START Starting point Guided tours: PATH OF of the tour: Bonn-Information PATH OF Haus der Geschichte Windeckstraße 1/ der Bundesrepublik am Münsterplatz DEMOCRACY DEMOCRACY Deutschland 53111 Bonn Museumsmeile Tel.: +49 / 2 28 / 77 50 01 Willy-Brandt-Allee 14 Fax: +49 / 2 28 / 77 39 20 53113 Bonn [email protected] The Path of Democracy takes you Tel.: +49 / 2 28 / 91 65-0 through the federal government www.hdg.de Guided tours in German district in Bonn. 20 large illustrated for individual visitors: panels recall Germany's democratic Information: First Sundays from May to history whilst also highlighting www.wegderdemokratie.de October at 11:00 am. the structural change of the past Meeting point: few years. Foyer Haus der Geschichte The stops en route provide information about important places where policy decisions were taken in the former government district. You will discover, among other things, the Museum t. r., flap page r.; flap page r.; t. r., Koenig, where the Parliamentary Council met, the former lecture hall of the Pedagogic Academy, where the Basic Law was debated and adopted, the official seats of the Federal Presidents and the Federal Chancellors and also see where the German Bundestag convened. regierung, Bundesbildstelle: cover front t., inside Bundesbildstelle: cover front regierung, The walking tour of stops 1 – 12 takes about two hours. The locations 13 – 19 lie to the north and south of the actual path itself. Apart from the large illustrated panels, you cover front b.; all information subject to change without notice cover front will also find smaller plaques with interesting facts about the government district. Further Stadt Bonn: 1507/3/50 SCHLEINER + PARTNER, Freiburg; Photos: HDG, Bestand Hehmke-Winterer: inside b. l.; Freiburg; 1507/3/50 SCHLEINER + PARTNER, und Informationsamt der Bundes Presse- places of historical and political importance Transport connections in the town centre are also marked with small wall plaques. Bundestag President Underground Parking Eugen Gerstenmaier lines 16, 63, 66 Follow signs for For further information please consult the at the topping-out ceremony Station Heussallee / “Museumsmeile” of the “Tall Eugen” in 1968 Internet site www.wegderdemokratie.de Museumsmeile Coach route Exit via Walter-Flex-Straße Haus der Geschichte or Franz-Josef-Strauß-Allee and Maria-Kahle-Allee Bus lines 610, 611 Station Parking for wheelchair-users Bundeskanzlerplatz in the underground garage (entrance Rheinweg) START Haus der Geschichte 8a Chancellor's Bungalow der Bundesrepublik Deutschland The Federal Chancellor's residence and venue for Info terminal ”Path of Democracy“ in the foyer receptions from 1964 to 1999 Registration for guided tours under www.hdg.de / 1 Bundesrat (Upper House) Contact visitor services: Tel. +49 (0) 228 / 91 65-400 The Bundesrat met in the northern wing of the parliament building from 1949 to 2000. 9 Palais Schaumburg Registration for guided tours under www.hdg.de / Seat of the Federal Chancellors from 1949 to 1976 Contact visitor services: Tel. +49 (0) 228 / 91 65-400 10 Villa Hammerschmidt 2 Parliament building Official residence of the Federal Presidents since 1950 The former Pedagogic Academy was the Registration for guided tours under [email protected] / Contact Bonn-Information: Tel. +49 (0) 228 / 77 50 01 meeting place of the Parliamentary Council, 16 Altes Rathaus the Bundesrat and the German Bundestag. Bischofsplatz/Markt First session of the Museum Koenig 2 km German Bundestag 11 3 Plenary Chamber German Bundestag in the new plenary chamber The ceremonial opening of the Parliamentary Council Sessions of the German Bundestag were held in 1992 was held in the Natural History Museum in the newly constructed parliament building 19 Bundesministerium on 1 September 1948. from October 1992 to July 1999. für Wirtschaft Registration for guided tours under [email protected] / Villemombler Str. 76 12 View of the Petersberg guest house Contact Bonn-Information: Tel. +49 (0) 228 / 77 50 01 6 km The hotel on the Petersberg serves as a government guest house. 4 Plenary Chamber in the “Wasserwerk” The German Bundestag convened in the converted Panels outside of the government district: old waterworks from 1986 to 1992 while the new plenary building was under construction. 13 Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs The building was constructed 5 “Langer Eugen” (“Tall Eugen”) for the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1955. UN Campus The tower-block of offices for Bundestag Deputies, 14 Federal Ministry for completed in 1969, became the symbol Post and Telecommunications until 1998 of the capital city of Bonn. Federal Audit Office since 2000 The first newly constructed ministry building in Bonn 6 Tulpenfeld office complex The Allianz life assurance company had the office 15 Hofgarten (Court Garden) Ceremonial opening complex built in the 1960s with the aim of leasing it From 1968, the Hofgarten was repeatedly to the federal authorities and the press. of the Parliamentary Council in the Museum Koenig in 1948 the venue for political demonstrations. 6a Federal Press Conference 16 Old Town Hall From 1968 to 1999 the Federal Press Conference Scene of numerous historical events and state visits. was located in the Tulpenfeld office complex. 17 Erich Ollenhauer House 7 Dahlmannstraße The so-called “Baracke” housed the federal party With their editorial offices in the former headquarters of the SPD from 1975 to 1999. Dahlmannstraße, today Karl-Carstens-Straße, the German and international media were represented 18 Konrad Adenauer House close to the political decision-makers until This was the federal party headquarters of the CDU the government moved to Berlin. from 1972 to 2000 and was demolished in 2003. 8 Federal Chancellery 19 Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs Seat of the Federal Chancellors from 1976 to 1999 Seat of the Federal Ministry since 1950.