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Bad Godesberg within Bonn
Bad Godesberg
Stadtbezirk of Bonn
Godesburg ruins

Bad Godesberg
Coordinates	50°41′0″N 07°9′0″E / 50.683333°N 7.15°E / 50.683333; 7.15
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Cologne
District	Bonn urban district
Town	Bonn
Bezirksvorsteherin	Annette Schwolen-Flümann (CDU)

Basic statistics
Area	31.97 km² (12.34 sq mi)
Elevation	46–195 m (151–640 ft)
Population	70,525 (1 January 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

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 References
7 External links

Geography

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

History

The following events occurred, per year:

722 - First official record of the town, which was named after a nearby mountain, the Woudenesberg (later Godesberg), a basalt cone where the Ubii, a Germanic tribe, worshipped the god Wotan.^[1]
1210 - On 15 October, Archbishop of Cologne Dietrich I lays the foundation stone of the Godesburg fortress on the Godesberg mountain.
1582 - On 17 December, the Godesburg is destroyed by Bavarian troops after Archbishop Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg converted to Protestantism (see Cologne War).
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.
1945 - Bad Godesberg was the first major German city to be handed over to the allied forces without fights.
1959 - The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) decidd on a new party program, the Godesberg Program.
1969 - Godesberg was incorporated into the city of Bonn. Since that time, it has been referred to as the "posh part of Bonn".