Bonn
- Aloisiuskolleg, a Jesuit private school in Bad Godesberg with boarding facilities
- Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium, a private school in Bad Godesberg
- King Fahad Academy, a private school in Bad Godesberg, Mehlem, which also includes a mosque
- Libysch-Arabische El-Fateh Schule, private Arabic high school
- Bonn International School BIS, a private English-speaking school in Plittersdorf/Rheinaue, which offers grades from Kindergarten to 12th grade (preparing for International Baccalaureate)
- Bonn Independent School, private primary school (serving grades 1 to 4)
- École de Gaulle - Adenauer, private French-speaking school serving grades 1 to 12
- Ernst-Kalkuhl-Gymnasium, private boarding and day school
- Otto-Kühne-Schule Godesberg ("PÄDA"), private boarding and day school
Additionally there are six private Catholic schools.
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Districts
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In 1969, the independent towns of Bad Godesberg and Beuel as well as several villages were incorporated into Bonn, resulting in a city more than twice as large as before. Bad Godesberg and Beuel became districts (Stadtbezirke) of Bonn with some independence and populations of about 70,000 each.
Each district has its own quarters:
- Bad Godesberg: Alt-Godesberg, Friesdorf, Godesberg-Nord, Godesberg-Villenviertel, Heiderhof, Hochkreuz, Lannesdorf, Mehlem, Muffendorf, Pennenfeld, Plittersdorf, Rüngsdorf, Schweinheim
- Beuel: Beuel-Mitte, Beuel-Ost, Geislar, Hoholz, Holtorf, Holzlar, Küdinghoven, Limperich, Oberkassel, Pützchen/Bechlinghoven, Ramersdorf, Schwarzrheindorf/Vilich-Rheindorf, Vilich, Vilich-Müldorf
- Bonn: Auerberg, Bonn-Castell (until 2003: Bonn-Nord), Bonn-Zentrum, Buschdorf, Dottendorf, Dransdorf, Endenich, Graurheindorf, Gronau, Ippendorf, Kessenich, Lessenich/Meßdorf, Nordstadt, Poppelsdorf, Röttgen, Südstadt, Tannenbusch, Ückesdorf, Venusberg, Weststadt
- Hardtberg: Brüser Berg, Duisdorf, Hardthöhe, Lengsdorf
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Transport
Bonn is connected to three autobahns (federal motorways) and the German rail network. Some InterCityExpress and most InterCity trains call at Bonn Hauptbahnhof whilst the Siegburg/Bonn railway station is situated on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line outside of Bonn and serviced by InterCityExpress trains. Local transport is provided by a Stadtbahn (light rail), which also features two lines to Cologne.
Bonn's international airport is Cologne Bonn Airport.
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Twin towns
Since 1983, the City of Bonn has established friendship relations with the City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, and since 1988 Bonn, in former times the residence of the Princes Electors of Cologne, and Potsdam, Germany, the formerly most important residential city of the Prussian rulers, have established a city-to-city partnership.
Downtown Bonn is surrounded by a number of traditional towns and villages which were independent up to several decades ago. As many of those communities had already established their own contacts and partnerships before the regional and local reorganisation in 1969, the Federal City of Bonn now has a dense network of city district partnerships with European partner towns.
The city district of Bonn is a partner of the English university city of Oxford, England, UK (since 1947), of Budafok, District XXII of Budapest, Hungary (since 1991) and of Opole, Poland (officially since 1997; contacts were established 1954).
The district of Bad Godesberg has established partnerships with Saint-Cloud in France, Frascati in Italy, Windsor and Maidenhead in England, UK and Kortrijk in Belgium; a friendship agreement has been signed with the town of Yalova, Turkey.
The district of Beuel on the right bank of the Rhine and the city district of Hardtberg foster partnerships with towns in France: Mirecourt and Villemomble.
Moreover, the city of Bonn has developed a concept of international co-operation and maintains sustainability oriented project partnerships in addition to traditional city twinning, among others with Minsk in Belarus, Ulan Baatar in Mongolia, Bukhara in Usbekistan, Chengdu in China and La Paz in Bolivia.
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Famous Denizens
- Ludwig van Beethoven (* born December 17, 1770; died March 26, 1827 in Vienna) composer and virtuoso pianist
- Bushido (rapper) (born September 28, 1978 as Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi) rapper
- Sonja Fuss (* born November 5, 1978) football defender, plays for Germany women's national football team
- Johannes B. Kerner (born December 9, 1964) TV presenter
- Johanna Kinkel (* born July 8, 1810; died November 15, 1858 in London) composer and writer
- Karlrobert Kreiten (born June 26, 1916; murdered by the Nazis September 7, 1943 Berlin-Ploetzensee) noted pianist
- Peter Joseph Lenné (* born September 29, 1789; died January 23, 1866) gardener and landscape architect
- Thomas de Maizière (born January 21, 1954) politician
- Norman Rentrop (born 1957) publisher, author and investor
- Heide Simonis (* born July 4, 1943 as Heide Steinhardt) politician SPD
- Roger Willemsen (born August 15, 1955) author, essayist and TV presenter
Desmond Dawson born 21 Oct 1959, kilted bungee jumper and marathon runner AKA " The Flying Scotsman for Children in Need"
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References
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External links
- Official Website (English)
- Official timeline (German)
- Tourist information
- "The Museum Mile"
- Germany's Museum of Art in Bonn
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