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Welcome to Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990. From 1288 to 1803 it was the residence of the Archbishops and Prince-electors of Cologne.

Attractions

Churches

  • Minster Bonn
  • Doppelkirche (Double Church) Schwarzrheindorf built in 1151
  • Old Cemetery Bonn, one of the best known ones in Germany

Castles and residences

  • University of Bonn with the Kurfürstliches Schloss (residence of the prince-elector
  • Poppelsdorf Palace
  • Godesburg fortress

Museums

  • Museum Mile with
    • Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany) showing the Guggenheim Collection in 2006-2007
    • Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn Museum of Modern Art)
    • Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    • Museum Alexander Koenig where the Parlamentarischer Rat first met
  • Deutsches Museum Bonn (German Museum Bonn)
  • Beethoven House
  • Ägyptisches Museum (Egyptian Museum)
  • Akademisches Kunstmuseum (Academic Museum of Art)
  • Arithmeum, research institute for discrete mathematics including a museum
  • Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (Rhenish Regional Museum Bonn)
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  • Nature

Botanischer Garten (Botanical Garden), where Titan arum reached a world record Rheinaue (Bonn), a leisure park on the banks of the Rhine
Rhine promenade and the Alter Zoll (Old Toll Station)