Riehler Aue
The Riehler Aue is a park in Cologne . It was part of the Federal Garden Show in 1971 .
Geographical location
The Riehler Aue is about 27 hectares in total . It extends from the Zoobrücke as a widening strip of land on the western bank of the Rhine to the Mülheimer Brücke to the north. Part of the site lies in the floodplain area of the river, part of which is protected from the Rhine by a flood dam planted as an avenue . The Cologne Youth Hostel is also located here. This hinterland of the formerly flat floodplain was either filled in 1955 up to the current dam height by around 8 meters with rubble to a flood-proof level, or that only happened at the Federal Garden Show in 1971. The area is planted with loose groups of trees.
history
In 1971 the Riehler Aue was one of two exhibition areas at the Federal Horticultural Show . The approximately 16 hectare flood area in front of the dam could not be used for horticultural purposes. The 11 hectares of the Riehler Aue, which lay behind the flood dam, were used for the exhibition.
After the end of the Federal Horticultural Show, the fixtures made for this purpose were largely removed again. Only the routing and the tree planting were left unchanged.
There was an outdoor swimming pool on the site . The company building was converted into a garden restaurant after the outdoor pool was closed.
literature
- Joachim Bauer: Federal Garden Show Cologne 1971 . In: Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH (Ed.): 50 years of federal horticultural shows. Festschrift on the history of the federal and international garden shows in Germany . Bonn 2001, pp. 66-70.
