The problem for West Germany`s capital is that it never gets any respect. On a continent with such glittering counterparts as Paris, Rome and London, the peaceful Rhine River community of Bonn-the ...

He’s the towering musical genius who didn’t let his deafness prevent him from becoming one of the world’s greatest composers. Ludwig van Beethoven may have been born 250 years ago, but his ...

For 41 years from 1949 to 1990, Bonn was Germany's new capital, replacing Berlin, which was divided by the Iron Curtain and tainted by Third Reich associations. Bonn, which John Le Carre called "a ...

Far from welcoming their decision to make Bonn West Germany’s “provisional” capital, most of the university town’s 100,000 inhabitants vociferously protested the choice. For the Bundesdorf ...

B for Bonn. B for Boring. So it has been said of West Germany’s former capital city, about which A local politician once famously sniped that “the best thing about Bonn is the train to Munich”.

Bonn was once the capital of West Germany but in 1990, when the country reunited, the seat of government returned to Berlin. While the current German capital attracts huge numbers of tourists ...

Can Berlin claim to be the undisputed capital of Germany if some of its ministries continue to be based in Bonn, the political center of the former West Germany? The subject, which comes up in ...