Pascha Club 11. Etage Köln (D)

Köln

Name origin

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Latin, = Claudian Colony and Altar of the Agrippinenses)

First documented mention

50 AD

Population

1,090,000

Area

405.02 km²

Federal state

North Rhine-Westphalia

Administrative region

Köln

District

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Vehicle registration

K

River

Rhein

The Club Pascha 11. Etage is located in Köln-Neuehrenfeld.

The history of Köln, the largest metropolis in NRW, can be traced all the way back to Roman times, from which various buildings such as the Römerturm, part of the old city wall, still survive. The cathedral city is accessible via several motorways such as the A1, A3, A4 and A57. Rail travellers usually arrive in Köln at the Hauptbahnhof.

Long-distance rail travellers should note that not all ICE trains stop at Köln HBF — for the sake of saving time, some stop only at the station on the right bank of the Rhein, Köln-Messe/Deutz. For local transport, Köln has a dense network of trams and buses, complemented by the S-Bahn. The tram network, run with modern light rail vehicles, connects the famous cathedral city in NRW with, among other places, Bonn.

The number of hotels and holiday apartments in Köln is overwhelming. There are certainly affordable places to stay too, found not only in hostels close to the city centre but especially in guesthouses and hotels in Köln's outer districts.

The central sight is the Dom, located right by the Hauptbahnhof and the Rhein, which is the city's landmark par excellence and one of the most important Gothic buildings in the world. Köln also has numerous other churches and historic buildings, some of which surpass even the Dom in their cultural-historical significance. Furthermore, Köln is home to numerous art museums and the Römisch-Germanisches Museum. An insider tip is the Schokoladenmuseum, located right on the Rhein.

With Kölsch, Köln has its own special top-fermented beer, and enjoying one rounds off a visit to the city perfectly. On the Rheinuferpromenade, right across from the Altstadt, there are wonderful restaurants and bars with a view of the Rhein, where you can enjoy the Kölsch way of life well into the night. At the "Kölner Lichter", the music and fireworks event held every summer on the Rhein, around one million spectators gather on both banks of the river.

Famous sons and daughters of Köln include Jacques Offenbach, Ferdinand Franz Wallraf, Eduard Salomon von Oppenheim, Carl Bosch, August Bebel, Konrad Adenauer, Freya von Moltke, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, Mildred Scheel, Josef Neven DuMont, Willi Ostermann, Willy Birgel, Jupp Schmitz, Trude Herr, Willy Millowitsch, Peter & Mariele Millowitsch, Hans Süper, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Nico, Heinrich Böll, Marie-Louise Steinbauer, Jürgen Becker, Rolf Kühn, Wolfgang Petry, Jürgen Zeltinger, Purple Schulz, Wolfgang Niedecken, Jean Pütz, Jack White, Dirk Bach, Heiner Lauterbach, Britta Heidemann, Anne Will, Marietta Slomka, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Tina Ruland, Katharina Schüttler, Guido Cantz, Stefan Raab and Sarah Kern.

Facts about the super-metropolis Köln on the Rhein:

- Köln looks back on around 2000 years of history, making it one of the oldest cities in Germany

- alongside Prague and Nürnberg, Köln was the most important city of the Holy Roman Empire (962-1803)

- Kölner Dom (Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus) is one of the world's most important sacred buildings, home to the largest church bell of all, and houses the relics of the Holy Three Kings

- the Archdiocese of Köln is the third-richest diocese in Germany, behind Munich and Paderborn

- Kölner Karneval is the largest carnival celebration in the northern hemisphere, generating around 400 million euros in revenue for the city during the "fifth season"

- WDR, based in Köln, is the largest broadcaster in Europe after the BBC

- RTL, based in Köln since 1988, is the largest private broadcaster in Europe

- with around 50,000 students, Köln is home to Germany's third-largest university, behind Munich and the Fernuniversität Hagen

- Schildergasse/Hohe Straße in Köln's city centre is one of Germany's busiest shopping streets

- the Kölner Pascha on Hornstraße is the largest high-rise brothel in the world

- Kölsch is, on the one hand, a pale, top-fermented full beer that, under the Kölsch Convention, may only be brewed in and around Köln ...

- ... and on the other hand, an urban dialect belonging to the Ripuarian dialect group, which hardly anyone outside the Köln area understands

- Kölscher Klüngel is a system, unique in the world, of mutual favours and support between officials in administration and business, for the good of the population

- The Kölsche Grundgesetz (Köln's unofficial constitution) has 11 articles:

Article 1: It is what it is.

Article 2: It comes as it comes.

Article 3: It's always turned out fine so far.

Article 4: What's gone is gone.

Article 5: Nothing stays the way it was.

Article 6: Don't know it, don't need it, get rid of it.

Article 7: What do you want to do about it?

Article 8: Do it well, but not too often.

Article 9: What's all this nonsense about?

Article 10: Will you have one with me?

Article 11: You'll laugh yourself to bits.

Important additional articles:

Every fool is different.

Don't kiss today, kiss tomorrow.

It could always have turned out worse.

You've got to be able to let others have their share too.

You've got to be able to treat yourself too.

Stay the way you are.

The good Lord isn't like that.

We've always done it this way.

Not everything with a hole in it is broken.

Doesn't matter.

One man's owl is another man's nightingale.

We're not superstitious.

Whoever can celebrate can also graft.

You never know, we're not involved.

Let every fool go his own way.

Even the craziest arse has its own face.

To every little creature its own little pleasure.

That only happens, only, only, in Köln.

Did I really say that?

You are Köln.

Nobody knows anything.

We never had it and we don't need it.

Live and let live.