Waiting hall at station Godesberg II

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former waiting hall (September 2008)
Opening of the Bonn – Godesberg – Mehlem electric tram on July 24, 1911. The guests of honor stand with the then Godesberg mayor, Anton Dengler (center), at the Rheinallee stop.

The former waiting hall of the Godesberg II station , also known as the Rheinallee waiting room or the old waiting room , is now used as a bistro and kiosk. The building, erected in 1911, is located at a bus stop around 200 meters northwest of the Godesberg train station on the corner of Rheinallee 1a and Rüngsdorfer Strasse and is a listed building .

history

On May 22, 1892 between Godesberg and today's Bonner Bundeskanzlerplatz the operation of a single-track, on its own track bed lying, steam-powered narrow gauge - tram added. The southern extension to Mehlem was opened on April 1, 1893. In 1910 and 1911, the route of the Bonn – Godesberg – Mehlem (BGM) tram was electrified and expanded to two lanes. Since the construction of an underpass for the nearby railway line of the Left Rhine Route with the simultaneous raising of the track bed of the railway made it necessary to lower the surrounding area, the original tram waiting hall had to be demolished in the same year.

New building

Under the then mayor Anton Dengler , a new bus shelter was built at another location in 1911 to replace the old waiting room at the station “Godesberg II” (located on what was then Auguste-Viktoria-Straße , now Beethovenallee ) based on designs by Bonn architect Walter Frese . This bus shelter stood frontally along the course of the earlier tram tracks. The single-storey building on a T-shaped floor plan was given a broadly projecting, slate-covered hip roof . The entrance to the waiting room had a covered area as well as a sales stand for newspapers on the left and one for tickets and tobacco products on the right. Also on the right side of the building were the toilets that are still there today. Some of them still have the original equipment with Art Nouveau tiles and terrazzo floors .

Public utility lounge

From the mid-1950s onwards, the number of trams used fell steadily - in contrast to other modes of transport that served the Bonn – Godesberg connection. In December 1976 the tram line was shut down. The place at the bus shelter has now become the main traffic point for numerous bus routes; In the course of this change, the waiting hall was converted and converted into a staff lounge for public utility employees and bus drivers. The building fulfilled this function until 2007. After it was included in the list of monuments in 2002 by the Lower Monument Authority , the building was restored on behalf of the city of Bonn. The roof was again covered with Moselle slate , the plaster was painted beige. The missing wooden entrance door was also restored with a glass insert based on old templates. A leaseholder has been running a bistro with a kiosk in the old hall since 2008 .

The bus shelter is the only one that still exists along the former tram line from Bonn to Mehlem. All others were demolished over time.

Web links

Commons : Waiting hall of the Godesberg II station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 48, number A 3775
  2. ↑ Frese also designed the station buildings along the Beuel-Siegburg route.
  3. ^ Dietrich von Leszczynski: Bad Godesberg. An economic and socio-geographic study with special consideration of the development after the Second World War. Dissertation, University of Cologne, Cologne 1966, p. 91.
  4. ↑ Godesberg-Villenviertel structured by streets , website of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 29.4 ″  E