Appellhofplatz (KVB)
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Appellhofplatz is an underground station and hub on the Cologne Stadtbahn
Cologne Stadtbahn
The Cologne Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Cologne, including several surrounding cities...

 lines 3, 4, 5, 16 and 18 in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. More precisely, the station actually consists of two stations some 100 metres apart: Appellhofplatz/Zeughaus (for line 5) and Appellhofplatz/Breite Straße (for all other lines). The station is named after Appellhofplatz and lies in the district of Innenstadt
Innenstadt, Cologne
Innenstadt is the central city district of the City of Cologne in Germany.The district was established with the last communal land reform in 1975, and comprises Cologne's historic old town , the Gründerzeit era new town plus the right-Rhenish district of Deutz...

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The station was opened in 1968 and 1969 and consists of a mezzanine and two platform levels with four side platforms and four rail tracks.

Notable places nearby

  • Zeughaus
    Zeughaus
    The Zeughaus of Berlin is the oldest structure on the Unter den Linden. It was built by the Brandenburg Elector Frederick III between 1695 and 1730 in the baroque style, to be used as an artillery arsenal...

     and Museum of the City of Cologne (Kölnisches Stadtmuseum)
  • St. Maria in der Kupfergasse
    St. Maria in der Kupfergasse
    St. Maria in der Kupfergasse is a Baroque church in Cologne, western Germany, in the district of Innenstadt. The pilgrimage church is dedicated to St. Mary, the Black Madonna. It was completed in 1715 and measures 37.20 meters in length and 17.30 metres in width.- Sources :* Manfred Becker-Huberti,...

  • EL-DE Haus
    EL-DE Haus
    EL-DE Haus, officially the Nazism Documentation Center, located in Cologne, is the former headquarters of the Gestapo and now a museum documenting the Third Reich....

  • Breite Straße, shopping district
  • 4711 House
  • Cologne Opera
    Cologne Opera
    The Cologne Opera refers both to the main opera house in Cologne, Germany and to its resident opera company.-History of the company:...


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