GODESBERG  , a

spa of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, on the left bank of the Rhine, almost opposite Konigswinter, and 4 M . S. of Bonn, on the railway to Coblenz . It is a fashion-able summer resort, and contains numerous pretty villas, the residences of merchants from Cologne, Elberfeld, Crefeld and other Rhenish manufacturing centres . It has an Evangelical and three Roman Catholic churches, a synagogue and several educational establishments . Its chalybeate springs annually attract 'a large number of visitors, and the pump-room, baths and public grounds are arranged on a sumptuous scale . On a conical basalt hill, close by, are the ruins, surmounted by a picturesque round tower, of Godesberg castle . Built by Arch-bishop Dietrich I. of Cologne in the 13th century, it was destroyed by the Bavarians in 1583 . See Dennert, Godesberg, eine Perle des Rheins (Godesberg, 1900) .