The city of Bonn sends out amended tax notices The council decides on fee rates for 2024 On December 12, 2023, the city council of Bonn decided on the fee rates for wastewater disposal, garbage disposal and street cleaning for 2024 and agreed to an increase in the fee rates. The basis of the decision is the generally higher costs due to inflation, such as the increased and future rising material and personnel costs. According to the city of Bonn, “the cost-coverage principle also applies to the fee rates: the fee revenue should generally cover the costs, but must not exceed them.” The city of Bonn published an information letter on its website on December 13, 2023 with facts and “explanations on the “Real estate tax notice 2024” has been published, which contains important information and explanations from the city administration for every tenant, and also informs that the tax notices have already been sent by post. The complete information letter dated December 13, 2023 can be found on the City of Bonn website at www.Bonn.de / Press Releases (see link above: The Council decides on fee rates for 2024 | Federal City of Bonn). We are also attaching a copy of the general letter from the city of Bonn to all tenants, in which you will also be informed in detail about how the fee rates for the individual items “residual waste disposal, street cleaning, dirty water and rainwater” will increase compared to the previous year become. In this letter, the city of Bonn also points out the newly calculated property tax, which will be due from January 1st, 2025 (see link below under Documents: Explanations to the property tax notice 2024 | Federal City of Bonn).

Cat's out! We would like to realize another art project as part of “kunstundwohnen” in 2023. To implement her art project, the artist Pia Stadt Bäumer has chosen the staircase at Lutfridstrasse 12 in Bonn and would like to implement her project there with the working title “Cat's out!” Cat's out! is a short story, an imagination and a game between the presence and absence of a possible event. The artist Pia Stadt Bäumer was born in Münster. In the 80s she studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf. Numerous scholarships and prizes followed. From 1996, Pia Stadt Bäumer taught her for 4 semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. In 2001 she was appointed professor of sculpture at the HFBK Hamburg. In 2019 she was awarded the Carl Ernst Osthaus Prize from the city of Hagen. Pia Stadt Bäumer has been a member of the Quivid art commission in Munich since 2016 and a member of the Düsseldorf art commission since 2020-2024. She has had numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. The artist lives and works in Hamburg and Düsseldorf.

Exhibition on the BDA Architecture Prize in the Art Museum The architect Uwe Schröder and MIWO GmbH & CO. KG were awarded the 2023 Architecture Prize by the BDA Bonn-Rhein-Sieg for the “Haus im Burggarten” building on November 9, 2023 at the Bonn Art Museum. The jury also awarded “Recognition” for the “Prague Houses” project. You can find more information about the award ceremony and the buildings under the links. Until November 26, 2023, TUE-SUN 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., WED 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., all 16 award-winning and submitted projects/buildings will be presented to the public in an exhibition in the art museum.    

With the series “Here I live” the General-Anzeiger paid particular attention to striking and sensational buildings in the Hardtberg district and the Bonn area and visited some of them to ask the residents what the “special buildings” were like there “ lives and what interesting story there is to tell about the building. This is what happened at our ROM.HOF on Siemensstrasse in Bonn-Endenich: “...After seeing towers, castles, signalman's houses and many others, I now had the opportunity to speak to a student at the ROM.HOF in order to talk about what has been going on for a long time “To be able to write about the building I admired,” said Stefan Hermes – Generalanzeiger. The entire article, published in the Gerneral-Anzeiger Bonn – Hartberg on page 20 on Monday, September 11, 2023, can be found at the link below.    

The City of Bonn sends out tax notices On March 23, 2023, the Council of the Federal City of Bonn decided in its meeting on retrospectively changed fee rates for street cleaning, sewage and waste disposal for periods before January 1, 2023. The city of Bonn published a corresponding article on its website on June 13, 2023 that the city administration has now started sending out the corresponding tax assessment notices. In the meantime, the city administration has created the technical prerequisites so that the outstanding assessments can be made up from Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The citizens affected by this will therefore be promptly sent the corresponding assessment notices by post. The full article with detailed information from June 13, 2023 can be found on the City of Bonn’s website at www.Bonn.de/Press Releases (see link: City sends tax assessment notices | Federal City of Bonn).

Restoration of Claudia Desgranges' work "Überblendung" The artist Claudia Desgranges has restored her work "Überblendung" from 2009 at Adolfstraße 63. We are pleased that the work now shines in its original color again and thank Claudia Desgranges for her great commitment. www.claudia-desgranges.de Photos: MIWO archive If you have any questions about our project or would like further information, Ms. Weyler / Mr. Grashof will be happy to help you by e-mail at info@miwo.eu or by telephone on 0228 914620 .    

This year 2022 we have again implemented an art project as part of "kunstundwohnen". We were able to win over the artist Lorenzo Pompa for this. Lorenzo Pompa chose the stairwell at Lutfridstraße 14 in Bonn and realized his mural there with the working title "Ups & Downs (reflections and involvements in dayly life)". The artist has installed a mural in the stairwell of Lutfridstraße 14 – incorporating mirrors of various sizes, which were positioned in such a way that the stairwell appears to be extended. The color palette moves between Goya yellow and brown and a mixed thorough black tone. The artist realized his work in September 2022 and has enriched the "Lutfridstrasse Art Quarter" with another art object. Lorenzo Pompa, born in Krefeld in 1962, grew up in Rome, studied architecture 1984-86 in Rome and 1993-96 at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, 1997-2003 studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Georg Herold, has lived and worked in Düsseldorf since 1992. Pompa has received numerous grants and awards and has participated in many international solo and group exhibitions. www.lorenzopompa.com Photographer: Mareike Tocha, Cologne You can find more about the project, with a text by the art historian Beate Eckstein, under Company | Culture – art and living #16 .

Please contact us if you know affected people who need support in finding accommodation: MIWO Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Rental housing construction and administration in the Cologne/Bonn region Tel.: 0228-914620 or info@miwo. eu

ELEVATORESK Roman Lang In 2021, after a long break, we implemented art projects again as part of "kunstundwohnen". For the art and living project in 2021, the artist Roman Lang chose the stairwell at Lutfridstraße 7 and realized his colourful, illusionistic mural "ELEVATORESK" there, which clearly borrows from Op Art and, like this, creates spatial structures solely through painting " pretends". Roman Lang plans colored rectangular bodies that seem to jut out diagonally from the wall to the front or upwards. This spatial effect will be seen most clearly when going up or down the stairwell, thus absorbing the movements of the residents. The color palette moves between muted blue and orange tones, light turquoise and green as well as violet and red fields. The artist Roman Lang, born in 1976 in Neumarkt/ Oberpfalz, lives and works in Düsseldorf and Bonn. He studied with Ben Willikens at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung. Lang has participated in numerous international solo and group exhibitions. www.roman-lang.com With these interventions in close proximity to Karim Noureldin's “Tupelo”, Esther Stocker's “Geometria” and Jan van der Ploeg's “Wall Painting No. 412”, which were also created in the Kunstundwohnen series, the “Lutfridstraße art district” will be enriched by another art object. Photographer: Mareike Tocha

LUDFRID INVITED TO PEACE Birte Bosse In 2021, after a long break, we implemented art projects again as part of "kunstundwohnen". We were able to win over the artist Birte Bosse, who subsequently chose the stairwell at Lutfridstraße 20 for the 2020 Kunstundwohnen project in order to install her cheerful and colorful mural "Ludfrid invited to peace". The artistic work was completed in summer 2021. The artist Birte Bosse, born in 1984, grew up in Worpswede and Kuhstedtermoor. In 2006 she graduated from the technical college for product design and art in Bremen, in 2012 she received her diploma from the University of the Arts in Braunschweig, where she studied with Friedemann von Stockhausen, Thomas Rentmeister and Bogomir Ecker and in 2013 made the master class with Bogomir Ecker. In 2019, a fellowship at RMIT University Melbourne brought her to Australia. The artist lives and works in Berlin. www.birtebosse.de With these interventions in close proximity to Karim Noureldin's “Tupelo”, Esther Stocker's “Geometria” and Jan van der Ploeg's “Wall Painting No. 412”, which were also created in the Kunstundwohnen series, the “Lutfridstraße art district” will be enriched by another art object. Photographer: Mareike Tocha