Porz (Cologne)
  district 706 of Cologne |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 53 '11 " N , 7 ° 4' 18" E |
| surface | 3.119 km² |
| Residents | 14,915 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density | 4782 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation | Jan. 1, 1975 |
| Postcodes | 51143, 51145, 51147, 51149 |
| prefix | 02203 |
| Borough | Porz (7) |
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| Railway connection |
Porz (Rhine) Cologne Steinstr. RE 9 RB 27 S 12 S 13 S 19 |
| Light rail line | 7th |
| Bus routes | 151 152 154 160 161 162 165 166 |
| Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information | |
Porz is a district in the south-east of Cologne , which gave the city district Porz its name. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine on the steep eastern bank of the White Rhine Arc .
location
The Porz district is bordered by the Eil , Urbach and Elsdorf districts to the east, Zündorf to the south, the Rhine to the west and Gremberghoven , Finkenberg and Ensen to the north . It rises on a characteristic slope of the Rhine. On the opposite western side of the Rhine, on the sliding slope, is the Weißer Bogen or Weiß .
history
Porz was first mentioned in 1019. The name is probably derived from either the Latin name porta (door, gate) or portus (port). Porz already had a supraregional court in 1286. In the following years Porz developed into the administrative seat of the Porz Office in the Duchy of Berg . This also included the places on the right bank of the Rhine, Brück , Buchheim , Dünnwald , Eil , Ensen , Flittard , Grengel , Heumar , Langel , Libur , Lind , Merheim , Mülheim am Rhein , Rath , Stammheim , Urbach , Wahn , Westhoven and Zündorf , as well as Bergisch Gladbach , Bensberg , Dürscheid and Immekeppel .
In 1795 French troops occupied Porz. In the years that followed, the place belonged to Mairie Wahn in the canton of Mülheim in the Mülheim arrondissement in the Rhine department in the Grand Duchy of Berg . Porz belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia from 1815 and became part of the Heumar mayor. In 1875 the official seat of Heumar was moved to Porz. In 1910 a town hall was built in Porz for the mayor's office Heumar, which was renamed Amt Porz in 1928 and to which the Amt Wahn was attached in 1929. Since 1932 the Porz office belonged to the Rheinisch-Bergisch district . In September 1951, the municipality of Porz received city rights . On January 1, 1975, Porz was incorporated into the city of Cologne with some other parts of the city by the Cologne Act as part of the municipal reorganization .
Demographic statistics
Structure of the population of Cologne-Porz:
- Share of under 18s: 17.3% (2015)
- Proportion of over 64-year-olds: 19.2% (2015)
- Proportion of foreigners: 22.2% (2015)
- Unemployment rate: 11.6% (2014)
Infrastructure
The Porz district is both the administrative and cultural center of the Porz district: This is where, for example, the town hall, the tax office, the employment agency, the Porz am Rhein hospital and a pedestrian zone with a market square and shops are located. In order to better distinguish it from the district of the same name, the district of Porz is sometimes also called Porz-Zentrum. As a marketing campaign, the expression porzity with the additional target of many nice people had been coined. The Hertie department store was an important part of the center until 2009 . The “Neue Porzer Mitte” project is intended to generate new impulses for further development.
Porz is connected to the Cologne S-Bahn network through a regional train station . At the same time, trains of the Regional Express on the right Rhine route and the Sieg route stop .
Attractions
Germania settlement
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The almost completely preserved Germania settlement was laid out from 1899 to 1903. It consists of a director's villa with a park (Concordiaplatz), masters 'houses (Germaniastraße) as well as staff and workers' houses (Glasstraße) for the workforce of the former Germania mirror glass works . The layout and architecture of the houses reflect the social hierarchy of the residents at the time: the higher the status, the larger their houses were and the closer they lived to the factory. The settlement is a listed building .
Honorary citizen
- Wilhelm Warsch (1895–1969), District President, since December 12, 1951
Pictures from the district
Porz town hall
Small Church Cologne-Porz ( Baptist Congregation )
See also
literature
- Johann Bendel : Homeland book of the district of Mülheim am Rhein. History and description, sagas and tales. Cologne-Mülheim 1925. 2. u. 3rd edition, Scriba Verlag, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-921232-05-8 .
- Alexander Hess: Area Porz - From the Rhine to the Heath. In: Dorothea Wiktorin, et al. (Ed.): Cologne: the historical-topographical atlas. Cologne 2001, pp. 190–191.
- Christian Schuh: Cologne's 85 districts. History, dates, facts, names . Emons , Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89705-278-4 .
- Frank Schwalm: Porz - Bergisches Tor on the Rhine . Bachem-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1797-6 .
- Stefan Pohl, Georg Mölich: Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine: Its history from antiquity to the present. Wienand, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-87909-391-1 .
- History and local history association Rechtsrheinisches Köln e. V. (Hrsg.): Yearbook for history and regional studies . Self-published, 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
- ↑ https://neuemitteporz.de/das-projekt
- ↑ https://www.stadt-koeln.de/artikel/64472/index.html
