 Nowadays the scholar is being remembered at this very place with a sandstone monument displaying a picture of the baron.Also, several streets and plants are named after him, like the "Boenninghausenia altiflora", "Boeninghausia vincentina" and a genus of the Rutaceae, "Boenninghausenia".In 1990 the Clemens von Bönninghausen Academy was founded, and in 2009 the Von Bönninghausen Institute.