Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn has served as the official residence of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1950, until 1994 as his first official residence and since then as his second official residence after Bellevue Palace. It is located on the banks of the Rhine (Wilhelm-Spiritus-Ufer) directly north of Palais Schaumburg, the second official residence of the Federal Chancellor and Federal Chancellery.
Accessibility
This venue is barrier-free for wheelchair users. A barrier-free toilet is available.
Please feel free to e-mail tickets@beethovenfest.de with any questions.
Directions
The concert will take place at Villa Hammerschmidt, Adenauerallee 135, 53113 Bonn.
Arrival by train: To Bonn main station with ICE, EC, IC, local or S-Bahn trains. From Bonn train station, take tram number 16, 63 or 66 towards Bonn-Bad-Godesberg or Königswinter and get off at the Museum König stop. From there it's a 350m 5min walk. Walking time.
Your tickets entitle you to travel throughout the Rhein-Sieg Transport Association (VRS) from four hours before the event until 3 a.m.
Special feature of print@home: The print@home ticket alone is not valid as a travel document. If you have purchased an e-ticket (via online purchase), you must activate the VRS ticket in advance. You can find out how this works at https://www.beethovenfest.de/en/ticketinfos.
Arrival by car: Take A559 towards Cologne/Bonn Airport. This motorway then merges with the A59 to the Bonn-Ost triangle. Then take the exit on the right onto the A562 towards Bonn-Rheinaue. Please follow the motorway to exit B9 towards Bonn-Zentrum. Follow the B9 to use the right lane and then turn half right onto Adenauerallee/Bundeskanzlerplatz/Willy-Brandt-Allee. After a few meters your destination is on the right. Coming from Koblenz, take the B9 or A61 towards Bonn. At the Koblenz motorway junction, please take the right lane to follow the signs on the A61 towards Cologne. At the Meckenheim motorway junction, please use the right lane to follow the signs on the A565 towards Bonn/Flughafen/Meckenheim. After about 17km, take the exit towards B9/Bonn-Poppelsdorf and follow Reuterstraße to your destination.
Park:
There are only a few parking spaces there, so we recommend parking either on Adenauerallee or in the large World Conference Center Bonn car park. From there it is a maximum of 10 minutes on foot to Villa Hammerschmidt.
You can find the charging stations for your electric car here: https://www.carwow.de/elektroauto/ladesaeulenkarte.