Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Bonn, Germany
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7.3 km
93 m
Explore Bonn in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in BonnIndividual Sights in BonnSight 1: Elsa Frank
The list of Stolpersteine in Bonn contains Stolpersteine that were laid in Bonn as part of the art project of the same name by Gunter Demnig.
Sight 2: Sankt Remigius
St. Remigius is a Catholic church and parish in Bonn, Germany. The building was completed in 1307, in Gothic style.
Sight 3: Metropol
Book Ticket*The metropoly was a cinema in the center of Bonn. Its 864 places comprehensive large house was the last larger cinema room in Art Deco style in Germany. The building has been a listed building since 1983. After it went into the hand of a new owner in December 2005, the cinema was closed in March 2006. The building should be converted according to the first plans for "large -scale trade use". After the first renovation plans of the new owner had been rejected by the City Council of Bonn, Mayor Bärbel Dieckmann campaigned for modified conversion plans in May 2007, but implementation was stopped in the autumn of the same year. From September 2007 to May 2008, a citizens 'initiative collected more than 16,000 signatures in the context of a citizens' request that aimed to maintain the monument and its further use as a place of culture. In May 2008, the city administration presented the responsible committees of the Council to a resolution to reject the latest renovation plans of the new owners and referred them to the possibility of selling the building to a user who provides for cultural use while maintaining the monument. On August 26, 2008, the Higher Administrative Court of Münster (OVG) decided that only the facade of the building had a monument property. The court did not allow a revision. The city appealed to the non -approval of the revision. This was rejected; The OVG decision is therefore final. The conversion to a bookstore began in 2009 and was completed in autumn 2010.
Sight 4: Im Mohren
The house "Im Mohren" in downtown Bonn is one of the oldest preserved town houses in Bonn. It borders on the birthplace of Beethoven and is now used by the Beethoven-Haus association and the Beethoven Archive Foundation. The baroque house is located in Bonngasse and is a listed building. The building is known because of a wooden sculpture of a Mohren attached to the facade.
Sight 5: Beethoven House
The Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany, is a memorial site, museum, and cultural institution serving various purposes. Founded in 1889 by the Beethoven-Haus association, it studies the life and work of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Sight 6: Namen-Jesu-Kirche
The Name of Jesus Church is a post-Gothic church building in Bonngasse in Bonn, Germany. The church is owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is used by the Old Catholic Church in Germany as a cathedral and city church. It is a listed building.
Sight 7: Schlosskirche
The Electoral Palace in Bonn is the former residential palace of the Prince-Electors of Cologne. Since 1818, it has been the University of Bonn's main building in the city center, home to the University administration and the faculty of humanities and theology.
Sight 8: Hofgarten
The courtyard garden is a park in Bonn. It is part of the city centre, partly of the southern town and borders to the northwest on the main building of the University of Bonn, the Electoral Palace. In the 18th century, the park was built as a garden to the residence of Elector Clemens August. Nowadays, the Bonner Hofgarten is a popular recreation area, especially among students, due to its central location.
Sight 9: Pranger
The Bonn Minster, also known as the Cathedral Basilica, is the main Catholic church in Bonn and a landmark of the city. It was built in the 11th century as the Romanesque collegiate church of St. Cassius and Florentius of Cassius Abbey. After the secularization of the monastery at the beginning of the 19th century and the demolition of the neighboring parish church of St. Martin in 1812, the cathedral came into the possession of the parish of St. Martin. Since 1956, the cathedral has borne the title of Basilica minor. Bonn Minster has been undergoing general renovation since 2017, and the interior has been open again since 31 October 2021.
Sight 10: Palais Fürstenberg
The main post office in Bonn is a former city palace on Münsterplatz, which was built between 1751 and 1753. From 1877 to 2008 it was the city's main post office. The entire complex, including the former parcel post office on Bottlerplatz, built between 1906 and 1908, is a listed building.
Sight 11: Sterntor
The original star goal in Bonn was built around 1244 at the end of Sternstrasse and was part of the medieval city fortifications.
Sight 12: Euro Theater Central
Euro Theater Central Bonn is a theatre in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Sight 13: Wilhelmbau
The Regional Court of Bonn was founded in 1850 and is one of the 19 regional courts in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is responsible for the districts of the six local courts in Bonn and the surrounding area and is located in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne.
Sight 14: Stiftskirche
The collegiate church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Bonn, which bears the name St. Johann Baptist and Peter, also called Kuhle Cathedral, and was built from 1879 to 1886. It is located on the abbey square on Kölnstraße in the Bonn-Zentrum district and shapes the Bonn cityscape. The parish church is the oldest parish of Bonn. From the end of the 19th century, several municipalities were gradually outgraded from its parish area. In 2010 the outlets were reversed, since then the parish has been called St. Petrus Bonn-Mitte and has around 9,000 members. The church building is a monument protection as a monument.
Sight 15: Pintaius-Mal
This list refers to free -standing monuments of individuals in Bonn, but grabs are also counted. The list is sorted alphabetically according to the surnames of the recognized people, for the first names for princes and people of the Roman times.
Sight 16: Dietkirche
The name Dietkirchen Bonn stands for several terms that have played an important role in the history of today's federal city of Bonn and its region. Dietkirche was not only the name of the first Christian church, but also the origin of an early settlement that had formed around the church. Dietkirchen also became the name of the later parish district (Sprengel) and also the name of a monastery founded near the church, from which the free-noble monastery of St. Peter in Dietkirchen later emerged. Dietkirchen Abbey was one of the first religious-female convents in the Bonn area, along with the monastic foundations in Vilich (978) and Schwarzrheindorf (1151). Dietkirchen Abbey was dissolved in 1802 under French administration and its property confiscated.
Sight 17: Matronis Aufaniabus
The Matronae Aufaniae are Germanic Matronae attested on Roman era altars. The Aufaniae are one of the most frequently recorded names of matronae on record.
Sight 18: Sankt Marien
St. Marien is the Catholic parish church in the inner city of Bonn. It is located on the corner of Adolfstraße and Oppenhoffstraße, not far from the Stadthaus. The church, including the rectory, is a listed building.
Sight 19: Familienraum
The list of monuments, sculptures and honorary plaques in Bonn lists publicly accessible, non-listed sculptures, sculptures, reliefs, plaques and other small monuments as well as public works of art in the federal city of Bonn and its districts.
Wikipedia: Liste von Denkmalen, Skulpturen und Ehrentafeln in Bonn (DE)
Sight 20: Lukaskirche
St. Luke's Church was built after the Second World War as a result of the influx of Protestant citizens. The town church at Kaiser-Karl-Ring 25 was listed as a historical monument in 2007. The Lukaskirche parish belongs to the Bonn church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
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