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Dr Tobias Miethaner (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr) spricht am 10.05.2022 auf der Messe ANGA COM in Köln. Foto: atene KOM / Florian Schuh
146.002 hauls a regional double deck train into Köln Hauptbahnhof. A steuerwagen brings up the rear of the train.
A dream becomes reality
Hans Imhoff (1922-2007), a passionate maker of chocolates, had a long held dream: a chocolate museum with a fountain of unending streams of chocolate.
In 1972, Hans Imhoff acquired the Stollwerck factory in Cologne’s Südstadt city quarter. It was there that he discovered by chance a transport container holding broken machinery, packaging material and old files ready for the rubbish tip. He was instantly aware that he had come across a treasure trove. He had the contents examined, refurbished and restored, creating the foundations for a museum.
But many years were to pass before the opening of the Chocolate Museum. Hans Imhoff used the time to have the culture and industrial history of chocolate researched while he continued to develop and expand his collection.
In 1992, his wife Gerbung Klara Imhoff discovered the perfect site for the Chocolate Museum at the old central customs office in the Rheinau harbour; Cologne’s new landmark could then be constructed.
On 31 October 1993, after a 13-month construction period, the Chocolate Museum was opened. It became a triumph of German museum history that nobody thought possible. With around 600,000 visitors a year, it is the most frequented cultural institution in Cologne.
Köln-Niehl, Blick von der Hafenbrücke auf den Rhein (im Hintergrund das Bayer-Hochhaus in Leverkusen)
Der Pegel Köln misst den Wasserstand des Rheins an km 688. Insgesamt existieren 30 Pegel am Rhein. Die Hochwassermarken für Köln liegen bei 6,2m (Hochwassermarke I mit Einschränkungen für die Schifffahrt) und 8,3m (Hochwassermarke II mit vollständiger Einstellung der Schifffahrt). Die Funktionsweise des Pegel wird auf www.steb-koeln.de/klnerpegel.html erklärt, den aktuellen Pegelstand finden Sie auf www.steb-koeln.de/hochwasser.html oder rund um die Uhr unter der Telefonnummer 0221-19429.