List of streets in Cologne

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This is an overview of streets and roads in the city of Cologne. It includes a list of notable streets, for historic, transportation or other reasons and is to present an understanding of the city's road systems. The scope of this article does not cover the city's public squares.

Innenstadt streets

This is a list of some notable streets in Innenstadt, Cologne.

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Streets and alleys in Altstadt

entrance of Lintgasse, as seen from Alter Markt

House at corner of Zülpicher Straße and Heinsbergstraße

Street	Length	Landmarks	note
Am Hof		Haus Saaleck, Früh brewery
Am Leystapel		St. Maria in Lyskirchen
Breite Straße	0,38 km		pedestrian zone
Brückenstraße			pedestrian zone
Cäcilienstraße		St. Cäcilien, Museum Schnütgen
Ehrenstraße	0,37 km		tempo 30 zone
Eigelstein		Eigelsteintor	tempo 30 zone
Filzengraben		Holy Trinity Church
Friesenstraße	0,32 km		tempo 30 zone
Gereonstraße		St. Gereon
Glockengasse	0,23 km	4711 House, Cologne Opera
Gürzenichstraße	0,32 km	Gürzenich	pedestrian zone
Hahnenstraße	0,48 km	Hahnentor
Hohe Straße	0,68 km	Stollwerck Passage	pedestrian zone

Street	Length	Landmarks	note
Lintgasse	0,13 km	Gaffel-Haus	pedestrian zone
Kartäusergasse		Cologne Charterhouse
Komödienstraße		St. Andreas
Krebsgasse	0,27 km		tempo 30 zone
Magnusstraße		Römerturm
Minoritenstraße		Minorites Church, Kolumba
Mittelstraße	0,19 km	St. Aposteln	tempo 30 zone
Mühlenbach
Rheingasse		Overstolzenhaus
Schaafenstraße	0,25 km
Schildergasse	0,50 km	Antoniterkirche, Weltstadthaus	pedestrian zone
Severinstraße	1,05 km	Basilica of St. Severin, Severinstor
Ulrichgasse		Ulrepforte
Zeughausstraße		Zeughaus

Streets in Neustadt

Street	Length	Landmarks	note
Aachener Straße		Millowitsch-Theater
Brüsseler Straße	1,04 km	St. Michael	tempo 30 zone
Im Zollhafen	0,71 km	Rheinauhafen	pedestrian zone
Maybachstraße		MediaPark	tempo 30 zone
Moltkestraße	0,67 km	Stadtgarten
Neusser Straße		St. Agnes

Street	Length	Landmarks	note
Roonstraße	0,80 km	Roonstrasse Synagogue
Teutoburger Straße		University of Applied Sciences
Venloer Straße		Friesenplatz
Volksgartenstraße	0,74 km	Volksgarten, Lutherkirche
Weißenburgstraße	0,55 km	St. Agnes, Oberlandesgericht	tempo 30 zone
Zülpicher Straße		Sacred Heart Church

Streets in Deutz

Street	Length	Landmarks	note
Deutzer Freiheit	0,45 km	St. Heribert	pedestrian zone
Gotenring	0,68 km	Severin Bridge
Kennedy-Ufer		Old St. Heribert	tempo 30 zone
Siegburger Straße		Deutzer Hafen

Principal ring roads

The city of Cologne possesses one of the most comprehensive urban ring road systems. The beltways were laid out during the end of the 19th and the early 20th century and today are still being complemented and extended. Their development originated in the work of architects and urban designers such as Karl Henrici, Josef Stübben and Fritz Schumacher as well as former Cologne mayors Hermann Heinrich Becker and Konrad Adenauer.

Cologne Ring

Hohenzollernring on the Cologne Ring

The Cologne Ring (German: Kölner Ring or plural Kölner Ringe) is a semi-circular, some 6 km long urban boulevard in Innenstadt, Cologne and the city's busiest and most prominent street system. The Cologne Ring is a four-lane street and part of Bundesstraße 9.

The ring sections between Barbarossaplatz and Ebertplatz are some of the busiest streets in Cologne.

Roads	Length	Average distance to Cologne Cathedral	Note
Ubierring, Chlodwigplatz, Karolingerring, Sachsenring, Salierring, Barbarossaplatz, Hohenstaufenring, Habsburgerring, Rudolfplatz, Hohenzollernring, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring, Hansaring, Ebertplatz, Theodor-Heuss-Ring	6.0 km	1.6 km	Bundesstraße 9

Innere Kanalstraße

Innere Kanalstraße is part of a ring road system, which spans from Vorgebirgstraße in the south-west to Zoobrücke in the north-east. Innere Kanalstraße and Universitätsstraße are the longest of these streets and follow the outside outline of the Cologne Green Belt^[1] (German: Kölner Grüngürtel). They therefore encircle the district of Innenstadt to the west and north-west. These are mostly six-lane roads and follow the Inner Ring almost concentrically. Kanal- and Universitätsstraße are a major relief of traffic load on the Inner Ring. Landmarks on Universitätsstraße are the University, after which the street is named, and the Aachener Weiher with the Museum of East Asian Art. Landmarks on Innere Kanalstraße are the Colonius telecommunication tower and the Herkules tower.

Roads	Length	Average distance to Cologne Cathedral	Note
Am Vorgebirgstor, Pohligstraße, Weißhausstraße, Universitätsstraße, Innere Kanalstraße, Zoobrücke	10 km	2.0 km	Bundesstraße 55a (partially)

Cologne Belt

Sülzgürtel on the Cologne Belt

The Cologne Belt (German: Kölner Gürtel) is a system of ring roads which runs through the Left-Rhenish districts of Cologne. The sections of the Cologne Belt are mostly defined by the large arterial roads running perpendicular to them and are named after the districts and city parts they pass through. The Cologne Belt was set up in the early 20th century and is somewhat concentric to Kanal- and Universitätsstraße and the Cologne Inner Ring.

Roads	Length	average distance to Cologne Cathedral	note
Bayenthalgürtel, Raderberggürtel, Raderthalgürtel, Zollstockgürtel, Klettenbergürtel, Sülzgürtel, Lindenthalgürtel, Stadtwaldgürtel, Melatengürtel, Ehrenfeldgürtel, Parkgürtel, Mauenheimer Gürtel, Niehler Gürtel	15 km	3.5 km

Militärringstraße

Only a minor street today, the Militärringstraße once had significance for the fortifications of Cologne during the 19th and early 20th century. The Militärring once was a true ring, encircling the entire city at a length of some 40 km (25 mi).

Roads	Length	Average distance to Cologne Cathedral	Note
Militäringstraße	25 km^[2]	4.9 to 7.7 km

Cologne Beltway

BAB 1 on the Cologne Beltway

The Cologne Beltway (German: Kölner Autobahnring) is the generic term for the Autobahns encircling Cologne. It consists of the Bundesautobahn 3, the Bundesautobahn 4 and the Bundesautobahn 1. With an average of 160,000 cars per day on the BAB 3 and 100,000 on A4 and A1, the beltway handles one of the highest traffic volumes in Germany.^[3]

The beltway crosses the Rhine at Leverkusen Bridge in the north and Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge in the south. The Autobahns on the beltway cross Bundesautobahn 559, Bundesautobahn 555 and Bundesautobahn 57. The Bundesautobahn 59 is tied to the beltway at the interchange Leverkusen-West in the north and to Dreieck Heumar in the south. Cologne/Bonn Airport lies on the Bundesautobahn 59.

Roads	Length	Average distance to Cologne Cathedral	Note
Bundesautobahn 3, Bundesautobahn 4, Bundesautobahn 1	50 km	5.0 to 12.0 km

Principal arterial roads

high and freeways in Cologne

Kalker Hauptsraße

Luxemburger Straße

In the following a list of arterial roads, starting clockwise in the North-East. The names of some roads indicate the city or direction, they lead towards.

Right-Rhenish arterial roads all start in Deutz. Deutz is a city part of Innenstadt. Left-Rhenish arterial roads mostly start at the Cologne Ring. Of the major arterial roads, only Dürener Straße and the BAB 57 start on Universitätsstraße and Innere Kanalstraße respectively. Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer is a river embankment road, leading further into the center up to Hohenzollern Bridge.

Right-Rhenish arterial roads

Road	Length	Districts	note
Pfälzischer, Bergischer and Clevischer Ring (extend into Düsseldorfer Straße)		Deutz, Mülheim	Bundesstraße 8
Stadtautobahn (extends into BAB 4)	3,55 + 4,51 km^{within city limits}	Deutz, Mülheim, Kalk	Bundesstraße 55a
Deutz-Kalker-Straße (extends into Kalker Hauptstraße and Olpener Straße)	1,06 + 1,63 + 6,06 km	Deutz, Kalk	Bundesstraße 55
Östliche Zubringerstraße (part of BAB 559)	8,40 km	Deutz, Porz	Bundesautobahn 559
Siegburger Straße (extends into Kölner Straße and Hauptstraße)	3,84 + 3,76 + 4,43 km	Deutz, Porz

Left-Rhenish arterial roads

Road	Length	Districts	note
Agrippinaufer and Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer		Innenstadt, Rodenkirchen	Bundesstraße 9
Bonner Straße (extends into BAB 555)	3,18 + 5,93 km^{within city limits}	Innenstadt, Rodenkirchen	Bundesautobahn 555
Vorgebirgstraße	2,62 km	Rodenkirchen
Luxemburger Straße	4,21 km^{within city limits}	Innenstadt, Lindenthal	Bundesstraße 265
Dürener Straße	6,08 km	Lindenthal	Bundesstraße 264
Aachener Straße	8,51 km^{within city limits}	Innenstadt, Lindenthal	Bundesstraße 55
Venloer Straße	8,48 km^{within city limits}	Innenstadt, Ehrenfeld	Bundesstraße 59
Kreisstraße 4 (extends into BAB 57)	1,47 + 14,71 km^{within city limits}	Ehrenfeld, Nippes, Chorweiler	Bundesautobahn 57
Neusser Straße (extends into Neusser Landstraße)		Innenstadt, Nippes, Chorweiler	Bundesstraße 9
Riehler Straße		Innenstadt, Nippes
Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer	1,78 km	Innenstadt	Bundesstraße 51

References

Bibliography

Priebe, Ilona (2004). Kölner Straßennamen erzählen. Zwischen Schaafenstraße und Filzgraben. Bachem J.P. Verlag. ISBN 3-7616-1815-8.
Signon, Helmut (2006), Alle Straßen führen durch Köln, Greven Verlag, ISBN 3-7743-0379-7

External links

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Information about the Cologne Beltway at Straßenbau NRW
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