Poll ( ; ) is a quarter of the city of

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

, in

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. It is part of the borough of

Porz Porz () is a borough, or '' Stadtbezirk,'' of Cologne, Germany. It is situated on the east side of the Rhine river in the south-east of the city. Porz is the largest borough of Cologne by area, with 78.92 km2 and has 113,500 inhabitants. ...

Location

Polls natural border to the west is the

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. To the south it is the

Bundesautobahn 4 is an autobahn in two discontinuous segments that crosses Germany in a west–east direction. The western segment has a length of , while the part in the east is long. Route The western A 4 starts north-west of Aachen, where the A ...

and the

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, to the east is Bundesautobahn 559, and to the north is the railroad embankment leading to the Südbrücke, which is crossing the Rhine.

History

Poll was already inhabited during the New Stone Age; etymologically the name originates in a meaning like Swamp. The first documented mention of Poll was on 1 April 1003, by monks from nearby

Deutz Abbey Deutz Abbey ( or ''Abtei Deutz'') was a Benedictine monastery located at Deutz, now part of Cologne as Köln-Deutz, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in 1003 on the site of a Roman fort by the future Saint Heribert, Archbishop of ...

, which was part of the

Electorate of Cologne The Electorate of Cologne (), sometimes referred to as Electoral Cologne (), was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the 10th to the early 19th century. It consisted of the Hochstift—the temporal posses ...

. The village Poll was suburbanized in 1889, and became a quarter of Cologne. Since 1975. it is part of the borough of Porz.

Transportation

Poll is served by the Bundesautobahn 4, Bundesautobahn 559 and three light rail stations of the

Cologne Stadtbahn The Cologne Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Cologne, including several surrounding cities of the Cologne Bonn Region (Bergisch Gladbach, Bonn, Bornheim, Brühl, Frechen, Hürth, Leverkusen-Schlebusch, Wesseling). The te ...

line 7. The Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge connects Poll with

Rodenkirchen Rodenkirchen () is a southern borough (''Stadtbezirk'') of Cologne (Köln) in Germany. It has about 110,000 inhabitants and covers an area of . The borough includes the quarters Bayenthal, Godorf, Hahnwald, Immendorf, Marienburg, Meschenich, R ...

. It was destroyed by an airstrike on 14 January 1945, but was rebuilt from 1952 to 1954. The Südbrücke was also destroyed in January 1945 and is in service again since 1950. This railway bridge is used mainly for goods traffic.

References

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