Großmarkt Köln, Wholesale market in Cologne, Germany

Großmarkt Köln was a wholesale market in Cologne-Raderberg, Marktstraße 10, closed at the end of 2025. Its centrepiece is a 132-metre-long parabolic vaulted hall with a 57-metre span and 22-metre crown height, built by Oberbaurat Theodor Teichen and entered on 1 November 1940. Vaulted cooling cellars lie beneath the entire hall, and the site covers 238,000 square metres.

The market opened in 1940 at the Bonntor site, with its main hall completed the previous year. Over the following decades it grew into a key supply point for restaurants and food traders across the wider region.

The name recalls Cologne's medieval "mercatus Coloniae", first recorded in 922 on today's Alter Markt, where the long old market street still runs toward Heumarkt. Trade there dealt in food, wine and grain. The Raderberg halls kept that wholesale function until operations ceased at the end of 2025.

The market ceased trading at the end of 2025, so there is no market activity to observe and no trade access to arrange. The site at Marktstraße 10, off Bonner Straße in Raderberg, is to be redeveloped as part of the Parkstadt Süd project. The 1939 parabolic hall, a protected monument since 23 October 1989, can still be viewed from outside.

The site was built on the Judenbüchel, a former Jewish cemetery recorded on the 1807/1808 Tranchot map as "Tödten Iuden"; the Nazi-era planners did not object. The market closed at the end of 2025, and the grounds are to be redeveloped as part of the Parkstadt Süd project.