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Colonia House

A striking 1976 residential tower on the Rhine bank in Riehl – at 147 metres one of Germany's tallest residential buildings.

Architecture Skyline

The Colonia House in Cologne-Riehl is, at 147 metres (155 m with antenna), one of Germany's tallest predominantly residential buildings. The listed tower stands in a prominent position right on the Rhine bank.

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At a glance

Completed: 1976
Height: 147 m (155 m with antenna), 45 floors
Location: Riehl, right on the Rhine
Notable: Europe's tallest residential building until 1976

Living above the rooftops

Around 1,000 people live in the Colonia House, whose 45 floors are mostly apartments. On completion it was the tallest residential building in Europe, and to this day its far-visible form shapes Cologne's northern silhouette on the Rhine.

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Cologne Rhein ropeway and Colonia building, Passenger ship MS RheinEnergie, company: Köln-Düsseldorfer — © Elke Wetzig ( elya ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons

© The original uploader was Juenemann Cologne at German Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons

Köln, Blick zur "Riehler Aue" nach Norden — © HOWI · CC BY 3.0 · Commons

das Colonia-Haus in Köln — © Thomas Wolf ( Der Wolf im Wald ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions , which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme — © Engelbert Reineke · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Commons

Colonia-Hochhaus in Köln-Riehl — © The original uploader was Juenemann Cologne at German Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons

Flusskreuzfahrtschiff Bellissima auf Fahrt in Köln. — © Rolf Heinrich, Köln · CC BY 3.0 · Commons

River cruise ship Andante in cologne. — © Rolf Heinrich, Köln · CC BY 3.0 · Commons

Höhenrettungsübung der Feuerwehr Köln an der Seilbahn über den Rhein. — © Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons

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