Bad Godesberg

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Bad Godesberg within Bonn
Bad Godesberg
Stadtbezirk of Bonn
Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Cologne
District	Bonn urban district
Bezirksvorsteherin	Annette Schwolen-Flümann ( CDU)
Basic statistics
Area	31.97 km² (12.3 sq mi)
Elevation	46-195 m (151-640 ft)
Population	70,525 (01/01/2004)
- Density	2,206 /km² (5,713 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	BN
Postal codes	53173-53179
Area code	0228
Website	Official Website
Coordinates: 50°41′0″N 07°9′0″E / 50.68333, 7.15

Bad Godesberg is a municipal district of Bonn, southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From 1949 till 1999 (while Bonn was the capital of (West) Germany), the majority of foreign embassies to Germany were located in Bad Godesberg. Some buildings are still used as embassy branch offices or consulates.

1 Geography
2 History
3 Twin towns
4 Education
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Geography

Bad Godesberg is located along the hills and cliffs of the west bank of the Rhine river, in west central Germany.

[edit] History

The following events occurred, per year:

722 - First official record of the town (then named Woudensberg), which is located near a mountain held holy to the god Wotan by the Ubii, a Germanic tribe.
1210 - On October 15, Archbishop of Cologne Dietrich I lays foundation stone of the Godesburg.
1583 - On December 17, Godesburg is destroyed after Archbishop Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil hid there following his conversion to Protestantism.
1792 - Godesberg becomes a spa resort.
1925 - Godesberg is allowed to call itself "Bad" Godesberg, identifying it as a spa.
1935 - Bad Godesberg attains the status of a town.
1938 - Neville Chamberlain meets with Hitler over the Sudetenland crisis at the Rheinhotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg.
1959 - The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) decides on a new party program, the Godesberg Program.
1969 - Godesberg is incorporated into the city of Bonn. Since that time, it has been referred to as the "posh part of Bonn".