Cologne-Rodenkirchen (city district)

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Rodenkirchen coat of arms
Coat of arms of Cologne
Rodenkirchen
District 2 of Cologne
Demarcation of the Rodenkirchen district in Cologne
Coordinates 50 ° 53 '29 "  N , 6 ° 59' 28"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '29 "  N , 6 ° 59' 28"  E.
surface 54.56 km²
Residents 109,751 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density 2012 inhabitants / km²
Start-up Jan. 1, 1975

Administration address
Hauptstrasse 85
50996 Cologne
Website www.stadt-koeln.de
structure
Districts

Bayenthal , Godorf , Hahnwald , Immendorf , Marienburg , Meschenich , Raderberg , Raderthal , Rodenkirchen , Sürth , Rondorf , Weiß , folding rule

politics
District Mayor Mike Homann ( SPD )
Allocation of seats (district representation)
CDU GREEN SPD FDP LEFT FW
6th 5 4th 2 1 1
Source: www.stadt-koeln.de

Rodenkirchen is the second of nine districts in Cologne .

geography

Geographical location

The district is located on the west bank of the Rhine in the so-called Rheinbogen. It is the southernmost of the Cologne boroughs on the left bank of the Rhine .

Neighboring districts and municipalities

Rodenkirchen borders in the north on the first district of the city ​​center , in the east on the seventh district of Porz , in the south on the city of Wesseling , in the south-west on the city of Brühl , in the west on the city of Hürth and in the north-west on the third district of Lindenthal .

City structure

The city district includes the districts of Bayenthal , Godorf , Hahnwald , Immendorf (with the Giesdorf settlement), Marienburg , Meschenich , Raderberg , Raderthal , Rodenkirchen , Sürth , Rondorf (with the Höningen and Hochkirchen settlements ), Weiß , Zollstock .

The "South of Cologne"

The districts of the borough in the Rheinbogen - Bayenthal, Marienburg, Rodenkirchen, Weiß and Sürth - are often grouped under the generic term "Cologne South" which is not clearly defined geographically. Urban development features that characterize this area are villa quarters from the Wilhelminian era , spacious gardens and avenues with historic trees and expanding contemporary residential areas of high quality. In many historical villas, as they are especially typical for Marienburg, companies and public institutions as well as clinics and care facilities are housed.

The banks of the Rhine in Rodenkirchen and Sürth are also largely characterized by representative villa architecture. Also typical of the south of Cologne are the spacious parks and forest areas, which extend from the southern section of the Cologne green belt along the military ring road via the Marienburg golf course , the forest botanical garden , the Rodenkirchen local recreation area Friedenswald to the forest areas in the Weißer Rheinbogen , which have been reforested since 1960 .

In contrast to this are partly the north-western districts of Raderberg, Raderthal and Zollstock, some of which functioned as industrial locations until the 1980s and have densely built-up working-class quarters.

Cologne area

The south-western part of the city district is characterized by a village and, in terms of settlement geography, belongs to the Cologne area . Between the settlement centers of the individual villages there are still undeveloped open spaces with fields and meadows as well as various new building areas with single-family or row houses. In Godorf and Hahnwald, in the vicinity of the refinery center of the Shell group (northern plant of the Rhineland refinery ), several commercial and business areas with company branches as well as wholesale and retail markets were created , which, thanks to the good transport links via the Cologne-Bonn motorway, are also open to visitors from outside and customers from the entire Cologne catchment area.

Highlights

The residential complex on the Kölnberg in Meschenich, where a high-rise complex was set in the middle of a rural village in the 1970s, and the modern villa colony Hahnwald, which has been expanded since the 1950s, are incomparable in their settlement structure . The Diakonie Michaelshoven , located between Rodenkirchen and Sürth , which forms a community village with residential buildings and social institutions, is a self-contained and unique structure in terms of its layout.

history

The current area of ​​the city district roughly corresponds to the extent of the mayor's office of Rondorf in the former canton of Brühl, which was formed at the time of French rule at the end of the 18th century and was taken over by the Prussian administration in 1815 . The resulting municipality of Rondorf in the district of Cologne was renamed the municipality of Rodenkirchen in 1961, as Rodenkirchen had meanwhile become the capital.

The city district was founded on January 1, 1975 with the incorporation of the formerly independent community of Rodenkirchen and the city of Wesseling into the city of Cologne. In addition, some of the districts that were incorporated into Cologne as early as 1888 and previously belonged to the municipality of Rondorf were reassigned to the city district. With a successful constitutional lawsuit against the Cologne law , the district of Wesseling was excluded on June 1, 1976 and regained its independence.

politics

1
5
4th
2
6th
1
4th 6th 
A total of 19 seats
Election for district representation
on May 25, 2014
(Votes in percent)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
31.5
23.5
22.2
7.5
5.5
9.8
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+0.5
+1.0
-1.1
-5.1
+1.7
+6.7
Otherwise.

District Mayor: Mike Homann (SPD).

Culture and sights

Parks
Extensive green spaces, local recreation areas in the area of ​​the Rheinaue and the forest botanical garden as well as nature reserves such as the Sürther Aue characterize the south of Cologne. A stage of the Rhine Cycle Path runs past Rodenkirchen and Sürth to Godorf . The leisure area is also popular for jogging .

In this part of the park landscape , one of the oldest golf clubs in Germany (founded in 1906) also has its nine-hole course , a successor design from 1955 by Bernhard von Limburger to replace the original 18-hole course from 1909, which was devastated in World War II .

Images from the municipality

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 299 f .
  2. ^ City of Cologne: District Representation Election 2014 , accessed on August 14, 2016.
  3. City of Cologne: election results 2004 to 2015, table 2 (PDF file; 2.6 MB), accessed on August 14, 2016.