{"id":241,"date":"2020-07-01T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:27:42","slug":"koeln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/koeln\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u00f6ln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are 3 arches to the bridge and in each section there are 100 sections. Love locks are on both sides and in each section there are, as a conservative estimate, 900 love padlocks.<br>A rough calculation comes up with 630,000 padlocks!! If each padlock weighs an average of 75g then the total weight of all the padlocks is 47.4 tons! That\u2019s 2\/3 the weight of the space shuttle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"K\u00f6lner Dom\" class=\"wp-image-1118\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hello K\u00f6ln \/ Cologne!! \ud83d\ude03\ud83d\udeb4\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\udeb4\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83c\udf2a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kb-gallery-type-masonry.kb-gallery-id-241_991c84-98{margin:-5px;}.kb-gallery-type-masonry.kb-gallery-id-241_991c84-98 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item{padding:5px;}.kb-gallery-id-241_991c84-98 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-241_991c84-98 .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}.kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom.kb-gallery-id-241_991c84-98 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption, .kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover.kb-gallery-id-241_991c84-98 .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption{background:linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%);}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-241_991c84-98 alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-masonry kb-masonry-init kb-gallery-id-241_991c84-98 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"1\" data-columns-xl=\"1\" data-columns-md=\"1\" data-columns-sm=\"1\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-david-counting-padlocks.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1024px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-david-counting-padlocks-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"Liebesschl\u00f6sser an der Hohenzollernbr\u00fccke in K\u00f6ln\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-david-counting-padlocks.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-david-counting-padlocks.jpg\" data-id=\"1117\" class=\"wp-image-1117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-david-counting-padlocks-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-david-counting-padlocks-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-david-counting-padlocks-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-david-counting-padlocks.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">David counting the padlocks \ud83d\ude06<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-padlocks.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1024px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-padlocks-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"Liebesschl\u00f6sser an der Hohenzollernbr\u00fccke in K\u00f6ln\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-padlocks.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-padlocks.jpg\" data-id=\"1120\" class=\"wp-image-1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-padlocks-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-padlocks-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-padlocks-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-padlocks.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authorities have not removed them because the trains weigh more than 400 tons plus that would undermine the excellence of German engineering. Also, the Germans blew up their own bridge during WW2 to stop the Allies entering K\u00f6ln so they believe the bridge will survive now forever\u2026with or without the locks.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kb-gallery-type-masonry.kb-gallery-id-241_ed6243-6f{margin:-5px;}.kb-gallery-type-masonry.kb-gallery-id-241_ed6243-6f .kadence-blocks-gallery-item{padding:5px;}.kb-gallery-id-241_ed6243-6f .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-241_ed6243-6f .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}.kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom.kb-gallery-id-241_ed6243-6f .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption, .kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover.kb-gallery-id-241_ed6243-6f .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption{background:linear-gradient(0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8) 0, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%);}<\/style><div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-241_ed6243-6f alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-masonry kb-masonry-init kb-gallery-id-241_ed6243-6f kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"1\" data-columns-xl=\"1\" data-columns-md=\"1\" data-columns-sm=\"1\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-padlocks.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1024px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-padlocks-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"Liebesschl\u00f6sser an der Hohenzollernbr\u00fccke in K\u00f6ln\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-padlocks.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-padlocks.jpg\" data-id=\"1119\" class=\"wp-image-1119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-padlocks-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-padlocks-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-padlocks-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-dom-padlocks.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Liebesschl\u00f6sser an der Hohenzollernbr\u00fccke.<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-wurst.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1024px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-wurst-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"Abendessen Bratwurst Kartoffelsalat\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-wurst.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-wurst.jpg\" data-id=\"1121\" class=\"wp-image-1121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-wurst-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-wurst-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-wurst-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rhein13-koeln-wurst.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 3 arches to the bridge and in each section there are 100 sections. Love locks are on both sides and in each section there are, as a conservative estimate, 900 love padlocks.A rough calculation comes up with 630,000 padlocks!! If each padlock weighs an average of 75g then the total weight of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,9,10],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-bike-rheintour-2020","tag-e-bike","tag-rheintour","tag-rhein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4936,"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/4936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steffi-luka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}