Godesberg
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Godesberg (roughly "god's mountain"), a hill within the city limits of Bonn in the Rhineland at the Rhine, Germany. Bad Godesberg ("Bad" indicates a spa) is the southern district of Bonn, founded in 1210. Bad Godesberg used to be the home of many embassies and diplomats at the time when Bonn was capital of Germany. Bad Godesberg is the place of origin of Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.
Godesberg is one of many places in Germany named after the highest Germanic pre-Christian god Gwodan.
[edit] External links
- http://www.eifelfuehrer.de/B/BadGodesberg.html (in German, with images)