Fürstenbergisches Palais

The Palais was constructed between 1751 and 1753 as the residence of Caspar Anton Radermacher, a canon and dean of the Archidiaconal Abbey of St. Cassius and Florentius. He received permission to build the house on the site of an older canon's court. Later, the property passed into the possession of Franz Carl Ludwig Radermacher, an imperial-royal privy councillor. In 1824, ophthalmologist Philipp Franz von Walther acquired the Palais, before it was sold in 1830 to Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim, whose family gave the building its current name. King Frederick William IV of Prussia and Queen Victoria of England visited in 1845, witnessing the unveiling of the Beethoven Monument from the Palais' balcony. After the death of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim, the building served as a girls' boarding school until 1876. In the same year, the Post and Telegraph Administration acquired the Palais and established the Bonn Post Office there, which opened on December 3, 1877.