Bad Honnef

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Field	Value
type	Stadt
name	Bad Honnef
image_photo	Bad Honnef Drachenfels2.JPG
imagesize	250px
image_caption	Bad Honnef seen from the Drachenfels
image_coa	DEU Bad Honnef COA.svg
coordinates
image_plan	Bad Honnef in SU.svg
state	Nordrhein-Westfalen
region	Köln
district	Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
elevation	53-455
area	48.17
postal_code	53604
area_code	02224
licence	SU
Gemeindeschlüssel	05 3 82 008
divisions	20
website	www.bad-honnef.de
mayor	Philipp Herzog
leader_term	2025–30
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Bad Honnef () is a spa town in Germany near Bonn in the Rhein-Sieg district, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the border of the neighbouring state Rhineland-Palatinate. To the north it lies on the slopes of the Drachenfels 7*u(“Dragon's Rock”) mountain, 3part of the Siebengebirge. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Honnef-010.JPG" caption="Honnef, Aerial view"] ::

Overview

Bad Honnef is home to a mineral spring called the Drachenquelle ("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, and its existence has historically been a big draw for visitors including Queen Sophie of Sweden, who visited from 1892 to 1906.

Bad Honnef includes several districts, such as Aegidienberg, Rhöndorf, and Lohfelderfähre, which is located near the Rhine ferry crossing to Rolandseck. During his term as first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (then West Germany), Konrad Adenauer lived (and died) in Bad Honnef, as it was near Bonn, then the capital of the republic. Also, German politician and leader of the Free Democratic Party Guido Westerwelle was born in Bad Honnef.

Since the 1980s Bad Honnef has developed into an important place for conferences in Germany. Because of the close proximity to the still internationally important Federal City of Bonn, a number federal institutions used to be located in Bad Honnef. A number of important politicians, such as Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer, lived in Bad Honnef while active in politics.

The head office of the Nationalpark Siebengebirge project was also planned to be in Bad Honnef; however the project was rejected in a referendum on 27 September 2009.

Bad Honnef has the highest purchasing power of all towns in North Rhine-Westphalia; its percentage of millionaires is also one of the highest. With 26.5% it has one of the highest percentage populations over 65 years old in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Mayors

::data[format=table] | Term of office | title=Die Bürgermeister der Stadt (Bad) Honnef|periodical=Die Bad Honnefer|url=http://www.diebadhonnefer.de/2013/05/page/5|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027002843/http://www.diebadhonnefer.de/2013/05/page/5|archive-date=2014-10-27|language=German}} | |---|---| | 1862–1876 | Clemens Joseph Adams (1831–1876) | | 1877–1889 | Aloys Hubert Schumacher | | 1889–1907 | Theodor Waechter | | 1907–1919 | Peter Joseph Brenig | | 1919–1929 | Albert Berns | | 1929–1933 | Alfred von Reumont (1898–1984) | | 1933–1934 | Heinrich Behr | | 1934–1935 | temporary von Wittich | | 1935–1945 | Johannes „Hans“ Schloemer | | 1945–1946 | Heinrich Goertz | | 1946–1949 | Jakob Mölbert | | 1949–1952 | Peter Rustemeyer | | 1952–1962 | Jakob Mölbert | | 1962–1964 | Albert Weidenbach | | 1964–1972 | Jakob Mölbert | | 1972–1982 | Franz Josef Kayser (1928–2015) | | 1982–1990 | Werner Osterbrink | | 1990–1999 | Franz Josef Kayser | | 1999–2004 | Hans-Peter Brassel | | 2004–2014 | Wally Feiden (born 1940) | | 2014–2025 | Otto Neuhoff | | since 2025 | Philipp Herzog | ::

Twin towns – sister cities

Bad Honnef is twinned with:

FRA Berck, France
ITA Cadenabbia (Griante), Italy
SWE Ludvika, Sweden
GER Wittichenau, Germany

Notable people

Curt Haase (1881–1943), general in World War II
Boris Papandopulo (1906–1991), composer and conductor
Franz Brungs (born 1936), football player and coach
Peter Frankenberg (born 1947), professor and politician (CDU), minister in Baden-Württemberg
Peter Hintze (1950–2016), politician (CDU), 2013–2016 Vice-President of the Bundestag
Guido Westerwelle (1961–2016), politician (FDP), Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany (2009–2013)
Sydney Lohmann (born 2000), football player

References

[https://www.ksta.de/region/rhein-sieg-bonn/bad-honnef/kommunalwahl-2025-philipp-herzog-in-bad-honnef-gewaehlt-1-1105247 Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2025], Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 15 November 2021.
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