The central monument in the former "Fort I." of Cologne's city fortifications - an eagle cast from cannons stands on a very high stone pedestal - of the area in the southern part of the city, not far from the banks of the Rhine, which is known today under the symbolic name "Friedenspark", is from the mother of all Cologne-speaking music groups - the "Bläck Fööss" - was sung about with the anti-war song "Unger'm Adler" (under the eagle).
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Anne

February 28, 2022

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The park, which was planned by garden director Fritz Encke around the fort / part of the Cologne fortification ring, which was ground down in 1919, offers children in particular a great adventure landscape. It was not until 1985 that the unnamed park was named Friedenspark.

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May 4, 2022

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Overgrown ruins, old fortress walls, winding paths and huge trees: This extraordinary mix gives the Friedenspark a flair of times gone by. Even the writer Heinrich Böll liked to play here as a little boy. Nevertheless, the park in the south of Neustadt between Agrippinaufer and Alteburger Straße does not enjoy the fame it really deserves.

The four and a half hectare park was built on the historic site of the former Prussian Fort I. The military used the brick bulwark with the ditches and ramparts for defense until 1911.

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1. Old Market – Hohenzollern Bridge loop from Köln Hauptbahnhof

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2. Old Herkules Harbor Crane – Poller Wiesen on the Rhine loop from Südstadt

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3. View of the Südbrücke (South Bridge) – Old Market loop from Köln-Mülheim

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1. Old Market – Hohenzollern Bridge loop from Köln Hauptbahnhof

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