Bonn

Coat of arms	Map
Base data
Land of the Federal Republic:	North Rhine-Westphalia
Governmental district:	Cologne
District:	Circle-free city
Geographical situation:	Coordinate: 50° 44' n. Break, 07° 58' oe. L.50° 44' n. Break, 07° 58' oe. L.
Height:	45.6-194.8 m ue. NN
Surface:	141,22 km²
Inhabitant:	313.611 (30. June 2005)
Population density:	2,221 inhabitants ever km²
Postal zip codes:	53000-53359 (old: 5300)
Preselection:	0228
Kfz characteristic:	BN
Municipality key:	05 3 14 000
Website:	www.Bonn.de
Politics
Oberbuergermeisterin:	Baerbel Dieckmann (SPD)
Debt conditions:	1.038 billion. € (conditions: 16 August 2005)
Unemployment ratio:	9,1 % (conditions: 31. June 2005)
Foreigner portion:	13,7 %

Those Federal city Bonn lies in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia. Of 1949 to 1990 Bonn was capital and to 1999 Seat of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany. Today six Federal Ministries have and since in Bonn 1996 Organizations that United Nations (UN) with the emphasis environment and development their seat. In the range of the former area of government administration is that International congress center German Parliament Buildings Bonn developed, its further development in the coming years to take place is.

Table of contents 1 Geografie 1.1 Neighbour municipalities 1.2 City arrangement 1.3 Population 2 History 2.1 Coat of arms 2.2 Religions 2.3 Incorporations 3 Politics 3.1 Mayorin 3.2 Town councillor 3.3 Partnerships between cities 4 Culture and objects of interest 4.1 Museums 4.2 Buildings 4.3 Nature and parka situations 4.4 Theatre, Music, Film 4.5 Regular meetings 4.6 Karneval 4.7 Dialect 4.8 Sport 5 Economics 5.1 Economic situation 5.2 Job market 5.3 Traffic 5.4 Resident enterprise 5.5 Media 6 Public mechanisms 6.1 Education and research 6.2 United Nations 6.3 Federal authorities 7 Personalities 7.1 With Bonn connected persons 7.2 Honour citizen 8 Web on the left of

Geografie

Bonn lies to both sides of the Rhine in the southernmost angle that Cologne bay between the back that Ville and the northern Auslaeufern of the Filter mountains as well as the muzzle funnel that Victory, 30 km south of Cologne and 60 km north of Koblenz.

The highest collection of the city is the Paffelsberg in Ennert with 194,8 m, the tiefstgelegene point is at the delta the victory into the Rhine on 45,6 m. The largest expansion of the city in north south direction amounts to 15 km, in west east direction however 12.5 km. The city boundaries have a length of 61 km.

Neighbour municipalities

Following cities and municipalities border on the city Bonn. They become in Clockwise direction, in the north beginning mentioned and all belong with exception of Remagen, in District Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate lies, to the North-Rhine/Westphalian Rhine victory circle:

Niederkassel, Troisdorf, Sank Augustin, King winter, Bath Honnef, Remagen, Being awake mountain, Meckenheim, Alfter and Fount home.

City arrangement

Bonn is divided into four Urban districts, those from several local parts exist. Each urban district has its own district agency with a district chief

• Bad Godesberg: Old Godesberg, Friesdorf, Godesberg north, Godesberg mansion quarter, Heiderhof, High cross, Lannesdorf, Mehlem, Sleeve village, Pennenfeld, Plittersdorf, Ruengsdorf, Pig home
• Beuel: Beuel center, Beuel east, Geislar, Hoholz, Getting peat, Holzlar, Kuedinghoven, Limperich, Upper Kassel, Puetzchen/Bechlinghoven, Ramersdorf, Black Rhine villageVilich Rheindorf, Vilich, Vilich Mueldorf
• Bonn: Auerberg, Bonn Castell (until 2003: Bonn north), Bonn center, Shrub village, Dottendorf, Dransdorf, Endenich, Grey Rhine village, Gronau, Ippendorf, Kessenich, Lessenich/Measuring village, North city, Poppelsdorf, Roettgen, Southern part of the town, Fir shrubs, Ueckesdorf, Venusberg, West city
• Hardtberg: Brueser mountain, Duisdorf, Hardthoehe, Lengsdorf

Population

With more than 300,000 inhabitants Bonn belongs to the middle Large cities and to the ten largest cities in North Rhine-Westphalia and is in Upper center. The number of inhabitants of the city Bonn exceeded 1939 the 100.000-Grenze. Thus it became the large city. By incorporations the number of inhabitants became 1969 about doubles. By the government removal it came into that 1990er Years to a decrease in population, however in the meantime became balanced. Today Bonn is one of the few large cities in Germany with still increasing number of inhabitants.

History

Major item: History of Bonn

Bonn belongs to the oldest cities in Germany. 1989 the city celebrated its 2000. Birthday.

In the time between 16 v. Chr. and 12 v. Chr. established Roman soldiers in that Ubiersiedlung Bonna an investigation camp on the left side of the Rhine. This measure stood in connection with of Drusus in the year 12 v. Chr. Germanienoffensive begun. The Roman operational readiness level was in at this time Bonna still grant, so should itself after the defeat of the Romans under Varus against those Teuton in the year 9 n. Chr. change. In the following decades there one became Legion stationed, the Bonn today's within the northern range Camp established. Around the camp dealers and craftsmen settled.

With the fall of the Roman realm the fall of Bonn went in that Late ancient times and in the early The Middle Ages . In Frankish time and finally in 9. and 10. Century developed within the range of the Bonn cathedrals a religious center, those Mansion Basilika and within the range of the today's market a market settlement.

Great importance for the further development of the city had the decision of the Cologners Cure prince, after their defeat with that Battle with Worringen in the year 1288 Bonn to one of their domiciles and finally to their Residence to make. Of the cure princes in 17. and 18. Century delighted splendid buildings lent to the city their baroque Gloss. With the crew by French troops ended 1794 this epoch.

After Napoleon Defeat resulted Bonn Prussia. The city in the next decades coined/shaped of that already end 18. Century created and 1818 again created university.

More than 1,000 Bonn ones survived those Time of the national socialism not, because they were pursued by the Nazis. About 8,000 persons had to leave their hometown, were arrested or in Concentration camp closed. As to 9. March 1945 for Bonn that The Second World War was terminated, 30 % of the houses in rubble and more than 4,000 Bonn ones lay due to bomb attacks or than soldiers with fighting their life had left.

After that 2. World war experienced Bonn a rapid up and development as capital of the new Federal Republic of Germany. After the removal that Federal Government after Berlin the city went through a change again. Federal authorities, Administrative centres of German enterprises, international organizations and the university are the columns of this structural change.

Coat of arms

Major item: Bonn coats of arms.

That Coat of arms the city Bonn a black cross shows on silver reason in the upper half. It is that Kurkoelni cross of the Cure principality Cologne, also on other municipality coats of arms in the today's Ore diocese Cologne still to find is. It symbolizes the territorial and political solidarity between Bonn and Cologne cure princes, since 1597 in Bonn their Residence had.

The lower sign half shows a golden Lion on red reason. The lion - sometimes also Leopard or in the vernacular "stone Woelfchen" mentioned - is an old Bonn court symbol. The sculpture of the lion stood from the Middle Ages to the end the kurfuerstlichen time on the cathedral Muenster, where today the monument of Ludwig van Beethoven stands. This place was meeting place of the Bonn court municipality. The sculpture has today its place in Vestibuel Bonn city halls found.

Religions

Major item: Religions in Bonn.

Bonn is historical like the entire Rhine country catholic coined/shaped. In the past 75 years however those has itself Denomination affiliation the Bonn population substantially changes. Goods 1925 still more than 80 % of the Bonn population catholic, thus to end of the 1990er years the portion nearly halved itself. About 45 % the inhabitant are today catholic and 25 % Evangelist. Nearly a third of humans living in Bonn belong another or to no denomination; about 6 % are Muslims.

Incorporations

The city Bonn was increased several times by incorporations:

By 1900 Bonn had strongly grown. In the consequence became at the 1. June 1904 the places Poppelsdorf, Endenich, Kessenich and Dottendorf eingemeindet, with those Bonn had grown together. By the municipality reform of the 1. August 1969 the number of inhabitants was doubled. The independent cities Bad Godesberg and Beuel became own urban districts of Bonn. On "peel crimp"convenient urban district Beuel kept the localities additional Holzlar, Hoholz and Upper Kassel slammed shut, up to then to Victory circle belonged. Bonn became around the places Ippendorf, Roettgen, Lessenich/Measuring village and Shrub village the former Circle Bonn extended, Lengsdorf and Duisdorf together with some development areas Hardtberg formed the urban district.

The city Bad Godesberg had eingemeindet before for their part some places. Prepares 1899 were Plittersdorf and Ruengsdorf come to Godesberg, 1904 came still Friesdorf in addition, with which Bad Godesberg had already grown together with Bonn. In the year 1915 Bad Godesberg was exceeded after southwest from the valley, so that Sleeve village one eingemeindet. At the 1. July 1935 finally became also Lannesdorf and Mehlem Quarters of Bad Godesberg.

Politics

Mayorin

At the point of the city Bonn stood in 12. Century that Vogt and the twelve Juror the national gentleman. Since 1331 two "burgermeistere" later also a "advice" are testified. The mayors were selected by the advice. In the Salentini contract of 1570 one ordered, that the city is to be administered by two Scheffelbuergermeisteren and two Ratsbuergermeisteren, from those one as a "governing mayor" the business led in each case. The advice was increased to fifteen jurors. The composition and authority of the advice changed later several times. In more Prussian Time after 1815 became Bonn seat one District. At the point of the city a mayor stood, since 1815 further there was an advice.

During the time that National socialist became the mayor of that NSDAP begun. After that The Second World War those set Military government that British zone of occupation a new mayor and 1946 it introduced the municipal constitution after British model. Afterwards there was a "advice of the city" selected by the citizens. That selected the honorary from its center Mayor as chairmen and representatives of the city and a full-time Director of upper city as directors/conductors of the city administration. 1996 in North Rhine-Westphalia the double head in the city administrations was given up. The mayor is now selected directly. It is as full-time mayors of a chairman of the advice, Director/conductor of the city administration and representative of the city. In the function as a representative of the city the mayor in Bonn of three mayors will represent. The first step-by-step selection 1999 won Baerbel Dieckmann in the ballot against the CDU candidate Helmut Stahl, 2004 it was confirmed in the first ballot in the office.

See also: List of the mayors and directors of upper city of Bonn

Town councillor

The Bonn one Town councillor belong 66 advice women and councilman. The directly selected Oberbuergermeisterin has Right to vote and leads the meetings. After the local election of 2004 sit in Bonn advice CDU (25 members), SPD (19 members), The Green (11 members), FDP (6 members), the citizen federation Bonn (3 members) and 2 parliamentary groupless members.

During the tunings in the advice it comes to changing majorities, because there is no firm coalition.

Partnerships between cities

The city Bonn maintains since 1988 one Partnership between cities with Potsdam and since 1983 a city friendship also Tel Aviv Jaffa in Israel. Further quarter partnerships and city friendships, the partial before the Giebietsreform 1969 enstanden are, exist in the individual urban districts:

• Urban district Bonn: Partnerships also Oxford in Great Britain since 1947 and also Budafok, that XXII. District of Budapest, in Hungary since 1991, as well as a city friendship also Oppeln in Poland since 1997 (contacts since 1954)
• Urban district Bad Godesberg: Partnerships between cities also Saint Cloud in France since 1957, with Frascati in Italy since 1960, with Windsor and Maidenhead in Great Britain since 1960 and also Kortrijk in Belgium since 1964, as well as since 1969 a city friendship also Yalova in that Turkey
• Urban district Beuel: Since 1969 partnership also Mirecourt in France
• Urban district Hardtberg: Partnership also Villemomble in France since 1967

Apart from partnerships between cities Bonn "topic project partnerships" maintains. Apart from youth and culture exchange partly also an exchange of experience exists in the ranges ecology, Town development and disaster prevention. Project partnerships exist at present with the cities Buxoro in Usbekistan, Chengdu in China, La Paz in Bolivia, Minsk in White Russia, Salzburg in Austria and Ulaanbaatar in that Mongolia.

Culture and objects of interest

Museums

Bonn has a large number of important museums. Those Art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany ("federal arts center") (1986-1992 of the Viennese build architects Gustav Peichl) and that House of history belong to the Federal Republic of Germany since their opening to the ten usually-visited museums of Germany - they attract each year in each case over 500.000 visitors, at individual drawing of a bill the federal arts center exceeds this number even clearly. Both museums developed for end of the 1980er years together with the urban art museum Bonn and become together with the 1995 opened and itself on German research and technology since 1945 concentrating Bonn branch of the German museum in the center of science, the ifa gallery and the steeped in tradition Museum king as museum mile markets.

In birth -, Living and houses of the deceased of well-known personalities were furnished museums. That applies to that Beethoven house, for that August MackeHouse, that Seriousness Moritz ArndtHouse and that Robert SchumannHouse.

Those University had numerous museums and collections. Beside that Egyptian museum, a collection with approx.. 3,000 original objects, the academic art museum, that the archaeological collection of the university accommodates, and that Arithmeum, an extensive collection from calculating machines is here also still that Botani garden to call, that among other things the world largest Titanenwurz maintains, as well as the gold foot museum, a collectioncollection collection of fossils, and the mineralogical museum, a jewel and a meteorite collection, finally the refuge Stoeckel museum, that the history of the Anaesthesiologie of the discovery of the ether arcose in the year 1846 up to the present represents.

Meanwhile more than 20 years is old that 1981 created woman museum. It was world-wide the first institution of same name or comparable objective. Today the woman museum on over 400 exhibitions can back-look and with its extensive Begleitprogrammen an also internationally recognized institution became.

Between 1995 and 2003 completely converted Rheini federal state museum the art and culture history of the Rhine country represents since the early period.

In at the Poppelsdorfer avenue lain People observatory Bonn regularly public observations of the starlit sky and the sun are accomplished.

Buildings

Because of the market place starting from 1737 in the style Rococo delighted old persons city hall is, one that Landmark the city. In direct neighbourhood of the city hall is the former main residence that Cologne cure prince, that Kurfuerstliche lock - today main building of the Bonn university. The Poppelsdorfer avenue, a Kastanienallee, the Kurfuerstliche connects lock with that Poppelsdorfer lock, in the first half 18. Century as erholungsort of the cure princes one built. This axle is interrupted by those Railroad line with that Main station, its 1883/84 established reception building today under monument protection stands and over its Free area organization since years in the Bonn public violently one argues.

Bonn has a set of buildings of churches. Landmark the city is that Bonn cathedrals. In the Remigiuskirche in the brother lane, the earlier brother church, is the basin, in the Beethoven one baptized. Those Double church became starting from 1151 in Black Rhine village built. Above Poppelsdorf, at the place of a pre-Christian cult place, builds Christoph Wamser 1627/28 the cross mountain pilgrimage church. Archbishop Clemens August left the church in the center 18. Century of Balthasar Neumann extend by the cultivation of the "holy staircase". Those old-catholic Church St. Cyprian is in the Adenauer avenue. That Old cemetery is the ruhestaette of many personalities. In addition Beethovens count the nut/mother as well as Robert and Clara Schumann.

Between the Kurfuerstlichen for lock and the Rhine is appropriate the "old person tariff", a bastion of the former fortress ring. The star gate, originally at the delta of the asterisking race on the peace place stood, because of the building of the streetcar by the asterisking race around 1900 one diminished and one developed transferred in strongly modified form including a remainder of the stadtmauer some meters at the Bottlerplatz again.

Above Bad Godesberg is appropriate those probably as escape castle of Franconias built ruin for that Godesburg. The Godesberger city hall consists of six connected buildings, the 1792/93 by cure prince Max Franz as Logierhaeuser for kurgaeste were built. The 1790-1830 of delighted former kurfuerstliche chamber theatre "La Redoute" are today branch office of the art museum.

The head office that German post office is in Post office Tower, the highest office building in North Rhine-Westphalia. The building stands in direct neighbourhood to the former delegate multistoried building and landmark of the Federal Capital at that time, "Are enough Eugen", today by those United Nations one uses. Between the two multistoried buildings is that Schuermann building, the center that German wave. This as delegate office planned buildings became original during the building phase through of the Rhine flood 1993 heavily damages. The "German Parliament Buildings" were originally an educational academy, starting from 1948 of parliamentary advice and later of Bundestag and Upper House of Parliament one used. End of the 1980er years was replaced the plenary assembly hall by a new building. Since the government removal it becomes as International congress center German Parliament Buildings Bonn (IKBB) used. A further part of the IKBB is the historical Water company, during the change of the German Parliament Buildings as plenary assembly hall of the Bundestag one used. That Place of the United Nations is with 191 flags of the UN states the beflaggtes traffic spider in the federal quarter.

On that Venusberg is a far away visible transmitting pole of the WDR.

Nature and parka situations

For those Bundesgartenschau 1979 became the Rhine meadows and agriculturally used surfaces south the area of government administration at that time in 160 hectar large landscape park, that Rheinaue, arranged. Today it serves as local recreation area and becomes for large meetings such as open air concerts, Firm one and flea markets used.

THENEVENLY there are some smaller parka situations in the city, their largest that Kurpark in Bad Godesberg is. It was originally put on and accommodated for the cure enterprise einieg rare plant types.

The largest open space within Bonn is that Messdorfer field between Endenich, Dransdorf, Lessenich and Duisdorf. It has meaning for the climate of the Bonn city center as open space in wind direction and is the only agriculturally used surface in the city.

Further recreation areas are that Nature park Kottenforst Ville west of Bonn and the lain southeast from Bonn Filter mountains. Into both nature parks extensive moving ways with attractive prospects invite on the city to migrations. The remote moving way Rhine paste also the filter mountains begin in Bonn and cross

Theatre, Music, Film

Nebem that urban "theatre Bonn" with opera, Play and Choreographic one Theatre gives it various smaller private theatres in Bonn. In addition the "versus circle theatres" and "euro theatres cent ral" as well as in Beuel "boy theatre Bonn" and the "small theatre lain the Bad Godesberg" lain in the city center belong.

Small art and kabarett become among other things in the "house of the jumping mouse", in the "Pantheon theatre" and in the "theatre in the ballroom" dargeboten.

The Beethoven orchestra Bonn organizes regularly concerts in that Beethovenhalle Bonn and is used also in the opera.

That 1928 at the market place built steeped in tradition "Metropol cinema" and the likewise there convenient "star of light plays" becomes today of CineStar operated. A further cinema in the city center is the "Woki". In the center from Bad Godesberg is that Multiplex cinema "Kinopolis". In Bonn there are three Program cinema: that 1952 in Endenich "Rex opened light play theatres", those 1933 in Beuel "new film stage" builds and in the cultural center "Bread factory Bonn"convenient" Bonn Kinemathek ".

Regular meetings

"Beethovenfest"is a nearly vierwoechiges taking place annually in the autumn Music festival also over fifty concerts in Bonn and the environment. A further festival is the one-week "Biennale Bonn" with theatre performances, Concerts, Readings and exhibitions. In the arcade yard of the university each year in the summer becomes during the zehntaegigen international silent movie days restored Silent movies shown. On the museum square at the federal arts center find in the summer under a tent roof Open air concerts with German and international artists instead of.

In that Rheinaue takes place on each third Saturday in the month from April to October the "large Rheinauen" Flohmarkt. Annual meetings in the Rheinaue are the large fireworks "Rhine in flames"on the first May weekend, "in vain and draussen" music festival "Rhine culture"on the first July weekend as well as"Beer stock exchange"on the last weekend in July and" the international meeting celebration "in the autumn.

The largest annual fair in Bonn, "Puetzchens market", takes place in each case on the second weekend in September in Beuel.

The "Bonn Marathon" is in Marathon race by the city leads annually.

Karneval

Bonn ranks among the rheinischen Karnevalshochburgen, although one always in the shade of the larger Cologne Karnevals stood. In Beueler City hall takes over on Woman nearly night the scrubber princess the regency, old person the city hall in Bonn is besieged and conquered at the Karnevalssonntag by the city soldiers. High point is also in Bonn that Rose on Mondays course.

Dialect

In Bonn that becomes original ripuarische Dialect Boennsch spoken, itself of closely the used Koelsch beside some Vokabeln by the more pronounced "Singsang" and the more leisurely speech speed differentiates. In contrast to the self-confident Cologne of the craftsmen it was in "makes" circles of the residence and university town Bonn however verpoent, To speak dialect, therefore the Boennsch is no longer present in the everyday life life as as the Koelsch in Cologne. The high portion of tightening ("Immis") from capital times did its remaining. Most well-known Imitator of the boennschen dialect is in South Tyrol born Kabarettist Konrad Beikircher.

Sport

The most well-known sportverein in Bonn is that Basketball Bundesligist "Telekom Baskets Bonn". The in former times successful football crew "Bonn sport club"plays after that Secondary league-Lizenzentzug 1977 for years only in that Upper league North Rhine.

Further sport associations are the "1. Bath min clay/tone club Beuel "(German bath min clay/tone master 2005), that Lady basketball Bundesligist BG Rentrop Bonn ", the "hockey and tennis club black-and-white Bonn", as well as of Bonn of largest sportverein, the "SSF Bonn".

Economics

Economic situation

Of in the middle of 1991, the time BonnBerlin resolution of the federal daily, to in the middle of 2002 the number of the busy employees is over approximate in the city Bonn 11,400 persons and/or. 8,5 % to 145.558 risen. For 2003 the city indicates again an increase around 3118 jobs on then 149,016. Removal-conditioned losses of one's job could become thus balanced and new jobs were added.

Won in Bonn above all those Services (without Public administration) with an increase of 27,1 % and/or. approx.. 22.400 persons employed of June 1991 to June 2002. With 105.171 persons employed and a portion of 72,3 % of all persons employed this promising range removed its dominating position in Bonn. On the other hand the public administration in this period lost nearly a third of its persons employed.

Research institutes for economics assume that, that in Bonn also in the next years the number of the jobs continues to rise.

Job market

Bonn has one of the lowest unemployment ratios in North Rhine-Westphalia for years. In June 2005 it amounted to 9,1%. A large part in Bonn of the persons employed comes as Commuter from the surrounding Rhine victory circle. Daily 80,000 humans drive to Bonn to the work, while follow to 30,000 Bonn ones outside of the city boundary of their occupation. Thus Bonn has after Cologne and Duesseldorf the third-highest commuter surplus in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Traffic

Bonn is over the motorways A 59, A 555, A 562, and A 565 as well as the federal highways B 9, B 42 and B 56 tied up to the freeway net. That Airport CologneBonn lies approx.. 20 kilometers north the city and is over A 59, a high-speed bus line and a those rechtsrheinische railroad line connected with Bonn. Since the city of the Rhine splits becomes, have the three Rhine bridges of A 562 (south bridge, "Konrad Adenauer bridge"), A 565 (north bridge, "Friedrich Ebert bridge") and B 56 (Kennedybruecke) as well as those Rhine ferries Mehlem Koenigswinter, Bath Godesberg Niederdollendorf and Graurheindorf Mondorf special meaning for traffic in the city.

That Bonn main station is long-distance traffic stop of the German course at the left Rhine distance (Cologne BonnKoblenz-Mainz). That Station victory castleBonn at that ICE-New building distance Cologne Frankfurt can be attained with the metropolitan railway line 66 in 30 minutes. The six Bonn stations and critical points become from numerous SPNVLines serves. Toward Cologne three (linksrheinisch) and/or two (rechtsrheinisch) suburban traffic lines operate in the hour clock, toward Koblenz left like rechtsrheinisch in each case 2 lines. In addition a hourly connection exists over Remagen in Ahrtal. The connection after Euskirchen over Rhine brook (Voreifelbahn) one serves partially in the 15-Minuten-Takt.

Bonn possesses by those SWB bus and course claimant Metropolitan railway-/Streetcar net with approximately six lines (depending upon counting method), during the day in the 10-minutes pulse one serves, the abendlichen cycle times were strongly thinned out 2002. Beside connections in the city the metropolitan railway Bonn serves also Victory castle, Sank Augustin, King winter and Bath Honnef. Two lines operate on railroad lines of the former Cologne-Bonn railway (KBE) to Cologne over Bruehl and/or Wesseling in the 20-minutes pulse.

Bonn possesses a very close bus network with approximately 30 lines, in the 20-minutes pulse one serves as far as possible. Cycle times of five minutes partly result from line bundling. Late traffic was strongly thinned out 2002 on resolution of the advice majority. Besides a night bus network with eight lines exists, those once per hour among themselves connections manufacture. The night bus network is financed partially by Sponsoring, that is called each line carries the names of a sponsor, the bus (during the day in the normal regular transport service) carries suitable complete advertisement.

The cycle track net of the city Bonn was fully removed between 1994 and 1999, some cycle tracks were however in the meantime back-built. Nevertheless the city carries the title "bicycle-friendly city in North Rhine-Westphalia".

Resident enterprise

The important companies in Bonn let themselves be divided into two groups.

On the one hand several denationalized state enterprises in Bonn have their seat. Most well-known examples are those German Telekom together with the subsidiary company T-mobile and those German post office together with their daughter Postal bank. Also the "tank & rest" and a branch of the Telekom daughter Madly Collect have their seat in Bonn. In the broader sense into this category those likewise belong Public utilities Bonn.

On the other hand sit in Bonn also some steeped in tradition private business. Beside the food producer Haribo and Verpoorten the electronics company Moeller group and building of organs Klais are to be called here. Further companies of supraregional importance are "Bonn finance", Fair trade and SolarWorld.

Media

The television station Phoenix its center in the former Hauptstadtstudio has of the Second Channel of German Television furnished, that WDR further an office in Bonn maintains. With distance largest daily paper in Bonn is that General indicator, besides still the "Bonn round rundschau" exists to that as expenditure for restaurant Koelni round rundschau. The rheinische boulevard sheet Express express "affords likewise its own Lokalaugabe with the" Bonn. The meanwhile only city magazine is "the Schnuess" (rheinisch for "lip"). The "Bonn pictorial" published by the Bouvier publishing house was adjusted 2004.

In Bonn Lokalradiosender sends to "Bonn radioRhine victory "with Rahmenprogamm of Radio North-Rhine/Westphalia and a student radiosender on the UKW frequency 96,8. In addition those has German wave their center in the Bonn one Schuermann building.

Public mechanisms

Education and research

Those Rheini Friedrich William university 1777 were created as an academy and closed 1798. 1818 were again created it and belonged since then to the largest universities of Germany. Together with its university clinic it is the largest employer in Bonn. Their former observatory accommodates today Institut for communication research and phonetics as well as those People observatory Bonn.

Those Professional school Bonn Rhine victory 1995 were created. Although it carries Bonn in its name, no study location is within the city. Seat of the professional school is Sank Augustin, further locations are in Rhine brook and Hennef.

The "professional school of the federation for public administration" is a country wide mechanism for the training of the service elevated by officials. Their head office is in Bruehl with Bonn. Within Bonn is the specialist area foreign affairs.

In addition the max Plank institutes for mathematics are, in Bonn Radio astronomy and to the research of community goods. As compensation measure for the Berlin removal 1998 became that Research center caesar based.

Until 2004 Bonn accommodated also the "professional school for the public library nature Bonn". This professional school had been created 1921 of the Borromaeus association and 1947 had been nationally recognized by the country North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1982 it carried for its last well-known names. In the year 2004 the professional school was however dissolved.

United Nations

Environmental protection forms an emphasis for that United Nations in Bonn. So the Sekreteriate has for monitoring that Climate frame convention (United nation Framework Convention on Climate CHANGE, UNFCCC) and of the Convention for the fight of the wuestenbildung (United nation Convention ton of Combat Desertification, UNCCD), as well as various Sekreteriate of the Environmental program of the United Nations (UNEP) their seat in Bonn. Furthermore is there that Programprogram program of the United Nations (United nation Volunteers, UNV) settled.

See also: List of the UN mechanisms in Bonn

Federal authorities

Also after the government removal after Berlin have, regulated by that BerlinBonn law, six Bundesminisiterien further their first service seat in Bonn. In detail this is that Federal Ministry of the defense as well as the Federal Ministries for Nutrition, Agriculture and consumer protection, for economic co-operation and development, for Environment, Nature protection and reactor safety, for Health and social safety device and for Education and research. The Ministries with first service seat in Berlin have a secondary seat in Bonn.

Various further federal authorities as for example that Federal Cartel Office, that Federal Audit Office and that Railway Federal Office are settled likewise in Bonn and justify so the title Federal city.

See also: List of the federal authorities in Bonn.

Personalities

With Bonn connected persons

See: List of persons connected with Bonn.

Honour citizen

See: List of the honour citizens of Bonn

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