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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.
1880 - Cologne Cathedral completed. 1885 Population: 239,437. [1] City walls dismantled. [1] 1888 - Bayenthal, Ehrenfeld, Lindenthal and Nippes incorporated into city. [4] Cologne in the 1890s. 1890 - Public Library established. 1894 - Main station rebuilt. 1900 - Population: 370,685. [1]
The first transatlantic tour of the Kölner Domchor was in 2002 to the United States and Canada. [2] A 2003 tour went to Erfurt, Dresden, Leipzig and Prague. The choir sang at the festival of the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra [] in Rome three times, in 2003 Bach's St John Passion, in 2006 a Mozart program, and in 2013, when Pope Francis from Buenos Aires took office, Palmeri's Misa a ...
The Shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral Another view Shrine of the Three Kings Köln 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.
World Youth Day in Cologne. Germany (18–21 August 2005) The Pope arrived in Germany on August 18 to participate in the 20th World Youth Day in Cologne.There he met with President Horst Köhler, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Leader of the Opposition Angela Merkel and others, and visited the famous Cologne Cathedral.
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.
The Cologne Cathedral quarter (German: Domumgebung) is the area immediately surrounding Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. When the Gothic cathedral was built, it was closely surrounded by houses and smaller churches. When the cathedral was completed in 1880 as a national symbol, it was freed from adjacent structures ...
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