Bayenthal (german: Köln-Bayenthal) is a neighbourhood of

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and part of the district of

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, Rad ...

. Bayenthal lies on the left bank of the river

Rhine The Rhine ; french: Rhin ; nl, Rijn ; wa, Rén ; li, Rien; rm, label=Sursilvan, Rein, rm, label=Sutsilvan and Surmiran, Ragn, rm, label=Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader and Puter, Rain; it, Reno ; gsw, Rhi(n), including in Alsatian dialect, Al ...

, between the district of Innenstadt to the North and Marienburg neighbourhood to the South. The borders to these are defined by the Southern Bridge (Südbrücke) and the Bayenthalgürtel of the

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respectively. To the West, Bayenthal borders with Raderberg. It combines the residential neighbourhoods from adjacent Marienburg with former industrial areas next to the old "Dom" brewery. Bayenthal has 10.285 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2019) and covers an area of 1,28 km² (pop.density of 8.015 inhabitants/km²).Kölner Stadtteilinformationen, Zahlen 2019
The neighbourhood is served by

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 t ...

lines 16 and 17.

References

External links

official site
Boroughs and quarters of Cologne Rodenkirchen {{Cologne-geo-stub