Willy-Brandt-Allee 16 (Bonn)

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Villa Willy-Brandt-Allee 16 (Bonn)

The Willy-Brandt-Allee 16 building is a villa in the Gronau district of Bonn , which was built in 1912 and is now used as an office building. It is located on the west side of Willy-Brandt-Allee ( Bundesstrasse 9 ) at the corner of Rheinweg, directly opposite the House of History . The villa stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

After Bonn became the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the villa was located on the edge of the new parliament and government district . At that time it was used by the German Herold , who made his office space there available to the federal government in the spring of 1950 to accommodate the Foreign Office, which was being established. In 1951 the Republic of India rented the building and set up the office of its diplomatic mission, which had previously been located in Cologne, and which received embassy status in the same year . In 1957 the terrace of the house was built over and the room layout in the attic was changed. In 1982 the property also became the property of the Republic of India.

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the Indian embassy moved there in October 1999 (→ Indian embassy in Berlin ). In Bonn, a branch office of the embassy including the consular department was initially left in the previous chancellery building . After it was closed in spring 2002, the Indian government put the property up for sale in April 2005. Today the villa is used and rented out as an office building, since 2010/11 by the notary's office Rabl & Gassen. Despite extensive renovation work, the stucco work with Indian motifs and ornaments on the building's facade facing the Rhine was preserved.

The entry of the villa in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn took place on March 13, 1984. As part of the property under monument protection, the front garden is with the original fencing . The components affected by the renovation in 1957 are excluded from monument protection.

architecture

The villa is a two-storey plastered building with a mansard hipped roof . The right side axis is preferred as a risalit . The facade and - with the exception of the top floor, which was changed in 1957 - the interior of the building have been preserved in their original state.

Web links

Commons : Willy-Brandt-Allee 16  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ until 1967 Koblenzer Straße 262 , until 1999 Adenauerallee 262 (→ list of streets in Bonn's Gronau district )
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 319
  3. ^ 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 , p. 176.
  4. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
  5. ↑ NRIs fume over embassy building sale in Bonn , The Times of India, 10 June 2005
  6. ^ Protest against shifting of Indian Embassy , The Hindu, December 24, 2000
  7. ↑ Dr. Rabl and Dr. Gassen - Notaries in Bonn ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b City of Bonn, Lower Monument Authority : List of Monuments of the City of Bonn

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 10.4 ″  E