UN campus

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Langer Eugen, part of the UN campus since 2006 (2014)
Old high-rise building, seat of the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Climate Change since 2013 (2014)

The UN Campus (also VN Campus ; long form United Nations Campus ) is the center of the United Nations organizations in Bonn . It was inaugurated on July 11, 2006 and initially only comprised the former high- rise Langer Eugen . In July 2013, the southern part of came Federal Palace at the UN court added. After a further expansion phase, the campus should have a capacity for around 1,000 employees from 2020.

administration

The UN campus is owned by the Federal Real Estate Agency ; Any construction work on the property is supervised by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning . The UN organizations use the buildings rent-free, but pay the operating costs. Due to an agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United Nations, the UN campus is subject to special diplomatic and (international) legal provisions. It is therefore sometimes referred to as an “ extra-territorial area ”.

history

Campus phase I

Since 1996 in particular, numerous United Nations (UN) organizations have settled in Bonn. These were previously located in the Carstanjen house and its extension, the Federal Palace and the office building at Kennedyallee 105-107 . In November 2000, the federal government decided to bundle the organizations that focus on the environment and sustainability at one central point. In 2001 it was agreed to make part of the former parliament buildings available to the United Nations as a "UN campus" for permanent use, which was confirmed by a cabinet resolution of May 28, 2003. From April 2006, eleven of the then twelve organizations moved into the former high-rise building, the Langen Eugen. It was completely fenced in and Hermann-Ehlers-Straße was closed to traffic. On July 11, 2006, the new UN campus was inaugurated by Chancellor Angela Merkel and the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan .

Campus phase II

The climate secretariat is housed with around 265 of a total of 600 employees (as of 2013) in the eight-storey old parliament building above a two-storey bunker, the former parliamentary building , the intermediate wing and the south wing of the Federal Palace. For this purpose, in "Campus Phase II", the partly listed buildings were rebuilt and partly rebuilt from September 2009 to summer 2013 under the direction of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning for 92 million euros and a glass-roofed atrium was created in place of the previous inner courtyard. The move was originally Already planned for 2008, but was delayed because the budget committee of the German Bundestag had imposed a budget freeze on the renovation. On October 31, 2012, the symbolic handover of the keys to the climate secretariat took place, the final completion until the official takeover of the building by the UN on July 15, 2013 and the organization moving in in October 2013. At the same time, at the end of Hermann-Ehlers-Strasse on the Rhine side a logistics building, on the corner of the United Nations square the central entrance building. With Campus Phase II, a section of Hermann-Ehlers-Straße was included in the security area of ​​the campus and de-dedicated .

Campus phase III

In "Campus Phase III", a new building on the UN campus facing Stresemannufer is under construction for the Climate Secretariat in the form of a 17-storey new UN high-rise , which means that all of the around 1,000 United Nations employees in Bonn at one location would work. It is the first new building in Bonn specifically planned for UN use. For this project, an architectural competition was launched in November 2012 , which was decided in favor of the Berlin architectural office Stefan Lippert in September 2013. In addition, an art in construction competition was initiated for this construction project in August 2015 ; the decision was made in March 2016. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on October 6, 2016 and the topping-out ceremony on June 3, 2019; completion is planned for 2020. According to a decision at State Secretary level of the Federal Ministries for Finance , Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety , Transport, Building and Urban Development and the Foreign Office on May 3, 2011, this expansion should also include the multi-building Alte Wasserwerk on Stresemannufer, previously the conference site of the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB), to be included in the UN campus. In addition, the structural expansion of the existing logistics building is planned.

Start of construction work on the new UN high-rise building, aerial photo (2016)
Construction status September 2018, aerial photo
The construction status in July 2019, the 17th floor was reached

Complementary institutions

In 2006 an extensive extension of the WCCB was started on the neighboring property , which up to now has only used the former plenary hall of the Federal Palace in addition to the waterworks and pump house. The project, which has meanwhile been called the United Nations Conference Center , is primarily intended to enable the United Nations to hold international conferences in Bonn. The previous Bonn congress centers were not sufficient for this. The extension of the WCCB was completed in summer 2015. From 2012 to 2013, the Federal Real Estate Agency had a day-care center built in the vicinity of the UN campus (Heussallee 30) for the employees of the United Nations and other international organizations working in Bonn. The underground car park for United Nations employees is at Deutsche Welle headquarters ( Schürmann-Bau ) and is maintained jointly with them.

See also

Web links

Commons : UN Campus  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (Ed.): Bundesimmobilien (PDF), 1st edition, March 2017, pp. 10, 27.
  2. ^ Section III B 1 Project Management UNO, BMELV, BMG, BMAS , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  3. ↑ 'Langer Eugen' combines listed design with modern technology , City of Bonn
  4. ^ A b "Altes Abautenhochhaus" becomes extraterritorial area of ​​the United Nations in Bonn - info note of the United Nations in Bonn
  5. ↑ UN campus surrounded by a fence , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 15, 2005
  6. ↑ Contact information , United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  7. ^ Starting shot for the new domicile of the UN Climate Change Secretariat ( Memento from September 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , press release of the City of Bonn, September 2, 2009
  8. ^ Topping- out ceremony on the UN campus , press release by the City of Bonn, October 12, 2011
  9. ↑ UN CLIMATE SECRETARIAT. Bonn , RKW Architecture + Urban Development
  10. ↑ Dieter Schmoll, Reinhard Schlieper, Malte Rickermeier: Former parliament building becomes the seat of the UN climate secretariat . In: Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning : Building and Space. Yearbook 2010/11 , self-published by BBR, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-87994-786-7 , pp. 64–69.
  11. ↑ Berlin householders donate another UN component for Bonn , General-Anzeiger , June 26, 2008
  12. ↑ Handing over the keys to the UN Climate Secretariat , press release by the City of Bonn, October 31, 2012
  13. ↑ House of Representatives since Monday extra-territorial area , General-Anzeiger, July 16, 2013
  14. ↑ Conversion for the UN Climate Secretariat costs significantly more than planned , General-Anzeiger, July 22, 2013
  15. ↑ Implementation Updates Archive , United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  16. ↑ Green light for new building on UN campus , General-Anzeiger , September 22, 2010
  17. ↑ Space on the UN campus is being expanded , General-Anzeiger, April 9, 2011
  18. ^ Extension building for the UN campus in Bonn - architectural competition ( Memento from October 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  19. ↑ Extension for the UN campus in Bonn - art in architecture, Wintergarten location , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  20. ↑ Open application process for the closed competition art in buildings for the UN Campus Bonn , professional association of visual artists berlin
  21. ↑ Topping- out ceremony on the UN Bonn Campus , UN Bonn, June 4, 2019
  22. ↑ Implementation of the Headquarters Agreement , Subsidiary Body for Implementation Forty-second session, Bonn, 1–11 June 2015
  23. ↑ Printed matter no. 1513857: Resolution proposal: Statements and resolution of the articles of association on the project-related development plan no. 6720-1, city district Bonn, district Gronau; “Hermann-Ehlers-Straße” from December 9th, 2015 Online PDF / Online in the Bonn Council and Information System
  24. ^ Hochhaus am Wasserwerk , General-Anzeiger , April 13, 2016
  25. ↑ REPORT FROM BONN: Foundation stone laid for extension building on UN campus , press release from the city of Bonn, October 6, 2016
  26. ↑ Extension on the UN campus in Bonn , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  27. ^ Offspring on the UN campus in Bonn: “Langer Eugen” has a little brother , Foreign Office
  28. ^ Letter from State Secretary Jürgen Becker dated May 6, 2011 , Bonn Council Information System
  29. ↑ UN campus is being expanded , General-Anzeiger, May 30, 2011
  30. ↑ Foundation stone laid for international kindergarten , General-Anzeiger , May 5, 2012
  31. ↑ Bonn International Day Care Center , Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
  32. ↑ International daycare center opened at the UN campus in Bonn , joint press release by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Federal Foreign Office , September 6, 2013
  33. ↑ Development plan no. 6720-1 of the federal city of Bonn - Bonn city district, Gronau district

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