Rodenkirchen

2nd District of Cologne

Hauptstraße with Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge in the background

Coat of arms

Location of Rodenkirchen shown in red

Country

Germany

Federal state

North Rhine-Westphalia

City

Cologne

Area

• Total

54.6 km² (21.1 sq mi)

Population (December 2008)

• Total

100,935

• Density

1,850/km² (4,800/sq mi)

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.

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):

#	City part	Population (2009)	Area (km²)	Pop. per km²
201	Bayenthal	8,508	1,28	6,647
202	Marienburg	5,497	3,05	1,802
203	Raderberg	5,643	0,84	6,718
204	Raderthal	4,768	3,21	1,485
205	Zollstock	21,049	5,04	4,176
206	Rondorf	9,532	8,20	1,162
207	Hahnwald	2,068	3,00	687
208	Rodenkirchen	15,764	7,83	2,014
209	Weiss	5,754	4,16	1,383
210	Sürth	10,348	3,46	2,993
211	Godorf	2,245	4,60	488
212	Immendorf	2,010	5,23	385
213	Meschenich	7,648	4,72	1,621
source: Die Kölner Stadtteile in Zahlen 2010 (German)

Points of interest

Restaurant-ship – Alte Liebe

Restaurant – Zum Treppchen

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

Main article: Transport in Cologne

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.

KVB Rodenkirchen

Preceding station		KVB		Following station
Siegstraße toward Bad Godesberg Stadthalle		16		Heinrich-Lübke-Ufer toward Niehl Sebastianstraße

Twin towns – sister cities

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Rodenkirchen is "twinned" with the following cities:^[1]

Benfleet, United Kingdom
Eygelshoven, The Netherlands

References

↑ "Partnerstädte". Archived from the original on 26 March 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2009.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Köln-Rodenkirchen.

Rodenkirchen.de
Official webpage of the district (German)

Districts of Cologne

I. Innenstadt II. Rodenkirchen III. Lindenthal IV. Ehrenfeld V. Nippes VI. Chorweiler VII. Porz VIII. Kalk IX. Mülheim

Coordinates: 50°53′29″N 6°59′28″E / 50.89139°N 6.99111°E / 50.89139; 6.99111

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