City Tips Koeln / Cologne and Bonn

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Cologne is internationally well-known as an economic and cultural metropolis. The city itself is valid as one of the leading centres for worldwide art trade. Moreover, the carnival stronghold Cologne is a media metropolis for numerous television broadcasting stations, record companies and publishing houses. Koeln was already in the early Middle Ages a significant town. Up to the 6th century, Frankonian conquerors who lived there, had built a kind of Frankish partial kingdom in their part of the city of Cologne. The Frankonian conquerors had been living together with the Roman settlers.

Both cultures had a mutual influence of the every day life and civilasation. The Frankonian had been taking over a lot of cultural archievement of the Roman settlers. Thanks to this mutal benefits, Cologne became an electoral residency and the place of the Bishop.As a result Cologne became a seat of power and Bishop's see. Koeln was in the Middle age the biggest town in Germany. End of the 17th century,  the history Cologne as a free imperial town was finished with move adn occupation of the French troops. After the defact of Napoleon,  Cologne belonged to Prussia and was valid as the most important town in the Prussian area. Under the instigation by the kind of Prussia and Germany emporar at that time, the construction of the Cologne Cathedral was concluded in 1880.

In 1917 Konrad Adenauer - later Federal President,  became the Cologne chief burgomaster. To him Cologne earns The recognition of the Cologne music school as well as the settlement and establishment of the Ford works were a result of the assigments of Konrad Adenauer. The city of Cologne was massive destroyed during the 2nd world war.

Bonn can look back at a more than 2000-year-old town history which decreases to former Germanic and Roman settlements. Bonn was from 1597 to 1794 the residence of the Cologne electors. In 17th and 18th century the electors of Koeln built magnificent constructions which gave Bonn a baroque shine. 

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770. The magnificent time of the baroque shine ended in 1794 with the occupation of the French troops in Bonn and in Cologne. In 1815 Bonn fell like Cologne after the defeat of Napoleon to Prussia. The Prussians founded a new university which stamped the development and the importance of Bonn for many years. The old university was closed during the French occupation.

Bonn had been experienced after the Second World War a rapid construction and removal in the political and cultural essense. During the 19th century Bonn enjoyed the reputation as the most important university city of Germany.
The quick construction and repuation of Bonn can be led back on the former government seat of 1949-1990 as well as capital seat of the federal republic of Germany till 1999.

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