Veedel
“Veedel” is what people in Cologne call their neighbourhood. Explore the 9 boroughs and 86 districts with real structural data — inhabitants, age, households and more.
A “Veedel” is, in Cologne dialect, your own neighbourhood — the small, familiar quarter you identify with. The word stands for community spirit, carnival clubs, the corner pub and a piece of home in the middle of the big city. Officially Cologne is divided into 9 boroughs and 86 districts; on top of that there are many informal Veedel such as the Belgian Quarter or the Agnes Quarter.
Source: Wikipedia
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The 9 boroughs
- ø age
- 43 (4.)
- Employment
- 60.9% (3.)
- Strongest party
- Grüne 33.9% (3.)
- Green
- 42.2% (5.)
- ø age
- 43 (7.)
- Employment
- 58.8% (6.)
- Strongest party
- SPD 27.5% (3.)
- Green
- 46.6% (4.)
- ø age
- 43 (6.)
- Employment
- 64% (1.)
- Strongest party
- Grüne 40.7% (1.)
- Green
- 14.7% (9.)
- ø age
- 42 (9.)
- Employment
- 56.4% (9.)
- Strongest party
- SPD 26.1% (4.)
- Green
- 51.4% (2.)
- ø age
- 44 (3.)
- Employment
- 62% (2.)
- Strongest party
- Grüne 33.7% (4.)
- Green
- 28.2% (8.)
- ø age
- 44 (2.)
- Employment
- 59.6% (5.)
- Strongest party
- CDU 31.6% (2.)
- Green
- 48.4% (3.)
- ø age
- 44 (1.)
- Employment
- 58.6% (7.)
- Strongest party
- CDU 31.1% (3.)
- Green
- 41.7% (6.)
- ø age
- 42 (8.)
- Employment
- 60.7% (4.)
- Strongest party
- Grüne 38.7% (2.)
- Green
- 30% (7.)
(n.) = rank among the 9 boroughs (1 = highest). ø age computed from the official age groups; supply per 10,000 inhabitants. Source: Cologne neighbourhood monitoring & statistical data catalogue.
All 86 districts
Famous quarters
“Veedel” is the Colognian word for quarter — not the official administrative districts, but organically grown neighbourhoods with a character all their own, usually named after a church, a square or a street. Their edges are fuzzy and live mostly in how residents see themselves — from a quarter’s own carnival parade to the songs of local dialect bands. More on Wikipedia.
The Agnesviertel forms the northernmost tip of the Neustadt-Nord district and belongs to the Innenstadt borough. It takes its name from the neo-Gothic parish church of St. Agnes, built around 1900 on …
The Belgian Quarter sits in the southern part of Cologne's Neustadt-Nord district and ranks among the city's most sought-after and expensive residential areas. Its name comes from streets honouring …
The tongue-in-cheek nickname for the pub heart of the Rathenau Quarter around Zülpicher Platz and Barbarossaplatz. Dive in of an evening and you may lose your way home — hence the comparison with the fabled stretch of sea.
An old artisans' quarter in the south-west of Cologne's old town, named after the Großer and Kleiner Griechenmarkt streets. Where the name really comes from is still disputed — and it was in these very lanes that Jacques Offenbach was born.
The northernmost stretch of the old town, framed by the Rhine, the main station and the Theodor-Heuss-Ring. It bears the name of the Romanesque basilica of St. Kunibert — and was also the place where the motorisation of the world began.
Cologne's fondly mocking answer to the Parisian Quartier Latin: the student-bohemian name for the Rathenau Quarter around Zülpicher Straße, with a music cellar, an arthouse cinema and a long tradition of shared flats.
The lively student and scene quarter between the Ring roads and the university. Officially named after Rathenauplatz at its centre — but in everyday speech the same area carries five names: Zülpicher Viertel, Univiertel, Bermuda Triangle, Kwartier Latäng.
The same area as the Rathenau Quarter — but seen through students' eyes. Among shared flats, cafés and bookshops, a good share of the University of Cologne's 40,000-plus students live here.