Bad Godesberg - History

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.
  • 1210 - On 15 October, Archbishop of Cologne Dietrich I lays the foundation stone of the Godesburg fortress on the Godesberg mountain.
  • 1583 - 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 transferred to Allied forces control without a battle.
  • 1959 - The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) decided 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".

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