Venue
The University of Bonn is the venue for the 55th Deutsche Historikertag. Even if it is hard to imagine given the long tradition of the university and congress, Germany’s largest humanities conference will be held in the university city on the Rhine for the first time in 2025. The central conference venue is the baroque palace in Bonn’s city center.
Since its foundation in 1818, the Electoral Palace has been both the main building and landmark of the university. It is the oldest and most traditional part of the university, which is now spread over five locations in the city. The inner city campus, which extends around the palace, is now home to the humanities.
In its 200 years of existence, the University of Bonn has been home to a large number of important scientists, seven of whom have been awarded the Nobel Prize and 14 others have received the Leibniz Prize. Since 2019, the University of Bonn has been one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany and, with a total of six Clusters of Excellence, the most successful university in the last round of the Excellence Initiative. With around 32,000 students and over 6,000 employees, the university today forms a social and economic hub for the city.
With its history as a federal city, Bonn offers an ideal setting in which to examine the “Dynamics of Power” – this year’s motto of the Historikertag – from a historical perspective in this federal election year. The plenary chamber of the old Bundestag provides an appropriate stage for this. The opening ceremony will take place here.
The baroque main building as the central event location enables a “Historikertag of short distances”. With a large number of lecture halls that can accommodate between 60 and 600 people, and event rooms such as the Festival and Senate Hall or the Place Church, it offers space for all events in the regular conference program.
The palace is easy to reach thanks to its central location in the city center; the main train station is within walking distance. Numerous bus and train lines connect the congress venue with the city districts and outlying areas. A streetcar will take participants to the Siegburg/Bonn long-distance train station.