Under the of 10 June 1969 , Aegidienberg became part of Bad Honnef on 1 August 1969 . Previously , there had been proposals to combine Aegidienberg with the mountain districts of Ittenbach , Heisterbacherrott , Oberpleis and Stieldorf . It retains its former municipal borders . <!-- The murderer of Dieter Freese, according to the press, the "most wanted criminals of the Federal Republic" found shelter in a disused cottage of Cologne industrial Oberreuther, which stood in Hövel in the winter of 1962, for a short time. Later he hid in the Königswinter ''Ofenkaulen''. --> The Gladbeck hostage crisis came to its violent end on the A3 in Hövel on 18 August 1988 with the death of an 18-year-old woman . Since 2009 a memorial has marked the spot
Gladbeck hostage crisis
Gladbeck hostage crisis
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