The letter diaries begin in March 1809. On March 7, 1809, Stroof, then clerk of the court, was appointed municipal director of the new municipality of Vilich. With the introduction of French-style administration, Stroof was now responsible for the independent management of the newly created municipality.

Unfortunately, the minutes have not been handed down in full for Stroof's entire term of office. For example, the letters relating to his meeting with Napoleon on the Finkenberg on November 6, 1811 are missing.

A whole volume of letters from the end of 1813 to the end of 1816 is also missing. This largest gap concerns, among other things, the period in which Vilich fell to Prussia in 1815. Stroof retained his office as mayor and continued to keep the letter diaries until the beginning of 1825 and died in June of the same year.

There is a published transcription of the letter diaries under the title "Korrespondenz-Journal des Bürgermeisters Leonard Stroof von Vilich" by Johannes Bücher in 3 volumes. This can be viewed under the shelfmark 95/307 in the reading room of the town archive.

The town itself, as well as the surrounding villages, were then under almost uninterrupted shelling until around the 20th. It must have been a terrible time for the population. There were no more air raids. In the last few days, our factory took a number of hits [...] After our Wehrmacht had, as was subsequently established, already destroyed our factory, there was a brief interregnum until the Americans moved in, during which foreigners looted to their heart's content. Then our factory was occupied by the Americans until April 16th/17th, and after their departure our fellow countrymen continued the work of the foreigners and Americans. [...]

The first impression was devastating. Everything, but also everything, was broken, demolished, filthy, simply appalling. There wasn't a cupboard or drawer that wasn't broken. [...]

The normal allotment amounts to: currently 2000 g bread, 100 g meat per week, 310 g fat for 4 weeks, some food, I think 125 g, just as much sugar or 250 g jam, and for children ½ milk daily. Potatoes are fine, but no new ones yet! Fruit and vegetables are available. [...]

There is still no telephone service. Mail has been going out in the entire British-occupied territory since July 2: Rhine Province without Koblenz & Trier districts [...]. Shipping, as I have already said, will probably be suspended for a very long time. Normal rail traffic here is as follows: Freight traffic (public) only Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn between Beuel and Hennef, passenger traffic: railroad between Fahr (just before Neuwied) to Menden, one train down in the morning, one train up in the afternoon; Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn Beuel to Walbröhl with change in Allner, as the Siegbrücke was blown up. Rheinuferbahn between Ellerbahnhof and Köln-Bayenthalgürtel or Sülz. At present, there is still no tram or long-distance train service. From Cologne-Deutz there are now supposed to be 3 trains a day to Hagen [...] Many bridges have been blown up here in the area. Even the small railroad bridge of the RSE over the Pleisbach near Niederpleis or a water culvert of the RSE near Oberpleis [...]

We have only had a direct connection to Bonn by motorboat ferry for a few days now. Until then, everything had to go via Niederdollendorf-Godesberg, which required a passport and delousing. There and back about 25 km. [...]

I'm going over there [to Bonn] myself tomorrow. Just across, don't make me laugh! There's such a rush at the ferry that you often have to wait 1 to 1 ½ hours to be taken on board. The only boat is the Beethoven, which can take 170-200 people, and then the Stratmann ferry on the Gronau, which has been out of service for a few days due to repairs.

I want to close, one more hour, then it's "curfew"! Violation no longer costs money, but imprisonment! [...] From 15.7. we have to be back here at 9 p.m. [...]"

The hippie movement of the 1960s apparently also left its mark on more conservative parties and led to a more relaxed attitude.

Furthermore, the German economic miracle began to crumble in the 1970s under the government of Willy Brandt, which was picked up on with the provocative campaign slogan.

It is also interesting that, apart from the imprint, the CDU is not declared as the publisher of the poster by means of a logo or anything similar.

This was guaranteed to arouse the viewer's curiosity.

The German commander Richard Schimpf was under orders to defend Bad Godesberg to the last man. So it is town councillor Ditz who negotiates the peaceful surrender of the town with the Americans, together with, among others, the interpreter Annemarie Steeg and the criminal secretary Otto Kessel. Telephone calls were made, consultations were held, trips were made through the city and the current situation of the fighting was checked until an agreement was finally reached. The negotiations ended at around 1:30 p.m. in the town hall with the civilian handover of the town. Councillor Ditz was appointed acting mayor of the town by the American combat commander until Josef Zander was appointed the new mayor on March 31, 1945.

The 6-page report by Councillor Ditz is just one of the available reports on the capture of Bad Godesberg. The file on the "Events on March 7 and 8, 1945 in Bad Godesberg" (Go 9899) contains reports from most of the people involved. However, the majority of these reports were written at a later date. Nevertheless, they provide an exciting and very detailed account of the various perspectives on the events.

In 1901, Lieutenant Hauck of the Imperial Navy deliberately sent the postcard with only the cryptic "n" address in order to prove to his comrades the omniscience of the postal service and the fame of Aennchen Schumacher. It had probably become a "student tradition" to send postcards with the most original possible variations of her name in the address.

The postcard was accompanied by a letter from the naval post office in Berlin, dated 10.02.1902, on which the delivery route of the postcard and the conclusion of the postal officials regarding the enigmatic address are written down.

The postcard is part of the Aennchen Schumacher collection (SN152) and was pasted onto cardboard and framed for exhibition purposes in the former restaurant. The text side is therefore no longer legible today, only the address side is visible. Unfortunately, the accompanying letter from the naval post office was missing when the city archive took it back in 2016. However, the content of the two letters has been preserved by the earlier archival indexing of the two objects.

February 26 of this year is the 90th anniversary of the death of Aennchen Schumacher, who lived in Bad Godesberg from 1860 to 1935.

"Shh! Quiet! Quiet! Bonn!" calls the sticker by Marc John in the well-known Bonn triad. Under the umbrella brand "Freude. Joy. Joie. Bonn.", the city of Bonn has been using variations of the trilingual logo since 2009. For administrative content, for example, the logo is replaced by "Stadt. City. Ville. Bonn.". Since then, this triad has often been imitated for other purposes outside the city administration.

Marc John designed his variation of the logo in 2013 as a protest against people who were increasingly complaining about the noise pollution caused by music and traditional events and were even trying to stop these events by legal means. To this day, the concerts in the Rheinaue in particular have repeatedly become the focus of these complaints and the resulting debates. In January 2014, Marc John published a version of the protest logo without his watermark so that like-minded culture lovers could use it for their own protests and on social networks (within the scope of non-commercial use).

The 9.7 x 9.7 cm sticker is kept by the city archive in the collection of leaflets and flyers (DA11). This steadily growing collection currently comprises around 10,000 objects that reflect daily life in Bonn.