Ehrenfeld, Cologne

Ehrenfeld is a municipality of the city of Cologne. It comprises the seven districts Bickendorf, Bocklemünd / Mengenich Ehrenfeld, Neuehrenfeld, Ossett and Vogelsang.

It has its name of the city district with the district Ehrenfeld common forms not only by the local district town hall at Venloerstraße the center of the district. Before the triumphal arch, a former city gate of the medieval Cologne, were largely agricultural fields until the 19th century. The community Ehrenfeld founded in 1867, as its name. In 1879 she received first own city rights before it was annexed as part of the expansion of the city in 1888 in Cologne. Even many years later, it was in today's districts as Bickendorf and Ossett really still around villages, what their architecture partially reminiscent today.

The modern Ehrenfeld surrounding residential areas, industrial monuments, shopping areas and new industrial areas with settlements of television stations in Ossett. The Bahnhof Ehrenfeld, connects to the S-Bahn and regional rail network, and the municipality is served by four partially underground metro lines of the Cologne Transport Authority (KVB ).