Pascha Nightclub Köln (D)

Köln

Name origin

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Lat. = Claudian Colony and Altar of the Agrippinenses)

First documented mention

50 AD

Population

1,090,000

Area

405.02 km²

Federal state

Nordrhein-Westfalen

Administrative region

Köln

District

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Vehicle registration

K

River

Rhein

The Pascha Nightclub is located in Köln-Neuehrenfeld.

The history of Köln, the largest metropolis in NRW, can be traced back to Roman times, from which various structures such as the Römerturm, part of the city wall, have survived. The cathedral city can be reached via various motorways such as A1, A3, A4 and A57. Travellers by rail arriving in Köln usually come in at the Hauptbahnhof.

Long-distance rail travellers should note that not all ICE trains stop at Köln HBF, but instead, to save time, some only stop at the right-bank station Köln-Messe/Deutz. For city transport, Köln has a dense network of light rail and buses, supplemented by the S-Bahn. The light rail, operated with modern trams, 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 cathedral, located directly at the Hauptbahnhof and by the Rhein, which is the city's landmark par excellence and one of the most significant Gothic buildings in the world. Köln also has numerous other churches and historic buildings, some of which even surpass the cathedral in cultural-historical importance. Köln is also home to numerous art museums and the Römisch-Germanisches Museum. An insider tip is the Schokoladenmuseum, located right on the Rhein.

Köln has its own special top-fermented beer, Kölsch, the enjoyment of which rounds off any visit to the city. Along the Rheinuferpromenade, directly across from the old town, there are wonderful restaurants and bars with views of the Rhein, where you can enjoy Köln's way of life well into the night. At the "Kölner Lichter" music and fireworks event held on the Rhein every summer, around a million spectators gather on both banks of the river.

Well-known 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 roughly 2000 years of history and is thus one of the oldest cities in Germany

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

- Köln Cathedral (Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus) is one of the most significant sacred buildings in the world, home to the largest church bell of all, and houses the relics of the Three Wise Men

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

- Köln Carnival is the largest carnival celebration in the northern hemisphere and brings the city around 400 million euros in revenue during the "fifth season"

- WDR, based in Köln, is the largest broadcasting corporation 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

- the 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 light, 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 group, barely understood by anyone outside the Köln metropolitan area

- Kölscher Klüngel is a one-of-a-kind system, unique in the world, based on mutual assistance and favours between officials in administration and business for the benefit of the population

- The Kölsche Grundgesetz (Köln's "Basic Law") is the city's informal constitution and contains 11 articles:

Article 1: It is what it is.

Article 2: It'll come 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?

Article 10: Will you have one with me?

Article 11: You'll laugh yourself to bits.

Important additional articles:

Every fool is different.

If you don't kiss today, you'll 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 allow yourself something too.

Stay the way you are.

The good Lord isn't like that.

We've always done it that 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 work hard.

You never know, we're not involved.

So let one fool leave another fool be.

Even the craziest arse has its own face.

To each his own little pleasure.

That only happens in Köln, and nowhere else.

Did I really say that?

You are Köln.

Nobody knows anything.

Haven't got it, don't need it.

Live and let live.