Poll (Cologne)

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Poll
district 701 of Cologne
Location of the Poll district in District 7
Coordinates 50 ° 54 '48 "  N , 6 ° 59' 24"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '48 "  N , 6 ° 59' 24"  E
surface 5.168 km²
Residents 11,461 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density 2218 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Apr 1, 1888
Post Code 51105
prefix 0221
Borough Porz (7)
Transport links
Highway A4 A559
Light rail line 7th
Bus routes 159 196
Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information

Poll is a district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine on the Rhine, southeast of the city center, which was incorporated into Cologne with Deutz in 1888 . Since the municipal reorganization in 1975, Poll has been the only district from the former Cologne urban area, which has since been administered by the Porz district. At the same time, the district of Porz was largely created from the area of ​​the former town of Porz.

location

Aerial photo of the center of Poll with Rhine meadows from 1953

Poll borders in the north along the railway embankment from the south bridge to Kalk to Deutz , in the south the A 4 with the Rodenkirchen motorway bridge borders the district of Westhoven . The part of the Weidenweg up to and including the Wiesenhaus campsite, which is located in the Westhovener area, belongs to Poll with postal code 51105. To the east, with the exception of the Gremberger woodland, the town is bordered by the A 559 to Humboldt / Gremberg and to the west is the Rhine , which forms the border with the districts of Bayenthal and Marienburg on the left bank of the Rhine .

history

The name

The derivation of the name "Poll" is unclear. There are suspicions that the name Poll derives from the Dutch Poel, for polder (diked or alluvial land) or from Pöhl (water pool, pond). In favor of Pöhl , there are ponds filled with water on the Rhine and east of Poll. It can also be derived from Boll (hill), because in flood disasters the hill on the sand mountain protruded from the floods, even if the surrounding area was flooded in a wide area.

The beginnings

The first historically verifiable settlement of the area around Poll and Rolshoven seems to have occurred in the Neolithic around 4000 to 2000 BC. This is derived from the discovery of “shards with deep engraving” in Porz-Westhoven. The oldest find directly in Poll can be dated to the Bronze Age (2000–1000 BC).

In Roman times, the Romans expelled the Germanic peoples in a wide strip from the right bank of the Rhine and viewed this as a safety zone. After the Deutz castle was founded by the Romans around 310 , a repopulation of the right bank of the Rhine began from there, probably also in the area of ​​Poll. The Franks stormed Cologne in 454 and also settled in Poll. Frankish graves testify to this.

Poll was first mentioned in a document in 1003, when Poller Fischer leased the fishing rights (right to use a certain stretch of water) from Poll to the Deutz parish church from the Cologne ore monastery. The fishing rights were later exercised by the St. Maria Abbey in the Capitol in Cologne, the Deutz Abbey and the Deutz bailiff. The inhabitants of Polls were allowed to catch with a hoe net . For centuries, the bollards were suppliers of agricultural products, especially milk and fish . The poller allis shad , a type of herring that swam up the Rhine to lay eggs in April and May, was particularly well known . Good catches were also achieved with salmon . The pollers made the “best catch in living memory” on April 23, 1878 “with 183 allis shad in one net train”. Now and then a sturgeon was caught (e.g. 435 pounds in 1876) and then exhibited on the Rhine for a week for a fee. The Poller fisher women were known for their market cry : "Freesche Maifeesch, Freesche Maifeesch". Professional fishing ceased in Poll in 1938.

At least on a Rhine slope on Weingartengasse - as in many places in the Cologne area - wine was already grown in 1326, but it was discontinued over the centuries.

On the meadows on the Rhine immediately below Polls, livestock was kept in the northern part, while the southern part was divided among the inhabitants. On the Poller Wiesen in what is now the Deutz district, wood was used with willows and poplars. The bollard milkmaid delivered the products to 1880 mainly with boat across the Rhine and later with carts and wagons that of donkeys , mules , horses and at times dogs were drawn to the city. The fish were also transported to Cologne in a similar way and sold directly in the markets as well as in the Veedeln. The fishermen in Poll were organized in so-called "pinches" (from toe, pull), i. H. Groups of 8 men each, who took turns catching each day. There were up to 10 pens in Poll, from 1900 only 2 to 3.

Meaning for Cologne

Because of its location, Poll was significant for Cologne. For centuries there was a risk of a breakthrough in the Rhine with a probable shift of the river bed to the east. The dams that were supposed to keep the river in its bed were systematically built from around 1200, but repeatedly destroyed by the floods of the Rhine. From 1400 onwards, they were considerably strengthened, as the city of Cologne received the right of care. When there was again the danger of a breakthrough, the city took the shore area in leasehold and expanded the facilities (the so-called bollard heads ) after the great flood of 1477 in 1479. Without the bollard heads, Cologne might have lost its importance as an important port city on the Rhine. Therefore, there were also interests outside of Cologne to divert the Rhine, e. B. in 1479 by destroying the bollard heads.

Bollard coat of arms

Coat of arms Poll reconstructed from glass painting
"Coat of arms" (not official) from Cologne-Poll, reconstructed and completed after a coat of arms on a historical glass picture from 1914

Several coats of arms are used in Poll. Historically, however, no official "Poller coat of arms" is known. As a small farming and fishing village that belonged to Deutz, there was never an official institution in Poll that could have been authorized to create and use a coat of arms.

The tenants of the farms come into consideration as potential coats of arms for Poll, starting in 1364. In particular, there was a “von Poll” family that has been mentioned again and again since 1326. Although these had a seal and therefore also a coat of arms, nothing is known about a coat of arms with an allis shad - this was not befitting at the time, also in view of the social rules in the Cologne area. The seal of Johannes von Poll (Joh. De Poll), a priest of St. Mary in the Capitol, is first mentioned on July 6, 1340; Heinrich van Polle is mentioned as a wepelink ( coat of arms) from 1404. As a result of the collapse of the Cologne City Archives , documents on these seals are currently not available.

In 2008, a coat of arms was identified in a glass picture of the Jägerhof from 1914. The builder of the Jägerhof, Joseph Bietmé – Bartholomé, cannot be regarded as the inventor of Bollard insignia based on the other furnishings of the Jägerhof, but at that time he tried to design a Poller local history museum. The coat of arms, formerly built into a door as a glass painting, consists of the actual coat of arms (shield) with the crooked allis shad. The coat of arms becomes the so-called full coat of arms through the top and side additions, the helmet with crest and the helmet covers. The coat of arms motif, the allis shad, is taken up again on top of the helmet, but in a spatial representation. It was first mentioned in 1930 in the writing of the Rhenish art historian Johannes Krudewig Jägerhof, the Polls Heimatmuseum . It is astonishing that no other known coats of arms with bollard motifs seem to have existed until the Second World War . This speaks for the relevance of the coat of arms in the Jägerhof, which was lost in the chaos of war.

Modern coat of arms

  • In 1952 a fisherman and a milkmaid holding the Cologne coat of arms can be seen in the king's banner of the St. Hubertus Brotherhood. The fisherman holding a symbolic Trätschhahmen, a certain type of Senknetz , into the water.
  • On a home book from 1978 a bollard Fischer and a milkmaid can also be seen, who are based on the Cologne city coat of arms, with the fisherman holding the Trätschhamen upright.
  • The SPD Poll uses a similar coat of arms, with the Trätschhamen being transformed into a round basket.
  • In 2003, Dieter Heinecke, chairman of the Poll Citizens Association, privately created a so-called Poller citizens' coat of arms “from a heraldic point of view” with the Cologne city arms, milkmaid, donkey, fisherman with a baggy net on a pole and a boat in the Rhine, as well as the Cologne coat of arms.

Demographic statistics

Structure of the population of Cologne-Poll:

  • Share of under 18s: 16.3% (2014)
  • Proportion of over 64-year-olds: 19.9% ​​(2014)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 14.5% (2015)
  • Unemployment rate: 8.1% (2014)

Infrastructure

traffic

Poll is connected to the federal freeway 4 and federal freeway 559 via three freeway connections . The tram line of the KVB 7 has 3 stops in Poll, and the bus line 159 also runs through Poll. Line 196 connects the “Am Grauen Stein” industrial park. During trade fairs, shuttle buses run between trade fair car park 13 / traffic training area and the trade fair. There is a rail link between the Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG (HGK) and the Poller Kirchweg industrial park to the Deutz port via the marshalling yard in Poll . The main access roads are Siegburger Strasse and Rolshover Strasse / Auf dem Sandberg. Siegburger Strasse is also the main access road for traffic to Porz. For the future, there is the option of a S-Bahn link at the KVB stop Raiffeisenstraße, if the “Westring Cologne” of the Federal Railroad is expanded. A bus connection via the motorway to the other side of the Rhine and the establishment of a shipping line Porz-Cologne via Poll are also regularly discussed.

Bridges and ferries

The first documented more secure connection across the Rhine in Poll seems to be the Flying Bridge from Deutz, which was relocated from the Deutz area from March 3, 1791 to July 29, 1793 in the dispute. It then led from the Bayenturm on the left bank of the Rhine to the right bank of the Rhine, bypassing Deutz, to the other side of the Rhine to the Poller area, the Poller Wiesen.

There were several ferries in Poll, at times even two at the same time: one at the height of today's motorway bridge to Rodenkirchen / Marienburg, the other as an extension of Maifischgasse to Bayenthal. There were also regular connections with rowing boats from Westhoven to Poll and from Poll to Cologne.

At the former location of the Poller Fischerhaus garden restaurant there was a jetty for a shipping line from Cologne to Rodenkirchen via Poll and Marienburg.

The south bridge was built between 1906 and 1910, and the Rodenkirchen motorway bridge between 1938 and 1941 .

The first bridge in Cologne after the Second World War was built between Cologne-Bayenthal and Poll in March 1945 by the American army as a pontoon bridge. It was dismantled again in June 1945 after a provisional Rhine crossing was completed between Cologne and Deutz next to the collapsed Hindenburg Bridge.

Again and again there were plans to build a road bridge from Bayenthal to Poll. Until the 1960s, a route in Poll was kept free for a bridge extending the belt on the left bank of the Rhine via Dixberg, Kleinstrasse, Schenkspfad to Siegburger Strasse. Later in the extension of Schönhauser Straße or parallel to the railway next to the south bridge.

On the Rhine, as an extension of Müllergasse, there is also a NATO ramp , which is used civilly today, especially since the opposite ramp in Bayenthal was dismantled.

Living

One of the rooms of the underground bunker on Rolshover Straße

In terms of urban planning, it is now a conglomerate of different, small-scale settlements . In 1923/24 the one-family housing estate An den Maien was built. At the same time, multi-family houses were built on the other side of Siegburger Strasse on Gartenhof / Krückelstrasse . The Baumgarten / Im Forst settlement was established in the 1930s. After the Second World War, another lively construction activity followed: 1955 to 1957 the Schreberstrasse and the Milchmädchensiedlung , 1960/62 to 1972 the settlement Raabestrasse / Laurenz-Kiesgen-Strasse . The living on the river project was implemented from 1972. A small one-family house settlement ( Ruth-Scheye-Weg / Hans-Keul-Weg ) with a car-free zone has been built on Poller Kirchweg since 2007 .

The Bernhard Letterhaus Catholic youth hostel directly on Poller Marktplatz has emerged from a dormitory originally built by the City of Cologne for the Hitler Youth . Young people of all denominations can find accommodation here. A former air raid shelter is located on the site .

In 2008, Johanniter-Seniorenzentrum GmbH built a Johanniter-Stift for assisted living in a central location.

Education and care

In Poll there are six day-care centers from various providers, the primary schools GGS Poller Hauptstr. and Janusz Korczak School as well as the special school with a special focus on intellectual development ; furthermore the community center Ahl Poller Schull , an SKM family center, the Catholic youth hostel Bernhard Letterhaus , a workshop for handicapped people, a Johanniter senior center and facilities of the working group at Cologne schools .

Business

View over poll; The high-rise building of TÜV Rheinland is striking

In 1910 the foundation stone for a plant of the machine tool manufacturer Schütte was laid on the newly designed Rhine bank, east of today's Alfred-Schütte Allee , as a result of the construction of the Deutz Rhine port . Multi-axis grinding machines and multi-spindle automatic lathes are produced at Alfred H. Schütte. The company employs between 450 and 500 people in Cologne.

In the east of Poll, a large industrial area was created, in which in 1919 a wagon factory, Rheinwerk GmbH, factory for railway supplies, was established, whose halls were taken over by Citroën in 1926 . Citroën Automobil AG was entered in the commercial register of the city of Cologne on January 8, 1927 and began assembling cars at the plant. From 1935 onwards the decline began due to trade restrictions of the time of National Socialism , from 1936 there was only one repair shop, which was confiscated in 1939 as "enemy property". The factory was destroyed in the Second World War in 1944. From 1950 Citroën started with a sales company in "Maison Belge". About the site at Sülzburgstr. and Aachener Str. it was able to settle in 1959 in exchange for the area in Poll in Porz-Westhoven , which was incorporated into Cologne in 1975.

Today, the commercial area is home to the Handelshof wholesale company and a large Volkswagen AG distribution center . The Cologne traffic exercise area was also built on the site of a former gravel pit and later garbage dump , which is also used as a trade fair car park and as a flea market area. The main administration of TÜV Rheinland with its high-rise in this area dominates the cityscape . In 1992 the Pollonius telecommunications tower was built on Poll-Vingster Strasse .

Authorities

Until December 31, 2000, the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR) operated the Rheinische Autobahnamt Köln (RABA Köln) in Poll (Am Grauen Stein 33). As a result of an administrative structural reform, the road administration became part of the newly built Strasse.NRW . The RABA Cologne became the Cologne branch of Straßen.NRW. On December 11, 2005, the Cologne branch moved from Poll to Deutz (Deutz-Kalker-Str. 18–26).

In the first half of 2007 the municipal vehicle registration office moved from Herkulesstrasse in the Ehrenfeld district to Poll.

Town center

Civic Center Ahl bollard Schull

As the center of the place you can see the market square on Siegburger Straße at the tram stop “Salmstraße” and the surrounding streets. A number of events take place on the marketplace, which was expanded and redesigned in 1991. Well known beyond Cologne is the Poller May Festival , which takes place there on May 1st every year - and since 2008 the Poller Festival of Lights in September.

Festival of lights on the market square

A large number of shops are located on Siegburger Strasse.

Until the 19th century, the center of the village was at the intersection of Müllergasse and Poller Hauptstraße. The village cross and a fountain were also located there. The Poller village cross, first referred to in the Deutz Weistum in 1386 as the stone cross in Poll , has been damaged, restored and relocated several times. To commemorate the great plague epidemic in Cologne as well as in Poll, the year 1666 was carved on the central block. Here also residents' assemblies, z. B. for the receipt of official agreements held. On September 29, 1749, the entire population of Pollers had to appear there in order to determine the perpetrators of an attack on four foreign Jews. But here too, in the absence of a church, people met for prayer, especially in times of need.

Nearby were the first school, built in 1793 and expanded in 1829, and Polls, probably the oldest pub, in Müllergasse. After further development of the village, Poller Hauptstrasse and the adjacent Salmstrasse represented the business center of Polls until around 1960. In the years that followed, more and more shops closed there and Siegburger Strasse became a shopping street.

The building of the former Poller School "Poller Hauptstrasse", built around 1900, on the corner of Poller Hauptstrasse. / School path has an ornate multi-colored brick facade. After the primary school was rebuilt in 1970 on a property next door, a school for the disabled moved into the old building until 1988. From 1989 to 1993 it served as accommodation for emigrants and emigrants. Today the community center Ahl Poller Schull (APS) is located there , the working group at Cologne schools for youth leisure and education e. V. with an open all-day school . Until 2012 there was also an acting school there . Initially a private one under the direction of Gisela Olroth , from 2006 the German Center for Drama and Film under the direction of Arved Birnbaum .

Churches

St. Joseph in Cologne-Poll

The Catholic parish church of St. Joseph was built from 1862 to 1864 according to plans by Heinrich Nagelschmidt as a neo-Gothic three-aisled brick basilica. After severe war damage, the church was rebuilt from 1951 by A. Hauk and M. Kratz while retaining the surrounding walls and the lower floors of the west tower. The old village cross made of trachyte has stood in the front garden of the rectory since 1891 .

In 1929 the parish of the Holy Trinity was established as the second Catholic parish in Poll and a new church was built, which was destroyed in the Second World War. Reconstruction began in 1950. The church was given a new, almost square floor plan, incorporating the remains of the old church. Since then, the choir no longer faces east, but south.

Since January 1, 2006, the two parishes have been united to form the parish of St. Joseph and the Holy Trinity . Since 2009 they have been part of the Deutz Poll parish association.

The evangelical parish of Cologne-Deutz / Poll (St. John's Church) has built a chapel in Poll. The evangelical community center is located next to the chapel on Poller Marktplatz and hosts other meeting events on Friday mornings at the Poller Marktcafé.

In 1991, a church for the New Apostolic Congregation was built on Im Forst . After a sale, it is currently used by the Christ Embassy Free Church .

Association

There is a wide variety of associations in Poll. On January 27, 2011 an association network was formed. A particular aim is to promote activities for children and young people, as well as communication and strengthening one's own public presence.

  • The oldest continuously existing association in Poll is the St. Maternus death fund, founded in 1845 .
May festival on the market square
  • The oldest grouping (club-like character) is the Poller Maigeloog , a May and homeland club, which is said to be mentioned for the first time in the Deutz church chronicle in 1656. In the old council minutes of the city of Cologne there are also references to earlier May traditions on the right bank of the Rhine (Maigraf, Meigreve) in the 13th century. The Maigeloog poller also supports the program for the reintroduction of allis shad in the Rhine system, which received the European Regional Champions Award in 2008 for the best European maritime project. On May 23, 2012, the Maigeloog in Brussels represented the Rhineland allis shad tradition at the award of the “Best of the Best” prize to the 13 best European Life-Nature projects by the EU Commission.
  • The largest club, the Turn-Club Köln-Poll 1904 e. V. was founded in 1904. The association, which has over 700 members, focuses on youth work, family and health gymnastics. Particularly successful and well known are the gymnastics group under the former vice-world champion Anne Bursche and the skater group , which also takes part in German championships.
  • The second largest club in Poll is the VFL Rheingold Poll football club . At Easter 1912 former members of the Poller youth club founded the Verein für Leibesübungen 1912 Köln rrh. After the Second World War, VfL was one of the first clubs to play football again and was included in Cologne's city league, the top division at the time. In 1962, VfL 1912 and DJK Rheingold Köln-Poll merged to form VfL Rheingold 1912 DJK. The DJK Rheingold was re-established in 1955 after this association was banned in the Third Reich in 1933. As early as 1970 - as one of the first in the Cologne area - a "women's team" was founded, which later had to give up the game due to a lack of space.
  • The Junge vun Poll carnival regulars' table is known far beyond Cologne and organizes several major carnival events in Poll, including the handover of the car from Wolfgang Laukat to well-known Rhenish carnivalists in a large tent, the so-called Poller Gürzenich . The carnival parish meetings of St. Josef have also been held there since 2010 .
  • The rowing and tennis club Germania e. V. Cologne was founded on May 27, 1905 as the third of the traditional rowing clubs in Cologne. In 1926 tennis was added as a further sport. At that time he was one of the leading rowing clubs in Germany.
  • Founded on November 4th, 1977 as a canoe school sports community of the comprehensive school in Cologne-Höhenhaus , the KSG, Kanu-Sport-Gemeinschaft Köln e. V. In addition to general youth work, the association maintains a racing team in canoe white water racing . He is particularly successful in the school and youth class and has so far achieved a total of 9 titles as German champion. The five-time world champion Markus Gickler began his sporting career at KSG.
  • The VKC , which was founded in 1915, became world champions, European champions and German champions between 1930 and 1937. In the two-person kayak category, the VKC won the first ever gold medal in canoeing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In addition, he built a tennis department with its own courts on the poller meadows. This is the focus of the association today.
  • The Rad-Touristik-Club Cologne, RTC Cologne , is active nationwide . It was founded on October 30, 1972 by cyclists who no longer saw racing and competitive sport as the goal of a cycling club, but rather popular sport.
  • The Round Table for Youth Work Cologne-Poll , founded in 1997, promotes youth work in Poll. In addition to direct support for young people, three local ball sports facilities have already been created with his help.

Culture and tourism

On Sundays and public holidays, until the medieval city fortifications were demolished, many Cologne residents moved from the densely built-up city to the other side of the Rhine to Deutz and the more idyllic Poll, especially to the Poller Wiesen. In the vicinity of the Rhine alone, following the construction of the Deutz port and the redesign of the banks of the Rhine at the beginning of the 20th century, seven restaurants with outside terraces were built. In the place itself there were another six restaurants with halls and z. Sometimes also with beer gardens.

Local museum

From 1914 the restaurant "Zum Jägerhof" was expanded into a small Poller local history museum. A committed Poller citizen, Hans Burgwinkel, seeks to continue the tradition of this local history museum in the form of picture exhibitions and virtual offers. Since August 27, 2015, there has been a permanent exhibition in the Cologne Sportspark, Poller Weg, with around 400 information and picture boards on Poll, fishing, allis shad, EU-Life + Allis shad, Deutz and the aircraft pioneer Hanno Fischer from Porz-Westhoven . Temporary special exhibitions in the city of Cologne complete the offer.

Inside the local history museum there are still hand-painted hunting pictures and scenes by the Rhenish painter Wild-Lenz on the wooden wall paneling. The glass pictures by the Cologne painter Ludwig Preckel, which were expanded during the Second World War and then recently disappeared, are now in the Burgwinkel private collection. The windows showed pictures of the Poller May Games, the Poller Fair, a milkmaid, the last ferryman from Poll and the Poller coat of arms. As part of a future new Poller Heimatmuseum , the heavily damaged glass pictures are to be restored as much as possible and made accessible to the public. A special feature is the large triptych painted in oil by Ludwig Egidius Ronig with scenes from the bollard fishing. Ludwig Egidius Ronig belonged to Hoerle, Seiwert, Sander and others to the group of the " Cologne Progressives ".

Fisherman festival and other things

The Poller Maispill is still a specialty today. Originating from the medieval May Festival tradition , it was shaped in Poll in particular by the catch and sale of allis shad from April every year. After it ended in its traditional form at the end of the 19th century, it has been revived several times, most recently since 1993 by the Maigeloog bollard . It consists of a demonstration fishing in the Rhine, the maypole felling in the forest, as well as the actual May festival on May 1st every year, with a parade through Alt-Poll, the fishing game and the actual festival on the market square with the erection of the maypole. At the end of May, the maypole is felled as part of an original tree laying down and delivered to a bidder. While demonstration fishing in the Rhine only takes place irregularly or on other occasions, the fisherman traditionally surrenders the first allis shad caught; however, today this is mostly a commercially available fish.

The “fishing game” is thus part of the tradition of fishing festivals, although it is unique in Europe besides the occasional “Fêtes d'alose” in the south of France, and still reminds of the tradition of allis shad fishing. In this sense, the organizing poller Maigeloog regularly represents the Rhenish fishing tradition at events of the EU-Life- Maifisch-Projekt - z. B. at the presentation of the European environmental prizes 2012 in Brussels or at the annual allis shad stocking celebrations in the Rhine area.

The last major consumption of allis shad took place in Poll after the Second World War. For example, two hundredweight allis shad are said to have been fried at the Poller Maigeloog's May Festival in 1950. At the same time, Poll is today the first place in Germany where allis shad - albeit from Spain and Portugal - was presented for allis shad tasting.

In 1991 the amateur theater group "Pollypen" was formed. From 1993 to 2013 there was a drama school in the former Poller elementary school. From 1997 to 2014 the theater "Spielbrett" existed on Käulchensweg.

On the Rhine

  • Panoramic view of the bollard bank of the Rhine

  • New flood protection wall

  • Traditional restaurant Poller Fischerhaus

  • Celebration of allis shad population Poll 2010 on the Poller meadows, among others with ministers and mayors

  • Inauguration of the EU allis shad information board on Nov. 8, 2010, Cologne Poll, Maifischgasse / Weidenweg

  • Wild geese on the flooded Rhine meadows

Poll is located in construction section 16 (Poll– Rheinpark Deutz ) of the Cologne flood protection concept. In the first section, a flood protection wall was built between the Rodenkirchen motorway bridge and the south bridge. This will protect the district of Poll - and the districts behind it - up to the water level of 11.90 m at the Cologne gauge .

Leisure facilities are located below the bollard Rheindamm and on the embankment, among other things, a rescue and training station of the DLRG is located. If the Rhine floods, the DLRG operations in the Cologne area are coordinated from here. In addition to the DLRG house, the Weidenweg leads to the official campsite of the city of Cologne as well as to the Wiesenhaus , a restaurant with an attached campsite for permanent and seasonal camping behind the Rodenkirchener Brücke. The Poller Fischerhaus restaurant , which originally had a thousand outdoor seats around 1910 and was a popular excursion destination for Cologne residents, is also a reminder of glamorous times . Located near the local fishing industry, also known for its fish dishes. There were two shipping connections - one from the city center, the other to the Marienburg district opposite . Famous Cologne residents such as Max Wallraf and Albert Freiherr von Oppenheim regularly drove up in a carriage - as did a Malaysian prince. In 1938 it was demolished and after being rebuilt twice, it no longer achieved its former importance, although the number of visitors has been increasing again since 2012. When there is a strong flood, it is almost completely submerged. The old Schützenplatz is also located on the Rhine.

The fore-dike areas down the Rhine are mainly reserved for sport and leisure. The city of Cologne maintains various grass pitches and a cinder track (333 m) with the Poll district sports facility .

In 1914, the foundation stone was laid on Poller Rheinwiesen for the boathouse designed by the architect Wilhelm Riphahn for the rowing and tennis club Germania e. V., which fell victim to a bomb attack in the last days of the Second World War. The reconstruction in its current form was completed in May 1964. The tennis facility has six courts. VKC Tennis-Club e. V. from 1915 a club house and tennis courts. To the east of Alfred-Schütte-Allee is the club house of the KSG, Canoe Sport Association Cologne, built in 2004, and the accommodation for the canoe department of the Olympia railway sports club .

Bollard meadows

View of today's Poller Wiesen in the Deutz district, where the two northern bollard heads were

In common parlance, the entire bank of the Rhine between the pier head of the Deutz port and the Rodenkirchener Brücke is increasingly referred to as Poller Wiesen , although this originally and historically correct only refers to the meadow area downstream of the south bridge, which since the incorporation of Polls into Cologne in 1888 is now part of Cologne -Deutz heard. The subsequent southern part is historically correct called Poller Sports and Playgrounds, including the shooting range. On October 24, 2005, the poller meadows were included in the soil monument list of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia due to their historical importance - among other things because of the medieval bank fortifications ( bollard heads ), of which remains are still in the ground .

Despite their location in the floodplain area of ​​the Rhine, they are occasionally used for larger events, e.g. B. on the occasion of the Catholic World Youth Day 2005 and the German Evangelical Church Congress 2007 as a meeting place. In 2003 an event of the European anti- fascist movement against racism (ended by violence) took place there .

On June 16, 2010, the official allis shad stocking ceremony took place on the banks of the Rhine at Poller Sports and Playgrounds 2010 in the presence of the environment ministers from Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. To commemorate this event and at the same time as a tribute to the surviving Poller allis shad tradition, the first display board of the EU-Life project "The reintroduction of allis shad in the Rhine system" was put up on November 8, 2010 at the Poller Rheinufer at the beginning of the Maifischgasse . More are to follow shortly in the state capitals of Düsseldorf and Wiesbaden as well as in France.

The open, undeveloped area of ​​the Poller Wiesen in the Deutz area is used for a variety of leisure activities. I.a. Flying kites , sunbathing and barbecuing. There are several football and tennis courts in the bollard area. The area belongs to the landscape protection area.

Worth seeing

  • Milkmaid memorial

  • Rolshover yard

  • Plague cross from 1666 to St. Joseph

  • Emergency water pump bollard main street

  • Deutz cemetery in Poll

  • Protestant church

  • Crossroads Rolshover Straße

  • Crossroads Rolshover Straße

  • Poll marshalling yard, old locomotive shed

  • Fisherman's houses / farm Poller Hauptstrasse

  • Poll culture trail

  • “Stumbling blocks” Siegburger Strasse in memory of Jewish fellow citizens

  • Alt Poller Wirtshaus Poller Hauptstrasse, former post office, with nubbel

  • Historic Schlömer restaurant

  • Historic crossing Müllergasse / Maifischgasse

  • Tavern sign "Zum Jaegerhof"

  • South bridge

  • Highway bridge

Idyll on the Rhine meadows in Poll
  • old bollard cemetery
  • old fishermen's houses,
  • old emergency water pump, Poller Hauptstr./Schulpfad
  • Deutz cemetery
  • first bollard school, Müllergasse
  • old Poller School, Poller Hauptstr.
  • Pollonius telecommunications tower ( 115 m )
  • EU-Life allis shad information board, Maifischgasse / Weideweg
  • Schlömer restaurant, oldest inn in Poll
  • Restaurant Alt Poller Wirtshaus, the only restaurant with a former typical dance hall (Op de Läuv) on the 1st floor
  • Adler restaurant (as Jägerhof, former Poller local history museum)
  • Milkmaid memorial
  • Plague Cross (1666)
  • Bollard fisherman's house with pictures of the historic fisherman's house
  • Bollard meadows
  • Parish Church of St. Joseph
  • Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
  • Rodenkirchen motorway bridge
  • Rolshover Hof, historical courtyard, today converted into a medical center
  • Rolshover Kreuz, Rolshover Str. / Auf dem Sandberg
  • Stumbling blocks that are reminiscent of Jewish fellow citizens
  • South bridge, especially stone sculptures and friezes on the other side of the Rhine
  • various housing estates
  • TÜV Rheinland high-rise ( 122 m )

Personalities

  • Wilhelm Florin (1894–1944), German politician (KPD) and resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Hermann Richarz (1907–1985), Catholic priest and staunch opponent of National Socialism
  • Peter Florin (1921-2014), German diplomat (GDR)

See also

Web links

Commons : Köln-Poll  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Illustrated history of Deutz, Kalk, Vingst and Poll , Peter Simons, Nagelschmidt, Köln- Deutz 1913, p. 176.
  2. ↑ Ursula van Broek, The story of Cologne-Poll , publisher St. Hubertus Schützenbruderschaft 1878 eV and Raiffeisenbank Cologne-Poll - Ensen EG from 1879, 1978, p. 15 ff. "The finds as sources".
  3. ^ Poll, a historical review , Peter Simons, self-published, Cologne-Poll 1924, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Illustrated history of Deutz, Kalk, Vingst and Poll , Peter Simons, Nagelschmidt, Köln- Deutz 1913, p. 331.
  5. ↑ a b Maigeloog, Fischerei in Poll , accessed on November 8, 2010.
  6. ↑ Poll, a historical review , Peter Simons, self-published, Cologne-Poll 1924, p. 9.
  7. ↑ Peter Simons, Illustrated history of Deutz, Kalk, Vingst and Poll , Nagelschmidt, Cologne-Deutz 1913, p. 111ff "Distribution plan of the Poller Weiden 1788".
  8. ↑ Peter Simons, Illustrated history of Deutz, Kalk, Vingst and Poll , Nagelschmidt, Cologne-Deutz 1913, p. 101ff "Poller Köpf und Weiden".
  9. ↑ Poll, a historical review , Peter Simons, self-published, Cologne-Poll 1924, p. 19.
  10. ↑ Peter Simons, Illustrated history of Deutz, Kalk, Vingst and Poll , Nagelschmidt, Cologne-Deutz 1913, p. 102 ff. "Poller Köpf und Weiden".
  11. ^ Poller Heimatmuseum, Poll, coat of arms
  12. ^ Jägerhof, the Polls local history museum , edited by Dr. Johannes Krudewig, archivist, February 23, 1930, dedicated to his guests by Joseph Bietmé - Bartholomé, self-published.
  13. ↑ Homepage Poll-de, Poller coat of arms
  14. ↑ Origin of the coat of arms
  15. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  16. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  17. ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  18. ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  19. ^ Illustrated history of Deutz, Kalk, Vingst and Poll , Peter Simons, Nagelschmidt, Köln- Deutz 1913.
  20. ^ Poller Heimatmuseum, Geschichte / n, Brücken, accessed on December 7, 2012
  21. ↑ [0 = 19296df769d7cd3d3413927822fe6b6f History of Heimstatt Poll. PDF 3.6 MB], accessed on July 27, 2018.
  22. ↑ Werkbahnforum, Europäische Eisenbahnen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mysnip.de  
  23. ↑ Jürgen Bönig, The introduction of assembly line work in Germany until 1933, p. 433
  24. ↑ 125 years of Automobiles from Cologne, Autos, Motorcycles & Planes, p. 119, Immo Mikloweit, JP Bachem Verlag, ISBN 3-7616-1344-X .
  25. ↑ City of Cologne, A tour with depth, Poll, Marktplatz ( PDF )
  26. ↑ Page about the Maispill bollard on www.pollermaigeloog.de , accessed on November 8, 2010.
  27. ↑ City of Cologne, A tour with depth, Poll, Unterdorf ( PDF )
  28. ↑ Paul Reucher, bollards history (s) , publisher Dohr Cologne, 2000 S. 99ff, known to us paths crosses ...
  29. ↑ Poll, a historical review , Peter Simons, self-published, Cologne-Poll 1924, p. 4 f.
  30. ↑ Poll, a historical review , Peter Simons, self-published, Cologne-Poll 1924, p. 9.
  31. ^ Poll, a historical review , Peter Simons, self-published, Cologne-Poll 1924, p. 26.
  32. ↑ Community Primary School Poll, OGS ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ggs-poll-koeln.de
  33. ↑ https://ratsinformation.stadt-koeln.de/to0050.asp?__ktonr=171616 Ratsinformation City of Cologne. Meeting on December 11, 2014 from
  34. ^ German Center for Drama and Film
  35. ↑ Poll, a historical review , Peter Simons, self-published, Cologne-Poll 1924, p. 22 ff.
  36. ↑ Poll, a historical review , Peter Simons, self-published, Cologne-Poll 1924, p. 9.
  37. ↑ Parish Association Deutz Poll
  38. ↑ k-poll.de, associations
  39. ↑ Ursula van Broek, The story of Cologne-Poll , publisher St. Hubertus Schützenbruderschaft 1878 eV and Raiffeisenbank Cologne-Poll - Ensen EG from 1879, 1978, p. 107 ff. "The Poller Ortsvereine".
  40. ^ Adam Wrede, Neuer Kölnischer Sprachschatz , second volume KR, p. 172, Greven Verlag Cologne 1958, "Maijraf".
  41. ↑ European Regional Champions Award 2008
  42. ↑ skate zone, speed skating of the TC 04 Köln-Poll
  43. ^ VFL Rheingold Poll
  44. ↑ Homepage RTK Germania
  45. ↑ Homepage KSG
  46. ↑ Homepage VKC
  47. ^ The Round Table for Youth Work, accessed December 22, 2012
  48. ↑ Cologne Sportspark
  49. ^ Jägerhof, the Polls local history museum , edited by Dr. Johannes Krudewig, archivist, February 23, 1930. Dedicated to his guests by Joseph Bietmé - Bartholomé, self-published.
  50. ^ Poller Heimatmuseum, Jägerhof
  51. ^ Poller Maigeloog accessed November 26, 2012.
  52. ↑ L'alose dans l'estuaire de la gironde
  53. ^ Life Project Allis shad, accessed November 26, 2012.
  54. ↑ Allis shad presentation 2015
  55. ↑ Homepage Theater das Spielbrett accessed November 27, 2012.
  56. ↑ Flood Protection Center Cologne: Structural flood protection ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  57. ↑ Information on the bollard heads from monuments , accessed on July 27, 2018.
  58. ↑ Satdtrevue Cologne, February 21, 2003, Räumpanzer gegen Igloo tents
  59. ^ Poller Maigeloog , accessed November 8, 2010.
  60. ^ Poller Maigeloog, Maifisch, Schautafel , accessed on November 9, 2010.
  61. ↑ Bernd Imgrund: Alt Poller Wirtshaus - Drinking at Küsters In: 111 Cologne pubs that you have to know. Emons 2012, ISBN 978-3-89705-838-5 ; Pp. 18-19.