Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #16 in Bonn, Germany

The Rheinaue amusement park, known locally as "the Rheinaue", is a 160-hectare local recreation area in Bonn, Germany. The basic features of the park were created on the occasion of the Federal Horticultural Show in 1979 south of Bonn's Gronau, an undeveloped and agricultural floodplain area at the time.

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The old waterworks is a building ensemble in Bonn, whose pump house was based on the plenary hall of the German Bundestag from 1986 to 1992/93. It goes back to the end of the 19th century and used to serve the city's water supply. Today it contains office and conference rooms. It is located above the banks of the Rhine (Stresemannufer) near the Federal House in the Gronau district with the address Hermann-Ehles-Straße 29.

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The Chancellor's Teahouse is a pavilion in the park of Palais Schaumburg in the Gronau district of Bonn, Germany. It was built in 1955 on the banks of the Rhine (Wilhelm-Spiritus-Ufer) and was used by the Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany for confidential discussions, sometimes also for private purposes. As part of the area of the former Federal Chancellery, the teahouse is a listed building.

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Hammerschmidt Villa is a villa in the German city of Bonn that served as the primary official seat and primary official residence of the president of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1950 until 1994. President Richard von Weizsäcker made Bellevue Palace in Berlin his primary official seat and residence in 1994. In German, the Villa is also called the "White House of Bonn", and served as a political symbol of West Germany and its capital Bonn. Since 1994, the Hammerschmidt Villa has been the secondary official seat and secondary official residence of the president of Germany. The president's standard is flown above Hammerschmidt Villa when the president is in Bonn.

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The Bundeshaus is a building complex in Bonn, Germany, which served as the Provisional Parliament House of West Germany, and thus the seat of the German Bundestag and Bundesrat, from 1949 until 1999. The main building, constructed between 1930 and 1933, served as a Pedagogical Academy until the end of the Second World War. After the resolution of the Hauptstadtfrage in 1949 in favor of Bonn, the structure was converted into the provisional seat of the Bundestag and Bundesrat.

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The so-called Bundesbüdchen is an oval kiosk listed as an architectural monument, which is located in the former government and today's federal quarter in Bonn. From 1957 onwards, the kiosk stood between the then Federal Chancellery, the Bundesrat and the Bundestag. It had to be dismantled in 2006 and was re-erected in May 2020 near the original location on the corner of Heussallee and United Nations Square.

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The Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods is located in Bonn, Germany. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society. The institute focuses its study on law, economics and politics of collective goods.

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Large Two Forms is a 1966-1969 sculpture by Henry Moore. The monumental sculpture measures 365 cm × 610 cm × 400 cm. It comprises two large curving elements that almost meet. The organic shapes, each with oval openings, resemble two human pelvis bones, positioned as if copulating. The work may have a distant relationship to his 1934 sculpture Two Forms in pynkado wood, now held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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The SAS Pavilion is a small rotunda on Bonn's Bundeskanzlerplatz, which was built in 1952/53 and was formerly used as a flight agency of the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS). It is a listed building.

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Haus der Geschichte is a museum of contemporary history in Bonn, Germany. With around one million visitors every year, it is one of the most popular German museums. The Haus der Geschichte is part of the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Foundation, alongside the "Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig", the "Tränenpalast" at Berlin Friedrichstraße station and the "Museum in the Kulturbrauerei". The foundation's headquarters is in Bonn.

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The parish church of St. Nikolaus is a listed church building in the Bonn district of Kessenich. The church is of particular importance because its orientation provides information about the urban development of the village of Kessenich, shapes the townscape and has an unusual architectural form, which has inspired at least one other church, the church of St. Aegidius in Hemmerich, built under Pastor Maassen. The Catholic parish belongs to the Bonn-Süd parish association.

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St. Elisabeth is a Roman Catholic parish church in the southern part of Bonn, Germany. The church is dedicated to St. Elisabeth of Thuringia. It is a listed building.

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