Windeck bunker

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The Windeck bunker is on Budapester Straße in the center of Bonn.

The Windeckbunker is a listed high bunker in the center of the federal city of Bonn .

The 21.5 meter high, six-story building was erected in 1941. Designed as a retreat for 843 people, the building also housed the city air raid control center and the mayor's command post. Local commander Major General Richard von Bothmer gave the order to blow up the Rhine bridge from the bunker on March 7, 1945 . On March 8, 1945, around 5,000 people from Bonn witnessed the invasion of the 16th Infantry Regiment of the US Army and thus the end of World War II in Bonn. After the end of the war, released prisoners of war were initially housed in the Windeck bunker; in June 1947, 30 former prisoners were quartered here.

In 1990, after many years of vacancy, accommodation was set up for Romanian asylum seekers , but closed again after protests. In 1997 it was discussed to set up rehearsal rooms for bands ; In 2001 the bunker was to become the home of the NRW Photography Research Center . However, this was not implemented, nor was the creation of a community garden planned in 2012 . The talks held with potential operators between 2013 and 2014 to set up a “party location” also failed.

Web links

Commons : Windeckbunker (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn
  2. ↑ a b c Martin Ochmann: Initiative wants to build a community garden on the flat roof. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. September 7, 2012, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c Alexander Kuffner: EXPRESS series "Lost Places": The changeful history of the Windeck bunker. In: Express.de. June 5, 2015, accessed February 18, 2016 .
  4. ^ Susanne Raillard: Refugees and Expellees in Bonn 1945–1952 . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter: Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , ISSN  0068-0052 , Volume 51/52 (2001/2002), Bonn 2003, pp. 355–436 ( here: pp. 366, 367).
  5. ↑ Bettina Köhl: Bunker in Bonn: future use of the Windeck bunker. In: Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger. August 29, 2013, accessed February 18, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 6.7 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 48.6 ″  E