Porz

Porz borders with the Cologne boroughs of Kalk and Innenstadt to the north, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis and Rhein-Sieg-Kreis to the east and south, and the Rhine to the west.

In the course of the local government reform in the 1970s in North Rhine-Westphalia, Porz was incorporated with Cologne.

Porz consists of 16 Stadtteile (city parts): Organisations based in Porz include The German Aerospace Center, TÜV Rheinland, The European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency, and the Cologne-Bonn airport.

[2] The Executive Transport Wing of the German Air Force is based on the military part of the Cologne-Bonn airport and contributes to the local economy by the large number of soldiers stationed there.

Regional train station include Porz (Rhein), Porz-Wahn, Köln-Steinstraße, and Köln-Airport Business Park.

Aerial photograph of Porz, looking west across the Rhine
Courtyard a of mid-18th-century Schloss in Wahn