Mini golf under black light with 3D glasses: the Ehrenfeld location is part of GlowingRooms' network of venues in Cologne, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, and Dresden.
Right in the heart of Cologne, near the Ringe: activities ranging from virtual reality and axe throwing to adventure mini golf – paired with a lounge, bar, and food.
A kidney-shaped fountain pond in the Rheinpark, created in 1957 for the Federal Garden Show – named after rose breeder Konrad Adenauer, with crown fountains and water jets.
Bronze memorial to Adolph Kolping — the 'Father of Journeymen' and founder of the Catholic journeymen's associations — standing before Cologne's Minorite Church, where he is buried.
Laser tag, Reball and virtual reality spread across 1,000+ m² – Adrenalinpark Cologne brings three action-packed activities under one roof, seven days a week.
One of the world's most significant photo-historical collections — nearly 20,000 cameras and over 12,000 photographs, now housed at Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
Medieval village church with a Gothic choir — once the parish church of St. Pankratius, now a small chapel after centuries of fire, war, and reinvention.
A Prussian guardhouse from 1840/41 in Neoclassical Florentine style, rebuilt after wartime destruction and now used as a temporary exhibition space of the Cologne City Museum.
A former municipal cemetery turned listed park in Deutz, home to a sandstone crucifixion group from 1849 and a rare Reform-style enclosure from 1913/14.
A roughly 21-hectare nature reserve set in a former gravel pit between Weidenpesch, Longerich and Mauenheim — off-limits to protect its wildlife and viewable only from a single lookout point.
A 23-hectare nature reserve beside the Godorf harbour in southern Cologne — a grassland-and-scrub mosaic that grew out of an old gravel deposit and now shelters rare animals and plants.
A restored former gravel pit on Cologne's northern edge in Flittard, protected as a nature reserve since 1991 — a species-rich habitat of open water, sandy dry grassland and rare plants and animals.
A Gothic Protestant church in the middle of the Schildergasse – Cologne's most visited church after the cathedral, known for Barlach's ‘Hovering Angel'.
Regarded as the world's largest trade fair for the food industry: held every two years in Cologne, ten trade fairs under one roof, trade visitors only.
Listed Brutalist church from 1968 with a striking tetrahedral form, now operating as the 'Kulturkirche Ost' cultural venue for readings, music, and cabaret.
Baadenberger Senke, Stöckheimer See and Große Laache
since 2007
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A sprawling nature reserve of former gravel pits in Cologne's north-west – now a landscape of lakes, woodland and one of the most important amphibian spawning grounds west of the Rhine.
Closed in 1974, this former station briefly came back to life in November 1980, when trains stopped for a single day for the papal Mass at Butzweilerhof.
Around 1900, eight or nine extra trains brought Sunday day-trippers to Dellbrück. Today the S 11 stops at the station on the line to Bergisch Gladbach.
