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".