Based on the workshop design from 2017 and the structural proposal from 2019, skt umbaukultur from Bonn prepared a feasibility study consisting of an urban development concept and a test design for the university use "Forum of Knowledge", which, among other things, specifies the building cubature and possible uses.

According to the council resolution of June 24, 2021, the "Forum of Knowledge" is planned as a public, university use to the east of the planned alley (printed matter: 210953). The owner will be the state of NRW. The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität is the intended user. The university plans to locate a library for the humanities and additional gastronomic uses in the "Forum of Knowledge". Based on the designation as a core area, other uses would also be conceivable in the longer term.

To ensure that the above-mentioned library of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität can be accommodated in the eastern part of the quarter, skt umbaukultur has developed a test design based on the space allocation plan available in January 2022 and in coordination with the Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb des Landes NRW (BLB) and the University of Bonn. This design was able to show that the university's envisaged space program can be mapped in the context of the urban planning objectives and scale of the quarter. The assumptions of this design were fleshed out by the BLB in the further planning process and were reflected in the stipulations of the development plan.

According to this test draft, the green space on the university campus was to be designed as a "green center" and could be laid out as an exhibition and sculpture garden, for example. This area should not be underpinned so that large-crowned trees with a natural ground connection can be planted. As an exception, however, a substructure would also be possible if the existing basement floors of the Viktoriabad were to be reused in the sense of using "gray energy". In this case, however, compensation would be required in the form of intensive roof greening on the roof areas of the Forum des Wissens.

The framework conditions described above, which were developed in the course of the feasibility study and the planning steps based on it and have been incorporated into the provisions of the development plan, must be taken into account in a building construction competition to be held for the new "Forum of Knowledge". The building construction competition in accordance with RPW 2013 will be held following the development plan procedure. It will be organized by the BLB in coordination with the City of Bonn.

In the western section of the new quarter, the first floors will be used primarily for small-scale stores, services and restaurants. The upper floors are to be used for inner-city living. The types of housing planned here include student housing, age-appropriate housing and family housing. The Bonn building land model is to be applied with regard to subsidized housing construction as part of the concept allocation for the municipal property.

It is planned that predominantly four-storey buildings will be constructed. In the urban planning design, an absolute height of up to approx. 20 m above the street level of the Belderberg at the level of the building plot is set for the planned library and an absolute height of approx. 18.7 m above the planned alley is set for the buildings in the western part of the district. As a transition from the planned to the existing development, single-storey buildings, and in the area of the library also up to two-storey buildings, are proposed on the property boundary.

In accordance with Section 3 (2) of the German Building Code (BauGB), comments can be submitted during the publication period in writing by email or, if required, by post to the City of Bonn Planning Office or for recording.

E-mail:  amt61.anregungenbonnde

Postal address:

City Planning Office
Berliner Platz 2
53103 Bonn

Any comments not submitted by the deadline may be disregarded when a decision is made on the development plan.

Development plan 6622-3, with the simultaneous revocation of development plan 7822-22, will be drawn up using the accelerated procedure without an environmental assessment.