Tourist Map Bonn University of Bonn Windeckstraße1/am Münsterplatz 53111 Bonn Tourist Information Hotel Reservations Sightseeing Tours Guide Service Bonn Souvenirs Theatre and Concert Tickets Tel. 00 49.228.77 50 00 Fax 00 49.228.77 50 77 e-mail: [email protected] www.bonn.de Monday – Friday: 10:00–18:00 Saturdays: 10:00–16:00 Sundays and public holidays: 10:00–14:00 Stadtbahn: U16, U18, U63, U66 Tram: 61/62 Stop: Hauptbahnhof (main station) Minster Basilica Bonn on the Rhine Sightseeing in Bonn with the Open-Top Bus Welcome to Bonn Sightseeing Tours Bonn Open-Top Bus Tour The tour offers an overview of the city’s many different facets and most www.bonn.de | e-mail: [email protected] interesting sights: Poppelsdorf Palace and the city’s picturesque Südstadt Windeckstraße 1 / am Münsterplatz | 53111 Bonn quarter with its wonderfully preserved Wilhelminian town houses, the city Tel. 00 49.228.775000 | Fax 00 49.228.775077 centre with the Beethoven House, Old Town Hall, university and Minster n Tourist information Basilica, the Rhine promenades and Bonn’s renowned ‘Museum Mile’. n Advice and bookings for hotels, guest houses and holiday apartments Another highlight of the tour is the former government quarter, now the UN Book hotels, guest houses and holiday apartments online at www.bonn.de Campus with the World Conference Center Bonn and hub of many major n Bonn souvenirs international media and services companies. The tour also passes through n Sightseeing tours Bad Godesberg, a former spa town and the diplomatic quarter during Bonn’s n Guide service time as the German capital, with its beautiful villas. n Theatre and concert tickets Bonn’s unique location on the Rhine and the impressive panorama of the city with the Siebengebirge National Park are best enjoyed from one of the bridges across the Rhine. Dates: Easter – 1 Nov daily 14:00, 2 Nov – Easter only on Sat 14:00 Meeting point: Bonn Information Tourismus & Congress GmbH Windeckstraße 1/am Münsterplatz| 53111 Bonn Region Bonn / Rhein-Sieg / Ahrweiler Duration: 2 1/2 hours WorldCCBonn | Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2 | 53113 Bonn | Germany Price: adults €16.00 | discounted fares €8.00 | family ticket €32.00 Tel. 00 49.228.910 41-0 | Fax 00 49.228.910 41-11 TIP: Bonn Regio WelcomeCard holders get a 30% discount on the adult fare n Central hotel reservation service for Bonn and the Region Other BonnTouren Offers: www.bonn-region.de n Bonn – Roman Settlement, Baroque Residence and City of Beethoven Hotline: 00 49.180.5003365 n Beethoven’s Bonn: (€0.14 per min. for calls from German landlines. Charges may vary for calls from mobiles) Tracing the Footsteps of the Great Composer Tel. 00 49.228.910 41-33/-78 | Fax 00 49.228.910 41-77 (groups only – on request) n Congress and conference service www.bonn-congress.de n Path of Democracy and many more interesting tours (German only) Central point of contact for conferences in Bonn and the Region: advice, Please order the Bonn Tours brochure from: hotel and conference bookings, arrangement of local partners, supporting Windeckstraße 1 / am Münsterplatz | 53111 Bonn events, PCO services and on-site services. Tel. 0228.775000 | Fax 0228.775077 Tel. 00 49.228.910 41-70 | Fax 00 49.228.910 41-77 e-mail: [email protected] | www.bonn.de Book tour tickets online at www.bonnticket.de Tour Groups/Guide Service n Advance ticket sales Professional guides can be arranged for tour groups with or without their own www.bonnticket.de bus. Please do not hesitate to contact us for a list of local bus companies. For opera, theatre, classical concerts, cabaret, comedy, musicals, Many of the tours organised by Bonn Information can also be booked indivi- pop/rock concerts and sporting events. dually and in foreign languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Ticket hotline: 00 49.228.502010 Japanese, Chinese, Polish, Russian and Portuguese. Other languages on A current calendar of events is available at www.bonn.de request. ‘bon(n)jour’ The event magazine of Bonn – the City of Beethoven Please contact us to order the Bonn Tours for Groups brochure and The ‘bon(n)jour’ event magazine is the ideal ‘companion’ for your stay in Bonn. for guides bookings: It contains all current dates and events, information about the city, its cultural Bonn Information | BonnTouren offering and much more. It can be purchased for €2.00 at Bonn Information, as Tel. 0228.773921 | Fax 0228.773920 well as at most kiosks and bookstores. (German only) e-mail: [email protected] Poppelsdorf Palace Minster Basilica Cloister Godesburg Castle Sights of Bonn Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) Sterntor Markt | 53111 Bonn The Sterntor gate on the northern side of Bottlerplatz is a testimony to the city’s Built between 1737 and 1738 under the rule of Elector Clemens August. The medieval fortifications and consists of the remains of the original Sterntor, what steps leading up to the building are world-famous due to numerous receptions is left of the city walls and an old half tower. for State guests. Opening hours for reception rooms: every first Sat from May to Oct 12:00–16:00 Münsterbasilika mit Kreuzgang (Minster Basilica with Cloister) Stadtbahn: U16, U63, U66 | Stop: Universität / Markt Münsterplatz | Tel. 0228.985880 Bonn’s nine-hundred-year-old minster basilica was built on a Roman burial University of Bonn ground. The basilica’s 12th-century Romanesque cloister and its powerful, yet Regina-Pacis-Weg 3 | 53113 Bonn | Tel. 0228.737647 | Fax 0228.737451 slender-looking, 92 m high spire make it well worth a visit. The University of Bonn, the former electoral residence, was founded in 1818 by www.bonner-muenster.de King Friedrich-Wilhelm III. The long east wing of the building reaches almost to Opening hours: Daily 7:00–19:00 | Cloister: Mon–Sat 9:00–17:00 the Rhine. A gilded archangel flies in splendour over the ‘Koblenzer Tor’ (Coblenz Stadtbahn: U16, U61, Tram62, U63, U66 | Stop: Hauptbahnhof Gate), which was designed by Michel Leveilly and built into the impressive façade of the gate. Doppelkirche Schwarzrheindorf (Schwarzrheindorf Church) Bonn’s Egyptian Museum is situated above the Coblenz Gate and boasts an Dixstraße 53 | 53225 Bonn | Tel. 0228.4616 09 Egyptology collection of about 3,000 objects from 4000 BC to 300 AD. The ‘Double Chapel’ was consecrated in 1151 and represents a rare piece of The Hofgarten park is adjacent to the main building of the university and the architecture with its two floors. The octagonal opening between the lower and Academic Art Museum, which features, among other things, one of the world’s upper floors of the church is reminiscent of the octagonal Palatine Chapel in largest collections of plaster cast antique sculptures. www.museen.uni-bonn.de Aachen. Stadtbahn: U16, U63, U66 | Stop: Universität / Markt Opening hours: 9:00–17:00 (except during services) Poppelsdorf Palace and the Botanical Gardens Bus: 540, 550, 640 | Stop: Schwarzrheindorf-Kirche of the University of Bonn Bonn Rhine Promenades / Rheinaue Leisure Park / ‘Alter Meckenheimer Allee 171| 53115 Bonn| Tel. 0228.735523| Fax 0228.73 9058 The former summer residence of Elector Clemens August is situated at the Zoll’ Tolling Station end of Poppelsdorfer Allee and has housed the University of Bonn’s natural Bonn’s Rhine promenades are among the most beautiful in Germany. science collection since 1818. It is home to the Mineralogical Museum with Rheinaue Leisure Park, site of the Federal Horticultural Show (BUGA) in 1979, an impressive collection of precious stones and meteorites. The Botanical offers an extensive network of paths and tracks. Some of its main attractions Gardens at the palace are among the oldest in Germany and have one of the are the Japanese Garden and a large boating lake. The former tolling station, most extensive collections of plant species in Germany, with a stock of 11,000 ‘Alter Zoll’, offers a wonderful panoramic view of the Siebengebirge. different species in eleven greenhouses. The highlights include the largest water lilies in the world, the leaves of which can bear a weight of up to 80 kg Weg der Demokratie (Path of Democracy) and the titan arum, the world’s largest flowering plant. A tour through the former government quarter and half a century of German de- www.botgart-uni-bonn.de mocratic history with information boards at 20 representative stations. Opening hours for the Botanical Gardens: Bonn Information | Tel. 0228.775000 Apr–Oct: Sun–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat closed | Nov–Mar: Mon–Fri 10:00–16:00 www.wegderdemokratie.de Greenhouses: Mon–Fri 10:00–12:00 and 14:00–16:00 | Apr–Oct: Sun 10:00–17:30 Godesburg Castle Bus: 601, 602, 603, 631| Stop: Botanischer Garten Auf dem Godesberg| 53177 Bonn| Tel. 0228.316071| Fax 0228.311218 The first of the romantic castles on the Rhine. Work started on the con- Südstadt struction of Godesburg Castle in 1210. The castle was a favourite retreat of the The Südstadt quarter, situated south of the city centre, between Regina- Electors of Cologne in the Middle Ages and is today a restaurant and popular Pacis-Weg, Poppelsdorfer Allee, Reuterstraße, Kaiserstraße, Weberstraße and viewing point. Climb to the castle’s 32 m high keep. the Rhine, is often referred to (along with Bonn’s Weststadt) as the largest www.godesburg.de connected and preserved Wilhelminian quarter in Germany. The many Opening hours for St. Michael’s Chapel: May–Oct daily 9:00–18:00 restaurants and bars contribute to the quality and popularity of this lush green Stadtbahn: U16, U63 | Stop: Plittersdorfer Straße residential quarter.