Ehrenfeld, Cologne

Ehrenfeld (German: Köln-Ehrenfeld [kœln ˈʔeːʁənfɛlt]; Kölsch: Ihrefäld [ˈi²ʁəfɛlt]) is a city district (Stadtbezirk) of the City of Cologne in Germany. It includes the seven quarters Bickendorf, Bocklemünd, Mengenich, Ehrenfeld, Neuehrenfeld, Ossendorf and Vogelsang. It has about 104,509 inhabitants (as of December 2011) and covers an area of 23.83 square kilometres. The district borders with the Cologne districts of Chorweiler to the North, Nippes and Innenstadt to the East and Lindenthal to the South-West.

Ehrenfeld Ihrefäld  (Kölsch)
4th District of Cologne
aerial view of Ehrenfeld with the Colonius telecommunications tower in the background
Seal
Location of Ehrenfeld shown in red
Country	Germany
Federal state	North Rhine-Westphalia
City	Cologne
Area
• Total	23.8 km^2 (9.2 sq mi)
Population  (December 2008)
• Total	103,621
• Density	4,348/km^2 (11,260/sq mi)

Helios-Lighthouse in Cologne-Ehrenfeld

Typical street in Neuehrenfeld

Ehrenfeld is characterized by lively and popular residential areas and shopping streets, the media center "Coloneum" with the most modern production and movie studios and a large and vivacious free cultural scene with many artists' studios, theatres and clubs.

The landmark of Ehrenfeld is the Helios-lighthouse.

History

Ehrenfeld got its name from the quarter Ehrenfeld, which represents the center of the borough. Ehrenfeld grew substantially during the Gründerzeit boom, became a municipality in 1867 and a town in 1879. Nine years later, Ehrenfeld became part of the city of Cologne. During summer and autumn of 1944 an anti-Nazi resistance group, known as the Ehrenfeld Group, operated from Ehrenfeld.

Subdivisions

Ehrenfeld consists of six Stadtteile (city parts):

#	City part	Population (2009)	Area (km^2)	Pop. per km^2	map
401	Ehrenfeld	35,488	3,72	9,536
402	Neuehrenfeld	23,387	2,55	9,170
403	Bickendorf	16,276	2,31	7,046
404	Vogelsang	8,028	3,66	2,192
405	Bocklemünd/Mengenich	10,563	4,93	2,141
406	Ossendorf	9,966	6,81	1,463
source: Die Kölner Stadtteile in Zahlen 2010 (in German)

Transportation

Main article: Transport in Cologne

The borough is connected to the city centre of Cologne by numerous light rail stations of Cologne Stadtbahn line 3, 4, 5 and 13. The Bundesautobahn 57 connects Ehrenfeld with the Cologne Beltway, Venloer Straße is the district's principal road leading onto the Cologne Ring. The Köln-Ehrenfeld station (Bahnhof Ehrenfeld) connects the borough to the regional rail network.

map	KVB station	lines
	Bocklemünd	3	4
	Westfriedhof	3	4
	Wolffsohnstraße	3	4
	Akazienweg	3	4
	Äußere Kanalstraße	3	4
	Leyendeckerstraße	3	4
	Venloer Straße/Gürtel	3	4		13
	Körnerstraße	3	4
	Piusstraße	3	4
	Hans-Böckler-Platz/Bf West	3	4	5

External links

• Official webpage of the district (in German)