Rathenauufer / Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße staircase

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Stairway Rathenauufer / Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße (2014)

The staircase Rathenau Waterfront / Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße in Bonn district of south town connects the Rhine ( Rathenau shore) with a spur road from the Adenauer Allee branching Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße. It stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The staircase was built in 1904 together with the Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße, which was laid out as a private road, according to plans by the Berlin architects Kayser & von Großheim on the newly parceled plot of the Villa Franz Heinrich Freiherr von Rigal (built in 1846, demolished in 1905/06). His grandson Franz Ludwig Maximilian von Rigal and Maria Pauline Henriette (married) von Schloezer acted as builders .

During the Second World War , the original staircase balustrades were destroyed in a bombing raid in the Allied air war and later replaced by a simple bar grating. In 1979/80 the portico and the two vases were renovated. The staircase itself was restored in 1982 and the balustrades were faithfully restored from the original material. From August 2014 to March 2015, the surfaces of the steps and the platforms were replaced, railings were replaced or installed, and guide strips for the visually impaired and pushers for bicycles and prams were installed.

The staircase was entered in the city ​​of Bonn's list of monuments on March 8, 1983.

architecture

The staircase is two-armed and three-lane in neo-baroque forms made of red sandstone . The balustrades are made of yellow Aachen sandstone, the steps are made of artificial stone. The Bonn city coat of arms is worked into the retaining wall as a stone relief . A gate overbuilding as a portico in the form of a triumphal gate - also in yellow Aachen sandstone - is attached to the staircase , which is supported by pillars and two pairs of columns. Oversized vases crown the pillars, the portico as a whole is a balustrade.

"In the architectural design of the two-armed, three-flight staircase with the crowning, columnar gate under a plastic balustrade as the end of Schaumburg-Lippe-Strasse and the connection between the banks of the Rhine, the architects created a piece of garden and street architecture that gives Bonn's banks of the Rhine a generous, decorative accent."

- Olga Sunday (1998)

  • Relief of the Bonn city arms

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 92
  2. ↑ a b c The information is taken from the legally binding list of monuments of the city of Bonn. It is managed by the Lower Monument Authority , from which the entries for the individual monuments can be obtained for a fee.
  3. ^ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 2, Catalog (1), p. 41.
  4. ↑ a b Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, p. 26. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  5. ↑ Soon the beacons will be gone , General-Anzeiger , June 4, 2013
  6. ↑ Stumbling blocks on the banks of the Rhine are disappearing , General-Anzeiger , January 23, 2014
  7. ↑ Stairs on the banks of the Rhine are being renovated , General-Anzeiger , August 30, 2014
  8. ↑ Four staircases are being renewed , press release from the city of Bonn, January 22, 2014
  9. ↑ The renovation of the historic stairs to the banks of the Rhine has begun , press release by the City of Bonn, August 28, 2014
  10. ↑ The construction of the stairs is delayed due to defects , General-Anzeiger , March 20, 2015

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 48.6 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 37 ″  E