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"Castra Bonnensia", a Roman camp built between the years 13 and 9
A.D., marks the beginning of the city's history. The Rhine river has been the
frontier between the Roman Empire (with Celtic-Gaul population) and Saxonian
or Franconian tribes. The EMA-web project “Tracing Roman roots in Bonn”
(1997) describes the Roman Bonn.
http://tribus.bonn.de
(English-Latin-German)(Barbara Scherer)
The
city's cathedral (Münster),
a martyrs' church dating back to the year 400, was at the centre of the 8th
century's medieval settlements that became a fortified town in 1244. Along
with the Godesburg
Castle, built in 1210, Bonn belonged as a part of the “Holy Roman Empire of
German Nation” to the electors (Kurfürst) and roman-catholic archbishops of
Cologne and became their state capital in 1601.
The
legacy of the glamorous electors – first and foremost Joseph and Clemens
August of the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty - can still be seen throughout the
city. Even today, baroque edifices, such as the university's main building and
the Poppelsdorf Palace, are the unrivalled highlights of any sightseeing tour,
their architectural splendour fitting in perfectly with the rest of the city. In
1786, the last elector, Max Franz of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty, maecenas
of Ludwig van Beethoven, founded the forerunner of today’s university and
promoted (Bad) Godesberg to a spa. In 1794, Bonn and the left bank of the
Rhine became a part of revolutionary France. Following the Congress of Vienna
in 1815, Bonn and the entire Rhineland were incorporated into the Kingdom of
Prussia. The Rhenish Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Bonn, founded in 1818
under assistance of the Swedish born author and politician Ernst Moritz Arndt
(the patron of our school), as well as the region's beautiful landscape, made
Bonn into a famous university town, and an intellectual venue. As the wealthy
favoured its moderate climate ("Rhenish Riviera"), Bonn also became
the richest city in Prussia. Some quarters and suburbs of Bonn are online
presented by our network-study group (Barbara Scherer)
http://biene.bonn.de.
The
darkest period of German history, the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler and
“National-Socialism” is treated by another EMA-study group project: http://ns-schulzeit.bonn.de
(School education in Bonn 1933-45)
The
West German Parliamentary Council's decision on May 10, 1949, to make Bonn the
provisional capital of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany,
opened an important chapter in the city's history. During the 40 years that
followed, the town with 300,000 inhabitants gained international prestige. The
city of Bonn symbolises Germany's successful return to democracy, functional
federalism and European unification, a process that German governments have
decisively helped to promote. All this has fostered Bonn's importance for
Germany and Europe’s past and present, the decision to re-establish Berlin
as the German capital notwithstanding. On June 20, 1991, the German Bundestag
decided to move its seat as well as "the government's core functions"
to Berlin.
The
removal question Bonn-Berlin is documented in an web project, made by our pupils
last year.
See also the MiddleEast project-websites: http://www.emabonn.de/nahost
(Josef Stauf)
Bonn
was given a new role: The city is becoming an internationally renowned
scientific and cultural centre as well as a centre for Development Policy,
hosting the International Scientific Forum Bonn (IWB) that includes the Centre
for European Integration Research (ZEI), the North-South-Centre for
Development Research and some organisations of the United Nations.
History of Bonn
City map http://www.emabonn.de/infoschul/karte.htm
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium Bonn, founded
1882, is the „point of support” of innovating new media in school
education for 40 schools in the city of Bonn.
http://www.emabonn.de
English version http://www.emabonn.de/english.htm
Extending “Romans in Bonn-project” with more
multimedia elements as
“Celtic, Roman and Slavonian traces in the Rhineland”
Expanding “Expedition to the Beech-forest”
Biology-learning in the natural environment
http://uni-schule.san-ev.de/space/EMA_Buchenwald
Observing the changes in the “Federal city of
Bonn” (Government removal, UN-city, scientific centre) [Video, Audio,
Webreporting]
Stauf 17/07/02