The Pascha , one of the largest brothels in the world and the largest in Europe, is a brothel in Cologne , Germany; it has prostitutes, over 80 supporting-role employees and up to 1, customers per day. It was Europe's first high-rise brothel. The city of Cologne wanted to eliminate the red light district "Kleine Brinkgasse" in the city centre and issued a licence to build the new brothel on land owned by the city in the outskirts of town.
The prostitutes sued against closure of the Kleine Brinkgasse area and ultimately lost. In the owner of the Eros Centre changed after foreclosure, and the new name "Pascha" was introduced.
The house rents rooms on 7 floors to prostitutes for a fee of Euro per day, which includes meals, medical care, and the 20 Euro tax that authorities collect per prostitute per day including Cologne's "pleasure tax" of 6 Euro. Some of the women live in their rooms, others rent a second room to stay in, while still others stay in their own apartments in Cologne. The house is open 24 hours a day; customers of the prostitutes pay an entrance fee of 5 Euro and then negotiate directly with the women, who work independently and keep all of the money.
One floor is reserved for low-cost service and another one for transgender prostitutes. The house also contains a regular hotel, a table dance nightclub with separate entrance, several bars, and a separate club-style brothel on the top floor. In , oral sex and intercourse cost about 50 Euro. The brothel advertises a money-back guarantee in the case of unsatisfactory service. In June , a Thai sex worker was stabbed to death by a customer in the Pascha; she managed to press the alarm button in her room and security personnel caught the murderer.
The woman working next-door alerted security and the perpetrator was caught; the victim survived. In , a German prostitute claimed that Eminem visited the brothel before taking her back to another nearby hotel for sex. After a police raid of the brothel in April , it was reported that a gun and some cocaine was found and 23 people were arrested, most of them because of suspected violation of immigration laws. Further it was reported that four of the prostitutes were between 14 and 15 years old.
