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In Carolingian times, the Old Cathedral was built on Cologne Cathedral Hill and consecrated in 870. [17] The cathedral is now known as Hildebold Cathedral after Bishop Hildebold , who was a close advisor to Charlemagne and died in 818.
Meister Gerhard, Statue Cologne Cathedral medal 680th anniversary 1928 of the construction start by Meister Gerhard in 1248, obverse Meister Gerhard showing a plan of the cathedral at the reverse of this medal. Meister or Master Gerhard (c. 1210 allegedly in Reil – 24 or 25 April 1271 in Cologne) was the first master mason of Cologne Cathedral.
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.
1227 - St. Gereon's Basilica built. 1247 - St. Kunibert church consecrated. 1248 - Cologne Cathedral construction begins. [1] 1250 - Great St. Martin Church built. 1259 - Konrad von Hochstaden (Archbishop of Cologne) expels the Richerzeche. [1] 1260 - Church of the Minorites built (approximate date). [4] 1288 - Battle of Worringen.
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
Konrad von Hochstaden (or Conrad of Hochstadt) (1198/1205 – 18 September 1261) was Archbishop of Cologne from 1238 to 1261. [1] Konrad was a son of Count Lothar of Hochstadt, canon of St. Maria ad Gradus and of the old Cologne Cathedral, [1] and Mathilde of Vianden. His date of birth is unknown, and nothing is known of his early youth.
Previously, it was suggested that the first Cologne Cathedral stood at the site, but archaeological evidence has since ruled out this possibility. From documentation of the home in 965, it is known that Bruno the Great , archbishop of Cologne, designated 50 pounds of silver for the completion of the church building.
Zwirner, the architect of the Cologne Cathedral, built the synagogue on the site of the former Monastery of St. Clarissa, where a modest hall of prayer had been erected in the years of the French occupation and was closed in 1853 because it was unsafe.