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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
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.
Height m (ft) Floors Year completed Use / Note Colonius: 266 m (873 ft) 1981 Telecommunications tower, Tallest structure in Cologne. Cologne Cathedral: 157.38 m (516 ft) 1880 Tallest twin-spired church in the world 1 Kölnturm: 148.5 m (487 ft) 43 2001 Tallest skyscraper in Cologne. With antenna spire 165.48 m (543 ft) tall 2 Colonia-Haus
List of highest church naves # Cathedral/Church Nave height City Country Notes 1 Beauvais Cathedral: 47 m (154 ft) [3] Beauvais: France: The "Parthenon of French Gothic", only one bay of the nave was built, but choir and transepts were completed to the same height.
One of Australia's largest churches and the third tallest after St Patrick's Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. 75 metres (246 ft) long and has a ceiling height of 24 metres (79 ft). The main spire is 87 metres (285 ft) high. [citation needed] Basilica of St. John the Baptist: 2,135 [citation needed] 64,040 [100] 1839–1855 St. John's Canada
The finials of Cologne Cathedral from the tops of the two towers (north and south towers) at a height of 149 to 157 metres. A copy of this finial in original size, but made of concrete, has stood below the steps in front of the west façade of the cathedral since 1991.
This source gave the height to height to width dimensions of 50 feet to 150 feet (3:1 ratio). The statement was later amended during the same cluster of edits in 2007 by the same user, to give the currently cited A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Banister Fletcher as a source and the ratio adjusted to the current 3.6:1.
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