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Maternus of Cologne was the first bishop of Cologne in around 313. [10] However, Cologne's Christian community, still small at this time, did not gather in a church, but in a residential building, which is thought to have been located on the cathedral hill below today's choir. [ 11 ]
Hence only the unified Germany is listed. [1] The zone Europe/Busingen was created in the 2013a release of the tz database, [2] because since the Unix time epoch in 1970, Büsingen has shared clocks with Zurich. [3] Büsingen did not observe DST in 1980 like the rest of West Germany, but did so from 1981 after Switzerland adopted DST.
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.
Köln Hauptbahnhof (English: Cologne Central Station) [6] is the central railway station of Cologne, Germany. The station is an important local, national and international transport hub , with many ICE , Eurostar and Intercity trains calling there, as well as regional Regional-Express , RegionalBahn and local S-Bahn trains.
The Mengenlehreuhr clock face utilizes 24 light switches (1+4+4+11+4=24) to display time in 0-24 hour, 0-59 minute and even/odd second. Second: The top big circular light is the second mark. Since 0 is represented as an OFF in the most logical circuit, It’s an even second when the light is OFF. When the second light is ON, it’s on an odd ...
As – at the time – one of Europe's busiest trading ports and largest city in Germany, the population of Cologne gradually changed from a mainly feudal society to free citizens. Documents from the years 1135 and 1152, recorded "a house in which citizen convene", [ 5 ] referring to the first established council hall, at the location of today ...
The Kölner Philharmonie is a symphonic concert hall located in Cologne, Germany. It is part of the building ensemble of the Museum Ludwig and was opened in 1986. [1] The Kölner Philharmonie is located close to the Cologne Cathedral and the Cologne Main Station. [2] The ensemble was designed by the architects Busmann + Haberer in the 1980s. [2]
All bells of the cathedral rang on the eve of 28 March 1936, a Friedensappell ("peace appeal") of Hitler, which he made in Cologne due to the Reichstag elections. [7] Likewise, the St. Petersglocke declared the end of World War II above the ruins of the city of Cologne in 1945, and in 1990 the reunification of Germany .