Bad Honnef

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Location of the town of Bad Honnef within Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district
Bad Honnef
Image:Bad Honnef Drachenfels2.JPG Bad Honnef seen from the Drachenfels
Coat of arms	Location
Image:Bad Honnef.svg	Image:Karte Deutschland.png Image:Red pog2.svg
Administration
Country	Image:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Cologne
District	Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
Town subdivisions	20
Mayor	Wally Feiden (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	48.3 km² (18.6 sq mi)
Elevation	55 - 455 m
Population	25,141 (31/12/2006)
- Density	521 /km² (1,348 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	SU
Postal code	53604
Area code	02224
Website	www.bad-honnef.de
Image:Rsk bad honnef.png Coordinates: 50°38′42″N 7°13′37″E / 50.645, 7.22694

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 (“Dragons's Rock”) mountain, part of the Siebengebirge.

Bad Honnef is home to a mineral spring called the Drachenquelle, or 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.

The villages of Aegidienberg, Selhof and Rhöndorf are considered to be part of Bad Honnef. During his term as first chancellor of Germany, Konrad Adenauer lived in Bad Honnef, as it was near Bonn, then the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. 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, many federal institutions are located in Bad Honnef.

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Stadt Bad Honnef (German)
About 2,000 Pictures from Bad Honnef
International University of Applied Sciences, Bad Honnef (English)
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (English)
Information about Bad Honnef, from campus-germany.de (English)

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