Although Arlington and Bad Königshofen have changed a lot since the 1950s and city and community leaders have come and gone, the friendship between the two cities has continued. Over the years city officials and other residents of each of the cities, as individuals or in groups, have visited and learned more about their sister city.

In August 1968 a group of sixteen Girl Scouts from Arlington, with their leader Mrs. Bennett, visited Königshofen while on a European trip. Mr. Kurt Zühlke greeted the girls and their leader and told them about the history of his city and also about his visit to Arlington in 1951. Mrs. Bennett, on behalf of Mayor Vandergriff, presented Mayor Wolfgang Mack with a check for 1,000 German marks as a gift from the people of Arlington. The money was used by Königshofen to help pay for a new fountain in one of the town’s parks.

Mr. Robert Cooke of Arlington was an official visitor to Königshofen in April 1974 and was accompanied by his son-in-law U.S. General Willard Latham, who was stationed in Germany at the time. Mr. Cooke presented an Arlington flag to Königshofen’s Mayor Mack. During a walking tour of the town they were able to admire the fountain that was partially financed by the gift brought by the Arlington Girl Scouts in 1968. In September 1974 General Latham represented Arlington at the ceremony in Königshofen during which the town’s name officially became Bad Königshofen, designating it as an official mineral baths health resort town.

Bad Königshofen had named a city park "Arlington-Park", so the City of Arlington in 1987 decided that one of its parks should also commemorate its sister city. On April 14, 1988, the Bad Königshofen Recreation Area in S.J. Stovall Park in Arlington was dedicated. A 29-member delegation from Bad Königshofen was present for the ceremony and a live oak tree, donated by Mr. Max Hölzer of Bad Königshofen, was planted. The German delegation, on behalf of the citizens of their town, presented $1,000 to the City of Arlington toward expenses for the park. The German visitors and their Mayor Wolfgang Mack invited Mayor Richard Greene of Arlington to bring a delegation to their town in October of that year.

A delegation from Arlington led by Mayor Richard Greene, the first Arlington Mayor to visit the German sister city, visited Bad Königshofen in October 1988. Besides the Mayor’s regular duties on the trip, he had a special task to carry out. Over 100 students at Rankin Elementary School had asked him to deliver letters that they had written to students in Bad Königshofen, in hopes of starting up pen pal relationships.

In July 1991 a group of Arlington citizens accompanied Mayor Greene to Bad Königshofen to celebrate the German city’s 1250^th anniversary and the 40^th anniversary of the sister city friendship between the two cities.

Mayor Clemens Behr and more than seventy other city officials and residents of Bad Königshofen came to Arlington in March 1992 for the dedication of the new picnic pavilion in the Bad Königshofen Recreation Area of S.J. Stovall Park. In honor of the dedication of the pavilion on March 21, the United States Postal Service authorized a special cancellation at the specially authorized Bad Königshofen Station in Arlington. The official postal commemoration of the event bore two cancellations: Bad Königshofen Station in Arlington and Bad Königshofen, Germany.

The year 2001 marks the 50^th anniversary of the sister city friendship of Arlington and Bad Königshofen, and special events are planned in both cities during the year.