Bonn. (nicknamed Bundesdorf, Bundeshaputstadt ohne nennenswertes Nachtleben (b.o.n.n) (Federal capital without nightlife worthy of the name)


Situated on the Rhine, it's in Nordrhein Westfalen.

population of over 300,000

---Sightseeing---

Beethoven was born in Bonn, you can visit the house where he was born and grew up. It contains the largest beethoven collection in the world.

Bonn Minister is a big roman cathedral and one of the oldest churches in germany

Godesburg - castle on a volcanic rock hill, similar to edinburgh castle
---HISTORY---



        1945-1990
After the second world war, Bonn became the capital of West Germany. (1949)
It was in the british zone of occupation.
Bonn was chosen as the capital by the Bundeskanzler, Konrad Adenauer ( the first chancellor In the controversial selection for a "provisional capital" of the Federal Republic of Germany, Adenauer championed Bonn over Frankfurt am Main. The British had agreed to detach Bonn from their zone of occupation and convert the area to an autonomous region wholly under German sovereignty; the Americans were not prepared to grant the same for Frankfurt.
It would have saved millions of DM to locate the capital in frankfurt - which already had a lot of the necessary facilities.
Many politicians at the time , adenauer included, didnt want to have the capital in a major city like Hamburg or Frankfurt because they thought that would imply that  it would be a permanent capital. They wanted Germany to be reunified and for Berlin to be the capital again.
In 1990, when Germany was reunified Berlin of course became the capital of GErmany.
Many thought that the new Germany shouldn't have Berlin as its capital (or at least leaving the seat of the government in Bonn) because of its links to Nazi Germany and the weimarer republic, and the closeness of Bonn to Brussels, which is to say the EU, would have made it a convenient location for a capital.
 In 1991, the German Parliament, the Bundestag, voted to move the seat of the (West) German capital from Bonn to Berlin,


---Famous things from bonn---
T mobile is in bonn
Haribo is short for HAns RIegel BOnn/