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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.
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
Currently, the tallest skyscraper in Cologne is the Kölnturm. 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: Cologne: Germany: 516: 157: 1880: Yongning Pagoda (永宁宝塔) Luoyang: China: 448: 137~154.95: 516: Burned to the ground in 534 after being struck by lightning. Beauvais Cathedral: Beauvais: France: 156 (choir) 502 (tower) 47.5 (choir) 153 (tower) 1272/1569: From 1569 to 1573, the tower was the tallest structure on Earth ...
An essay in Early English Gothic with the tallest spire in England St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow The architecturally unique Basilica of Sagrada Família in Barcelona combines structural elements of the traditional Gothic cathedral with a style drawing on Art Nouveau, local tradition and the imagination of its creator, Antoni Gaudí.
Cologne Cathedral: 43.35 m (142.2 ft) [12] Cologne: Germany: Highest height to width ratio of any nave 12 Amiens Cathedral: 42.3 m (139 ft) [13] Amiens: France: 13 Seville Cathedral: 42 m (138 ft) [14] Seville: Spain: Ranked as largest medieval Gothic church 14 Metz Cathedral: 41.41 m (135.9 ft) Metz: France: Largest glass surface 15 St ...
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 ...
The original cathedral had two towers on the west façade, and then a central tower was built in the 14th century, topped by a wooden spire, which made it the tallest structure in the world for two hundred years. The other two towers were also given spires and raised in height. The great spire fell during a windstorm and was not replaced.