Cologne - Remagen & Thurn

Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".

So far, I have nearly never noticed old hardware stores, but since I found Edward Bosen´s given up shop in Sülz, I see them everywhere. They all have their traditions. "G. Remagen & J. Thurn" is for sure the leading hardware shop in Rhiel. The gap between the two large houses, that now flank the shop, is probably the result of an air-raid damage.