Grengel (Cologne)

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Grengel
district 709 of Cologne
Delimitation of the Grengel district in Porz
Coordinates 50 ° 52 '48 "  N , 7 ° 6' 5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '48 "  N , 7 ° 6' 5"  E
surface 10.66 km²
Residents 5536 (December 31, 2017)
Population density 519 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1975
Post Code 51147
prefix 02203
Borough Porz (7)
Transport links
Highway A59
Railway connection Cologne / Bonn Airport S 13
Bus routes 160 161 166 SB60
Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information

The Grengel district is located in the southeast of Cologne , in the Porz district .

location

Grengel borders Rösrath in the east, Troisdorf in the west - from south to north - Lind , Wahnheide , Elsdorf , Urbach and Eil .

history

Grengel was first referred to as Grindel in 1757 . This means turnpike or border post. The district was only founded on December 17, 1948, as the youngest settlement in what was then Porz. On September 16, 1951, the district already had 800 inhabitants. When Porz was incorporated into the city of Cologne on January 1, 1975, Grengel's area was nominally doubled by connecting the previous Porz district of the airport.

Demographic statistics

Structure of the population of Cologne-Grengel:

  • Share of under 18s: 16.0% (2014)
  • Proportion of over 64-year-olds: 19.8% (2014)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 16.2% (2015)
  • Unemployment rate: 10.4% (2014)

religion

Church of the Assumption

In 1955 the Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Assumption was consecrated.

Infrastructure

In 1951 a community elementary school was established; in 1992 it was named after the educational reformer Peter Petersen and his teaching methods have been used there since 1980. In the 1960s, the entire place received sewers. Most of the runways and the terminal buildings of Cologne / Bonn Airport are located in the Grengel district.

Recreation

In the area of ​​the Grengel district there is a park with a stream and two duck ponds as well as other large areas of the Bieselwald nature reserve .

  • city ​​Park

  • Lower valley pond

  • Landscape protection area

literature

  • Johann Bendel : home book of the district of Mülheim am Rhein, history and description, sagas and stories. Cologne-Mülheim 1925
  • Christian Schuh: Cologne's 85 districts. History, dates, facts, names. Emons, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89705-278-4

Web links

Commons : Köln-Grengel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  2. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  3. ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  4. ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de