Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Bonn, Germany

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 8.1 km
Ascend 113 m
Descend 175 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 Bonn

Sight 1: Rosenburg

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The Rosenburg is a castle-like villa in the Bonn district of Kessenich, which was built in 1831. From 1950 to 1973 it was the seat of the Federal Ministry of Justice. The Rosenburg is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Rosenburg (Bonn) (DE)

564 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Alte St. Nikolaus-Kirche

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Alt-St.-Nikolaus is a former parish church in the district of Kessenich in Bonn, Germany. The church is located at the corner of Nikolausstraße and Rosenburgweg. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Alt-St. Nikolaus (DE)

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: St. Nikolaus-Kirche

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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.

Wikipedia: St. Nikolaus (Kessenich) (DE), Website

440 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 4: Helena Marx

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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.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Bonn (DE), Website

1173 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 5: Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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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.

Wikipedia: Haus der Geschichte (EN), Website

512 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Ehemaliger Deutscher Bundestag

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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.

Wikipedia: Bundeshaus (Bonn) (EN)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Bundesbüdchen

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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.

Wikipedia: Bundesbüdchen (DE), Website

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Praxis am Post-Tower

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The building Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 4/6 is a semi-detached villa in the Gronau district of Bonn, which was built in 1906/07. It is located in the centre of the Federal Quarter opposite the Schürmann Building. The villa is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 4/6 (Bonn) (DE), Website

72 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

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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.

Wikipedia: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (EN), Website

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Marc Asbeck Grundbesitz Bonn

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The house Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 16 is a villa in the Gronau district of Bonn, which was built in 1909 and now serves as an office building. It forms the right-hand end of the three-part group of villas at Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 16–20, which is located in the centre of the Federal Quarter. The villa is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Heinrich-Brüning-Straße 16 (Bonn) (DE), Website

409 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Langer Eugen

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Langer Eugen is an office tower in the Gronau district of Bonn, Germany. It was built between 1966 and 1969. Since 2006 it has housed several United Nations organizations. Until the German Bundestag (parliament) moved to Berlin in 1999, the building was the primary location for the offices of the members of the Bundestag. After renovations, eleven UN organizations moved into the building and it began serving as the center of the UN Campus, Bonn. Langer Eugen is protected as a landmark or listed building under the North Rhine-Westphalia Monument Protection Law. It is currently the second-tallest building in Bonn and the 43rd tallest building in Germany. When it was built it was briefly the second-tallest building in Germany, behind the Bayer-Hochhaus.

Wikipedia: Langer Eugen (EN)

342 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Altes Wasserwerk

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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.

Wikipedia: Altes Wasserwerk (Bonn) (DE)

1120 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 13: Villa Böker

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The building at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 14 is a villa in the Gronau district of Bonn, which was built in 1921/22. It is located as a solitaire with an extensive park on the edge of the Johanniterviertel. The villa, including the associated coach house and garden, is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 14 (Bonn) (DE)

281 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Pakethaus

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From 1964 to 2000, the Royal Dutch Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany was located in Bonn's parliamentary and government district. The former chancellery building of the embassy in the district of Gronau, built between 1962 and 1964, is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Königlich-Niederländische Botschaft (Bonn) (DE)

542 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 15: Japanischer Garten

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The Japanese Garden within Bonn's Rheinauenpark was opened on 27 April 1979 as part of the Federal Horticultural Show.

Wikipedia: Japanischer Garten (Bonn) (DE)

681 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: Bismarckturm Bonn-Gronau

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The Bismarck Tower in Bonn's Gronau is a monument to Otto von Bismarck in the Rheinaue amusement park. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Bismarckturm (Bonn-Gronau) (DE)

1044 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 17: Freizeitpark Rheinaue

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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.

Wikipedia: Rheinaue (Bonn) (DE)

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