Bonn isn't even labeled. Truly remarkable for being a former Capital.
A history youtuber I enjoy made a short video about why Bonn was chosen as the FRG's capital:
- Bonn wasn't heavily damaged in the war unlike nearly all larger cities in the Allied occupation zone, so it was established as the temporary capital when the FRG was established in 1949 .
Eventually it was decided to keep the capital in Bonn because:
. Adenauer didn't want to move the capital to a larger city in order to avoid making Germany's division appear permanent.
- The city had no strong assocaition with Nazism or Hitler (unlike Munich for example).
- There was little (and soon none because the British had no money) foreign military presence in the city
- I kid you not: it was only 20 minutes from Adenauer's house.
- Since the government was already established there, it was decided it wasn't worth the effort and expense to move the capital to a larger city.
To this day, Bonn functions as the primary seat for six of the federal government's ministries (defence, agriculture, health, environment, education, foreign aid) as well as the secondary seat for all the other ministries. As such, Bonn is officially designated as a "federal city" as opposed to Berlin's status as a federal capital.
And yet it doesn't get a separate Bundesland like Bremen or Hamburg [let alone Berlin].
