Bad Honnef

 ( Populated Places On The Rhine ) 

Bad Honnef () is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the border of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate. To the north it lies on the slopes of the Drachenfels 7*u(“Dragon's Rock”) mountain, 3part of the Siebengebirge.

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Overview Bad Honnef is home to a mineral spring called the Drachenquelle ("Dragon Spring") which was discovered in 1897. This discovery led to Honnef, as the town was called at the time, transforming from a German wine-growing town to a spa town, adding the prefix Bad to its name. The mineral spring has been used for both drinking and bathing, and its existence has historically been a big draw for visitors including Queen Sophie of Sweden, who visited from 1892 to 1906.

Bad Honnef includes several districts, such as Aegidienberg, Rhöndorf, and Lohfelderfähre, which is located near the Rhine ferry crossing to Rolandseck. During his term as first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (then West Germany), Konrad Adenauer lived (and died) in Bad Honnef, as it was near Bonn, then the capital of the republic. Also, German politician and leader of the Free Democratic Party Guido Westerwelle was born in Bad Honnef.

Since the 1980s Bad Honnef has developed into an important place for conferences in Germany. Because of the close proximity to the still internationally important Federal City of Bonn, a number federal institutions used to be located in Bad Honnef. A number of important politicians, such as Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer, lived in Bad Honnef while active in politics.

The head office of the Nationalpark Siebengebirge project was also planned to be in Bad Honnef; Informationssystem zum geplanten 'Bürgernationalpark Siebengebirge' however the project was rejected in a referendum on 27 September 2009.

Bad Honnef has the highest purchasing power of all towns in North Rhine-Westphalia; its percentage of millionaires is also one of the highest. Bad Honnefer haben das meiste Geld (16.12.2006) | Wirtschaft | Lokales | News | General-Anzeiger Online - Bonn With 26.5% it has one of the highest percentage populations over 65 years old in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Mayors

Clemens Joseph Adams (1831–1876)

Aloys Hubert Schumacher

Theodor Waechter

Peter Joseph Brenig

Albert Berns

Alfred von Reumont (1898–1984)

Heinrich Behr

temporary von Wittich

Johannes „Hans“ Schloemer

Heinrich Goertz

Jakob Mölbert

Peter Rustemeyer

Jakob Mölbert

Albert Weidenbach

Jakob Mölbert

Franz Josef Kayser (1928–2015)

Werner Osterbrink

Franz Josef Kayser

Hans-Peter Brassel

Wally Feiden (born 1940)

Otto Neuhoff

Philipp Herzog

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Twin towns – sister cities Bad Honnef is Sister city with:

• Berck, France
• Cadenabbia, Italy
• Ludvika, Sweden
• Wittichenau, Germany

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Notable people

• Curt Haase (1881–1943), general in World War II
• Boris Papandopulo (1906–1991), composer and conductor
• Franz Brungs (born 1936), football player and coach
• Peter Frankenberg (born 1947), professor and politician (CDU), minister in Baden-Württemberg
• Peter Hintze (1950–2016), politician (CDU), 2013–2016 Vice-President of the Bundestag
• Guido Westerwelle (1961–2016), politician (FDP), Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany (2009–2013)
• Sydney Lohmann (born 2000), football player

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External links

• Stadt Bad Honnef
• International University of Applied Sciences, Bad Honnef
• Physikzentrum Bad Honnef
• Information about Bad Honnef, from campus-germany.de

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