Nippes, Cologne
Nippes is a left-Rhine district of Cologne, named after the district of Nippes. The Cologne city districts are numbered 1-9. Nippes bears the number 5
History
In the area of today's Cologne district of Nippes was proven already in Roman times a villa. On the edge of Nippeser little valley, a now silted oxbow lake of the Rhine ( today Niehler Kirchweg ), was the ancient settlement core of today's knick-knacks, the glory Mauenheim. The living space designation Nippes itself appears for the first time in a document of the year 1549 in connection with a then-known tavern ( at the level of today's flora road which was then called " Kappengasse "). The name Nippes ( neap house ) can possibly be interpreted as a house on a hill. In the 17th century the catering om Nippes was notorious.
1794 begins the French occupation by the revolutionary troops. Several north of Cologne situated villages of the former Electorate of Cologne were aggregated to Mairie de Longerich, a political entity that can be considered as a kind of forerunner of the later city of Cologne Nippes district. 1815 Europe has been realigned to the Congress of Vienna. The Rhineland and Westphalia fall to Prussia, the Mairie is now called the mayor's Longerich and is part of the district of Cologne. 1888 is the former mayor Longerich, forms within which Nippes ( with Riehl ) is a special municipality, incorporated to Cologne. Originated in Cologne- Nippes as a major railway facilities, a repair shop and a marshalling yard, but they are now closed. 1861 own workshop is set up for the railroad.
Jacob Mayer produced in 1839 as Germany's first in Köln- Nippes ( today Wilhelmplatz ) cast steel according to one known in England steel molding process. It was the first production facility of its kind in Germany. The industrialization of Nippes began in 1850 with the construction of a steam mill by Heinrich Auer - the " Auer- mill ". Since 1911, the Auer street is named after its builder. The merchant Julius Vorster and the chemist Hermann Julius Grüneberg founded on 1 November 1858, the Chemical Factory Vorster & Green Mountain, was produced in the ammonia. In 1869 the ammonia factory trinkets. She was the forerunner of the Chemische Fabrik Kalk. With the Clouth Gummiwerken came in 1868 one of the largest industrial employer in accordance with knick-knacks. The factory of world fame coined during their enlargement phase, the cityscape of knick-knacks. The emerging companies worked in the rubber goods manufacturing and diversified greatly in other composites. His economy reached its peak, the company founded by Franz Clouth in 1962, when it counted 2,241 employees. A corporate crisis was the cause of persistent losses that prompted the parent company Continental AG to merge a part of Clouth and sell other parts. Finally, it was decided on 17 June 2003 by the City of Cologne to acquire the now grown to 160,000 m² premises to make it " non-intrusive commercial " use of Housing and. It was considered that the buildings on the street Niehler is a listed building. Conveyor belts were still made until December 16, 2005 here, since the Clouth rubber Werke AG is part of the industrial history of Germany. Franz Clouth lived until his death on September 7, 1910 in a 1883 werksnah built villa on the Niehler road. According to him, since 1915 the Franz- Clouth road named.
First street appointments were also made in 1873 ( Christina, Holbein, Longericher or Siebachstraße ). The Siebachstraße is made up of the names of the families Siepen and Selbach, which operated 1865-1875 in the Hartwich road a sugar factory. The first street in Nippes was Niehler Street (formerly Niehler way ), probably an old thoroughfare of the Romans.
Structure
The municipality Nippes was created on 1 January 1975 and includes the districts of Bilderstöckchen, Longerich, Mauenheim, Niehl, knick-knacks, Riehl, Weidenpesch. It is bordered from the north clockwise to the Cologne city districts 6 choral hamlet, 9 Mülheim ( separated by the Rhine ), 1 city and 4 Ehrenfeld.
Policy
The District Town Hall is located at the Neuss Road 450, at about the point of contact of the districts Weidenpesch, Mauenheim and knick-knacks.