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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, pronounced [ˌkœlnɐ ˈdoːm] ⓘ, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia belonging to the Catholic Church. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has designated 171 World Heritage Sites in Western Europe (including international dependencies).). These sites are located in 9 countries (also called "state parties"); Germany and France are home to the most with 46 and 45, while Liechtenstein, Monaco and the British Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Guernsey and ...
Until 1531, the cathedral served as the place where German kings were crowned. A minor boundary modification took place in 2013. [9] Speyer Cathedral: Rhineland-Palatinate: 1981 168; ii (cultural) The cathedral of Speyer was founded in 1030 by Conrad II and reconstructed at the end of the 11th century by Henry IV.
Paris, Banks of the Seine: Île-de-France: cultural 1991 2024 [29] 229 Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, and Place d'Alliance in Nancy: Grand Est: 18th century cultural 1983 - [30] 334 Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) Occitanie: 1st century AD cultural 1985 2007 [31] 873 Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs Île-de-France: cultural 2001 - [32] 872
The Shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral Another view Shrine of the Three Kings Köln The Shrine of the Three Kings [1] (German Dreikönigsschrein [2] or Der Dreikönigenschrein), [3] Tomb of the Three Kings, [4] or Tomb of the Three Magi [5] is a reliquary traditionally believed to contain the bones of the Biblical Magi, also known as the Three Kings or the Three Wise Men.
The most famous reference to the ZDV is in Heinrich Heine's satirical poem, Germany. A Winter's Tale (Deutschland.Ein Wintermärchen, 1844) chapter IV.Heine sees the Cologne Cathedral as a monument to Catholicism and un-Germanness, Christian intolerance, and Cologne as a truly bad city, and calls the promoters, including the Prussians and their king, confused and counter-productive.
UNESCO Reference no. Canada: L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site (F) Cultural: 4: Nahanni National Park: Natural: 24 Ecuador: City of Quito: Cultural: 2: Galápagos Islands (F) Natural: 1 Ethiopia: Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela: Cultural: 18: Simien National Park (F) Natural: 9 ( West Germany) Germany: Aachen Cathedral (F) Cultural: 3 ...
The reason for the large number of churches was that in the Middle Ages Cologne was, along with Paris, the largest and most important city north of the Alps, and both were already important centers in Roman antiquity (Cologne's name was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, the provincial capital of Germania Inferior).