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1. View of the Mülheimer Bridge – Riehl Rhine Meadows loop from Köln Hansaring

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2. View of the Mülheimer Bridge – Riehl Rhine Meadows loop from Köln Hansaring

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3. View of the Mülheimer Bridge – Riehl Rhine Meadows loop from Köln Hansaring

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May 6, 2018

Current situation
Most recently, the Bastei Restaurant was run as “Our Pearl on the Rhine” within Blatzheim-Gaststättenbetriebe GmbH by Hans Herbert Blatzheim's son from his first marriage, Jochen Blatzheim (*1942). However, Romy Schneider's stepbrother and "Cologne star restaurateur" will be retiring on April 30, 2017: "And far and wide there is no one in sight who wants to take over the Bastei." (ksta.de, March 1, 2017)

The bastion belonged to the city of Cologne until 2001. After being sold to the municipal Cologne Trade Fair, the Bastei was then passed on to its subsidiary Köln-Kongress GmbH.
The operating license for the restaurant, which is now structurally and technically outdated, is now based solely on grandfathering. Requirements from monument protection and building authorities “make structural changes unaffordable or impossible to this day” (ksta.de, September 7th, 2015 and March 1st, 2017). This is also why the Bastei has only been usable for private parties since 1997 (ibid.), while civil weddings have also been possible here since March 1, 2009 (diebastei.de).
The future of the bastion therefore appears uncertain, even if Cologne's mayor Henriette Reker spoke out in favor of saving the building: "We should manage to preserve this jewel together." (ksta.de, March 1, 2017)
Source: kuladig.de/Objectansicht/KLD-265436

There is a lot of interesting information at the link provided. But it goes beyond the scope here.

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hansdorsch 🚲

February 7, 2019

An impressive building. Unfortunately you can not get in. But it can change until 2020. Until then: drive by (but not on Sunday), take a look, take a picture.

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Jan van der Graupe 🖖 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🤙

April 13, 2022

when it rains you can find shelter from the rain ;-)

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1. View of the Mülheimer Bridge – Riehl Rhine Meadows loop from Köln Hansaring

2. View of the Mülheimer Bridge – Riehl Rhine Meadows loop from Köln Hansaring

3. View of the Mülheimer Bridge – Riehl Rhine Meadows loop from Köln Hansaring

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