Bad Honnef seen from the Drachenfels

Bad Honnef is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1175 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bad Honnef Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1175 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bad Honnef Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Drachenfels in 1921. ... A spa town is a town frequented, in times past, for health reasons, to take the waters. The name derives from the Belgian town Spa, and in continental Europe, a spa was known as a ville deau (town of water). ... Bonn is a city in Germany (19th largest), in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the north of the Siebengebirge. ... The Rhein-Sieg-Kreis is a Kreis (district) in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, usually shortened to: NRW) is - in population and economic output - the largest Federal State of Germany. ...

Bad Honnef is home to a mineral spring called Drachenquelle, or Dragon Spring, which was discovered in 1897. This discovery led to Honnef, as the town was called at the time, transforming from a wine-growing town to a spa town, adding the prefix Bad to its name. The mineral spring has been used for both drinking and bathing. 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... German wine from Franken in the characteristic round bottles Many people think of Germany as a beer producing country, and the beers of Bavaria in particular are known very well internationally. ...

The village of Aegidienberg is considered to be part of Bad Honnef. During his term as first chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer lived in Bad Honnef, as it was near Bonn, then the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. Also, German politician and leader of the Free Democratic Party Guido Westerwelle was born in Bad Honnef. Aegidienberg is a German village situated southeast of Köln (Cologne). ... Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer (January 5, 1876 – April 19, 1967) was a conservative German statesman. ... The Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei - FDP) is a liberal political party in Germany. ... Guido Westerwelle Guido Westerwelle J.D. (born December 27, 1961) is a German politician and leader of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP). ...

External links

• Stadt Bad Honnef, in German
• International University of Applied Sciences, Bad Honnef, in English
• Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, in English
• Information about Bad Honnef, from campus-germany.de, in English

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References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.