Telekom Campus

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Location of the Telekom Campus in Bonn-Beuel

The Telekom Campus (previously: T-Mobile Campus ) is a modern Deutsche Telekom office building complex on Landgrabenweg in the Ramersdorf ( Beuel ) district of Bonn . The largest office complex in the city of Bonn (123,000 square meters), which costs 250 million euros, is located at the Bonn Beuel Süd exit of the A 562 on the right bank of the Rhine and was built in the early 2000s. The plot once belonged to the developing area "Bonn government quarter " of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The campus has been the headquarters of Telekom Deutschland since 2010 . The building complex was initially planned, built and used as the headquarters of the Telekom mobile communications subsidiary “DeTeMobil Deutsche TelekomMobilNet GmbH” and their successor companies “T-Mobile International AG” and “T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH”.

The campus was built in two construction phases: First, the south-eastern part of the building was built - at times called “T-Mobile I”, later “first building”; in 2003 the north-western part of the building ("T-Mobile II" / "new building") was completed as an extension.

First construction

Entrance area of ​​the first building

Before the construction of the first building, the headquarters of the then Telekom mobile communications subsidiary "DeTeMobil Deutsche Telekom MobilNet GmbH" was the building at Oberkasseler Strasse 2 (also in Ramersdorf). With the expansion of the mobile communications business in the mid-1990s, the company's personnel requirements increased and the capacity of the building on Oberkasseler Strasse proved to be too low. As a result, the architect and building contractor Carl Richard Montag took over the planning and construction of the first part of the building at Landgrabenweg 151. Since it soon became apparent that there was not enough building space available even with this “first building”, Monday started with the expansion to include the north-western part of the building instructed.

The floor plan of the first building is determined by a central wing to which several side wings and squares adjoin. There is a tower at both ends of the central section; At the north-eastern end there is a roundabout that borders the right-hand stretch of the Rhine and was initially used as a canteen. The office space of the first building consists mainly of individual and group offices; Executive offices are provided with anteroom. A conference room on the ground floor can be separated into up to three parts by variable, ceiling-high partition walls. The architecture of the first building can be described as rather traditional compared to the new building. The building has a single-storey underground car park and outdoor parking spaces . A Telekom shop is located on the street side next to the entrance hall .

On the roof of the building there was initially an advertisement with the words "T-Mobil", later it was replaced by "T-Mobile", most recently by the Telekom logo with four "digits".

New building

Entrance area of ​​the new building

The new building has a gross floor area of ​​98,000 square meters and consists of five building parts that are connected to one another. Five towers tower above the usual building height. In the middle of three parts of the building there are green inner courtyards, some with ponds. The facades consist mainly of large-format glass surfaces; Partitions in the building are also often made of glass. The air conditioning follows the modern concept of concrete core activation . The north-western part of the building is occupied by a mobile communications technology center, which was initially completed during construction. On the ground floor there is a canteen with an area of ​​5000 square meters with 1000 seats, which replaced the former canteen in the first building due to its larger capacity; the roundabout of the first building has since been used as a company kindergarten and fitness studio. Behind the spacious entrance hall is the "Forum" - a multifunctional event room with a capacity of 1500 visitors, which is also leased for public cultural events, such as B. Concerts. At the front of the forum is a large-format LED wall , which u. a. can be used at cultural events. The forum is followed by the “Net Supervision Center” - this is where Telekom’s European cellular network is monitored. There are training and meeting rooms on the floor above the entrance hall and the forum; the glass front of the largest room (an event room) is provided with a translucent LED wall on the outside, which is used for advertising purposes. The office space in the new building is dominated by open-plan offices (“open office worlds”); They are loosened up by “meeting points” with translucent “light furniture”. In contrast to the first construction, the laying of telephone lines was dispensed with during construction, since the telephone house system is based on IP telephony . The building has a two-storey underground car park with 1,600 parking spaces.

In the new building there were initially offices of the group subsidiary T-Mobile International, whose employees previously u. a. were housed in a temporary, three-story container building on Karl-Duwe-Strasse on Bonner Bogen . The opening took place in November 2003; In addition to the builders René Obermann and Timotheus Höttges , guests such as Prime Minister Peer Steinbrück , Lord Mayor Bärbel Dieckmann , Guido Westerwelle , Christian Schwarz-Schilling and Klaus Töpfer were present.

Similarities

The first and new buildings are connected by pedestrian bridges that cross the public Schießbergweg . The two underground garages have no connection. Since the capacities of the two underground car parks (3000 parking spaces) and the outdoor parking spaces turned out to be insufficient, the building ensemble was supplemented by a parking garage between the new building and the railway line in 2007.

Both buildings have a main entrance with an entrance hall and reception; The hall and reception of the new building are larger than those of the first building.

Campus employees traveling by train use the nearby Schießbergweg tram stop. First of all, their walk to and from the bus stop on Schießbergweg was often and protractedly obstructed by a locked level crossing on the busy right-hand Rhine stretch. After several years of planning by Deutsche Bahn , the level crossing was replaced by an underpass .

Carl Richard Montag was not only the architect and builder of the two parts of the building, he is also the owner of the complex; Telekom is a tenant. The campus was Monday's most extensive construction project. The building management is carried out by Strabag Property and Facility Services , formerly DeTeImmobilien .

After the dissolution of the T-Mobile International division, the system became the headquarters of the newly founded Telekom Deutschland in 2010 . The Telekom campus is not to be confused with the Port Bonn office on the left bank of the Rhine, which housed the headquarters of the Telekom fixed line division T-Home and is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Telekom campus .

Exterior views

  • Facade of the new building on Landgrabenweg

  • LED wall on the new building

  • Connecting bridges between the first and new build

  • Roundel and tower of the first building

  • Bench before the first construction

  • Parking garage on the railway line

literature

Web links

Commons : Telekom Campus  - Collection of Images

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d Silke Elbern: A start with light fountains and fireworks. In: General-Anzeiger online. November 20, 2003, accessed May 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Cem Akalin: Extension area for Beueler T-Mobile or housing estate? In: General-Anzeiger online. November 14, 2007, accessed May 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Jens Krüger: The financing of the federal capital Bonn. (= Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Volume 106). De Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 978-3110190908 , p. 184
  4. ↑ The building at Oberkasseler Str. 2 was subsequently used as the headquarters by the T-Systems subsidiary Detecon until 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b Five towers tower over the new T-Mobile city in Beuel. In: General-Anzeiger online. September 19, 2002, accessed May 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Telephone giant causes "stomach ache". In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . July 23, 2003, accessed May 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ 150 more parking spaces , General-Anzeiger , October 9, 2006
  8. ↑ T-Mobile is building a multi-storey car park in Beuel for an additional 567 parking spaces , General-Anzeiger , November 21, 2006
  9. ↑ Carl Richard Monday: What remains. Autobiography, Wuppertal 2011, p. 192 ff.

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