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The city was burnt down by Vikings in the winter of 881/2. In the early 10th century, the dukes of Lorraine seceded from East Francia. Cologne passed to East Francia but was soon reconquered by Henry the Fowler, deciding its fate as a city of the Holy Roman Empire (and eventually Germany) rather than France.
310 - Bridge built over Rhine. 313 - Catholic diocese of Cologne established (approximate date). [2] 451 - The Huns under Attila sack Cologne. 459 - Ripuarian Franks take power. 475 - Becomes the residence of the Frankish king Childeric I. [1] 716 - Battle of Cologne. 795 - City becomes Archbishop's see.
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947, and the first head of the Commonwealth ...
2004–06. 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 (/ k ə ˈ l oʊ n / ⓘ kə-LOHN; German: Köln ⓘ; Kölsch: Kölle ⓘ) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
The Shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral Another view 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.
Cologne City Hall around 1900; the Loggia visible in the centre, Saalbau in centre right and Tower in the background. The City Hall is located on the site of the former Ancient Roman Praetorium, which until the year 475 was seat of the Roman Governor of Germania Inferior.
Unknown. Unknown. The Cologne War (‹See Tfd› German: Kölner Krieg, Kölnischer Krieg, Truchsessischer Krieg; 1583–1588) was a conflict between Protestant and Catholic factions that devastated the Electorate of Cologne, a historical ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, within present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.