Kalk is the Eighth city district

City district

City district is a type of administrative division of Pakistan and Croatia.It is also the English translation of German Stadtbezirk and Swedish Stadsdel.-See also:*City Districts of Pakistan...

 or Stadtbezirk

Stadtbezirk

A Stadtbezirk is a form of German city district, an administrative unit within a larger city. In Germany Stadtbezirke usually only exist in a metropolis with more than 150,000 inhabitants....

of 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...

, Germany. Kalk was merged into the city of Cologne in 1910, the district was formed in 1975.

The district of Kalk borders with Mülheim to the North, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

The Rheinisch-Bergische Kreis is a Kreis in the Cologne Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring are the districts Oberbergischer Kreis and Rhein-Sieg, and the district-free citiesCologne, Leverkusen, Solingen and Remscheid....

 to the East, the Cologne borough of 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...

 to the South and Deutz to the West.

Subdivisions

Kalk consists of nine Stadtteile (city parts):

#	City part	Population (2009)	Area (km²)	Pop. per km²	map
801	Humboldt/Gremberg	14,835	2,82	5,258
802	Kalk Kalk Kalk may refer to:* Kalk, Cologne, a borough of Cologne, Germany* Chemische Fabrik Kalk, a former German chemical company* USS Kalk , a US destroyer during World War I* Stanton Frederick Kalk , for whom the USS Kalk is named...	21,192	2,97	7,128
803	Vingst	11,558	1,12	10,315
804	Höhenberg Hohenberg Hohenberg may refer to:*the Austrian Ducal family of Hohenberg who are descended from the Austrian Imperial and Royal Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty*Hohenberg, Lower Austria, a town in Austria*Hohenberg an der Eger, a town in Bavaria, Germany...	11,936	2,20	5,436
805	Ostheim Ostheim Ostheim vor der Rhön is a town situated in Bavaria , in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld. -History:Ostheim was first mentioned in 804. Previously an exclave of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ostheim vor der Rhön was an exclave of Thuringia in Bavaria from 1920 until 1947...	10,720	3,75	2,862
806	Merheim	9,540	3,81	2,507
807	Brück Brück Brück is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 29 km southwest of Potsdam, and 28 km southeast of Brandenburg. Parts of Brück are located in the High Fläming Nature Park....	9,734	7,51	1,297
808	Rath/Heumar	10,957	13,1	837
909	Neubrück	8,573	1,10	7,806
source: Die Kölner Stadtteile in Zahlen 2010

Transportation

Kalk is served by numerous railway stations and highway. Train stations include Köln-Trimbornstraße

Köln-Trimbornstraße station

Köln-Trimbornstraße is a railway station situated at Kalk, Cologne in western Germany. It is served by the S12 and S13 lines of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.The KVB light rail station of Kalk Post is located within 200m walking distance from here....

 and numerous light rail stations of Cologne Stadtbahn

Cologne Stadtbahn

The Cologne Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Cologne, including several surrounding cities...

 line 1 and 9. The Bundesautobahn 3 and 4 connect Kalk with the Cologne Beltway.

In popular culture

• German-Turkish rapper Eko Fresh
  Eko Fresh
  Ekrem Bora , better known as Eko Fresh and also as Elektro Eko, is a German rapper of Turkish descent.- Early life :...
  
  's song: Köln Kalk Ehrenmord (Cologne Kalk Honor killing)

External links

• Official webpage of the district