Cologne / Bonn region
The Cologne / Bonn region is the regional association in the form of a registered association called Region Köln / Bonn e. V. based in Cologne . The region includes the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Leverkusen as well as the districts of Rhein-Erft-Kreis , Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis , Rhein-Kreis Neuss and Oberbergischer Kreis .
The term Cologne / Bonn is also used synonymously for the metropolitan area with around 3.535 million inhabitants (as of 2014). The landscape of the Cologne / Bonn region is congruent with the southern part of the Cologne Bay and the Oberbergisches Land . The city centers of Cologne and Bonn are 24 kilometers apart as the crow flies. At the outer city limits it is only 8 kilometers between the districts of Cologne- Libur and Bonn- Geislar .
aims
Originally started under the name Regio Rheinland , the aim of the merger is to promote the regional structural development of the entire metropolitan area of Cologne and to market the region as an international location. The neighboring region in the west is the cross-border tri-national Euregio Meuse-Rhine and with this the Regio Aachen .
The region meets once a year on the "Long Day of the Region".
use
The name Cologne / Bonn stands in varying forms for several companies, facilities and transport routes in the region:
- Sparkasse KölnBonn
- Volksbank Cologne Bonn
- Cologne / Bonn Airport
- A 555 Cologne-Bonn motorway
- Cologne-Bonner Landstrasse ( Landesstrasse 300, formerly Bundesstrasse 9 )
- former Cologne-Bonn railways , today part of the ports and freight traffic of Cologne
- former Bonn-Cölner Railway (founded in 1837)
- Cologne / Bonn tram