Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Bonn, Germany

The Oberbergamt Bonn, founded as the Royal Mining Office for the Lower Rhine Provinces, was a Prussian and later North Rhine-Westphalian authority of the mining, metallurgical and saltworks administration. In 1970, it was merged with the Oberbergamt Dortmund to form the Landesoberbergamt Dortmund.

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The Old Customs in Bonn is a former bastion of Bonn's city fortifications, also known as the Three Kings. It was built around 1644 and is located on the slope of the banks of the Rhine on the private property of the University of Bonn as the owner. It is a listed building.

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Bonn Egyptian Museum is an archaeological museum for ancient Egyptian antiquities located in Bonn, Germany. The museum is part of the University of Bonn. It presents a selection of the most important collection of original objects from Ancient Egypt in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The student fountain in Bonn was built in 1913 and is a symbol of historic student culture in the city. The fountain on the corner of Franziskanerstraße / An der Schloßkirche was placed under monument protection in 1988.

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The Marktfontaine is a fountain on Bonn's market square in front of the Old Town Hall. It is a listed building.

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The original Sterntor in Bonn was built around 1244 at the end of Sternstraße and was part of the medieval city fortifications.

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The Altes Stadthaus is a former administration building in Bonn, Germany, built for the French occupation forces after World War I. It was designed by the Munich architect German Bestelmeyer in 1922. Construction was completed in 1924–25. The building most recently served as a public library and administration building. As of 2012, the Altes Stadthaus is being renovated and extended as a "House of Learning", which will accommodate the community college and the library.

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The main post office in Bonn is a former city palace on Münsterplatz, which was built from 1751 to 1753. It was the main post office of the city from 1877 to 2008. The entire complex, including the former parcel post office at Bottlerplatz, built between 1906 and 1908, is a listed building.

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The Beethoven Monument is a large bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven that stands on the Münsterplatz in Bonn, Beethoven's birthplace. It was unveiled on 12 August 1845, in honour of the 75th anniversary of the composer's birth.

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Bonn Minster is a Catholic church in Bonn. It is one of Germany's oldest churches, having been built between the 11th and 13th centuries. At one point the church served as the de facto cathedral for the Archbishopric of Cologne, because it is the major church of what was then the Archbishop-Elector's residence. It is now a minor basilica. It served as the inspiration for the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, as Kaiser Wilhelm II had studied in Bonn.

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The Bonn Cathedral, 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 the Cassius Monastery. 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 Basilica minor. The Bonn Cathedral has been undergoing general renovation since 2017, and the interior has been open again since October 31, 2021.

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St. Martin was a Romanesque parish church in Bonn, Germany. It was located in the immediate vicinity of the Bonn Cathedral.

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Contra-Kreis-Theater is a theatre in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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The Helenenkapelle is a church building in Bonn-Zentrum and is considered the only surviving Romanesque house chapel of a collegiate curia in the Rhineland.

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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.

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The Hofgarten is a park in Bonn, Germany. It belongs partly to the city centre, partly to the southern part of the city and borders in the northwest on the main building of the University of Bonn, the Electoral Palace. In the 18th century, the park was created as a garden for the residence of Elector Clemens August. Nowadays, Bonn's Hofgarten is a popular local recreation area, especially among students, due to its central location.

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