Where you can still find affordable property near Cologne

Cologne The prognoses for the turn of the millennium were wrong. “Luckily,” says Frank Stein, Ampel-Mayor in Bergisch Gladbach, “and now we have a very positive problem.” Nobody is talking about upcoming school closings and the shrinking population for a long time. Instead, city officials have to plan another primary school. It’s the twenty-first.

“We are an extremely young city,” emphasizes Stein. You can’t miss it on this cold morning in the pedestrian zone. With their heads bent over their cell phones, students line up in the meter-long line in front of the Bubbletea store. Shortly afterwards they sit all around on the benches, in a good mood crown their unexpected math class with rainbow-colored bubbles.