Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in Bonn, Germany
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Experience Bonn in Germany in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in BonnIndividual Sights in BonnSight 1: Pantheon Theater
The Pantheon Theater was founded in Bonn in October 1987 by the actor, director and cabaret artist Rainer Pause and is one of the most renowned cabaret in German-speaking countries. It was in the basement of the Bonn Center at Bundeskanzlerplatz by summer 2016. After an investor bought the Bonn Center to tear down the building and use the property for a new building, the Pantheon Theater was terminated the rental agreement in summer 2016. The last season in Pantheon ended in mid-July 2016. On August 30, 2016, the rental agreement for the new venue in the Beuel between the city of Bonn and the Pantheon Theater was signed. He has a term of 30 years to October 31, 2046. The contract was postponed several times by the pantheon after there were discrepancies between the Pantheon operators and the city of Bonn in July 2016. The theater has been located in Bonn-Fuel since the end of October 2016.
Sight 2: Sankt Paulus
The Catholic Church of St. Paul in the Bonn district of Beuel-Ost was built between 1956 and 1958. It is a listed building, including a wayside cross from 1677.
Sight 3: Synagoge Beuel
The synagogue in Beuel, a district of Bonn in North Rhine-Westphalia, was built in 1903 and was located at today's intersection of Siegfried-Leopold- and Friedrich-Friesen-Straße.
Sight 4: Sankt Josef
Beuel-Mitte is a district of the Bonn district of Beuel. It lies between the Rhine in the west, the railway line in the east, the Bröltalbahnweg in the north and the Rosenweg in the south. Created from earlier village settlements, Beuel-Mitte formed the core site through his central bridge position. Because of its central location between downtown Bonn and the higher-priced Rhein-Sieg district, mostly historical building fabric as well as numerous new buildings in the upper price segment along with a wide range of leisure, shopping and cultural infrastructure, the district is considered a "high" residential area.
Sight 5: Brückenmännchen
The Bonn Bridge Man is a stone sculpture that was attached to the right tower of the Beuel river pillar, directly above the pedestrian culvert, during the construction of the first Bonn Rhine bridge in 1898 and stretched its buttocks to the Beuel side. The background was that the bridge was financed exclusively by Bonn residents, because the residents of the "schäl Sick" did not want to contribute to the costs.
Sight 6: Synagoge Bonn Denkmal
The Old Synagogue in Bonn, a large city in North Rhine-Westphalia, was built in 1877/78 and destroyed by the National Socialists in 1938.
Sight 7: Opernhaus
The Bonn Opera is the municipal opera house of the federal city of Bonn. It forms one of the three properties of the Theater Bonn, an institution similar to that of the Federal City of Bonn and is also operated by it.
Sight 8: Historisches Institut
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.
Sight 9: Alter Zoll
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.
Sight 10: Ägyptisches Museum Bonn
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.
Sight 11: Studentenbrunnen
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.
Sight 12: 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 13: Contra-Kreis-Theater
Contra-Kreis-Theater is a theatre in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Sight 14: Paul-Clemen-Museum
The Paul Clemen Museum is the art history museum of the University of Bonn, which opened in 2013.
Sight 15: Hofgarten
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.
Sight 16: Akademisches Kunstmuseum - Antikensammlung der Universität Bonn
Akademisches Kunstmuseum is an art museum in Bonn, Germany. It is one of the oldest museums in Bonn and houses the antique collection of the University of Bonn with more than 2,700 plaster casts of antique statues and reliefs, and over 25,000 originals. It is located in a neoclassical building at the southern end of the Hofgarten, near the Electoral Palace. During the renovation of the historic building, the museum can currently be visited at Römerstraße 164 in 53117 Bonn.
Sight 17: Kreuzkirche
The Kreuzkirche is a Protestant church in Bonn, Germany. Since 1871 it has been the church of the Kreuzkirchengemeinde, which belongs to the Bonn church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, and also the Protestant city church of Bonn. With a seating capacity of 1200 seats, it is the largest Protestant church in the Rhineland and the largest church in Bonn. The Kreuzkirche is a listed building.
Sight 18: Sankt Martin
St. Martin was a Romanesque parish church in Bonn, Germany. It was located in the immediate vicinity of the Bonn Cathedral.
Sight 19: Helenenkapelle
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.
Sight 20: Pranger
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.
Sight 21: Bonner Münster
Get Ticket*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.
Sight 22: Ludwig van Beethoven
Get Ticket*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.
Sight 23: Palais Fürstenberg
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.
Sight 24: Altes Stadthaus
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.
Sight 25: Sterntor
The original Sterntor in Bonn was built around 1244 at the end of Sternstraße and was part of the medieval city fortifications.
Sight 26: Alwine Bucki
The list of Stumbling Stones in Bonn contains Stumbling Stones that were laid in Bonn as part of the art project of the same name by Gunter Demnig.
Sight 27: Sankt Remigius
St. Remigius is a Catholic church and parish in Bonn, Germany. The building was completed in 1307, in Gothic style.
Sight 28: Market fountain
The Marktfontaine is a fountain on Bonn's market square in front of the Old Town Hall. It is a listed building.
Sight 29: Weg berühmter Persönlichkeiten
As part of a joint campaign by the Bonner General-Anzeiger and the city of Bonn, the path of famous personalities in Bonngasse was inaugurated in July 2004. From a list of 32 name suggestions drawn up by the Bonn Cultural Council, the readers of the General-Anzeiger chose the 16 "heads" that can be seen today in Bonngasse. The first five floor slabs were already installed when the path was opened in 2004, and another eleven in July 2005. The path was extended by another six heads in August 2007 after the redesign of Friedrichstraße. In May 2015, the path was extended by a 23rd element.
Sight 30: Namen-Jesu-Kirche
The Namen-Jesu-Kirche is a post-Gothic church building in Bonngasse, Bonnstadt. 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 31: 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 32: Stiftskirche
The collegiate church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Bonn, which bears the name St. Johann Baptist und Petrus, locally also called Kuhle Dom, and was built from 1879 to 1886. It is located on Stiftsplatz on Kölnstraße in the district of Bonn-Zentrum and characterizes the Bonn cityscape. The parish of the parish church is the oldest parish in Bonn. From the end of the 19th century, several parishes were successively spun off from their parish area. In 2010, the spin-offs were reversed, since then the parish has borne the name St. Petrus Bonn-Mitte and has around 9000 members. The church building is a listed building.
Sight 33: Wilhelmbau
The Bonn Regional Court 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 district courts in Bonn and the surrounding area and is located in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne.
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