Poll, Cologne

is a quarter of the city of Cologne, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Polls natural border to the west is the Rhine.

To the south it is the Bundesautobahn 4 and the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge, to the east Bundesautobahn 559 and to the north the railroad embankment leading to the Südbrücke, which is crossing the Rhine.

Poll was already inhabited during the New Stone Age; etymologically the name originates in a meaning like Swamp.

April 1003[1] by monks from nearby Deutz Abbey, which was part of the Electorate of Cologne.