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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 tallest structure in Cologne is the Colonius telecommunications tower at 266 m (873 ft), followed by Cologne Cathedral at 157.38 m (516 ft). The criterion for skyscrapers is usually a height of 150 meters or more.
Cologne Cathedral: 157.4 m (516.4 ft) 4.2% 10 years Cologne: Only church with two main towers to ever have been the world's tallest since 1890 Ulm Minster: 161.5 m (529.9 ft) 2.6% 131 years Ulm: First time since 1311 that a church surpassed the original height of Lincoln Cathedral; intentionally built a few metres taller than Cologne Cathedral
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The Cologne Tower (German: KölnTurm) is a 44-storey office skyscraper in the Köln-Neustadt-Nord district of Cologne, Germany that stands 148.5 m (487 ft) high, or 165.48 m (542.9 ft), including its antenna. Construction of the tower lasted from June 1999 to November 2001.
Tower of Strasbourg Cathedral France: Strasbourg: 142 m (466 ft) 1874: 1876: Tower of St. Nikolai Germany: Hamburg: 147 m (482 ft) 1876: 1880: Tower of Rouen Cathedral France: Rouen: 151 m (495 ft) 1880: 1884: Tower of Cologne Cathedral Germany: Cologne: 157.38 m (516.3 ft) 1884: 1889: Washington Monument United States: Washington, DC: 169.3 m ...
On 11 October 1991, the Cologne Tourist Office had a newly created model of the finial erected in front of the cathedral. [6] The concrete model of the southern finial on a scale of 1:1 was placed 50 metres in front of the west façade of the cathedral between the street Unter Fettenhennen and the Domplatte . The faithful sculpture demonstrates ...
When work ceased in the 16th century all of the church except the towers and some outer decorations were complete, unlike at Cologne Cathedral, where less than half of the work had been done before construction halted in the 15th century. Visitors can climb the 768 steps that lead to the top of the minster's spire.