Food & drink The typical Rheinland dishes are rustic but tasty. Try for instance fried black pudding with mashed potatoes, apple sauce and fried onions, called Himmel und Äd mit Flönz; big Schweinshaxe - pig's leg; or Soorbrode / Sauerbraten: meat marinated in vinegar with raisins, served with red cabbage and a dumpling. There are plenty of food stands and restaurants serving international food too. The typical Cologne beer - Kölsch - is served in small glasses, continuously, until you finally cover your
By car : The city centre is a Low Emission Zone, "Umweltzone", and special stickers on cars are required there. There are many park & ride parking lots; the city has a very good network of subway, trams and buses. A Call a Bike system is an option too. Moreover, the majority of the tourist attractions in the centre are within walking distance from each other.
When in 1794 the French seized Cologne, there were few traces of the splendor left. Poverty, desolation, and the domination of the Catholic Church, that owned two thirds of the land, had to be stopped. The Church was expropriated and Protestants and Jews were let in into the city. Cologne got its first hospital, street lighting, sewerage and waste disposal. Cologne was turned over to Prussia after the Vienna Treaty in 1815.
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