Nippes (German: Köln-Nippes [ˈkʰœlnipʰəs], Colognian: Neppes [ˈneˑpəs]) is the Fifth city district (Stadtbezirk) of Cologne, Germany. Nippes was merged into the city of Cologne in 1888, the district was formed in 1975. In Niehl, the North-eastern part of the district lies the large Ford Europe production plant. The district borders with the Cologne districts of Chorweiler to the North, Mülheim to the East, Innenstadt to the South and Ehrenfeld to the South-West.