Neustadt-Süd (Cologne)
 district 102 of Cologne |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 55 ′ 19 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 6 ″ E |
| surface | 2,826.7 km² |
| Residents | 38,607 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density | 13,658 inhabitants / km² |
| Postcodes | 50667, 50674, 50677, 50678 |
| prefix | 0221 |
| Borough | Downtown (1) |
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| Railway connection | Cologne South |
| Light rail lines | 1 7th 9 12 15th 16 18th |
| Bus routes | 106 132 133 136 142 146 978 |
| Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information | |
Neustadt-Süd is a district of the inner city district of Cologne . It has the highest population density of all Cologne districts.
location
The New Town of Cologne surrounds the old town on the left bank of the Rhine. It is divided into Neustadt-Nord and Neustadt-Süd by Aachener Straße . The Cologne rings form the border to the old town , the inner green belt to the outer parts of the city , or the railway line from the south station to the south bridge .
Transport links
Public transport
Due to its central location, the district is connected to almost all lines of the Cologne light rail network. The only DB station in the Neustadt-Süd area is Köln-Süd station not far from Barbarossaplatz.
Car traffic
Motorways 1, 4 and 555 can be reached via three arterial roads. The federal highways 9, 51, 55 and 264 run through the district. Public underground car parks are only available in the Aachener Strasse and the Rings area, and many parking spaces are reserved at night for residents with the appropriate parking permit.
history
The Neustadt was built according to the plans of Josef Stübben . After the demolition of the medieval city wall and the ramparts in front of it from 1880, a splendid boulevard was built a few meters in front of the wall, enclosing the entire old town in a semicircle. This boulevard is called Cologne Rings , whereby the plural is based on the fact that the street changes its name after a few hundred meters, but these names all end in -ring ( Ubierring , Karolingerring, Sachsenring , Salierring, etc.).
Representative squares have been created at the intersections with the arterial roads , some of which are still of Roman origin . In the Neustadt-Süd area, these are (starting from the south) Chlodwigplatz on Bonner Straße , Barbarossaplatz on Luxemburger Straße , Zülpicher Platz on the street of the same name and Rudolfplatz on Aachener Straße . Also within the Neustadt, smaller squares and green spaces that loosen up the buildings were designed on the star-shaped intersecting streets, such as the Rathenauplatz or the so-called egg cookies .
The inner belt of fortresses bounded the urban expansion towards the outside . The railway was relocated to the inside of this fortress belt. Even before the First World War , the new inner city wall was abandoned, and the Cologne fortress was finally razed as a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty . This enabled large parts of the former belt of fortifications to be redesigned into a continuous green area, the inner green belt .
The Neustadt was planned mainly as a residential area for the middle-class and upscale population. The trend of wealthier citizens to build detached villas on the outskirts with surrounding gardens did not emerge until about two decades later. In the western part of the rings, i.e. the area between Friesenplatz and Barbarossaplatz, representative public buildings were also built, such as the opera house on Rudolfplatz, which was destroyed in the war . Overall, the construction period of the new town lasted until the 1920s, with the largest part being completed by around 1910.
According to the character of the entire building project, church buildings were built by the denominations. Often these were created in prominent urban areas and are often markings for the visual axes within the straight / star-shaped road network. The best preserved example in the district after the destruction of World War II and the often hectic reconstruction is the Catholic parish church of St. Paul , which was completed in 1908. The Old Catholic Community of Cologne built its parish church of the Resurrection of Christ on Stern Roon- / Moltke- / Jülicher Straße. Its tower was preserved, while the ship, which was destroyed in the Second World War, had to be rebuilt in the old outlines as an office and residential building after 1992 due to a condition by the city conservator. The Jewish community also built a large new synagogue on Roonstrasse , which was destroyed together with the other Cologne synagogues in 1938 and during the World War and was the only one to be rebuilt.
Demographic statistics
Structure of the population of Cologne-Neustadt-Süd:
- Share of under 18s: 10.3% (2014)
- Proportion of over 64-year-olds: 10.6% (2014)
- Proportion of foreigners: 15.4% (2015)
- Unemployment rate: 6.0% (2014)
District
As usual in Cologne, the district is divided into different districts , referred to as " Veedel " by the people of Cologne .
Südstadt
The southernmost of these Veedel is the so-called Südstadt , which lies between the Vorgebirgstraße and the banks of the Rhine. The area around the centrally located Chlodwigplatz in particular is equipped with many bars and restaurants. Part of the Technical University of Cologne is located on the banks of the Rhine , while one of the oldest parks in Cologne is located on Vorgebirgstrasse with the Volksgarten .
Kwartier Latang
Around Rathenauplatz and along Zülpicher Strasse and Kyffhäuserstrasse there is another Veedel with numerous bars and restaurants, as well as the “MTC” concert club and the “Off Broadway” cinema. The neighborhood is in corruption of the Parisian student district " Quartier Latin called" as "Kwartier Latäng". The grounds of the Cologne University are immediately adjacent, even if it is beyond the railway line in the neighboring Lindenthal district . Director Hans Weingartner's debut film ( Das weisse Rauschen ) mainly takes place in this Veedel. The protagonist ( Daniel Brühl ) lives in a shared apartment on Dasselstrasse.
Aachener Strasse and Belgian Quarter
The most important east-west axis of the district, Aachener Straße , comes from the Roman period ; At that time it was an extension of the decumanus maximus , an important military route via Maastricht and Tongeren to Boulogne-sur-Mer . Around Aachener Strasse and its side streets, which are named after Belgian and Dutch cities, a somewhat more upscale gastronomy has established itself. The Belgian Quarter extends beyond Aachener Strasse into the northern Neustadt. There are also numerous cultural institutions in the district, such as the Museum of East Asian Art , the Millowitsch Theater and numerous smaller theaters. In 1910 the community elementary school Antwerpener Straße was built here.
In the inner green belt is the Aachener Weiher , a pond from the 1920s that is connected to the Lindenthal Canal . At the Aachener Weiher in the north, between the railway line, Universitätsstrasse and Bachemer Strasse in the south, the National Socialists built a large festival and parade ground in 1937/38, which used the rather small Cologne squares for large rallies, Neumarkt , Heumarkt , Schlageterplatz (today's Rudolfplatz ) , Deutzer Festplatz or the Jahnwiese in Müngersdorf. The entire facility called “Maifeld” offered space for around 200,000 people and had a large grandstand plus a 15 m by 20 m eagle built in 1939. The hill ("Aachener Berg") lying south of the pond today was raised from the rubble of the bombed city over the Maifeld. The area next to the Museum of East Asian Art has been officially called Hiroshima-Nagasaki-Park since 2004 , previously referred to only as the “green space at the Aachener Weiher”.
See also
literature
- "The brown Cologne." Emons-Verlag, Cologne 1999
- Klaus Großsteinbeck, Dietz Bering : "Unger Krönzele" or: "Call the Kammachergasse Hohenzollernstraße!" Cologne street names during the Weimar Republic. In: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association. Cologne 1994
Web links
- Official website of the city of Cologne for the Neustadt Süd district
- Information and news portal about the southern part of Cologne
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de