Bonn Travel Vlog – Our Visit to Bonn, Germany! 🇩🇪

Bonn has 320,000 inhabitants and a catchment area of ​​another 500,000 people. Nevertheless, Bonn itself is in the catchment area of ​​the even larger city of Cologne. Bonn is older than London, but the same age as Cologne, yet has always been in Cologne's shadow. Bonn has two magnificent palaces. One is located in the Botanical Garden, and the other has a vast meadow that can accommodate almost 300,000 people, where large demonstrations took place during Bonn's time as the capital. It has been a university city since 1818 (today with 46,500 students) and a long-standing twin city of Oxford. The southern part of the city was once an independent city, boasts a real knight's castle (Godesburg) and is a spa town, and is therefore not simply called Godesberg, but Bad Godesberg (Bad = Bath). The Rheinhotel Dreesen there is a grand hotel that has hosted celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin (etc.). Hitler chose it as his power base in the Rhineland, and later the Allies used it as the headquarters of all three High Commissions of the occupying powers (France, USA, and Great Britain) before they moved to nearby Petersberg. Bad Godesberg is also the district with many villas and therefore an attractive location for embassies and diplomats when Bonn became the capital. Between Bonn and Bad Godesberg there is a large park with a lake and a Japanese garden where events are constantly taking place. On the edge of the park is the former seat of government, which you briefly showed, the UN Campus, a convention center and two broadcasters; one is the international broadcaster DW (Deutsche Welle). Across the Rhine lies the district of Beuel, from which a centuries-old carnival tradition, Weiberfastnacht, originates. Beethoven was born here but also the German artist painter August Macke.
Bonn is home to 6 federal ministries (including the Ministry of Defense) that only have a second office in Berlin, while the President has his second office in Bonn. Bonn is also the headquarters of DHL, T-Mobile (Telekom) and Haribo. It is also the headquarters of one of Europe’s largest egg liqueur producers, Verpoorten. The German Aerospace Agency is based here and many research institutes, as well as the University Hospital Bonn with 9,500 employees and 400,000 patients annually. There are important museums such as the Bundeskunsthalle, the German Museum of Technology or the House of History you have shown. In spring, Bonn attracts many visitors, especially from Japan, when the cherry trees bloom in the Nordstadt district. Bonn is generally a very green city, Bonn’s city limits also include ~20 km² of forest.