Villa Dahm

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Villa Dahm in March 1991
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Villa Dahm half demolished at the end of June 2006

The Villa Dahm was a villa in the Bonn district of Gronau , which was built in 1876 and demolished in 2006. It was located at Dahlmannstrasse 5-7 in the center of the former parliament and government district (now the federal district) in the immediate vicinity of the Federal Palace .

history

Until 1945

The villa was commissioned by the owner Jakob Dahm, a factory owner, as a double house in the neoclassical style for two of his sons at the former Gronauweg . As early as 1869, Dahm had a house built there and a sawmill ("wood steam cutting mill"). The shell acceptance of the new semi-detached villa in November 1876 and its completion was planned at this time to May. 1877 In the aftermath of the summer, a guard apartment was added.

Under a new owner of the Villa half no. 7, Mrs. H. Denninghoff, 1895 was an enclosure created. By 1903, this half of the house had passed into the ownership of the Elberfeld manufacturer W. Zimmerstaedt. Between October 1903 and March 1904 he had an extension built on the ground floor (design: August Scheidgen for the Westdeutsche Bau-Actien-Gesellschaft ). In 1904 Zimmerstaedt commissioned the architects Kayser & von Groszheim (local representative: Rings) with the construction of a stable and coach house , which was carried out in 1906. In 1912 at the latest, he had taken over the entire double villa. House no. 5 was expanded to include a winter garden between August 1912 and April 1913 and the interior was renovated.

The half-villa at Gronauweg 7 moved into the new owner in July 1924, W. Guilleaume, a local manufacturer. During the interior renovations, which had already been initiated prior to moving in, the house in the south-east corner was also enlarged to create a connection between the dining room and the new kitchen area. Half-villa No. 5 became the property of Professor Hans Jovy until 1931 . At the time, he was forced to leave his garden house to tenants who were interned there. In 1934 Jovy had an enclosure built, and in 1936 a garage .

After 1945

After the Second World War , the villa served as a casino for the Belgian occupation forces from 1948 and was confiscated until September 1950 . At the same time, part of the so-called "press houses" for the provisional accommodation of the press and federal and state authorities was built on the park that had previously belonged to the villa and which became the property of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia with the purchase of the half-villa Dahlmannstrasse 7 . From May 1951, the villa housed part ( consular service) of the Foreign Office . The Federal Republic of Germany became the owner of the property through a transfer agreement dated May 9, 1953. From 1955 the German Parliamentary Society (DPG) was based here.

When the German Bundestag moved in 1999, the DPG moved its headquarters to Berlin . The former Reichstag Presidential Palace on Friedrich-Ebert-Platz in Berlin opposite the east entrance of the Reichstag building was the new seat of the intergroup parliamentary club . In connection with the move of the DPG, the federal government donated the villa to the city of Bonn in 1999. It offered the free-standing rooms of the Willi Daume Foundation, which was based there until 2003. In May 2005, it was decided to demolish the villa, which was listed until the end , because the World Conference Center Bonn was to be expanded on the site . The abandonment of the building was completed by July 11, 2006. The German Parliamentary Society protested against the demolition of Villa Dahm in a resolution .

literature

  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 255–260. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  • Hilde Purwin , Helmut Herles: A villa on the Rhine. The Parliamentary Society in Bonn . Baden-Baden 1986.

Web links

Commons : Villa Dahm  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt: "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , pp. 68, 177, 249-251.
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 1080
  3. ↑ Berlin MPs want to save Bonn villa , General-Anzeiger , October 26, 2004

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 7 "  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 20.8"  E