Cologne city center

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Coat of arms of Cologne
Inner city
district 1 of Cologne
Delimitation of the inner city district in Cologne
Coordinates 50 ° 56 '12 "  N , 6 ° 57' 37"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '12 "  N , 6 ° 57' 37"  E.
surface 16.37 km²
Residents 129,108 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density 7887 inhabitants / km²
prefix 0221

Administration address		 Laurenzplatz 1–3
50667 Cologne
Website www.stadt-koeln.de
structure
Districts according to serial numbers

101  Altstadt-Süd
102  Neustadt-Süd
103  Altstadt-Nord
104  Neustadt-Nord
105  Deutz

politics
District Mayor Andreas Hupke ( Greens )
Allocation of seats (district representation)
Green SPD CDU left FDP Your friends
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Source: District Council City Center

City Center is one of the nine districts of the independent city of Cologne . It bears the number 1 in the official numbering. It was created in the course of the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1975. The city district is located on the left and right of the Rhine . It comprises the districts of Altstadt-Nord , Altstadt-Süd , Deutz , Neustadt-Nord , Neustadt-Süd .

The history of the city of Cologne is identical to the history of the old town until the late 19th century. The city center is the Roman colony - the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (CCAA), which Cologne owes its name to.

The old Roman city was supplemented by a few smaller extensions in the early Middle Ages. Finally, the city council of Cologne - at that time by far the largest city in Germany - decided on a major project: A huge city ​​wall should not only enclose the historic city center , but also the monasteries and collegiate churches in front of the previous city walls with their surroundings. This wall surrounded the entire city of Cologne from around 1225. In 1248 the foundation stone for today's Gothic cathedral was laid. The area within the wall ring was sufficient until the first half of the 19th century. As the city continued to grow and more and more people populated the city, the city wall was torn down in 1881 to make room for new buildings outside the wall ring.

In the next decades the area of ​​the new town emerged, most of which was completed by around 1910. The division of the Neustadt into the two districts of Neustadt-Nord and -Süd is purely administrative in nature, because the underlying development plan was the same for both parts: A few meters in front of the old city wall, the Cologne Rings were laid out as a large, splendid boulevard that spans the entire old town enclosed in a semicircle. Large squares were created at the intersection of the ring road and the arterial roads. Today these squares are in part pure traffic junctions, in particular the Barbarossaplatz has completely lost its character, while urban development measures over the last 20 years have restored part of the old character to Friesenplatz and Rudolfplatz.

Further streets were laid out from the squares, and large, representative church buildings were erected at various points of view. Large public buildings were also erected, such as the opera house on Rudolfplatz, which was destroyed in World War II, or the Higher Regional Court on Reichenspergerplatz.

The new town was closed to the outer districts by the inner fortress belt . After the First World War, this was largely converted to the inner green belt.

Deutz was incorporated in 1888 - against the resistance of large parts of the population. The exhibition tower has been a trademark of Deutz since its construction in 1928 . Another eye-catcher in Deutz since 1998 has been the extraordinary architecture of the Kölnarena or “Henkelmännchen”, as some Cologne residents call this multifunctional hall.

Cologne panorama, view from Severinsbrücke

History of the inner city district

The inner city district was created on January 1, 1975 as part of the municipal reorganization .

On November 27, 2008, a master plan for Cologne's inner city was presented, the results of which should form the basis for all future planning. The master plan also affects the neighboring city districts. The project is sponsored by the Initiative Unternehmer für die Region Köln e. V. , the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry , the building department and the AS&P - Albert Speer und Partner office .

politics

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A total of 19 seats
Election for the inner city district council on May 25, 2014
(Votes in percent)
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20th
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Gains and losses
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Election results

The city center district has chosen as follows (values ​​in percent):

choice date CDU FDP Green KBB left per Cologne SPD
District election downtown May 25, 2014 19.84 5.71 33.19 - 8.50 1.23 21.70
European elections June 7, 2009 20.56 13.56 34.48 - 6.02 - 19.28
State election of North Rhine-Westphalia May 22, 2005 26.58 8.01 22.34 - - - 37.22
Council election Cologne September 26, 2004 23.53 6.75 28.67 2.21 3.77 2.80 29.45
District election downtown September 26, 2004 23.01 6.98 30.79 2.42 3.76 3.03 27.63

Attractions

The inner city of Cologne has numerous sights that are popular with tourists:

One of the sights from the modern age is the Hohenzollern Bridge , on which couples in love have been attaching padlocks to show their affection for several years. The key is then thrown into the Rhine. Another attraction for tourists is the Musical Dome between the Rhine and the main train station.

Height concept

In connection with the construction of the Kölntriangle , architect Helmut Jahn said that a building more than 110 meters high “out of respect for the cathedral” was not desirable. Accordingly, the “height concept” of the city of Cologne from May 2007 stipulates that new buildings between the left bank of the Rhine and the outer edge of the Cologne ring may not be higher than 22.50 meters. For higher new buildings, evidence must be provided that the view of the cathedral and the Romanesque churches is not impaired.

RWZ building before the approved addition (2011)

The concept has led to a ban on changes in terms of administrative and building law and is a legal environmental protection . It is a target provision that allows justified exceptions. Colonius (266 meters), Kölnturm (148.1 meters) and Hansahochhaus (65 meters) are outside the protection zone. The city lost in July 2013 before the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia against the Raiffeisen-Waren-Zentrale Rhein-Main (RWZ), which was then allowed to increase its building on Breslauer Platz by 10.5 meters to 38.35 meters. However, this case was not subject to the height concept either because the building permit had been granted before May 2007. The height concept aims to preserve and strengthen the inner city in its special cityscape including the historical tower silhouette and to further develop it in harmony with the potential of private investments for the future. Outside the ring, building with high-rise buildings is possible and desirable in order to meet the pressure of demand in central locations.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Cologne Master Plan - Success or Bankruptcy for the City? ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Goethe-Institut (China), July 2010
  2. ↑ stadt-koeln.de , accessed on January 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ stadt-koeln.de - municipal elections 2009 , accessed on January 16, 2011.
  4. ↑ The antichronological parties that have won mandates are listed in alphabetical order. Strongest party highlighted in color. In the case of elections with different constituencies, the result was converted to the area of ​​the 1st city district.
  5. ^ Office for Public Order - Electoral Office: Elections in Cologne - Results and brief analysis of the state elections 2005. (PDF; 3.7 MB) The Lord Mayor of the City of Cologne, p. 20 , accessed on June 17, 2009 (The results of the districts 101 - 105 extrapolated. Error deviation of 0.04 percentage points, as the information on invalid votes was missing.).
  6. ↑ koeln.de: Sights in Cologne
  7. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger of October 22, 2003, A dispute about ten meters that nobody wants
  8. ^ Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, judgment of July 21, 2013, Az: Az: 2 K 177/11 and 2 K 1342/12