The photograph taken from an elevated position shows a densely populated square or broad city street in Cologne, crowded with hundreds of people, market stalls, horse-drawn carts, and motor vehicles. On the right edge of the frame, multi-story commercial buildings with neoclassical façade elements are visible. The image conveys the bustling everyday life of a major German city in 1937 and serves in the travel film as a contrast to the landmark photographs of Cologne Cathedral. Such street and market scenes provided contemporary audiences with evidence of the pulsing economic life of the Rhine metropolis.