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The history of mankind has left traces for many thousands of years, which today characterize the image of our cities and other cultural landscapes as monuments.
Individual buildings such as castles, palaces, churches, houses and technical buildings or entire areas such as the old town of a town and parks make these historical developments tangible.
Due to their multifaceted significance, the protection, preservation, maintenance and research of these testimonies to the history of human origins and development are in the public interest. They are recorded on the basis of monument protection laws.
A distinction is made between architectural monuments, ground monuments and monument areas. There are also so-called movable monuments. With 4,169 architectural monuments and 45 ground monuments (as of 2021), the city of Bonn has the third largest number of monuments in NRW.
The NRW state government intends to once again provide funding for lump-sum allocations and individual grants for municipal, private and ecclesiastical monuments in the 2025 financial year in accordance with the guidelines on the granting of grants for the preservation and maintenance of monuments (funding guidelines for the preservation of monuments).
The Ministry for Regional Identity, Communities and Local Government, Building and Gender Equality NRW has published a call for applications on its homepage (see link).
For the first time this year, applications for individual funding must also be submitted online:
After the application has been sent digitally, it must also be printed out, signed and sent to the district government by post.
A copy of the signed application must be submitted to the Lower Monument Authority. The application must be accompanied by the documents required to assess the intended measure (such as cost estimates, descriptions of services, plan drawings, financing plans).
Only in absolutely exceptional cases can the original paper application be used.
Further information for monument owners is published on the Ministry's homepage:
Dealing with monuments is a task for the federal states. The North Rhine-Westphalia Monument Protection Act (DSchG NW) regulates all statutory orders, decrees, permits and conditions.
There are four competent administrative authorities:
The Lower Monument Authority (UDB) is responsible at municipal level for all issues relating to monument protection and conservation of municipal and private properties and is therefore the first point of contact for citizens.
The Higher MonumentAuthority - for Bonn the Cologne District Government - processes applications for funding from state funds and assumes the function of a Lower Monument Authority for state and federal properties.
The Supreme Monument Authority - generally the responsible state ministry - takes legislative initiatives and decides in cases of disagreement between the other monument authorities.
The specialist offices - for Bonn the LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland and the LVR Office for the Preservation of Archaeological Monuments in the Rhineland - research, evaluate and prepare expert reports for protection procedures, among other things.
