Groov
The Groov is a former island with a silted-up arm of the river on the Rhine in Cologne-Zündorf . It received its current appearance between 1974 and 1978, when a marina was established and the island with the adjacent areas was expanded as a leisure facility. The entire system was implemented according to the design by the architects Gottfried Kühn , Jürgen Schubert and Partners from 1972.
The name Groov comes from the Gallic word grave , which means something like gravel , gravel bar or sand bar. The name is pronounced with an open "o" (as in "horch"), which is drawn out. Already separated from the main stream by an arm of the Rhine in earlier times, a natural harbor was formed there, in which even two cranes were in operation. It was always threatened with silting up - especially after it was less used from 1831 onwards due to the abolition of the Cologne stacking law. In 1849 the island was connected to the bank upstream by a dam. In 1862 the "island" was extended by the creation of groynes on the Rhine side, which led to an island widening. Another dam divided the old port into two bodies of water. The lower arm of the Rhine of the Groov could still be approached by ships with shallow drafts until the middle of the 20th century - at last only during floods - until it finally silted up more and more and finally became a recreational area with the adjacent areas.
The leisure facility is an area that stretches between the Rhine and the towpath, a former towpath , including an oxbow arm and a marina. Protected from the Rhine by a dam, there are cycle paths and sidewalks, lawns, sports and playgrounds, a mini golf course , a combined pool and a punt pond under trees . There are garden bars and beer gardens on the market square of the leisure island . At the same time, there is a Rhine ferry for hikers and cyclists on the banks of the Rhine, which connects the Groov recreational area with the Cologne-Weiß district every day throughout the summer . In severe winters, the frozen ice surface of the two lakes is used as an ice rink.
In order to better protect the adjoining houses from strong floods, the leisure island was raised again in 2005 by filling it up. In addition, sheet pile wall joints were embedded in the floor of the market square. At the same time, the Nepomuk column in the middle of the market square , which was once dedicated to the patron saint of shipmen and seamen , was restored . Another memorial commemorates those who died in the war from Zündorf.
literature
- Birgit Schilling, Karl Heinz Thurz: Fountain in Cologne . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7616-0936-1 .
Web links
- The leisure island in the south of Cologne on Koeln-Magazin.de
- Zündorfer Groov on Koeln.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Schilling, p. 91 (but here it says Kühne incorrectly )
- ↑ Jürgen Huck, Heimatverein Porz (ed.): The Rhine and its banks ... , in Our Porz , vol. 14.
- ↑ Detailed information about the story on the website of the Groov-Paten eV
- ↑ Porz am Rhein, The Groov information page for the districts of Porz-Zündorf, Langel and Libur, Groov ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rhine ferry to Weiß
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 15 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 30 ″ E