Köln-Rodenkirchen

Geschichte

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.SubdivisionsRodenkirchen 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 gardenSt. MaternusSt. 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.