Flittard

Flittard ; district 909 of Cologne
Coordinates	51 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E
surface	7.74 km²
Residents	7998 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density	1033 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation	Apr 1, 1914
Post Code	51061
prefix	0221
Borough	Mulheim (9)
Transport links
Federal road
Railway lines	S 6
Bus routes	151 152 250 201 217 233 255
	Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information

Flittard is a district of Cologne in the Mülheim district in the north on the right bank of the Rhine.

location

Flittard borders in the east on Dünnwald , in the south on Stammheim , in the west on the Rhine and in the north on Leverkusen , whose Chempark is partly on Flittarder Boden.

Flittard, surrounded by big cities and industry, still has more of a village character and is divided into an old district on the Rhine dike and three newer parts to the east.

history

The name Flittard means flowing earth washed up or washed away by the Rhine and indicates the earlier flood hazard to which this Cologne suburb was repeatedly exposed until the dike was built in 1894/95.

Detail of the map of Cologne and the surrounding area at the beginning of the 19th century

The place was first mentioned in a document in 989. Since the Middle Ages he has belonged to the Porz office in the Duchy of Berg . In 1795 French revolutionary troops occupied the place. In 1808, Flittard became part of Mairie Mülheim, which belonged to the canton of Mülheim in the Rhine department in the Grand Duchy of Berg . In 1815 Flittard came to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Mülheim / Rhein district. On April 1, 1914, Flittard was incorporated into Cologne.

The Cologne-Flittard station on Edelhofstrasse on the Mülheim-Leverkusen Railway ( Chempark - Flittard - Cologne-Stammheim - Cologne-Mülheim route , opened in 1898), popularly known as the Acetylsalicylic Acid Express , was shut down for passenger traffic in 1972 and the reception building was demolished. There is still a lot of freight traffic on this route through Flittard.

Demographic statistics

On December 31, 1990, 8,365 people lived in Flittard. Ten years later there were still 8201 people. On December 31, 2013 the population was 7,850 and as of December 31, 2017 the number increased slightly to 7,998.

Structure of the population of Cologne-Flittard:

Share of under 18s: 16.7% (2015)
Proportion of over 64-year-olds: 22.8% (2015)
Proportion of foreigners: 12.6% (2015)
Unemployment rate: 9.8% (2014)

Attractions

The center of Flittard consists of small rural houses. The oldest secular building is the Bongartzhof, a half-timbered building with brick infill and a deep hipped roof from 1715.

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Hubertus still has the west tower from the 12th century, which is crowned by a Gothic buckled helmet . The nave was built in 1896/97 as a neo-Romanesque step hall.

The Evangelical Immanuel Church was built in 2013.

St. Hubertus, Catholic parish church
St. Pius X. , Catholic parish church
Hillijehüüsje, a “several hundred years old” wayside shrine
Paulinenhof, an old estate that was bought by Franz Egon von Fürstenberg in 1828 , rebuilt and named "Paulinenhof" after his wife.
Telegraph station , the only surviving station on the Berlin-Coblenz optical telegraph line from Prussian times. After the telegraph line was shut down in 1849, Franz Egon von Fürstenberg bought the building between Stammheim and Flittard and preserved it from decay as a memorial from the early days of communications technology.
Japanese Garden (Leverkusen) , a landscape garden located on the Chempark industrial site in Flittard; and the airfield Leverkusen is actually located in Cologne-Flittard
Motte Kurtekotten , an abandoned hill castle