Cologne - Severinstrasse

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".
This is an important junction at the end of the Severinstrasse. The roads run to and from the Severinsbrücke, the urban trams serve the station, the bus stop is right on the bridge. In the "basement" is a subway station, planned and built as part of the new "Nord-Süd-Stadtbahn" (north-south rail). Numerous incidents occurred during the construction work, the most serious of which was the collapse of the Historical Archives of the City of Cologne in March 2009, just about 300 m from here. Since then everything is on halt.

The red building to the left is the Mercure hotel.