Zündorf

Zündorf (German: Köln-Zündorf) is a suburb of Cologne, Germany and part of the district of Porz.

The former village grew from a small trading post with staple rights on the Rhine isle of Groov, which nowadays is a peninsula and popular as a local recreation area with numerous outdoor restaurants as well as a rowing and pedal boat rental station.

In the past, a river branch had been separated from the Rhine by the Groov island, also called Mittelwerth.

Prone to silting, as a consequence of the 1831 staple right abolishment, the island was connected downstream to the mainland by a dam in 1849 and broadened in 1862 by newly established groynes.

The adjacent market place is equipped with foundations for a mobile flood protection wall and had been raised in comparison to the Rhine river in 1972 and subsequently in 2006.

Marina at Groov
Map of Zündorf (shown in red) within the district of Porz