Cologne-Nippes (city district)

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Nippes
district 5 of Cologne
Location of the city district 5 Nippes in Cologne
Coordinates 50 ° 57 '52 "  N , 6 ° 57' 30"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '52 "  N , 6 ° 57' 30"  E.
surface 31.75 km²
Residents 117,921 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density 3714 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation 1888
prefix 0221

Administration address		 Neusser Strasse 450
50733 Cologne
politics
District Mayor Bernd Schößler ( SPD )
Allocation of seats (district representation)
SPD GREEN CDU FDP LKR LEFT per Cologne
6th
5
4th
1
1
1
1
Source: Cologne District Information - 2015 figures
Election for district representation
on May 25, 2014
(Votes in percent)
 %
30th
20th
10
0
29.8
27.0
21.1
8.0
4.0
3.0
2.9
7.2
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
-0.8
+1.5
-0.7
+2.7
-3.0
+3.0
-3.1
+3.4
Otherwise.

Nippes is the 5th district of Cologne . It includes the districts of Bilderstöckchen , Longerich , Mauenheim , Niehl , Nippes , Riehl , Weidenpesch . It is located on the left bank of the Rhine , north of Cologne city center .

District 5 was founded as part of a municipal reorganization on January 1, 1975 and bears the name of its most populous district, Nippes. At the time of the old postal code system, the districts of the district were incorporated under 5000 Cologne 60.

history

In the area of ​​today's Cologne district of Nippes there is evidence that a villa was already located in Roman times . On the edge of the Nippes valley , a now silted up arm of the Rhine (on today's Niehler Kirchweg), was the old settlement core of today's Nippes, the glory of Mauenheim . The Nippes place name itself appears for the first time in a document from 1549 in connection with an inn known at the time (at the level of today's Florastraße, which was then called "Kappesgasse"). The name Nippes (Nipp-Haus) can possibly be interpreted as a house on a hill . In the 17th century the gastronomy om knickknacks was notorious.

In 1794 the French occupation begins by the revolutionary troops . Several localities of the former Kurköln north of Cologne are combined to form Mairie de Longerich , a political entity that can be seen as a kind of forerunner of the later Cologne district of Nippes. In 1815 Europe was reorganized at the Congress of Vienna . The Rhineland and Westphalia fall to Prussia , the Mairie is now called the Mayor's Office Longerich and is part of the Cologne district . In 1888, the former Mayor's Office Longerich , within which Nippes (with Riehl) forms a special municipality, is incorporated into Cologne. A repair shop and a marshalling yard are being built in Cologne-Nippes as important railway facilities , but these have now been closed. In 1861 a workshop was set up for the railway.

From 1839 Jacob Mayer was the first in Germany to produce cast steel in Cologne-Nippes (at today's Wilhelmplatz) using a steel forming process known in England. It was the first production facility of its kind in Germany. The industrialization of Nippes began in 1850 with the establishment of a steam mill by Heinrich Auer - the "Auer mill". Auerstraße has been named after its builder since 1911. The businessman Julius Vorster and the chemist Hermann Julius Grüneberg founded the chemical factory Vorster & Grüneberg on November 1st, 1858 , in which ammonia was produced. In 1869 the Nippes ammonia factory was established. It was the forerunner of the Kalk Chemical Factory . With the Clouth Gummiwerke , one of the largest industrial employers came to Nippes in 1868. The world-famous factory shaped the cityscape of Nippes during its expansion phase. The up-and-coming company was active in the manufacture of rubber goods and also diversified heavily into other composites . The company founded by Franz Clouth experienced its economic peak in 1962, when it had 2,241 employees. A corporate crisis was the cause of persistent losses, which caused the parent company Continental AG to merge part of Clouth and sell other parts. Finally, on June 17, 2003, the city of Cologne decided to acquire the company site, which has now grown to 160,000 m², in order to use it for residential construction and “non-disruptive business”. It had to be taken into account that the development on Niehler Strasse is a listed building. Conveyor belts were manufactured here until December 16, 2005, and Clouth Gummiwerke AG has been part of Germany's industrial history ever since . Until his death on September 7, 1910, Franz Clouth lived in a villa built near the factory in 1883 on Niehler Strasse. Franz-Clouth-Straße has been named after him since 1915.

The first street names were given in 1873 (Christina-, Holbein-, Longericher- or Siebachstraße). Siebachstrasse is made up of the names of the Siepen and Selbach families, who ran a sugar factory in Hartwichstrasse between 1865 and 1875. The first street in Nippes was Niehler Straße (previously: Niehler Weg), probably an old thoroughfare for the Romans.

literature

  • Peter Schreiber: Mauenheim then and now. A contribution to the history of Köln-Nippes . 2nd ext. Edition, Cologne 1962
  • City district archive Köln-Nippes e. V .: Loss mer jet through Neppes jon. A journey through history. Cologne (1st edition) 1987
  • Reinhold Kruse, Wolfgang Klein, Köln-Nippes - Telling Old Pictures , 2010

Footnotes / individual references

  1. ↑ stadt-koeln.de - district council election 2014 , accessed on August 14, 2016
  2. ↑ stadt-koeln.de - municipal elections 2009, election of the district representatives , accessed on August 14, 2014
  3. ↑ In December 2013 the district celebrated the 125th anniversary of the incorporation with an exhibition opening in the district town hall.
  4. ↑ Andreas Dornheim, spirit of research and entrepreneurship: the Cologne chemist and industrialist Hermann Julius Grüneberg , 2006, p. 148

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