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Country
  
Germany

City
  
Cologne

Population
  
100,935 (Dec 2008)

Federal state
  
North Rhine-Westphalia

Area
  
54.6 km²

Local time
  
Tuesday 9:00 AM

Rodenkirchen

Weather
  
11°C, Wind W at 18 km/h, 77% Humidity

University
  
HMKW - University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management

Points of interest
  
Forstbotanischer Garten Köln, Kölner Festungsmuseum, Bet 3000, Bismarcksäule, Denkmal Villa Schumacher

Rodenkirchen (German: Köln-Rodenkirchen) is a southern city district of Cologne (Köln) in Germany. It has about 100,000 inhabitants and covers an area of 54.56 square kilometres (21.06 mile²). The borough includes the quarters Bayenthal, Godorf, Hahnwald, Immendorf, Marienburg, Meschenich, Raderberg, Raderthal, Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Rondorf, Weiß and Zollstock.

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Map of Rodenkirchen, Cologne, Germany

The 1000-year-old quarter Rodenkirchen, situated close to the Rhine, today represents the center of the borough. It has more than 16,000 inhabitants.

Subdivisions

Rodenkirchen is made up of 13 Stadtteile (city parts):

Points of interest

  • Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge
  • Maternus-Shrine
  • Villa Malta
  • Alt St. Maternus
  • Forstbotanischer Garten Köln, an arboretum and woodland botanical garden
  • St. Maternus

    St. Maternus was built according to the plans of Vinvenz Statz from 1863 to 1867 at the former place of the Carthusian.

    St. Maternus was built as a gothic church with only a few ornamentations. It has a tympanum with St. Maternus standing between two angels in front of a panorama of Cologne. Inside the church there is a madonna from Alt St. Maternus (English: Old St. Maternus), the former St. Maternus from 1470.

    Restaurant-ship "Alte Liebe"

    The ship named "Alte Liebe" (English: Old Love) is a landmark well-known beyond the town of Rodenkirchen. Originally constructed in 1947, it burned down and was restored three times. Today it is used as a restaurant and for events such as weddings.

    Transport

    Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer connects Rodenkirchen with the Cologne Ring, Bundesautobahn 555 connects Rodenkirchen with the Cologne Beltway.

    Rhine bridges

  • Südbrücke
  • Rodenkirchener Autobahnbrücke
  • Public transport

    Rodenkirchen is the name of a Cologne Stadtbahn station, connected to the city centres of Cologne and Bonn by line 16.

    Twin towns – sister cities

    Rodenkirchen is "twinned" with the following cities:

  • Benfleet, United Kingdom
  • Eygelshoven, The Netherlands
  • References

    Rodenkirchen Wikipedia