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Welcome to Cologne!
Your City Booklet
Table of Content
Living Expenses
Sights in Cologne
Sights outside Cologne
Activities
Shopping
Restaurants
Typisch Kölsch
Coffee Shops
Clubs
Apps
Best Connections
Transportation Symbols
Living Expenses
What to expect, when living in Cologne
Living Expenses
Food is not too expensive in Germany, just go to Discounter
Supermarkets:
200€ - 400 supermarkets like ALDI, LIDL or NETTO. If you want more brand
€/month opportunities go to REWE or EDEKA (but they tend to be more
expensive).
Shopping: Shopping costs will differ depending on the shops you will go to.
Cheap but good quality you will get at shops like H&M, C&A, TK Maxx.
There are also some more expensive shops like ZARA,
Peek&Cloppenburg and Mango.
Rent prizes: Unfortunately, rent priced in Cologne are raising due to its popularity in
350€ - 500 the group of students and young adults. The rent prices differ
€/month regarding the size and the location of the flat or room. In Germany, it is
not common to share a room, but to share a flat.
Transportation Transportation costs are quite expensive. In Cologne, we recommend
in Cologne: to take a monthly ticket for the trams. If you travel within Germany, try
50€ - 80€/month to avoid trains from Deutsche Bahn. Book a flixbus or blablacar.
Sometimes even plane flights are less expensive than the trains.
Sights in Cologne
What to see, when you are exploring the city
Sights in Cologne
Cologne Cathedral Cologne Triangle
koelner-dom.de koelntrianglepanorama.de
This is the main Cologne site to visits. It is A panoramic view of Cologne from 103 m
one of the biggest cathedrals in the world. height. Sunset view is recommended.
Entrance: Free Entrance: 3€
Cologne Zoo Museums in Cologne
koelnerzoo.de Cologne has a bunch of various types of
Museums.
One of the very big zoos with more than Entrance: any museum is free in every first
10,000 animals from 8,000 species. thursday of each month, from 10:00 a.m. to
10:00 p.m. Except the chocolate museum is
Entrance: 19.50 € always 11,50 €
Sights in Cologne
Heumarkt (Rhein Side) Neumarkt (City Centre)
Heumarkt has a very nice view of the Rhein Here is Cologne’s city centre where you find
where you can sit and enjoy the view with a a lot of shops and mostly there will be always
lot of restaurants and cafes. different activities to join.
Entrance: Free Entrance: Free
Rodenkirchen Beach Hohenzollern Bridge
An artificial beach on cologne on the Rhein. The bridge where lovers put their locks.
Make sure to ask before swimming because There is a lot of colorful locks and a nice view
swimming is forbedding in most of the places. of the Rhein.
Entrance: Free
Entrance: Free
Sights outside Cologne
What to see, once you need a change of view
Sights outside Cologne
Brühler Schlösser (Castles of Brühl) Phantasialand, Brühl
http://www.schlossbruehl.de/en_home http://www.phantasialand.de/en
Two castles of the Renaissance in the nearby Phantasialand is a theme park with a lot of
city of Brühl. amazing rollercoasters and other attractions.
Entrance: 5€ (students) or 8€ (adults) Entrance: 47,50€
Max-Ernst Museum Drachenfels (Dragon’s rock)
http://www.maxernstmuseum.lvr.de/de/star http://www.der-drachenfels.de/
tseite_1.html
A museum dedicated to Max Ernst. There are A mystic mountain with an old castle. Take a
changing exhibitions of other artists as well. boat trip to the mountain and walk it up.
Entrance: 4€ (students) or 7€ (adults) Trip cost: 70€ (boat tour and tram included)
Sights outside Cologne
City of Maastricht City of Berlin
https://www.tripadvisor.de/Tourism-g1885 https://www.berlin.de/en/
75-Maastricht_Limburg_Province-Vacations.
html There are cheap flights with Ryanair from
Cologne to Berlin (10€ one flight). You will
Maastricht is just a short train trip away from find a lot of history and museums in
Cologne and has a nice Dutch city to offer. Germany’s capital city.
Drei-Länder-Eck (Three-Countrys-Point) City of Bonn
http://www.bonn.de/
Near the city of Aachen (the city is worth a
visit itself) you will find a point where three You will find castles, parks and shopping
countries meet: Belgium, Netherlands and streets in the nice city of Bonn.
Germany. Hop to different countries in a
minute. Entrance: depends on activity
Activities
What to do, when you need some non-touristic stuff
Activities
Escape Room 1. FC Köln (Cologne’s football club)
https://www.exittheroom.de/koeln https://fc.de/fc-info/home/?L=2
In Cologne are various Escape Rooms, where Cologne is crazy about its football club and
you need to solve riddles and work in a group the game atmosphere is on of the best in
together. Germany.
Entrance: 21,50€ / per Person Tickets: starting at 10€
Michael Schuhmacher Kart Center Climbing High Rope Course
http://www.ms-kartcenter.de/ https://www.kletterwald-schwindelfrei.de/
Have fun while go-carting like Formula 1 Overcome your fear of heights or simply test
legend Michael Schuhmacher in the close-by your strength in the different courses.
city of Kerpen.
Tickets: 22€ / per Person
Shopping
Where to go, when you need to spend your money
Shopping
Cologne has a variety of shopping options for you to choose from. Generally you can opt for either
shopping malls or shopping streets. Maybe you can try to explore both!
Shopping streets Shopping Malls
Schildergasse Rhein-Center (Aachener Straße 1253, 50858 Köln)
The most famous shopping street in Cologne, The biggest shopping mall in Cologne. You will
you will find everything from small deco shops find everything from clothes to electronics to
to big name shops like H&M or Mango here. eateries here.
Hohe Strasse Köln Akarden (Kalker Hauptstraße 55, 51103 Köln)
Here you will find clothes, shoes, technology as Another shopping mall that you can check out.
well as luxury shops like Louis Vuitton
Breite Straße & Ehrenstraße
A mix of high-end and low-budget shops, with
many cafes and pubs as well.
Shopping
Find a few examples of some stores that you can shop at here:
H&M Galeria Kaufhof
http://www.hm.com/de www.galeria-kaufhof.de
Affordable everyday wear for both genders. Department store chain with clothes, shoes
Very modern and young styles. and household articles.
Average Cost: € Average Cost: €€
Peek & Cloppenburg C&A
https://www.peek-cloppenburg.de/ https://www.c-and-a.com/de/de/shop
High-end fashion store. You will find brand Clothing department store for every age,
clothes here. quality but cheap prices.
Average Cost: €€€ Average Cost: €
Restaurants
Where to go, when you need good food
Restaurants
Kittichai Die fette Kuh
kittichai.de www. diefettekuh.de
Thai-restaurant and Cocktail Bar with a fancy Cologne’s best Burger place! Handmade
atmosphere, nice asian food for a good price Burgers with fresh and sustainable
ingredients, self made sauces
Average Cost: €€ Average Cost: €€
Habibi L’Osteria
www. Habibi-koeln.de losteria.de
Nice italian food, probably the biggest Pizza
Lebanese Food, Falafel, Shawarma you can get in the world! Nice Atmosphere,
Best kind of fresh Fast Food you can get! various branches in Cologne
Average Cost: € Average Cost: €€
Restaurants
Vapiano Bento Box
https://de.vapiano.com/ www.bentobox.de/
Self-service italian Restaurant with various
branches in whole Germany. Front Cooking! Awesome and good quality Sushi-restaurant
Really good Pasta, Pizza and salad dishes with various branches in Cologne
Average Cost: €€ Average Cost: €€
Nimet Grill Herr Pimock
www.nimet-grill.de www.herrpimock.de/
A good albeit small halal restaurant with Very hip location in the “Belgischem Viertel”
super delicious food for very good prices! Good place for every situation a day, nice
breakfast, good coffee and food but you can
Average Cost: € also spend the evening with nice cocktails
Average Cost: €€
Typisch Kölsch
Traditional restaurants and events you have to visit to get to
know Cologne’s culture
Typisch Kölsch
Brauhaus Päffgen Malzmühle
www.paeffgen-koelsch.de/ brauereizurmalzmuehle.de/
Best Kölsch in town! Try the best Cologne 2nd best Beer! Another nice and traditional
Beer we can provide and enjoy the address to go.
traditional food.
Average Cost: €€ Average Cost: €€
Kölner Karneval
Craziest week you can experience in this City!
Most of the time it’s in february. People getting disguised and celebrate from thursday to
wednesday. There are various parades in lots of districts in the city, the biggest parade is on
“Rosenmontag” and goes through the whole city. Despite of that people are going out everywhere
in every bar or even just on the street to drink, dance and listen to special Cologne carnival music.
You have to take part!
Typisch Kölsch
Et Kölsche Jrundjesetz
Cologne is not only is famous for its beer named
Kölsch, but also for its dialect Kölsch (yes, beer
and dialect has the same name, we love beer).
We also have a sort of ‘law’, which are more like
11 wisdoms to live up to in your life.
Two of them for example say: Nothing stays the
same or without effort nothing happens.
If you understand the translation and deeper
meaning to these philosophies you will
understand what makes Cologne so unique. And
if you stick to them you will be as happy as we
are.
Coffee Shops
Where to go, when you want to hang out
Coffee Shops
The Coffee Gang Cafecafe
www.thecoffeegang.de/ www.cafecafe.de/
Really nice coffee shops with their own Lovely spot with good coffee and nice snacks,
Coffee brewery. Nice spot to hang out cake or even Smoothies.
Average Cost: € Average Cost: €
Wonderfuel Tenten Coffee
www.wndrfuel.de/ tenten-coffee.com/
Coffee Shop with a cool working space Really good coffee and the perfect space to
atmosphere. relax.
Average Cost: € Average Cost: €
Clubs
Where to go, when you want to dance off
Clubs
Nachtflug Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld
nachtflug.com www.cbe-cologne.de/events/
HipHop, RnB, House HipHop, RnB, House, AfroBeat, Dancehall,
Trap
Average Cost: €€€ Average Cost: €€
Barinton Heinz Gaul
barinton.com/category/events/ www.facebook.com/heinzgaul197
Funk, Jazz, Soul, RnB, HipHop, Latin HipHop, RnB, 90er-20er Pop, House, Techno
Average Cost: €/€€ Average Cost: €€
Clubs
Boothaus Subway
http://www.bootshaus.tv/de/events www.subway-der-club.de/
House, Electro, Techno HipHop, RnB, Dancehall, AfroBeat, Trap,
german-HipHop, Techno, House
Average Cost: €€€ Average Cost: €€
Roxy Club Gewölbe
roxykoeln.de www.gewoelbe.net/
Brazil, Soul, Funk, Disco, Jazz, Reggae und House, Deep House Electro
House, Live-Jazz, AfroBeats
Average Cost: €€€ Average Cost: €€€
Apps
What to download, when you need a life saver
Apps
DB Navigator Google Maps
This app will help you navigate through This app will help you to get your way by car/
Cologne (and even Germany) via public foot. It does offer public transport info but is
transport. It will show you the best long not as intuitive or correct as DB Navigator
distance trains (ICEs and ICs)/ regional trains
(REs)/trams/buses to get to your destination
Sparkasse - Ihre mobile Filiale Sparkasse Pushtan
Use this app to log into your bank account and Use this app in addition to the Sparkasse - Ihre
keep your finances in check. You can also mobile Filiale app to generate a PIN to
transfer money or purchase new authorize your banking activities.
prepaid-plans for your phone here.
Apps
LEO Dictionary Too Good To Go
Don’t know what that german word means Buy local food at low prices and combat food
that someone just told you? Look it up on this waste at the same time!
dictionary app! The idea behind it is that restaurants don’t
It can also help you with french, spanish and throw away their food but rather offer it for a
many languages more. cheaper price in the late evening.
BlaBlaCar Shpock
Use this app to find your cheap carpool to the A second hand app where you can buy
next weekend city trip! Find drivers who are necessary and unnecessary stuff from people
going in the same direction as you, carpool in your area. Find a bike there if you have to
with them and have great conversations while chance to save up on your tram ticket.
doing so!
Best Connections
How you get from your home to everywhere
Cologne Trains
This an overview over the tram
lines of cologne
(click on the picture for a bigger
sized picture)
Cologne Buses
This an overview over the
bus lines of cologne
(click on the picture for a
bigger sized picture)
For more detailed
information for specific
routes please use the
transportation app!
Transportation Symbols
Die Bahn Haltestelle
This sign lets you know that a regional/ long
distance train stop is located here. While they This is a bus-stop sign. Go here to catch the
will also make stops within Cologne the main next bus to your destination.
purpose of them is to connect the city to
neighbouring cities.
U-Bahn S-Bahn
This sign shows you the way to the Similar to the DB sign, this S will let you know
underground trams. Our trams drive on the that a regional train stop is located here. The
street as well as underground. So don’t worry S-Bahn is a hybrid between the tram and
if you start your journey underground but end regional train and connects the city to
up getting out at a stop on ground level. suburban places as well as other cities.
