

| Artwork and lush vegetation fight to take over the Atelierstandort Nippes, an abandoned railway repair yard within the metro area of Cologne. |
| Primal, stone-carved faces peep above untrimmed bushes. Small, two-dimensional animals run and scamper along a rusting, elevated coal belt, which winds among a square kilometer or so of delipatated brick buildings and crumbling ashalt roads. |
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| Welcome to Cologne's biggest art colony. This is where you'll find some of the most innovative artists in Cologne's huge art scene - an art scene long supported by the Rhineland's economic prosperty and long-standing appreciation of the arts.
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