Rodenkirchen

Rodenkirchen
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 (21.07 square miles). 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		5,497	3,05	1,802
203		5,643	0,84	6,718
204		4,768	3,21	1,485
205	Zollstock	21,049	5,04	4,176
206		9,532	8,20	1,162
207		2,068	3,00	687
208	Rodenkirchen	15,764	7,83	2,014
209	Weiss	5,754	4,16	1,383
210		10,348	3,46	2,993
211		2,245	4,60	488
212	Immendorf	2,010	5,23	385
213		7,648	4,72	1,621
source: Die Kölner Stadtteile in Zahlen 2010 (in German)

Points of interest[]

Gastronomical ship "Alte Liebe"

Classic restaurant "Zum Treppchen"

Boathouse of the local rowing club

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 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.