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Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

is Germany's fourth-largest city and the largest city in the Rhineland. As of 30 June 2010, there were officially 1,000,660 residents. The city is center of the Cologne/Bonn Region

Cologne/Bonn Region

The Cologne/Bonn Region , also known as Cologne/Bonn Metropolitan Region is a metropolitan area in North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, covering the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Leverkusen, as well as the districts of Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Oberbergischer Kreis, Rhein-Erft-Kreis and Rhein-Sieg-Kreis...

with around 3 million inhabitants (including the neighboring cities of Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

, Hürth

Hürth

Hürth is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hürth shares borders with the city of Cologne.-Geography:Hürth is situated about 9 km to the southwest of Cologne city centre, at the northeastern slope of the natural preserve Kottenforst-Ville.The town, consisting of...

, Leverkusen

Leverkusen

Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf....

, and Bergisch Gladbach

Bergisch Gladbach

' is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis .-Geography:Bergisch Gladbach is located east of the river Rhine, approx...

Population by district

District Districts of Cologne Since the last administrative reform in 1975, the City of Cologne is made up of nine Stadtbezirke and 86 Stadtteile. Stadtbezirk literally translates as city district, which are further subdivided into Stadtteile...	Population
	Population (1990)	Population (1995)	Population (2000)	Population (2005)	Population (2009)	Population (2025)^estimated
1. Innenstadt Innenstadt, Cologne Innenstadt is the central city district of the City of Cologne in Germany.The district was established with the last communal land reform in 1975, and comprises Cologne's historic old town , the Gründerzeit era new town plus the right-Rhenish district of Deutz...	137.283	138.637	133.454	129.496	126.301	128.400
2. Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen is a southern city district of Cologne in Germany. It has about 100,000 inhabitants and covers as an area of 54.56 square kilometres...	91.284	94.582	97.790	100.490	100.827	110.500
3. Lindenthal	134.823	135.276	139.026	139.803	137.870	145.300
4. Ehrenfeld	95.243	95.552	97.396	102.939	103.708	105.900
5. Nippes Nippes, Cologne Nippes is the Fifth city district of Cologne, Germany. Nippes was merged into the city of Cologne in 1888, the district was formed in 1975...	111.133	109.481	108.206	109.235	111.141	111.000
6. Chorweiler Chorweiler Chorweiler is the Sixth city district of Cologne, Germany. Large portion of the district of Chorweiler were incorporated into the city of Cologne in 1922, the quarter of Chorweiler was created in the 1970s...	74.481	79.073	83.215	82.865	80.459	77.700
7. Porz Porz Porz is a city district or Stadtbezirk of Cologne, Germany. It is situated on the right side of the Rhine in the south-east of the city...	100.695	105.433	107.447	106.647	106.533	107.000
8. Kalk	108.769	108.185	106.377	107.194	109.045	105.800
9. Mülheim	142.889	141.877	144.321	144.432	144.419	140.300
Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...	998.590	1.008.848	1.017.721	1.023.101	1.020.303	*1.031.800*
source: Die Kölner Stadtteile in Zahlen 2010

Population by migration background

District Districts of Cologne Since the last administrative reform in 1975, the City of Cologne is made up of nine Stadtbezirke and 86 Stadtteile. Stadtbezirk literally translates as city district, which are further subdivided into Stadtteile...	Population (2009)	German citizens			Foreign citizens
		(total)	German citizens w/o migration backgr.	German citizens w/ migration backgr.	(total)	from inside the EU¹	from Turkey	from elsewhere in Europe	from Africa²	from the Americas	from Asia³	from elsewhere
1. Innenstadt Innenstadt, Cologne Innenstadt is the central city district of the City of Cologne in Germany.The district was established with the last communal land reform in 1975, and comprises Cologne's historic old town , the Gründerzeit era new town plus the right-Rhenish district of Deutz...	126.301	104.945	92.946	11.999	21.356	9.524	4.502	2.532	924	1.287	2.460	127
2. Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen is a southern city district of Cologne in Germany. It has about 100,000 inhabitants and covers as an area of 54.56 square kilometres...	100.827	86.823	74.938	11.885	14.004	5.717	3.298	1.850	827	505	1.747	60
3. Lindenthal	137.870	124.943	111.586	13.357	12.927	6.034	1.600	1.646	627	762	2.146	112
4. Ehrenfeld	103.708	83.614	69.749	13.865	20.094	6.824	7.960	2.394	970	459	1.367	120
5. Nippes Nippes, Cologne Nippes is the Fifth city district of Cologne, Germany. Nippes was merged into the city of Cologne in 1888, the district was formed in 1975...	111.141	91.048	77.230	13.818	20.093	5.876	9.584	2.131	857	409	1.146	90
6. Chorweiler Chorweiler Chorweiler is the Sixth city district of Cologne, Germany. Large portion of the district of Chorweiler were incorporated into the city of Cologne in 1922, the quarter of Chorweiler was created in the 1970s...	80.459	65.770	46.806	18.964	14.689	3.216	6.989	2.589	456	96	1.252	91
7. Porz Porz Porz is a city district or Stadtbezirk of Cologne, Germany. It is situated on the right side of the Rhine in the south-east of the city...	106.533	91.368	71.409	19.959	15.165	4.802	4.412	3.178	653	196	1.850	75
8. Kalk	109.045	82.012	61.387	20.625	27.033	6.867	10.865	4.287	1.772	280	1.772	108
9. Mülheim	144.419	116.935	93.804	23.131	27.484	6.642	12.480	3.885	1.750	443	2.202	82
Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...	1.020.303	847.458	699.855	147.603	172.845	55.502	61.690	24.492	8.835	4.437	17.024	865

¹ largest groups from Italy, Poland and Greece

² largest group from Morocco

³ largest group from Iran

Population by age

class="wikitable">
District Districts of Cologne Since the last administrative reform in 1975, the City of Cologne is made up of nine Stadtbezirke and 86 Stadtteile. Stadtbezirk literally translates as city district, which are further subdivided into Stadtteile...	Population (2004)
	Population (total)	Population age < 18	Population age 18 < 35	Population age 35 < 65	Population age > 65
1. Innenstadt Innenstadt, Cologne Innenstadt is the central city district of the City of Cologne in Germany.The district was established with the last communal land reform in 1975, and comprises Cologne's historic old town , the Gründerzeit era new town plus the right-Rhenish district of Deutz...	129.047	12.091
2. Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen is a southern city district of Cologne in Germany. It has about 100,000 inhabitants and covers as an area of 54.56 square kilometres...	100.325	15.828
3. Lindenthal	139.233	17.700
4. Ehrenfeld	102.264	16.780
5. Nippes Nippes, Cologne Nippes is the Fifth city district of Cologne, Germany. Nippes was merged into the city of Cologne in 1888, the district was formed in 1975...	109.009	17.172
6. Chorweiler Chorweiler Chorweiler is the Sixth city district of Cologne, Germany. Large portion of the district of Chorweiler were incorporated into the city of Cologne in 1922, the quarter of Chorweiler was created in the 1970s...	83.332	17.979
7. Porz Porz Porz is a city district or Stadtbezirk of Cologne, Germany. It is situated on the right side of the Rhine in the south-east of the city...	107.437	19.180
8. Kalk	107.036	19.246
9. Mülheim	144.944	26.229
Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...	1.022.627	162.205	257.218
source: Statistisches Jahrbuch Köln 2004

class="wikitable"> District
Districts of Cologne
Since the last administrative reform in 1975, the City of Cologne is made up of nine Stadtbezirke and 86 Stadtteile. Stadtbezirk literally translates as city district, which are further subdivided into Stadtteile...

Population (2006) Population
(total) Population
age < 18 Population
age 18 < 35 Population
age 35 < 65 Population
age > 65 1. Innenstadt

Innenstadt, Cologne

Innenstadt is the central city district of the City of Cologne in Germany.The district was established with the last communal land reform in 1975, and comprises Cologne's historic old town , the Gründerzeit era new town plus the right-Rhenish district of Deutz...

129.318 11.660 44.706 54.820 18.132 2. Rodenkirchen

Rodenkirchen

Rodenkirchen is a southern city district of Cologne in Germany. It has about 100,000 inhabitants and covers as an area of 54.56 square kilometres...

101.309 15.760 21.461 44.631 19.457 3. Lindenthal 139.507 17.668 37.927 59.504 24.408 4. Ehrenfeld 103.205 16.522 28.472 42.404 15.807 5. Nippes

Nippes, Cologne

Nippes is the Fifth city district of Cologne, Germany. Nippes was merged into the city of Cologne in 1888, the district was formed in 1975...

109.413 17.136 25.194 46.766 20.317 6. Chorweiler

Chorweiler

Chorweiler is the Sixth city district of Cologne, Germany. Large portion of the district of Chorweiler were incorporated into the city of Cologne in 1922, the quarter of Chorweiler was created in the 1970s...

82.161 17.042 16.548 34.358 14.213 7. Porz

Porz

Porz is a city district or Stadtbezirk of Cologne, Germany. It is situated on the right side of the Rhine in the south-east of the city...

106.567 18.566 21.325 46.803 19.873 8. Kalk 108.146 19.205 26.351 42.844 19.746 9. Mülheim 144.720 25.589 32.871 59.631 26.629 Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

1.024.346 159.148 254.855 431.761 178.582 source: Bevölkerungsprognose Kölner Stadtteile 2006/2025

District Districts of Cologne Since the last administrative reform in 1975, the City of Cologne is made up of nine Stadtbezirke and 86 Stadtteile. Stadtbezirk literally translates as city district, which are further subdivided into Stadtteile...	Population (2009)
	Population (total)	Population age < 18	Population age 18 < 35	Population age 35 < 65	Population age > 65
1. Innenstadt Innenstadt, Cologne Innenstadt is the central city district of the City of Cologne in Germany.The district was established with the last communal land reform in 1975, and comprises Cologne's historic old town , the Gründerzeit era new town plus the right-Rhenish district of Deutz...	126.301	11.254			18.139
2. Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen is a southern city district of Cologne in Germany. It has about 100,000 inhabitants and covers as an area of 54.56 square kilometres...	100.827	15.946			20.332
3. Lindenthal	137.870	18.693			25.302
4. Ehrenfeld	103.708	16.065			16.163
5. Nippes Nippes, Cologne Nippes is the Fifth city district of Cologne, Germany. Nippes was merged into the city of Cologne in 1888, the district was formed in 1975...	111.141	17.246			20.650
6. Chorweiler Chorweiler Chorweiler is the Sixth city district of Cologne, Germany. Large portion of the district of Chorweiler were incorporated into the city of Cologne in 1922, the quarter of Chorweiler was created in the 1970s...	80.459	15.798			14.947
7. Porz Porz Porz is a city district or Stadtbezirk of Cologne, Germany. It is situated on the right side of the Rhine in the south-east of the city...	106.533	18.011			21.112
8. Kalk	109.045	19.415			20.029
9. Mülheim	144.419	25.152			26.793
Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...	1.020.303	157.580	253.964	425.292	183.467
source: Die Kölner Stadtteile in Zahlen 2010

Roman Cologne

Date	Population
50	30.000
150	50.000
250	15.000
350	15.000

Medieval Cologne

Since the construction of the Medieval wall in 1180, the area of the old imperial city

Free Imperial City

In the Holy Roman Empire, a free imperial city was a city formally ruled by the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which were governed by one of the many princes of the Empire, such as dukes or prince-bishops...

of Cologne has not changed for more than 600 years and was only extended over the old city walls in 1794, just short before the arrival of French troops and Cologne's incorporation into the First French Empire

First French Empire

The First French Empire , also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France...

class="wikitable">	Date	Population
900
1000
1140	20.000
1180	40.000
1200

class="wikitable"> Date Population 1300 1400 1430 40.000 1500

16th through 19th century

After 1815, the Kingdom of Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

enforced the construction of fortifications which again hindered any growth for the city. Only with the acquisition of these fortifications in 1881, the city of Cologne had the possibility of a gradual territorial expansion. On 12. November 1883 a strip of territory from parts of the municipalities of Ehrenfeld, Kriel, Longerich, Müngersdorf and Rondorf was added to the city. Since 1886, the Cologne City Council

Cologne City Hall

The City Hall is a historical building in Cologne, western Germany, located off Hohe Straße in the district of Innenstadt, set between the two squares of Rathausplatz and Alter Markt. It houses part of the city government, including the city council and offices of the Lord Mayor. It is...

intensified negotiations with the surrounding communities, and on 1 April 1888 ended in a first major incorporation.

class="wikitable">	Date	Population
1501
1600	40.000
1670	37.000
1700	39.000

class="wikitable"> Date Population 1701 1714 42.015 1735 44.568 1794 44.512 1800 class="wikitable"> Date Population 1801 42.024 1810 45.029 1. December 1816 ¹ 49.276 1. December 1819 ¹ 55.355 1. December 1822 ¹ 56.527 1. December 1825 ¹ 59.049 1. December 1828 ¹ 61.059 1. December 1831 ¹ 65.953 3. December 1834 ¹ 67.302 3. December 1837 ¹ 72.237 3. December 1840 ¹ 75.858 3. December 1843 ¹ 83.418 3. December 1849 ¹ 94.789 3. December 1850 95.500 class="wikitable"> Date Population 3. December 1851 3. December 1852 ¹ 101.091 3. December 1855 ¹ 106.852 3. December 1858 ¹ 114.477 3. December 1861 ¹ 120.568 3. December 1864 ¹ 122.162 3. December 1867 ¹ 125.172 1. December 1871 ¹ 129.233 1. December 1875 ¹ 135.371 1. December 1880 ¹ 144.772 1. December 1885 ¹ 161.401 1. December 1890 ¹ 281.681 2. December 1895 ¹ 321.564 1. December 1900 ¹ 372.229

20th century

The territorial expansion, beginning in the late 19th century, were significant marks for the city's population growth. Major communal reorganizations took place in in 1910, 1914, 1922 and 1975.

class="wikitable">	Date	Population
31. December 1901	380.518
31. December 1902	392.882
31. December 1903	406.420
31. December 1904	417.480
1. December 1905 ¹	428.722
31. December 1906	440.376
31. December 1907	451.134
31. December 1908	461.891
31. December 1909	472.649
1. December 1910 ¹	516.527
31. December 1911	525.671
31. December 1912	538.302
31. December 1913	550.540
31. December 1914	642.848
31. December 1915
1. December 1916 ¹	595.853
5. December 1917 ¹	609.244
31. December 1918
31. December 1919	644.206
31. December 1920	657.175

class="wikitable"> Date Population 31. December 1921 665.629 31. December 1922 683.363 31. December 1923 690.605 31. December 1924 696.168 31. December 1925 705.477 31. December 1926 713.633 31. December 1927 723.753 31. December 1928 733.075 31. December 1929 736.914 31. December 1930 740.082 31. December 1931 739.726 31. December 1932 741.283 31. December 1933 759.648 31. December 1934 760.422 31. December 1935 761.263 31. December 1936 762.154 31. December 1937 765.468 31. December 1938 767.102 31. December 1939 767.222 December 1940 733.500 class="wikitable"> Date Population December 1941 690.000 December 1942 648.200 December 1943 561.600 December 1944 472.900 31. December 1945 453.566 31. December 1946 494.815 31. December 1947 515.355 31. December 1948 543.765 31. December 1949 573.557 31. December 1950 603.283 31. December 1951 630.232 31. December 1952 647.540 31. December 1953 670.031 31. December 1954 688.765 31. December 1955 712.561 31. December 1956 718.722 31. December 1957 737.991 31. December 1958 756.203 31. December 1959 773.280 31. December 1960 803.616 class="wikitable"> Date Population 31. December 1961 816.542 31. December 1962 827.659 31. December 1963 835.832 31. December 1964 842.061 31. December 1965 854.479 31. December 1966 860.200 31. December 1967 854.717 31. December 1968 855.886 31. December 1969 864.754 31. December 1970 847.037 31. December 1971 846.479 31. December 1972 841.537 31. December 1973 832.396 31. December 1974 825.792 31. December 1975 1.013.771 31. December 1976 981.021 31. December 1977 976.761 31. December 1978 976.534 31. December 1979 976.136 31. December 1980 976.694 class="wikitable"> Date Population 31. December 1981 971.403 31. December 1982 961.777 31. December 1983 940.663 31. December 1984 922.286 31. December 1985 916.153 31. December 1986 914.336 31. December 1987 930.907 31. December 1988 937.482 31. December 1989 946.280 31. December 1990 953.551 31. December 1991 956.690 31. December 1992 960.631 31. December 1993 962.517 31. December 1994 963.817 31. December 1995 965.697 31. December 1996 964.346 31. December 1997 964.311 31. December 1998 962.580 31. December 1999 962.507 31. December 2000 962.884

21st century

class="wikitable">	Date	Population
31. December 2001	967.940
31. December 2002	968.639
31. December 2003	965.954
31. December 2004	969.709
31. December 2005	983.347
31. December 2006	989.766
31. December 2007	995.397
31. December 2008	995.420
31. December 2009	998.105
31. December 2010	1.007.119