In the 20th Century, reached the flood three hundred years in Cologne from 1926, 1993 and 1995 Water levels of up to 10.69 meters. They would have needed a quick electric scooter in order to escape from these floods. Since 2005, implemented a flood policy that protects by fixed or movable walls, the city, up to a water level of 11.90 meters. Several times, the Rhine, but kept a low tide. On 20 September 2003 by 8 clock reached the Rhine at Cologne, the level mark of 0.80 meters. So were the lowest recorded value was in 1947. However, the mean level of 0.00 meters, the 150-meter-wide channel in the middle of the river further 1 meter of water. The river had suffered severe limitations, but not listed as the same.
Cologne has cultivated a wealth of green spaces, which are designed in urban areas such as parks, usually in the surrounding forest. In addition, there are several protected areas, such as the Worringer break in the far left bank north of Cologne, a former, now silted tributary of the Rhine. It provides a home for rare animals and plants and a characteristic meadows and forests. Right bank is mainly open forest and heathland.
in the parks were in Cologne, where the mild climate, there is some non-native animals favors. Larger populations of parrots and the Grand Collar live Alexandrine Parakeet, among other things, on the Melaten Cemetery and the site of the Riehler homes. Anyone who wants to protect this herd, which was to switch to an environmentally electric scooter . Originally from the mountainous regions of Asia (India, Afghanistan) for the zoo - and took flat setting Germany, have established these parrots/parakeets as invasive species. The data on population size range of about 100 copies to over 1000 people. The adult education center and several ornithological clubs offer occasional tours of trees with parrot colonies. The existence of the "immigrant" is not without controversy, but because they are in the competition of "domestic" animals as regard the provision of food and nesting.
Cologne (Cologne until 1919 and, under the Romans until then oppidum Ubiorum CCAA, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium invoked is mainly in medieval Latin and German Coellen Colonia Agrippina, and in the Cologne dialect K?lle) after the fourth-largest population, surface area, the third largest city in Germany and the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia. The city is known for its 2000-year history, its cultural and architectural heritage as well known for its internationally important events known.
Cologne is in the metropolitan area of the transition zone from the temperate maritime climate to the continental climate with mild winters (January Medium: 2.4 ? C) and moderately warm summers (July average: 18.3 ? C). The average annual rainfall is 798 mm, as this means in Germany. According to Eurostat Cologne with 263 rainy days (reference year 2004), the European city with the second most rainy days. According to the same statistics Moenchengladbach on the other side, with 107 days of rain, the least rainy city in Germany.
SeveralCologne was hit by the floods of the Rhine. The worst recorded flood occurred in February 1784, as occurred immediately after the extremely long and cold winter of 1783/84, a temperature. The Rhine was at that time solidly frozen and melting snow and ice up to date, ensuring a record level of 13.55 meters. The floods, which drove in heavy ice floes that devastated large parts of the bank building, and all ships. Individual buildings, including fixtures, failed because of the plaice gangs. 65 deaths were mourned. The mountain is located rechtsrheinisch M?lheim on the Rhine, now a suburb of Cologne was completely destroyed.
The name Cologne, in Roman times, going Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (CCAA), back to the Roman Empress Agrippina. The wife of Claudius was born on the Rhine, and let the oppidum Ubiorum bring (Ubiersiedlung) in the year 50 AD in the city. In Roman times it was sitting governor of the province of Germania Inferior. 80 AD, Cologne, the Eifel aqueduct was one of the longest Roman aqueducts in general. From the Latin Colonia, which continues to act in most Latin and a greater number of languages as a name for Cologne (for example, Italian and Spanish Colonia, Colonia Portuguese, Catalan Col?nia, Polish Kolonia, Kolonya Turkish, Arabic or?? ?? Kulunia; Dutch clubs) on Coellen, Collen, Colin developed, and Cologne, Cologne, the current name (see French and Prussian rule).
