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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.
In October 1794, the city of Cologne was captured and occupied for the next 20 years. This occupation put a definite end to the medieval traditions of the city, and began a strong anti-clerical movement in its place. As a result, the archbishopric in Cologne was ended in 1801, and the Cologne Cathedral was designated as a normal parish church.
Until 2007 it was located near Cologne Cathedral. Its new home, built from 2003 to 2007, was designed by Peter Zumthor and inaugurated by Joachim Meisner . The site was originally occupied by the romanesque Church of St. Kolumba , which was destroyed in World War II and replaced in 1950 by a Gottfried Böhm chapel nicknamed the "Madonna of the ...
The main entrance was also changed in the 19th century, and given a new entry in the Neo-Romantic style. [4] It remains on site, but is now walled up to suit the needs of the Schnütgen Museum. For a time, the building was also adjacedent to the first hospital in Cologne, for which the church offered services as a chapel.
This list of tallest buildings in Cologne ranks high-rise buildings and free standing structures that reach a height of 50 meters (164 feet) without superstructures. When it was completed in 1925, the Hansahochhaus was the tallest skyscraper in Europe for a short time.
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.
Cologne's towering cathedral, whose twin spires are 157 meters (515 feet) tall, is a major tourist destination visited by some 6 million people a year.
St. Gereon's Basilica, Cologne. floor plan. St. Gereon's Basilica (Basilika Sankt Gereon) is a German Roman Catholic church in Cologne, dedicated to Saint Gereon, and designated a minor basilica on 25 June 1920. The first mention of a church at the site, dedicated to St. Gereon, appears in 612.