Venner Strasse 31 (Bonn)

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Former residence of the Russian Ambassador, Venner Strasse 31 (2014)

The building at Venner Strasse 31 is a residential building in Bad Godesberg , a district of Bonn , which served as the residence of the Soviet ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from 1972 to 1991 and then the Russian ambassador until 1999 . It is located in the Schweinheim district on the corner of Venner Strasse and Waldstrasse, with a plot of land extending as far as Axenfeldstrasse.

history

The house was built for Alexander Werth , a Godesberg entrepreneur and CDU local politician, and his wife Helge (daughter of the entrepreneur Hans Ringsdorff ) as the owner of the property. It was or is equipped with a swimming pool and sauna. Werth sold the property in the autumn of 1971 for 2.6 million DM to the Soviet Union , which set up the residence of their ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany there. At the end of April 1972 - a move-in ceremony took place on April 26th - the ambassador at the time, Valentin Falin, moved into the house. The office of the embassy was established in 1975 on the nearby Viktorshöhe . Since the early 1980s, the property has been demarcated by a 2.20 m high concrete wall - contrary to the requirements of the development plan , which provided for a wall height of only 80 cm. In 1982 a dining room was added. Together with the adjoining rooms, it could also be used as a concert hall in which renowned artists - including Svyatoslaw Teofilowitsch Richter - played. The residence was equipped with loans from Russian museums and artists.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian Federation, the continuation state, took over the property as the residence of its ambassador. However, the Soviet Union remained the land register owner of the property , and the successor states have not yet reached an agreement on their foreign property that has been ratified by all parties . In the course of the relocation of the government seat to Berlin , the Russian embassy moved there in 1999. A consulate general was left on the Viktorshöhe in Bonn . Due to the unclear ownership of the former residence of the ambassador, it was initially empty. In 2006 an employee of the Russian Consulate General moved into the house. The sale of the property was planned for 2016 (status: October 2015), but the property is still in an unchanged condition (status: July 2019).

See also

literature

  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 174/175.

Web links

Commons : Venner Straße 31  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Heidermann : The Godesberg entrepreneur Dr. Alexander Werth (1908–1973) . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual volume of the Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Volume 53 (2015), Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2016, pp. 117–159 (here: p. 151 / 152, 158).
  2. ^ Report from Bonn , Die Zeit , No. 42, October 15, 1971
  3. ↑ Notification from Rome , Der Spiegel , December 6, 1971
  4. ↑ Valentin Falin: Political Memories. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-26657-1 , p. 192 f.
  5. ^ Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger messages. 2nd Edition. 2011, pp. 78/79.
  6. ↑ Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (Ed.): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine.
  7. ↑ Russians are not allowed to sell two houses , General-Anzeiger , January 29, 2000, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 13
  8. ↑ Hope for an additional consulate in Frankfurt , General-Anzeiger , June 8, 2006
  9. ↑ Michael Wenzel: Between luxury and decay , General-Anzeiger , October 6, 2015

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