Rodenkirchen Travel Guide
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Rodenkirchen Overview
Rodenkirchen is a southern borough of Cologne (Cologne vacation rentals | Cologne travel guide) (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 districts Bayenthal, Godorf, Hahnwald, Immendorf, Marienburg, Meschenich, Raderberg, Raderthal, Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Rondorf, Weiß and Zollstock
Rodenkirchen bordered on the north by the 1st District downtown, the west by the Rhine, separated in the 7th District Porz (Porz vacation rentals | Porz travel guide), in the south to the City of Wesseling in the southwest to the city of Brühl (Brühl vacation rentals | Brühl travel guide) and in the west to the city Hürth (Hürth vacation rentals | Hürth travel guide).
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Things to See in Rodenkirchen
Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge
Maternus-Shrine
Villa Malta
Alt St. Maternus
St. Maternus was built according to the plans of Vinvenz Statz from 1863 to 1867 at the former place of the Carthusian.
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Maps and Driving Directions to Rodenkirchen
The borough is connected to the city centre of Cologne and Bonn by line 16 of the Cologne Stadtbahn. The Bundesautobahn 555 connects Rodenkirchen with the Cologne Ring.
Rodenkirchen - Restaurant-ship
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Rodenkirchen: Rodenkirchen (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Rodenkirchen
More about the History of Rodenkirchen
Rodenkirchen was established on 1 January 1975 following the incorporation of the formerly independent village Rodenkirchen and the City of Wesseling in the city of Cologne (Cologne vacation rentals | Cologne travel guide). In addition, as far back as 1888 it incorporated some of the neighborhoods assigned to the municipality. By a successful action against the constitution-Cologne Act, the District Wesseling on 1 July 1976 was given back its independence.
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