Underground (club)

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Front view of the underground from Vogelsanger Strasse, April 2006
Underground in September 2017

The Underground from 1988 to September 2017 Club and venue in the former industrial area Cologne-Ehrenfeld . It consisted of a pub, two halls and a summer beer garden. The halls were mainly used for parties and concerts on weekends. The focus was on heavy metal , rock and punk . For a few years now, rock 'n' roll has also been in the foreground. The motto of the organizers was: We deliver rock 'n' roll .

The underground was built on a former factory site in the area of ​​the former Helios AG and until the turn of the millennium also housed a laundromat . There was also a rental workshop with several lifting platforms for working on motor vehicles and a tattoo studio on the site .

The Westdeutsche Rundfunk has recorded several concerts in the underground that were broadcast on the Rockpalast program. The capacity was 800 guests (400 club + 400 pub plus a small club).

After 29 years, the club closed with one last concert on September 15, 2017, after which the building was demolished. Buildings for the “Helios School - Inclusive University School” are to be built by 2022.

At the end of July 2017, the city of Cologne gave the operators of the underground a permit for events until January 2019 in the DQE hall near the former location of the location.

additional

Individual scenes of the television films Tatort " Bombenstimmung " (1997) and Schimanski " Tödliche Liebe " (2000) produced for WDR play in the underground and were also shot there.

Web links

Commons : Underground (Club)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Metal clubs: This is how the underground rocks in Cologne. December 11, 2015, accessed July 31, 2016 .
  2. Martina Windrath: Including University School Cologne: Helios School starts with a new educational concept after the holidays . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on September 19, 2017]).
  3. Express : So it goes with the underground now

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 58 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 47 ″  E