Cologne - Edmund Bosen

Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".


Johann Wilhelm Bosen founded this hardware shop in 1875. Edmund Bosen run the shop in Köln-Sülz until his death in 1984. His wife Agnes closed the store end of 1998 for reasons of age. Since then the old shop has fallen into a deep sleep.