City borough
Kalk
Kalk is a district on the right bank of the Rhine within Cologne's borough 8 of the same name. Once just a handful of farmsteads and a pilgrimage chapel, it grew into a prosperous industrial town through the industrialisation of the mid-19th century and was incorporated into Cologne in 1910. Almost entirely destroyed in the Second World War and quickly rebuilt, Kalk remained one of the city's largest industrial sites for decades. Since the factory closures of the 1970s the multicultural quarter has been shifting towards housing and administration, its townscape shaped by founder-era buildings, plain post-war apartment blocks, industrial monuments and large vacant lots.
Source: Wikipedia
Getting around
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Compare with other boroughs
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Age structure
Source: Cologne neighbourhood monitoring
Population & social
Source: Cologne neighbourhood monitoring
Households
Source: Cologne neighbourhood monitoring
Land use
Source: Cologne neighbourhood monitoring
Political leaning
NRW state election 2022, party-list votes — bars relative to the strongest result, percentages beside.
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Per 10,000 inhabitants
Counts in the area, relative to population — fairly comparable.
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Family & everyday
Health & mobility
Sources: City of Cologne open data & geoportal (schools, daycare, playgrounds, transit, hospitals, libraries) and OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL; pharmacies, supermarkets, markets, recycling, fountains, EV charging)
What's in this area
Counted within the boundary from open data — City of Cologne (geoportal/open data) and OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Every number links to its source.
Districts in this borough
Kalk is a district on the right bank of the Rhine and gives its name to Cologne's Stadtbezirk 8. Once just a handful of farmsteads and a pilgrimage chapel, it grew into a prosperous industrial town …
Humboldt/Gremberg is an eastern district of Cologne in the right-bank borough of Kalk, formed in 1975 when a territorial reform merged two formerly independent localities. Humboldt arose only during …
Ostheim is an eastern district of Cologne, located in the right-bank borough of Kalk. Once a small farming village belonging to the parish of Merheim, it grew during industrialization into a …
Vingst is a district in the eastern part of Cologne, belonging to the Kalk borough on the right bank of the Rhine. It thus lies among the city's eastern neighbourhoods across the river.
Höhenberg sits in the eastern, right-bank part of Cologne and belongs to the Kalk district. For centuries the name merely denoted a slight rise in the terrain, where the historic border between …
Rath/Heumar is a district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine, belonging to the borough of Kalk. This twin settlement was formed in the 1975 North Rhine-Westphalian territorial reform by merging …
Merheim is a district in the east of Cologne, located on the right bank of the Rhine and belonging to the borough of Kalk. In the local Kölsch dialect it is known as "Merrem".
Brück is a district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine and belongs to the Kalk borough. In the local Kölsch dialect it is known as Bröck.
The other boroughs
Sources: Cologne neighbourhood monitoring, Statistical data catalogue, City of Cologne geoportal and OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) (as of 2024)
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Sources & links
- geoportal.stadt-koeln.de (retrieved 2026-06-30)
- Wikipedia (retrieved 2026-06-30)
- Wikipedia (retrieved 2026-06-30)
- openstreetmap.org
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