The town consists of thirteen districts, once independent villages, and is distributed over a relatively large area.

Hürth is situated about 6 km to the southwest of Cologne city centre, at the northeastern slope of the Kottenforst-Ville nature reserve.

The town, consisting of thirteen formerly independent villages, is essentially made up of numerous subdivisions and commercial centres distributed over a relatively large area.

On 6 June 1869 this church was replaced with a solid building, consecrated by auxiliary bishop Baudri.

On 31 October 1944 large parts of Efferen, including the church and the hospital, were destroyed in an air raid; thirty-six people died.

Two years later, on 25 November 1956, a new Roman Catholic church, which was designed by the Cologne architects Wolfram Borgard and Fritz Volmer, was consecrated by auxiliary bishop Wilhem Cleven.

Hürth-Mitte is also the site of the Hürth Park, a shopping mall, which serves as the town's economic and social centre.

A couple of springs and streams in today's municipal area were used for that purpose before the Eifel aqueduct was built.

Tower 93 of Facility 4101, situated north of Bleibtreusee at 50°50′52.57″N 6°51′32.54″E / 50.8479361°N 6.8590389°E / 50.8479361; 6.8590389, is a 74.84 metres tall electricity pylon, capable of carrying four 380 kV-circuits, which was built in 1975 as strainer for the double-circuit 380 kV-line Oberzier-Sechtem.

In 2002 two single-phase AC circuits of the 110 kV-line Cologne-Sindorf used by the German railway company, DB AG, were installed on its lowest crossbar.

In 2010 the observation platform, including the staircase, was removed, after repeated vandalism, which concerned also parts important for the integrity of the pylon.

Today only a concrete plate between its legs and a pattern in the form of an inverted "v" in its lattice structure remember to the former observation deck.