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Our well-kept multi-family houses are located at Lotharstraße 111-119 and 135 in Bonn-Kessenich. They accommodate 1-room apartments up to 5-room apartments. The residential buildings are surrounded by green areas and are therefore ideal for families with children. All facilities of everyday life such as schools and kindergartens, playgrounds, bakeries, cafés and restaurants are in the immediate vicinity of the apartment buildings. Kessenich is one of the oldest parts of Bonn and, with its proximity to the forest and Venusberg, offers many people a peaceful home on the edge of the wonderful local recreation area. The center of Kessenich is the area between Burbacherstrasse and Hausdorffstrasse, the Pützstrasse with its cobblestones forms the shopping mile and, with its numerous retailers and the wide range of shops, invites you to go shopping. The route to the city center only takes a few minutes by bike, but the route can also be covered easily and quickly on foot. Kessenich has an exemplary transport infrastructure. The well-developed public transport system ensures a perfect connection to the center of Bonn and thus also to the main train station, but the transport connection to the University Hospital Bonn or to other parts of Bonn is also very good. The motorway connection in the directions of Cologne and Siegburg and Koblenz is also excellent. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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Haus im Burggarten www.burggartenbonn.de The “Haus im Burggarten” is located at Burggartenstraße 27 with its high-quality apartments – which in turn have sophisticated floor plans. It is located in the beautiful old building district in Bonn-Poppelsdorf. The apartments are between approx. 14 and 23 square meters and each one has a modern sleeping gallery, which is not listed in the living space. This offers an additional 6 square meters of usable space. On the gallery you can prepare a cozy place to sleep and also set up a small sideboard. The apartments each have a kitchenette (fridge and 2-plate stove) and a shower room with beautiful built-in walls. The floors of the apartments are laid out with oak mosaic parquet. Wall cladding, railings and ladders in the galleries are made of fine oak. The high-quality material was also carefully chosen for the kitchen fittings and the built-in walls in the bathrooms. In addition, the apartments are equipped with heavy cotton curtains, which are used to darken the windows and the gallery. In the neighboring house, washing machines and dryers are available to residents for a fee. The trendy district of Poppelsdorf is known for its hustle and bustle and is not only appreciated by young people for its close proximity to the university, city center and Bonn hotspots. Photos: Stefan Müller, Berlin

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The house at Reuterstraße 2 is a beautiful, elaborately and stylishly renovated old building from the Wilhelminian period, which was built around 1887 and is a listed building. In the heart of southern Bonn in Poppelsdorf, right next to the botanical garden, the stately building with high ceilings on a 169 m² plot offers the opportunity to be used as a residential building for young people. The house has been extensively renovated since 1995. The ground floor has a very spacious entrance and leads through double doors to the imposing living rooms with beautiful stucco applications. The kitchen with access to the courtyard and the bathroom with bathtub, floor-level shower and separate toilet are located on 2 mezzanines. On the upper floor there is a very large living room facing the street and a room at the back of the house. The top floor offers three more rooms and a bathroom with tub and shower. The Gründerzeit house has a total of 7 rooms, 1 kitchen, 2 bathrooms, hallways and a basement. The trendy district of Poppelsdorf is known for its hustle and bustle and is not only appreciated by young people for its close proximity to the university, the city center and Bonn's hotspots. The area around the botanical garden is considered one of the most sought-after and popular residential addresses in Bonn, because the district close to the center is characterized by numerous manorial Wilhelminian style houses, the Poppelsdorf Palace, green avenues and old trees. Poppelsdorf has an ideal everyday infrastructure with shops, supermarkets, bakers, restaurants, pubs, doctors, schools and day-care centers. The district has good bus and train connections to the train station in the center as well as a direct motorway connection to the A 565. Photographer: Rheinproductive

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The four rental houses at Sebastianstraße 70-76, built in 1955, accommodate many comfortable apartments of different sizes, many of which have been modernized in the meantime. The houses are located in one of the most attractive and magnificent parts of Bonn, in the Poppelsdorf district close to the city centre. This district is very popular due to the electoral palace, the Poppelsdorfer Allee with its beautiful old buildings and the botanical garden, one of the oldest gardens in Germany. Bonn-Poppelsdorf is a popular residential area for young and old! Here you will encounter a successful mixture of lively city life and soothing tranquility during relaxed walks, for example to the Kreuzberg, on the summit of which the well-known Kreuzbergkirche is located. Both the Poppelsdorfer and theendenicher center are easy to reach. There is a diverse range of shops for everyday life, various restaurants, bars and cafés that can be easily reached by bike, on foot or by public transport. The distances to the city center, to the university buildings and to the Venusberg are also short. In general, the connection to public transport is very good and it is also close to the A 565 motorway. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn and MIWO archive

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The Lutfridstraße is located in the grown district in the heart ofEndenich, in the immediate vicinity of theEndedich Bach. The nearbyendenich "culture mile" on the Frongasse is known beyond the Bonn borders. On it are the beautiful Rex arthouse cinema, the Springmaus house, Harmonie and the Irish pub The Fiddlers, four beautiful and popular Bonn institutions. Life in Lutfridstraße – with its block and row development – is interesting for students due to its close proximity to Bonn University, but it is also a place with a great quality of life, especially for young families and older people. Lutfridstraße is in a quiet residential area with spacious green areas that allow residents to relax. “kunstundwohnen” projects have been implemented in some properties on Lutfridstraße. Artists have artistically designed stairwells and some everyday objects in the outdoor area of the residential complex (you can find out more under “kunstundwohnen”). Many cultural and leisure activities, kindergartens and schools in the vicinity, but also the city center with its faculties and companies can be reached in a few minutes by bike. In the Lutfridstraße there are public parking spaces but also private parking spaces and garages. The transport connection is good, numerous bus lines (622, 623, 632, 635) run from the main station in the direction ofendenich. In addition, Messenich has direct access to the A 565 via its own junction. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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The Lutfridstraße is located in the grown district in the heart ofEndenich, in the immediate vicinity of theEndenicher Bach. The nearbyendenich "culture mile" on Frongasse, where the beautiful Rex arthouse cinema, the Springmaus house, the Harmonie and the Irish pub The Fiddlers are located, four beautiful Bonn institutions that are popular with visitors, is across the Bonn borders also known. In the charming beer gardens you can end the day comfortably. Life in Lutfridstraße - with its block and row development - is very interesting for students due to its close proximity to Bonn University. But this is also a place with a lot of quality of life for young families and older people. Lutfridstraße is in a quiet residential area with spacious green areas that allow residents to relax. “kunstundwohnen” projects have been implemented in some properties on Lutfridstrasse and Magdalenenstrasse. Artists have artistically designed stairwells and some of the everyday things in the outdoor area of the residential complex (you can find out more under “kunstundwohnen”) and have thus positively changed the living space of the tenants. The cultural and leisure activities, the kindergartens and schools in the vicinity and the city center with its faculties and companies can be reached in a few minutes by bike. There are public parking spaces but also private parking spaces and garages. The transport connection is good, numerous bus lines (622, 623, 632, 635) run from the main station in the direction ofendenich. In addition, Messenich has direct access to the A 565 via its own junction. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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The Magdalenenstraße is located in the growing quarter in the heart ofEndenich, in the immediate vicinity of theEndenicher Bach. The nearbyendenich "culture mile" on the Frongasse is known beyond the Bonn borders. There are four beautiful Bonn institutions on it that people like to visit: These are the beautiful Rex arthouse cinema, the Haus der Jumpmaus, the Harmonie and the Irish pub The Fiddlers. In the cozy beer gardens you can end the day comfortably. Life in Magdalenenstraße is very interesting for students due to its close proximity to Bonn University, but it is also a place with a high quality of life, especially for young families and older people. The Magdalenenstraße is in a quiet residential area with spacious green areas, which is used for the relaxation of its residents. “kunstundwohnen” projects have been implemented in some properties on Magdalenenstrasse and Lutfridstrasse. Artists have artistically designed stairwells and some of the everyday things in the outdoor area of the residential complex (you can find out more under “kunstundwohnen”) and have thus positively changed the living space of the tenants. The cultural and leisure activities, the kindergartens and schools in the vicinity and the city center with its faculties and companies can be reached in a few minutes by bike. On the Magdalenenstraße/Lutfridstraße there are public parking spaces but also private parking spaces and garages. The transport connection is good, numerous bus lines (622, 623, 632, 635) run from the main station in the direction ofendenich. In addition, Messenich has direct access to the A 565 via its own junction. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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The Pastoratsgasse is inEndenich, in the immediate vicinity of the "Cultural Mile" inEndenich on the Frongasse, where the beautiful Rex arthouse cinema, the Springmaus house, the Harmonie and the Irish Pub The Fiddlers are located, four beautiful Bonn institutions that are popular to visit are known beyond the borders of Bonn. Here you will find shops for everyday needs, in the small restaurants and the beautiful beer gardens you can end the day comfortably. The living space in "Haus Cöllenhof" at Pastoratsgasse 14 is particularly suitable for young and old people, for singles or couples. The cultural and leisure activities in the immediate vicinity and the city center with its faculties and companies can be reached in a few minutes by bike. The transport connection is good, numerous bus lines (622, 623, 632, 635) run from the main station in the direction ofendenich. In addition, Messenich has direct access to the A 565 via its own junction. “The “Haus Cöllenhof”, completed in 2000, at Pastoratsgasse 14 by Schröder Architects is a three-tiered building on a hillside with a square base. The interior courtyard and the covered gallery are framed by single-storey white walls. A three-story block with alternating arcades faces south-west and is surmounted by a five-story tower that encloses the half-open stairwell. The height of the building is based on the structural environment. In the north-east, the striking structure delimits a spacious square, which is extended by the inner courtyard. The five-storey tower contains nine one-room apartments with variable layouts, and one large two-room apartment on the ground floor. The massive masonry is covered on the outside with a two-layer lime cement plaster. The fine-grained finishing plaster is pigmented ocher gray and rubbed off smoothly. The windows are made of solid oak, while the sills, the attic covers, the staircase and the outer floor coverings are made of cast stone. The inner doors, moldings and floors are also made of oak. The smooth inner gypsum plaster is painted white. The "Haus Cöllenhof" plays with the transitions from private to semi-public to public space. These transitions are structurally implemented through the transparent arcades and the inner courtyard with a solitary tree. This is intended to give the historical Magdalenenplatz a new look on the former site of the Cöllenhof estate.” Author: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Schröder / Baukunst-NRW editorial team Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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The Adolfstraße in the northern part of the city borders on the "old town", which is very popular with students and young people due to the numerous bars and pubs. Within walking distance are kindergartens, schools, small businesses, cafés, restaurants, backyard art spaces and studio communities and the Kunstcarré Bonn with the Women's Museum, August-Macke-Haus, Bonner Kunstverein and Künstlerforum Bonn. Here is also the listed Frankenbad, one of the four indoor pools in Bonn. You can also marvel at the neo-Gothic Catholic town church of St. Marien (built between 1887 and 1892) on the corner of Adolfstrasse and Oppenhoffstrasse, which is one of the most important and stylish churches in Bonn city centre. The district has good transport connections to other parts of the city and to the main train station. The city center can be reached in a few minutes by bike or on foot. The connection point to the A 565 motorway is nearby. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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The Dorotheenstraße is in a quiet residential area on the edge of the historic "old town", which is very popular with students and young people due to the numerous bars and pubs. Here - as in the surrounding streets - there are houses in a block structure with old buildings and green inner courtyards. Kindergartens, schools, small businesses, cafés, restaurants and the Kunstcarré are located in the vicinity. In the immediate vicinity is also the listed Frankenbad and one of the most important and stylish churches in Bonn city centre, the neo-Gothic Catholic town church of St. Marien (built 1887 to 1892). The district has good transport connections to other parts of the city and to the main train station. The city center can be reached in a few minutes by bike or on foot. The proximity to the A565 / A555 motorway connection is given. Photographer: MIWO, Bonn

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The Dorotheenstraße is in a quiet residential area on the edge of the historic "old town", which is very popular with students and young people due to the numerous bars and pubs. Here - as in the surrounding streets - there are houses in a block structure with old buildings and green inner courtyards. Kindergartens, schools, small businesses, cafés, restaurants and the Kunst Carré are located in the vicinity. In the immediate vicinity is also the listed Frankenbad and one of the most important and stylish churches in Bonn city centre, the neo-Gothic Catholic town church of St. Marien (built 1887 to 1892). The district has good transport connections to other parts of the city and to the main train station. The city center can be reached in a few minutes by bike or on foot. The proximity to the A565 / A555 motorway connection is given. Photographer: Roman Ray

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The Heerstraße in Bonn is known for the lush blossoms in spring, when the pink-pink cherry blossoms are in full bloom, then the Heerstraße is considered one of the most beautiful streets in the world. House 37 on Heerstraße has a small, beautiful garden and dates from 1897. It is located in the heart of Bonn's old town. The old town has a wide range of restaurants, a wide range of shops and the Kunstcarré is also located here. In the immediate vicinity is also the listed Frankenbad and one of the most important and stylish churches in Bonn city centre, the neo-Gothic Catholic town church of St. Marien (built 1887 to 1892). The city center can be reached in a few minutes on foot. The district has good transport connections to other parts of the city and to the main train station. The city center can be reached in a few minutes by bike or on foot. The proximity to the A565 / A555 motorway connection is given. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn and photo archive MIWO

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In Irmintrudisstraße there are well-kept and modernized apartment buildings that date back to 1962. The floors of the cozy apartments are covered with parquet, PVC was used in the kitchens and hallways. The bathrooms are brightly tiled, equipped with a tub/shower and have either a window or, alternatively, electric ventilation. In Bonn-Castell you will find a lot of residential buildings, office and administration buildings, several institutes of the University of Bonn, as well as numerous federal authorities and churches worth seeing, such as the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph from 1931, a brick building in the Bauhaus style by the Cologne architects Boell and Neuhaus. In summer, the Römerbad outdoor pool, located directly on the banks of the Rhine, attracts numerous visitors. In Bonn-Castell, urban life takes place in the immediate vicinity of the Rhine, ideal for people of all ages who appreciate short distances but are not necessarily fanatics of tranquillity. The city center can be reached in a few minutes on foot or quite comfortably by bike. The promenade running along the Rhine with footpaths and cycle paths offers ample opportunity for strolling and doing sports. The many green areas invite you to linger and relax. Kölnstraße runs along the border to Nordstadt and offers good shopping opportunities for everyday needs with its shops. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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The street "Im Krausfeld" belongs to the district Nordstadt, which borders on the "old town" and is very popular with students and young people due to the numerous bars and pubs. Within walking distance are kindergartens, schools, small businesses, cafés, restaurants and the Kunstcarré. In the neighborhood is also the listed Frankenbad, one of Bonn's four indoor swimming pools, and on the corner of Adolfstraße and Oppenhoffstraße you can marvel at the neo-Gothic Catholic town church of St. Marien (built between 1887 and 1892), which is one of the most important and stylish churches in Bonn's city centre. It is only a few minutes' walk to the next train station (line 61) and the city center can be reached in a few minutes by bike or on foot. The district has good transport connections to other parts of the city and to the main train station. The connection point to the A 555 and A 565 motorways is nearby. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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Kölnstrasse is part of the Nordstadt district, which borders on the “old town” of Bonn, which is very popular with students and young people thanks to its numerous bars and pubs. Within walking distance are kindergartens, schools, small businesses, cafés, restaurants and the Kunstcarré. The listed Frankenbad, one of Bonn's four indoor pools, is also in the vicinity. On the corner of Adolfstraße and Oppenhoffstraße you can marvel at the neo-Gothic Catholic town church of St. Marien (built between 1887 and 1892), which is one of the most important and stylish churches in Bonn city centre. The train station is on the doorstep and the city center can be reached in a few minutes by bike or on foot. The district has good transport connections to other parts of the city and to the main train station. The connection point to the A 555 and A 565 motorways is nearby. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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The house at Nordstraße 44 is a very well-kept and modernized apartment building that dates back to 1964. The floors of the cozy apartments are covered with parquet, PVC was used in the kitchens and hallways. The bathrooms are brightly tiled, equipped with a bathtub or a shower and have either a window or, alternatively, electric ventilation. In Bonn-Castell you will find a lot of residential buildings, office and administration buildings, several institutes of the University of Bonn, as well as numerous federal authorities and churches worth seeing, such as the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph from 1931, a brick building in the Bauhaus style by the Cologne architects Boell and Neuhaus. In summer, the Römerbad outdoor pool, located directly on the banks of the Rhine, attracts numerous visitors. In Bonn-Castell, urban life takes place in the immediate vicinity of the Rhine, ideal for people of all ages who appreciate short distances but are not necessarily fanatics of tranquillity. The city center can be reached in a few minutes on foot or quite comfortably by bike. The promenade running along the Rhine with footpaths and cycle paths offers ample opportunity for strolling and doing sports. The many green areas invite you to linger and relax. Kölnstraße runs along the border to Nordstadt and offers good shopping opportunities for everyday needs with its shops. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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The houses at Nordstrasse 110-114 are very well maintained and modernized apartment buildings that date back to 1954. The floors of the cozy apartments are covered with parquet, PVC was used in the kitchens and hallways. The bathrooms are tiled in light colors, equipped with a bathtub or a shower and have either a window or alternatively an electric ventilation system. In Bonn-Castell you will find a lot of residential buildings, office and administration buildings, several institutes of the University of Bonn, as well as numerous federal authorities and churches worth seeing, such as the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph from 1931, a brick building in the Bauhaus style by the Cologne architects Boell and Neuhaus. In summer, the Römerbad outdoor pool, located directly on the banks of the Rhine, attracts numerous visitors. In Bonn-Castell, urban life takes place in the immediate vicinity of the Rhine, ideal for people of all ages who appreciate short distances but are not necessarily fanatics of tranquillity. The city center can be reached in a few minutes on foot or quite comfortably by bike. The promenade running along the Rhine with footpaths and cycle paths offers ample opportunity for strolling and doing sports. The many green areas invite you to linger and relax. Kölnstraße runs along the border to Nordstadt and offers good shopping opportunities for everyday needs with its shops. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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Paulstraße is part of the Nordstadt district, which borders on the “old town” and is very popular with students and young people due to the numerous bars and pubs. Within walking distance are kindergartens, schools, small businesses, cafés, restaurants and the Kunstcarré. The listed Frankenbad, one of Bonn's four indoor pools, is also in the vicinity. On the corner of Adolfstraße and Oppenhoffstraße you can marvel at the neo-Gothic Catholic town church of St. Marien (built between 1887 and 1892), which is one of the most important and stylish churches in Bonn city centre. It is only a few minutes' walk to the next train station (line 61) and the city center can be reached in a few minutes by bike or on foot. The district has good transport connections to other parts of the city and to the main train station. The connection point to the A 555 and A 565 motorways is nearby. Photographer: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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Prager Höfe (Bonn 2004-2009) The Prager Höfe in Auerberg represent an ideal-typical living model for single people. They are study objects of individual life plans, located on the outskirts of the city. The Auerberg district of Bonn has a wide range of building types that were particularly tried and tested in the post-war years, with the row house type predominating. In addition, some point buildings set height dominants. More detached buildings can be found in modest residential buildings from more recent times. In this context, the Prager Höfe establish a city model of its own order: the courtyard, a translation of the square into the scale of the house, binds each of the houses into a self-sufficient unit and at the same time links it to the surrounding space. The courtyard houses are each developed on a square floor plan, with the courtyard raised above street level being surrounded by four buildings arranged at an angle. Its removal supports the idea of privatizing the area that can be accessed via outside stairs, which also embodies the center of the four houses. Each of these houses an apartment on their upper floors; analogous to the gradual privatization of the exterior by raising the courtyard, the public area of the apartment is arranged on the ground floor, while the private rooms are on the upper floor. Below the courtyard, the motif of the common center is repeated in the form of a use-neutral space that is reserved for the residents of the houses. The courtyard houses enter into a dialogue with the neighboring Prague residential courtyards Auerberg through their materiality, but also ideally. The latter also concede a living model based on the coexistence of individual living units grouped around common courtyards. While the focus there is on the variation of the terraced house model, the Prager Höfe offer an alternative model for living alone, in which each resident is assigned their own house within their shared apartment. The individual is a visible part of the city here. The Prager Höfe are located close to the Rhine in a new development area, in a quiet residential area on the northern outskirts of Bonn, in Auerberg. Here you will find plenty of shopping facilities, higher schools and the Sportpark Nord with swimming pool in the immediate vicinity. Auerberg has good transport connections, the center can be reached quickly by bus and train. The A 565 motorway connection is only a few minutes away. Photo: Stefan Müller, Berlin

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Prague houses (Bonn 2020-2022) A successful extension of the residential development in Bonn-Auerberg are the "Prague houses" (built in 2021) on Prager Straße to Auerberger Mitte, a row of five single-family houses with a high quality standard, a small garden, without a basement . The five rows of houses each consist of 2 full floors (ground floor + 1st floor) and a staggered floor, on the 2nd floor with alternating large roof terraces. The ground floor is divided into a large eat-in kitchen, a living room and a guest toilet. On the 1st floor there are two large rooms that can be divided into 2 to 4 separate individual rooms, plus a bathroom. On the 2nd floor there is another living room and a bathroom. From there you can reach the roof terrace, protected from direct views, which is equipped with a pergola made of larch wood, which is planted and vines accordingly and offers natural shading and cooling of the roof and outer wall surfaces in summer. Three of the five roof terraces face south-east towards Prager Straße, two roof terraces of the middle houses face north-west towards the green space of “Auerberger Mitte”. The "Prague houses" offer a living space of approx. 142-144 m² each. Each house has a carport with a small shed. Each of these houses has wooden windows with larch shutters. The covered entrance doors, the interior doors and the interior staircase are also made of wood. Underfloor heating has been laid on all floors, linoleum and stoneware tiles were used as floor coverings. An energy-efficient heat supply for the "Prague Houses" is provided by air-water heat pumps. The "Prague houses" with the extensive roof greening of the flat roofs and the planting with surrounding hedges made of hornbeam fit perfectly into the design of the outdoor area of the neighboring courtyard buildings. Auerberg has good shopping facilities, secondary schools and the North Sports Park with a swimming pool and is characterized by good local transport connections and level cycle paths, which can be used to reach Bonn city center in just 15 minutes. At the same time, nearby motorway connections offer good and fast connections in all directions, especially to Cologne and to Konrad-Adenauer-Flughafen Cologne/Bonn (motorway connection A 565). Drawings: Uwe Schröder Architect, Bonn

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Wohnhöfe Auerberg (Bonn 1998-2003) The Wohnhöfe Auerberg consist of 40 single-family houses that were designed as two-storey rental residential buildings. They are arranged in two square courtyards. The houses are particularly suitable for families. Facing the inner courtyard are the common areas on the ground floor, such as the entrance area, kitchen and living room. There is a free seat in front of this. The staircase, storage, house connection and sanitary areas are located in the central area. The individual rooms are on the upper floor. These 2 rooms can be divided into three or four rooms by installing a central partition wall. The living area of the common and individual rooms in the houses is approx. 90 m². Every 20 houses form a courtyard, every five houses a house group. Four groups of houses are laid out like windmills around a square open space and form a square courtyard with a large opening on each side. The houses are accessed via the courtyard, so the entrances do not face the street but the inner courtyard. The resulting courtyard expresses the idea of communal living. The houses have wooden slat sliding shutters and a flat roof. For ecological reasons and to make the roof structure last longer, the warm roof (non-ventilated roof) was extensively greened. Auerberg has good shopping facilities, secondary schools and the Sportpark Nord with a swimming pool and is characterized by good local transport connections and its level cycle paths, which can be used to reach Bonn city center in just 15 minutes. At the same time, nearby motorway junctions offer fast connections in all directions, especially to Cologne and Konrad-Adenauer Airport (motorway junction A 565). Photos: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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Londoner Strasse 34-44 The well-kept apartment buildings at Londoner Strasse 34-44 in Bonn-Auerberg, with their 7 floors, have 1 to 4 room apartments. The apartments are very popular with families with children. The living space is publicly funded, so that a residence entitlement certificate is required to rent one of the apartments. Auerberg is a popular residential area for young and old in a quiet residential area on the northern outskirts of Bonn with a well-functioning infrastructure. Shops with many shops for daily needs, pharmacies, doctors, kindergartens, schools, high schools and the banks of the Rhine are only a few minutes away on foot or by bike, the Sportpark Nord with swimming pool is in the vicinity. Bonn-Auerberg generally has good connections to local transport in all directions and can be quickly reached by bus (lines 604 + 601 + E + 605) and by train (lines 61 + 65). The A 565/A-555 motorway junction is just a few minutes' drive away. Photos: Peter Oszvald, Bonn

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ROM.HOF – student housing complex in Bonn The city is polycentric. Over time, the surrounding villages have grown into the urban body. The incorporated localities in the fabric of the city can still be perceived structurally and spatially today, sometimes they have retained their center although the individual reshaping. Towards the outside, the spatial and formal concentration decreases, the villages each maintain their own and overlapping peripheries within the overall urban structure. They are urban landscapes of different origins, growing together in a disorderly manner, penetrating one another and creating a new emptiness instead of a new centre. Correspondence of places It is a place that, linguistically, deserves an “in between” rather than a “in the middle”. Its spatial identity is shaped more effectively by the topography of traditional agriculture than by the country roads that run out and the scattered settlements that accompany them. Leaving aside the body's immediate location, it is difficult to discern a local reference point for the architectural repositioning. Rather, it is made indirectly and derived from the dedication. Topologically, the building as a student courtyard builds an associative bridge to the neighboring "village" and the university buildings there from the late 19th century near the palace. This spatial relationship cannot be viewed from any vantage point in the city. Aesthetically, it remains reserved for the “correspondence” (M. Seel) of both places about similarities. Inner sequence of rooms With its introversion, the building meets the outdoor space of the place. From the street, a gate leads to inner arcades with small apartments. The open corridors of the four floors are connected by stairs in the corners. The core space is divided by an inserted crossbar (“wash house”) and has courtyards on the upper entrance level and the lower exit level, which are surrounded by arcades and connect to the open landscape via the lower gate. The kitchen is in the lower courtyard, the laundry room is in the upper courtyard and the playroom above it. The apartments with their ancillary rooms, including kitchens and bathrooms, are connected to the arcades via openings with doors and windows. The outward-facing rooms are preceded by loggias (“studioli”). Solitude and togetherness As a “courtyard”, the building is of a type that, with its atrium and forum for house and city, points to a long building history. The fact that it occurs in different contexts in house and town planning is due to a “higher purpose” (G. Semper), which always first acknowledges the “courtyard” as a type: the dedication to communal living in house and town. As an inner outdoor space, the courtyard is the most public part of the building, mediating reciprocally between the street and the apartment. And just as the courtyard is systemically made up of a core room and an arrangement and is dedicated to “commonality”, the interior of the apartment also goes back to this same principle. Because of the complementary dedication to “loneliness”, however, the “studiolo”, as the core room of the apartment, has been shifted eccentrically to the outer periphery of the building. As the spatial end of the apartment, of house and yard as well as of the city, it is the place of the greatest possible withdrawal from community and society, because of the lack of urban context and the exposed exterior interior spaces of the city, the "Studiolo" is at the same time the place that immediately confronted with the outside outside space of land and landscapes. House and courtyard as a festival The “wash house” in the middle of the courtyards represents communal living by depicting and producing (hopefully) the act of communal living. The residential courtyard as a whole is intended as a "dense settlement", but instead of the rural, the urban appears here. As if to offset the lack of urban space design on site, this "urbanized settlement" leads to an urbanity inside the building. Only in this way can the horizontally and vertically centered and raised room be appropriately furnished with washing and drying machines, only in this way can the fountain in the courtyard in front indicate this dedication. But even more original than washing, the hearth and cooking point to the communal event. The courtyard, which is open to the landscape on the lower level, is in front of the communal kitchen with its fireplace. And high above, even above the other two, the room is set up for playing. The usual cooking, washing, playing mean here the festival, a festival of "beautiful use" (B. Taut), the "festival" (H.-G. Gadamer), which is community and represents community. System of architecture The building is organized organically. Part and whole stand in a relationship to each other, which is presented as the proportion of spaces and forms and which is based on scale. In the system of architecture, the proportion of the spaces leads back to the unity of the opening and the proportion of the forms to the unity of the pillar. Opening and pillars, spaces and forms are integrated from the outset in one and the same modular dimension. In this respect, proportion describes the proportionality within an order, here the building, scale describes the proportionality between two orders, here, that of the building and there, that of the dwellers. It is only through scale that the building, with its spaces and forms, relates to something different, to the occupants. It is primarily the craftsmanship of the brick that makes the scale of the building tangible: grasping means grasping. Scale encompasses far more than the traditional anthropomorphism or metrics of form, but rather means the spatial aspect of the architecture before and after it. Ultimately, it achieves the entire constitution, which also includes the ability of the residents to move, perceive and imagine. A scale that can no longer be exhausted in moderation, but finds expression in an expanded proportionality. Openness and openings The rooms are borrowed from the walls. They are connected to each other and to the outside via the element of the opening. The openness and closedness of the walls indicate the social separation into public and private. Walls include and exclude via openings. The openness of the building decreases from the inside to the outside. In the same way that the outer openings of the walls show the residents' own rooms to the outside, the inner openings with the doubling of the interval point to the common ones inside. The openings are also spaces, spaces inside walls in which one stands and through which one walks. Walls open up as places and paths. Arches and vaults characterize this inner spatiality of the wall in a special way: the protective and sheltering character of the enclosing and at the same time opening gesture has a space-intensifying effect on those places and paths. An arc focuses the center through which gaze and movement lead. Unlike the angled opening, which merely cuts out and pulls away from the wall, the arch seems to expand the opening, pulling the wall aside as it were and bundling it in the pillar, which is probably why the massif in the space of the opening still seems to be perceptible. Botany of the wall Especially since it can't do anything else, at least not without other support, the brick masons arches and vaults. Openings under arches make walls appear heavy. The loads are smoothly deflected via the arch into the wall and pillar and carried away in the ground. The “flowing off” of the loads allows the wall to be firmly rooted in the ground and grow out of it. This peculiar effectiveness of the wall is symbolically represented in the structure of the stones. As the wall approaches the ground, the water-struck brick changes to red and because of the height difference from the street to the landscape behind, the building forms a base storey clad primarily in red at the rear. The walls rising above the plinth turn yellow. The transition from red to yellow shows an increase and decrease in a progression that mimetically depicts the “growth” of the wall and the “growth” of the building in the mixed transition. This symbolism of the “organic” wall and the organismic structure is transformed in several respects and with the occurrence of head, runner and bearing sides of the stone, with the wild bond, with the ramification of the joint network, with projections and recesses and predetermined ones manual "mistakes" underpinned. The resulting irregular pattern characterizes the wall's growth tissue and determines the tectonics of the building – like a plant. Cladding of the rooms The interior polychromy of the walls and ceilings ties in with the material colors of the bricks, red and yellow. First with the third color, the mineral blue, with which the ceilings have been "painted away". Three other colors, beige, purple and green, show up as products of the three main colors. The inner walls of the arbours, stairs and "wash house" are covered with a cardboard-colored beige as a mixture of red and yellow. Those of the outward-facing “studioli” change from purple to green from bottom to top. If the "Studiolo" is located behind a wall made primarily of red bricks, the walls are painted a brownish purple as a mixture of red and blue. Behind the predominantly yellow walls, green appears as a product of yellow and blue. Because of the silicification with the plastered base, the germ colors show a mineral "depth". The polychromy refers to the public parts, ie to the spaces of the building that are dedicated collectively, and contributes to their atmosphere. In the outer "studioli" of the apartments, the colors symbolically recall the communal and social and refer back to the spatiality of the house as well as the city. Otherwise, the apartments with white and gray are excluded from the color scheme. Without color Detlef Beer's art also omits color – under the blue ceilings of the “Waschhaus” and the “Studioli”. This is all the more remarkable when one considers that in the work of the painter Beer, the use of color, in particular the colors yellow, blue and red, has fundamental and conceptualizing meanings: Here, however, the architectural assumption of color leads to an artistic renunciation of color. First of all, it is the “sparing” of the color that spatializes the intimate relationship between the nude and the building. Because in the way in which architecture structurally delimits the space, but masks the structure with color in order to turn the effect entirely to the inner rooms, art first and foremost takes an opening with its "leaving out" color against architecture of the rooms. But these silhouette-like openings are not intended to draw attention to the structure above, such as the rough plaster base or the rough concrete of the ceiling, but rather an opening of space into another space, an imaginary space, an expanded one , boundless, an open space. From there, apparently from far away, prompted by the light background, the playfulness of the three abstract ceiling paintings reflects back into the inner space. The mathematics of the work and the proper names left out in the ceilings of the “studioli” mysteriously allude to astronomy. Currently The building refers to the past and the past, without distancing itself too clearly from the "old". So it doesn't really appear "new". That doesn't have to be a disadvantage, since what is still called "new" today may have arrived tomorrow by what is called "old" - at least too hasty for the deliberate architecture, which fashion shouldn't be about anyway. As in the ground, the building is also laying foundations over time, a work on the cohesion of past, present and future: the building will probably not have been modern. (explanations by usarch)