved and plastered gables on the front and back , with the two middle gables being higher and containing stucco with technical motifs in the semicircular end . The roof rests on steel triangular trusses. The whole hall is provided with clinkered edges, lintels , reveals and brick ornaments; some windows contain curved elements that are common for Art Nouveau.

Around the beginning of the 1970s, the previously twelve elegant gates rounded at the top were replaced by four large, rectangular entrances with roller gates. In 1986 the depot ceased operations; until 2000 the hall was empty. In 1993 Stadtwerke Bonn sold the system to Simon Grundbesitzgesellschaft for a price of eight million DM . After contaminated sites were discovered on the property , a three-year legal dispute broke out, which ended in 1997 with a settlement - the buyer was reimbursed 3.5 million DM. In April 1999 the then DaimlerChrysler subsidiary debis AG acquired the facility in order to renovate it. The front facade was dismantled to its original state with twelve individual gates, of which only four can be used as an entrance. The facades were painted light beige.

The modernly equipped office space in the hall, created in consultation with the monument protection authority, comprises around 4620 square meters (including traffic and functional areas). From the end of 2000 DeTeImmobilien was the tenant of the office. An artist's studio was set up on the ground floor. The secretariat of the Standing Conference has been located in the building since October 2010 .

Web links

Commons : Tram depot of the city of Bonn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Photo of the depot from the 1970 / 80s with extended gate entrances

See also

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d history of the house Graurheindorfer Str. 157, Bonn , website of the permanent conference of the ministers of culture of the federal states in the Federal Republic of Germany
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 24, number A 1747
  3. ↑ Memorial for the fallen tramers at the former wagon hall in Grau-Rheindorf , Bonn in the First World War 1914 to 1918, Bonner Geschichtswerkstatt eV
  4. ↑ a b c Bernd Leyendecker: Working and celebrating in an old industrial monument , December 18, 2000, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  5. ^ Website of Staiger Architects

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 6.2 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 19.4 ″  E