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Köln Hbf bei Night

Köln - Die Hohenzollernbrücke by Marc Schlieper

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Von den sieben Rheinbrücken Kölns ist die Hohenzollernbrücke die Brücke, die am massivsten und rustikalsten wirkt. Drei schwere stählerne Bögen ruhen auf den Steinpfeilern im Rhein. Nachts tauchen Scheinwerfer die Bögen in ein gelbliches Licht und verleihen der Konstruktion eine schwebende Leichtigkeit. 1200 Züge rollen täglich über die kombinierte Eisenbahn-Fußgängerbrücke. Damit ist sie einer der wichtigsten Eisenbahnbrücken Deutschlands. Vier Reiterstandbilder der preußischen Königen und deutschen Kaisern der Hohenzollern-Familie flankieren jeweils die Rampen.

5D__2060 by Sebastianer

templebeat 3 (foto di Enrico Vincenzi) by Giorgio Ricci

Koln

Köln Lichter 2015 by Springer@WW

Nice Firework in Colone, Germany

Spezialgulasch in Köln by Dieter14 u.Anjalie157

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Extra scharf....nach geheimen Rezept.

In Köln zu finden seit 1948

Den muß man probiert haben...!

Köln by Jürgen Roscher

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Weihnachtskrippe im Dom

Kölner Lichter by Daniel Müllenborn

Köln Keulen by Knoffelhuisie Photography

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 Kirchentag by Werner Schnell (1.stream)