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Landmarks of the quarter: Gross St. Martin
This convenient and very attractive tourist destination expects guests from around the world. Situated right on the Rhine, through the house with a distinctively narrow gables and high roof, spreading the city out there, what are the historical roots of the Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. At that time separated by an arm of the Rhine from the river bed, clustered around this port in the Middle Ages, then the actual "city life".
The dominant landmark of the district is the Romanesque church of Gross St. Martin, at the Cologne skyline equal rank to the present day equivalent of the cathedral. Gross St. Martin has a lot of history to witness firsthand hard. Built in the tenth century as part of a Benedictine monastery by Archbishop Bruno, the church was destroyed by fire in 1150 of a major city fire. The subsequent rebuilding then survived several centuries, until the Allied bombing in the 2nd World War, the Basilica afflict hard again. Only in the Eighties she was fully revived to its former glory.
The Storage Depot, a symbol of the trading metropole
But not only the church, the whole neighborhood was not spared of destruction and devastation.. Eloquent testimony to this is the Batch House, situated on the Rhine. It was rebuilt after the war, although similar to its classic predecessors, but just similar. The batch house is the living symbol of the trade center to this day (at times even "Hansestadt") Cologne, but it embodied the so-called stack of law. Are stacked on Rhine vessels to Cologne vorbeischippernde product shipments were in the Middle Ages at the request of the city's duty ". That is, they could not be immediately shipped to their destination, but had first to be offered for sale in Cologne.
The Old Town, then the center of the marchant of the Rhine metropolis has become more the center of recreation and lifestyle. The H¸sjer bunt Aldermaat om sin Zeujen Kölscher Eijenaat "- as it says in a Carnival song - now put their interiors typical pubs, jazz clubs, theaters, galleries and restaurants. Notable among them, especially the architecture provide Weinhaus Zum whale "or the white" house Delft "directly on the Rhine garden. As a district, where Cologne is considered the most koelsch, but it is not only the nobility Kölsch Schmitz a monument, but also others who are nationally stand for "et kölsch'Hätz" (heart). Whether folk singer Willi Ostermann on a fountain or popular actors and honorary Willi Millowitsch than sedentary plastic or the representatives of the Cologne humor Tünnes and peeling, as bronze figures - they are all immortalized in the Martin district.
Witnesses Kölsch crude humor: "Platzjabbeck" and "Kalle Dresser"
Apropos: Kölscher humor. He is sometimes as coarse as outlined in any case, as disrespectfully with regard to the authorities. Including two curiosities in the Old City to give eloquent testimony. First there is the "Platzjabbeck. From Ratsturm the man's face with a hat and beard on the hour for the Old Market stretches out his tongue. Symbolically, he has to show how much keeping the people of Cologne by their representatives at City Hall.
No less firm operated in the "Kalle Dresser.
It shows from the other side of the historic market place here even his bare bottom in the direction of City Hall. An original postwar Cologne, who founded the now deceased Jupp Engels, along the lines of "Dachrinnenscheiflers" - namely, the meaning of the name Kallendesser in High German - the Order of Kalle Dresser, a club of notables Customs friend. Among the most prominent members of the order belonged to the former Swedish King Gustav VI. Adolf.
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