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St. Gereon's Basilica is a German Roman Catholic church in Cologne, dedicated to Saint Gereon, and designated a minor basilica on 25 June 1920. The first mention of a church at the site, dedicated to St. Gereon, appears in 612. However, the building of the current choir gallery, apse, and transepts occurred later, beginning under Archbishop Arnold II von Wied in 1151 and ending in 1227. It is one of twelve great churches in Cologne that were built in the Romanesque style.
The Church of St. Gereon in the Cologne district of Merheim is a Roman Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is part of the Catholic Parish Association of Brück-Merheim. The church, consecrated in honour of St. Gereon of Cologne, was built around 1820 after the demolition of the old Romanesque church.
The Great Saint Martin Church is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Its foundations rest on remnants of a Roman chapel, built on what was then an island in the Rhine. The church was later transformed into a Benedictine monastery. The current buildings, including a soaring crossing tower that is a landmark of Cologne's Old Town, were erected between 1150-1250. The architecture of its eastern end forms a triconch or trefoil plan, consisting of three apses around the crossing, similar to that at St. Maria im Kapitol. The church was badly damaged in World War II; restoration work was completed in 1985.
The Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln is a municipal formal park and botanical garden located adjacent to Cologne Zoological Garden at Amsterdamer Straße 34, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is open daily without charge.
St. Maria im Kapitol is an 11th-century Romanesque church located in the Kapitol-Viertel in the old town of Cologne, Germany. The name “im Kapitol“ refers to the Roman temple for the Capitoline Triad that was built on today’s site of the church in the first century. The Catholic church is based on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, was dedicated to St. Mary and built between 1040 and 1065. It is one of twelve Romanesque churches built in Cologne during this period.
The Cologne Chocolate Museum is a special museum for chocolate in the Altstadt-Süd district of Cologne. The exhibition building on a peninsula in the Rheinauhafen houses, among other things, a collection of the history of chocolate and a permanent exhibition on modern chocolate production.
The Rheinauhafen is a 15.4 hectares urban regeneration project in Cologne, Germany, located along the river Rhine between the Südbrücke and Severinsbrücke, just south of the inner city's historic old town.
Cologne Cathedral 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. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 6 million people a year. At 157 m (515 ft), the cathedral is the tallest twin-spired church in the world, the second tallest church in Europe after Ulm Minster, and the third tallest church of any kind in the world.
9. Persian Onager
The onager, also known as hemione or Asiatic wild ass, is a species of the family Equidae native to Asia. A member of the subgenus Asinus, the onager was described and given its binomial name by German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas in 1775. Six subspecies have been recognized, two of which are extinct.
10. Archäologische Zone / Neubau Jüdisches Museum „MiQua“
The MiQua – LVR-Jewish Museum in the Archaeological Quarter of Cologne is an approximately 6,000 m² archaeological excavation area on and around the Rathausplatz in the center of the city of Cologne. The site is archaeologically relevant for Roman times, Jewish history and the Middle Ages in Cologne. On the town hall square, which was no longer built on after the destruction in the Second World War, a museum for the Jewish history of the city is to be built after the excavations are completed.
11. DITIB-Zentralmoschee
The Cologne Central Mosque is a building commissioned by German Muslims of the Organization DİTİB for a large, representative Zentralmoschee in Cologne, Germany. This mosque was inaugurated by Turkish President Erdogan. After controversy, the project won the approval of Cologne's city council.
12. Lommi-Brunnen
The Lommerzheim, also known as Lommi, is a restaurant in Cologne-Deutz that was run in its original form from 1959 to New Year's Eve 2004 by the innkeepers Hans and Annemie Lommerzheim. The combination of a dilapidated and neglected-looking building, the interior furnishings, which apparently never been renovated, and the idiosyncrasies of the landlord couple earned the pub the reputation as the "most Cologne of all Cologne pubs". After several years of vacancy, the restaurant was renovated in the style of the furnishings of the old restaurant and reopened in March 2008.
13. Kreissparkasse Köln
Kreissparkasse Köln is a German savings bank and universal bank based in Cologne at Neumarkt 18–24. Its sponsor is a special-purpose association and not, as its name suggests, the no longer existing district of Cologne. It is therefore a special-purpose savings bank.
14. St. Stephan
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Stephen was built between 1884 and 1887 according to plans by August Carl Lange and Robert Mohr in Cologne-Lindenthal. It was one of the first churches in Germany to be destroyed on May 27/28, 1941. Only the church tower was restored in a modified form after the Second World War. The church tower and some of the church's furnishings were placed under monument protection on 24 July 1985 and 19 June 2001 and entered into the list of monuments of the city of Cologne.
15. Pegel Köln
The Cologne gauge is located in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord on the left bank of the Rhine and measures the water level of the Rhine at river kilometre 688. It is one of 22 gauges on the Rhine and, along with the Kaub gauge, the most important. It is operated by the Rhine Waterways and Shipping Authority.
16. Düxer Bock
The Düxer Bock is the unofficial heraldic animal of the Cologne district of Deutz. Numerous associations and initiatives have the Düxer Bock in their name, logo or as a mascot. Since 1964, there has also been a monument with an image of the Düxer Bock created by Gerhard Marcks in Deutz and commemorates the urban legend.
17. Star-Pit
Otto Piene was a German-American artist specializing in kinetic and technology-based art, often working collaboratively. He lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Germany; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Groton, Massachusetts.
18. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corboud
The Wallraf–Richartz Museum is an art museum in Cologne, Germany, with a collection of fine art from the medieval period to the early twentieth century. It is one of the three major museums in Cologne.
19. Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of modern art. It includes works from Pop Art, Abstract and Surrealism, and has one of the largest Picasso collections in Europe. It holds many works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
20. St. Mariä Himmelfahrt
The Catholic parish church of St. Mary's Assumption was for a long time the largest church in Cologne after the cathedral and is one of the few remaining architectural testimonies of the Baroque in the city. The former Jesuit college church, located on Marzellenstraße near the cathedral, was built according to plans by Christoph Wamser, who had already built the Jesuit church in Molsheim (Alsace). This church also served as a direct model for St. Mary's Assumption. Wamser is also documented as a construction manager until 1623. After that, Valentin Boltz from Thuringia took over the construction management and interior design.
21. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is a Protestant church in the Belgian Quarter in Cologne's Neustadt district, originally built in the neo-Gothic style according to plans by the architects August Hartel (1844–1890) and Skjøld Neckelmann (1854–1903) by diocesan master builder Heinrich Wiethase (1833–1893). In February 2014, the nave was demolished by decision of the Evangelical Community of Cologne in order to build a smaller nave and a residential and commercial property with parish rooms on the site according to plans by Klaus Hollenbeck Architekten and MAIER ARCHITEKTEN. The church was reconsecrated in 2016.
22. Sankt Engelbert
St. Engelbert is a Catholic church in Cologne-Riehl, Germany. It was built from 1930 to 1932 according to a design by the architect Dominikus Böhm and is considered the first modern church building in Cologne and also one of the original buildings of modern church architecture.
23. St. Johannisgemeinde
The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany. It is a member of the European Lutheran Conference and of the International Lutheran Council (ILC). The SELK has about 33,000 members in 174 congregations. The seat of SELK is in Hanover.
Wikipedia: Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church (EN), Website
24. Ulrepforte
The Ulrepforte was built in the early 13th century as part of the medieval city wall of Cologne. It was first mentioned in a document in 1245. The Ulrepforte has been preserved with major structural changes. In front of it, the Sachsenring road passes as part of the Cologne Rings.
25. Straßenbahnmuseum
The Thielenbruch Tram Museum presents the history of rail-bound urban transport in Cologne. It is located in the Cologne district of Dellbrück and was opened in 1997. In a wagon shed from 1906 on the eastern outskirts of Cologne, the collection of vehicles of the Cologne Transport Authority, which has been gradually built up since the 1960s and 1970s, is presented. With around two dozen tram vehicles, some of which are ready for operation, it offers an overview of the development of this means of transport from horse-drawn trams to light rail vehicles. The association "Historische Straßenbahn Köln e. V." runs the museum on a voluntary basis. The building complex also houses the inn in the museum.
26. Stadtwald
The Cologne City Forest is a spacious park created at the end of the 19th century in the western Cologne district of Lindenthal. The green area, which is equipped with a game reserve, ponds and water canals as well as sports and playgrounds and an extensive network of paths, is a popular local recreation area on the left bank of the Rhine.
27. St. Gregorius am Elend
St. Gregorius im Elend, sometimes also called St. Gregorius Am Elend and in the vernacular Elendskirche, is a late Baroque style church in Cologne's Old Town. The church is a reconstruction of the 18th century building destroyed in the Second World War. It is located between Sionstal Street, Arnold-von-Siegen-Straße and Severinstraße on An St. Katharinen Street.
28. Bayenturm
The Bayenturm is a medieval fortified tower in the city center of Cologne. The defiant Bayenturm, built like a castle, was built around 1220 as part of the eight-kilometre-long medieval city fortifications. The southern corner tower of the city wall on the Rhine is today one of the few testimonies of this complex, which enclosed Cologne for 700 years. The tower is about 35 meters high with a ground floor and four upper floors including battlements. Today, the Bayenturm is the headquarters of the non-profit foundation "FrauenMediaTurm".
29. Deutsches Sport- und Olympiamuseum
The German Sport & Olympic Museum is a museum in Cologne that presents the history of sports from antiquity to modern times. It is located in Cologne's Rheinauhafen within the Cologne-Altstadt-Süd district.
30. Kölner Zoo
The Aktiengesellschaft Cologne Zoological Garden is the zoo of Cologne, Germany. Being the third oldest zoo in Germany, it features over 10,000 animals of more than 850 species on more than 20 hectares. The internationally renowned zoo with an attached aquarium and invertebrate exhibit is active in preservational breeding of animals that are in danger of becoming extinct. In addition, in-the-wild conservation efforts and research focussing on animals of Madagascar, Wallacea, and Vietnam are actively promoted and supported via cooperation with Cologne University and local projects, such as in the case of Przewalski's horses.
31. Kartäuserkirche
The Carthusian Church is the church of the former Carthusian monastery in Cologne, founded in 1334, the Cologne Charterhouse. Today, the church serves as a parish church for the Protestant congregation of Cologne.
32. St. Maria vom Frieden
Maria vom Frieden is a baroque church in the southern old town of Cologne. The convent church of a convent of the Discalced Carmelites was consecrated in 1692 after several years of construction. The patronage refers to a miraculous image of the Mother of God, which was bequeathed to the convent in 1642 as an inheritance. In April 1942, the church and monastery were largely destroyed, but between 1947 and 1957 they were gradually rebuilt in the old style.
33. Domschatzkammer
The Cologne Cathedral Treasury of the Metropolitan Chapter of the High Cathedral Church belongs to Cologne Cathedral. It is located on the north side of the cathedral. Large parts of the Cologne Cathedral Treasury are exhibited in it. Christian art from the 4th to the 20th century is shown there. The cathedral treasury was inaugurated on 21 October 2000 and was heavily criticised at the time. Many felt that the cube encased in dark bronze plates, which represents the entrance area to the cathedral treasury, was a foreign body in front of the Gothic north façade of the cathedral.
34. Der Schwebende
The Floating Angel, also known as the Floating Angel or Güstrow Memorial, is a bronze sculpture created by Ernst Barlach in 1927, the first cast of which has been lost and of which three bronze recasts and a plaster cast exist today.
35. St. Heribert
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Heribert is a three-aisled pillar basilica in the Cologne district of Deutz. In the vernacular, the church is also known as Düxer Cathedral. The showpiece of the church is the Heribertschrein, which preserves the relics of Archbishop Heribert of Cologne and founder of Deutz Abbey.
36. Historical watertower
Chemische Fabrik Kalk (CFK) was a German chemicals company based in Kalk, a city district of Cologne. The company was founded in 1858 as Chemische Fabrik Vorster & Grüneberg, Cöln by Julius Vorster and Hermann Julius Grüneberg and was renamed to Chemische Fabrik Kalk GmbH in 1892. At times the company was the second-largest German producer of soda ash and was, with almost 2400 employees, one of the largest employers in Cologne. For decades the chimneys and the water tower of the factory dominated the skyline of Cologne-Kalk.
37. Krieler Dom (St. Stephanus)
The church Alt St. Stephan, called Krieler Dömchen, is the oldest church building in Cologne-Lindenthal and the second oldest in Cologne after St. Gereon. The year of its foundation as a Christian church is unknown. The church is one of the 13 small Romanesque former village churches in front of Cologne's medieval city wall, which today belong to Cologne. It is looked after by the Förderverein Romanische Kirchen Köln. Until the consecration of the new parish church of St. Stephan in Bachemer Straße in 1887, Alt St. Stephan served as a parish church for the people of Krieler and the rest of the Catholic population of Lindenthal.
38. Severinstorburg
The Severinstorburg, in the Middle Ages also called "Porta (Sancti) Severini", later Severinsportz(en), Severinspforte, in Cologne Vringspooz or simply Severinstor, is one of four surviving city gates of the medieval city wall of Cologne, it is the landmark of the Severinsviertel in Cologne along with St. Severin and an excellent example of medieval fortification architecture.
39. Auferstehungskirche Buchforst
The Church of the Resurrection, known as Kulturkirche Ost in Cologne-Buchforst, is a modern Protestant church building with a community centre inaugurated in 1968, designed by the architects Georg Rasch and Winfried Wolsky. In 2012, the municipal housing association GAG Immobilien took over the sponsorship to promote the location through cultural events. The church is considered an outstanding example of Protestant church architecture of the post-war period and was placed under monument protection in 1992 with the inclusion of the courtyard paving. The buildings were abandoned by the Protestant parish in May 2005 and given a new use as part of a model project. The church building and the paving of the courtyard were preserved, the outbuildings were renewed.
Wikipedia: Auferstehungskirche (Köln-Buchforst) (DE), Website
40. Dionysosmosaik
The Peristyle House with the Dionysus Mosaic is a Roman dwelling house, the remains of which were found in 1941 during the excavation of an air-raid shelter, the cathedral bunker, near Cologne Cathedral.
41. Trinitatiskirche
The Trinitatiskirche is the oldest newly built Protestant church in Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine. It is located in the southern old town on Filzengraben, near the Heumarkt. Due to the depopulation of the city centre, it no longer holds regular community services, but it does host central events of the Protestant Church Association for the Cologne region, services on special occasions, concerts and art exhibitions. The Trinity Church serves as a place of worship for the Protestant deaf community. The cultural partner is the WDR Radio Choir.
42. ruhender Verkehr
Stationary Traffic is an action sculpture on Cologne's Hohenzollernring, created in 1969 by Wolf Vostell – it consists of a car completely encased in concrete, whose contours have been preserved in a roughly simplified form and ironically depicts "stationary traffic" on public roads.
43. DOMiD
DOMiD is a registered association in Cologne that collects, preserves, researches and exhibits materials on the history of migration. The history of immigration in Germany is to be presented to a broad audience. In addition to its museum and archival work, DOMiD organizes events, conferences and lectures. The aim is to convey migration as a normal case. Since 2010, DOMiD has been located in the district town hall in Cologne-Ehrenfeld.
44. Synagoge im Jüdischen Wohlfahrtszentrum
The Jewish Welfare Center is a large Jewish social institution located in the former buildings of the "Israelite Asylum for the Sick and the Elderly" at Ottostraße 85 in the Neuehrenfeld district of Cologne. The centre looks back on an eventful and eventful history. The new and converted building complex, which was occupied in 2003, now houses facilities of the Cologne synagogue community such as administration, social counselling, daycare centre, primary school and a parents' home as a Jewish institution for the elderly.
45. St. Maria ad Ortum
Maria ad Ortum was a three-aisled late Romanesque church of the Cistercian order "zo sent Marie garden", Mariengarten, in Cologne, which was abolished and laid down during the French period. It is still remembered today by a street name and a chapel bearing its old Latin name.
46. St. Pantaleon's Church
The Church of Saint Pantaleon is an early Romanesque church in Cologne, Germany. The church dates back to the 10th century and is one of the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne. The former monastery church is consecrated to Saint Pantaleon and the Saints Cosmas and Damian and is the oldest church of the cult of Saint Pantaleon west of Byzantium. The empress Theophanu and the archbishop Bruno the Great are buried in the church, which also contains shrines of saints Alban, the first Christian martyr of Britain, and Maurinus of Cologne. Pope Benedict XVI visited the church in 2005.
47. Optischer Telegraph
The Prussian Semaphore System was a telegraphic communications system used between Berlin and the Rhine Province from 1832 to 1849. It could transmit administrative and military messages by optical signal over a distance of nearly 550 kilometres (340 mi). The telegraph line comprised 62 stations each furnished with a signal mast with six cable-operated arms. The stations were equipped with telescopes that operators used to copy coded messages and forward them to the next station. Three dispatch departments located in Berlin, Cologne and Koblenz handled the coding and decoding of official telegrams. Although electric telegraphy made the system obsolete for military use, simplified semaphores were still used for railway signals.
48. Tanzbrunnen
The Tanzbrunnen is a venue in Cologne, Germany, located north of the old exhibition halls on the right bank of the Rhine in the Deutz district. With around 30,000 m², it is the largest part of the approximately 48,500 m² Rhine Park. The Tanzbrunnen offers space for up to 12,500 spectators at major events such as open-air concerts. The site includes the open-air stage, the Theater am Tanzbrunnen, the Rheinterrassen restaurant and, since 2004, the km 689 Cologne Beach Club with a beach area of 3,500 m² on the banks of the Rhine.
49. Bastei
The Bastei is a building in Cologne-Neustadt-Nord, located at the northern end of the Cologne Rings directly on the banks of the Rhine. Since its opening on 22 October 1924, the building with a usable area of 300 m² has served as a panoramic restaurant, although operations have been suspended since 2019 due to structural defects.
50. Hahnentorburg
The Hahnentorburg is one of originally twelve gate castles in the eight-kilometre-long medieval city wall of Cologne (1180–1220) and secured the western access to the city on the road to Aachen and Jülich. It is located on today's Rudolfplatz.
51. Skulptur am Fort
The Cologne Fortress Museum is a museum run by volunteers, some of which is still under construction, which aims to document and present the entire Prussian fortifications in Cologne. The museum has existed since 2004 in Zwischenwerk VIII b in the former outer fortress ring of Cologne in the Cologne district of Marienburg.
52. St. Ursula
The Basilica church of St. Ursula is located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is built upon the ancient ruins of a Roman cemetery, where the 11,000 virgins associated with the legend of Saint Ursula are said to have been buried. The church has an impressive reliquary created from the bones of the former occupants of the cemetery. It is one of the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne and was designated a Minor Basilica on 25 June 1920. While the nave and main tower are Romanesque, the choir has been rebuilt in the Gothic style.
53. Lutherkirche Südstadt
The Luther Church is a Protestant church in Cologne's Südstadt district. The church forms a separate district of the Evangelical Community of Cologne, which belongs to the church district of Cologne-Mitte of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
54. Christi Auferstehung
Christ's resurrection is a Catholic church in the Lindenthal district of Cologne, which was built in 1968–1970 according to plans by the architect Gottfried Böhm and consecrated in 1971. It is considered a typical example and conclusion of a series of very plastic, sculptural buildings of the architect.
55. Synagoge Köln
Roonstrasse Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 50 Roonstraße in Cologne, Germany. The synagogue is the only surviving of the five synagogues of Cologne before the Nazi era.
56. Overstolzenhaus
The Overstolzenhaus in Cologne is one of the oldest buildings in the city of Cologne, is the oldest surviving patrician house in Germany along with the Trier Dreikönigenhaus and was mainly used as a residential building. It is somewhat hidden in Rheingasse 8, Altstadt-Süd.
57. St. Clemens
St. Clemens is a former boatmen's church in the Cologne district of Mülheim, on the right bank of the Rhine. The church, which stands directly on the banks of the Rhine, was built as a Romanesque hall church of the 12th/13th century. For centuries it was a branch church of the parish church of St. Mauritius in Buchheim, was elevated to a parish church after its destruction in 1796 and remained the only Catholic church in Mülheim. With the construction of the new Church of Our Lady in 1864, it lost its parish rights and became a subsidiary church again. Together with seven other churches, it now belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Clemens and Mauritius, which includes the districts of Mülheim, Buchheim and Buchforst.
58. Volkssternwarte Köln
The Cologne Public Observatory is a volunteer-run observatory in the district of Cologne-Sülz, which belongs to the district of Cologne-Lindenthal. It is located on the roof of the Schiller Gymnasium there at Nikolausstraße 55.
59. Richmodis-Haus
The Richmodis-Haus is a commercial building in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord, at Neumarkt 8-10/corner of Richmodstraße 2. A special feature of this house with a stone façade is the octagonal Richmodis Tower, renovated in 1928, where two horses' heads look out of the upper window. These horse heads go back to the old Cologne Richmodis legend about Richmodis von Aducht.
60. Deutsches Tanzarchiv
The Deutsche Tanzarchiv Köln is a national information and research centre for concert dance in Germany. It is located in the MediaPark in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, with an archive, library, video library and museum on the history around dance for an audience.
61. Hl. Konstantin u. Helena
The Church of St. Maria Ablass was a three-aisled basilica with a western quadrangle tower in the northern Cologne suburb of Niederich. It was first mentioned as St. Mary's Church in 927 and was the parish church of the St. Ursula convent until 1804. It was abandoned in 1808 as a result of secularization and the dissolution of the monastery, as it did not become a parish church again. The small Marian chapel, the Maria Ablass Chapel, which was formerly attached to it, commemorates them. Today it is used as the St. Constantine and Helena Church by the Russian Orthodox community of Cologne.
62. Neu St. Alban
Neu St. Alban is a parish church in the Neustadt-Nord district of Cologne, Germany. The church was built in 1958/1959 according to plans by Hans Schilling from rubble bricks. Among other things, building material from the Cologne Opera, which was slightly damaged in the Second World War and demolished in 1958, was used. From the church of Alt St. Alban next to the Gürzenich, preserved furnishings were taken over.
63. Der Tauzieher
The Tauzieher is a limestone sculpture by Nikolaus Friedrich which was erected in 1911 in Rheinauhafen, Cologne. It depicts a man making a heavy rope or hawser fast to a bollard and is 6.5 metres in height. In 1980, it was listed as one of the first heritage sites in Cologne.
64. Kallendresser
The Kallendresser has played a role as a figure in Cologne since the Middle Ages. It can be found, for example, on the consoles of the figures in Cologne's town hall tower, which depict men stretching their bare buttocks towards the viewer.
65. Taubenbrunnen
The Pigeon Fountain is a fountain sculpture designed by Ewald Mataré and erected in 1953 in the Cologne district of Altstadt-Nord, located in front of the west side of Cologne Cathedral or the Domplatte.
66. Schloss Wahn
Schloss Wahn is a three-winged palace complex built according to the plans of the architect Johann Georg Leydel in the late Baroque style in the Cologne district of Wahn, which corresponded to the model of a French "Maison de plaisance", but also fulfilled its purpose as an estate. The building ensemble of the castle has been protected as an architectural monument since 9 November 1982.
67. St. Paul
St. Paul is the name of a neo-Gothic parish church consecrated in 1908 on Vorgebirgstraße/Lothringer Straße in the district of Innenstadt (Neustadt-Süd). The name of the Archbishop of Cologne, Paulus Melchers, was also the inspiration for this. The patronage comes from the former Romanesque parish church and parish of St. Paul, which belonged to the collegiate church of St. Andreas and was located east of it. This was demolished in 1807.
68. Dreikönigenpförtchen
The hidden Epiphany Gate is the only one of the gates of Cologne's many former monastic immunity districts to have been preserved. At the walls of these monasteries and monasteries, the city's legislative power and tax sovereignty ended. The gate connects the Lichhof of the Church of St. Maria in the Capitol with Marienplatz. The small gate is not to be confused with the medieval Three Kings Gate, a gateway of the city fortifications on the Rhine side that was demolished in 1854.
69. Zur heiligen Familie
Zur Heiligen Familie in the Cologne district of Sülz is a church building in Sülz, which functioned as the church of the former orphanage on the Sülzgürtel. It was profaned after 2010 and converted into a cultural and multifunctional centre as part of the housing development of the surrounding area.
70. Kalker Kapelle
The Kalk Chapel in Cologne was rebuilt between 1948 and 1950 after its destruction in the Second World War. It has its origins in the early modern period around 1666/67. The chapel is located in the district of Kalk at the junction of the streets Kalker Hauptstraße and Kapellenstraße, which branches off southeast in the direction of the district of Vingst.
71. Röhrenbunker
The Reichenspergerplatz court building is a historic building in Cologne-Neustadt-Nord. The building, which today houses the Cologne Higher Regional Court, the Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office and parts of the Cologne District Court, is a listed building. Since the end of 2017, the building has also been the headquarters of the victim protection commissioner of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
72. Opernbrunnen
The Cologne Opera Fountain is a fountain on Cologne's Offenbachplatz in front of the Cologne Opera. It was inaugurated on 21 December 1966 and finally put into operation in 1967. To this day, it is of great importance in terms of urban planning and architecture. The fountain sculpture was designed and realized by the Cologne artist Jürgen Hans Grümmer.
73. Christuskirche Dellbrück
The Christuskirche is a Protestant church in the Cologne suburb of Dellbrück on the right bank of the Rhine. It was built in the neo-baroque style according to plans by the architect Otto March and ceremonially inaugurated on 18 June 1905.
74. St. Nikolaus
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas on Berrenrather Straße at Nikolausplatz in Cologne-Sülz belongs to the parish of St. Nicholas and Charles Borromeo. Together with the Church of St. Bruno in Cologne-Klettenberg, it forms the pastoral care area of Sülz-Klettenberg in the deanery of Cologne-Lindenthal.
75. NS-Dokumentationszentrum
The NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne(German: NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln) was founded by a resolution passed by the Cologne city council on December 13, 1979, and has become the largest regional memorial site in all of Germany for the victims of the Nazis. Since 1988, it has been housed in "EL-DE Haus," the EL-DE building, named for the initials of its owner, Catholic businessman Leopold Dahmen. This building was the headquarters of the Cologne Gestapo between December 1935 and March 1945. In the final months of the war, several hundred people, most of them foreign forced laborers, were murdered in the courtyard of the building. In a bit of historical irony, the EL-DE building remained largely untouched by the ravages of the war.
Wikipedia: NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne (EN), Website
76. Kölnisches Stadtmuseum
The Kölnische Stadtmuseum is the municipal history museum of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is housed in the former Franz Sauer fashion house since March 2024, which has been completely remodelled for the museum. The site is centrally located between the Minorite Church, Museum Kolumba and Breite Straße.
77. COMEDIA Theater
The COMEDIA Theater is an independent children's and youth theater based in Cologne's Südstadt. The theatre was founded in Würzburg in 1974 under the name "Ömmes & Oimel" and has been based in Cologne since 1977.
78. Alt St. Maternus
The church Alt Sankt Maternus, also called the "Kapellchen", is located close to the Rhine in the old historic town center of the Cologne suburb of Cologne-Rodenkirchen. The church is one of the 13 small Romanesque former village churches in front of the medieval city wall of Cologne. It is supervised by the Romanesque Churches Cologne Association.
79. St. Mariä Geburt
St. Mariä Geburt is a Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church in Cologne-Stammheim. The miraculous image of the Joyful Mother venerates the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Cologne, St. Mary. The pilgrimage season is the feast of Ascension Day and the festive octave around 8 September.
80. Weckschnapp
Weckschnapp is the name given to a medieval turret with a modern extension on the Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer on the left bank of the Rhine in the north of the old town, which was part of the medieval city wall of Cologne.
81. Grabeskirche St. Bartholomäus
The burial church of St. Bartholomew is a former Roman Catholic parish church in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, which has been used as a columbarium since 2014, where the ashes of the deceased are buried in burial chambers. The sponsor of the burial church is the Catholic parish of Saints Rochus, Epiphany and Bartholomew. It is the first and so far only burial church in the Archdiocese of Cologne.
82. Vorgebirgspark
The Vorgebirgspark is a 13.9-hectare park in the south of Cologne's city centre between the districts of Zollstock, Raderberg and Raderthal. It was laid out from 1910 to 1914 according to plans by the garden architect Fritz Encke. On 1 July 1914, it was opened to visitors.
83. St. Cäcilien
St. Cecilia's Church is one of the twelve Romanesque churches in Cologne’s old city, maintained by the Foundation of Romanesque Churches in Cologne. The present building, little changed since its inception, dates from 1130-60. Since 1956, the church has been the home of the Schnütgen Museum for medieval art.
84. St. Nikolaus
St. Nicholas is a Roman Catholic Romanesque basilica and parish church in Cologne-Dünnwald in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was originally built as a collegiate church of the Premonstratensian nuns.
85. St. Gertrud
St. Gertrud is a Catholic parish church in the Agnesviertel district of Cologne's Neustadt district, in the immediate vicinity of the railway embankment. It was designed by the architect Gottfried Böhm in 1960 and built between 1962 and 1965. In 1967, the architect received the Cologne Architecture Prize for the building in the Brutalist style with its asymmetrical forms and concrete execution.
86. Klein St. Martin
Klein St. Martin was a parish church in Cologne, which, together with the collegiate church of Groß St. Martin and many other churches and buildings, determined the Cologne Rhine panorama. The church was abolished during secularization and demolished around 1824. The church tower was preserved and rebuilt after destruction in the Second World War.
87. St. Amandus
St. Amandus is the Roman Catholic church in Cologne-Rheinkassel in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the parish of St. Pankratius am Worringer Bruch. In the choir area, it represents a smaller copy of the Cologne Collegiate Church of St. Gereon.
88. Sankt Johannes Deutz
St. John's Church is a Protestant church in Cologne-Deutz. It is one of the two church buildings of the Evangelical parish of Cologne-Deutz/Poll in the church district of Cologne-Mitte of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.
89. Käthe Kollwitz Museum
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne owns the largest collections of works by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) and has maintained close links with the Kollwitz family. The museum is owned and operated by the Kreissparkasse Köln savings bank.
90. Kapelle St. Joseph
The Carmel of St. Joseph in Cologne, founded in the 1850s, was a daughter foundation of the Carmel of Mary of Peace in Schnurgasse, which was first established in Cologne in 1639 and abolished in 1802. However, the new convent only existed until 1875.
91. Johanneskirche
The Johanneskirche in Nonnenwerthstraße in Cologne-Sülz is the second church in the parish of Cologne-Klettenberg, which belongs to the Cologne-Mitte church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. It was built at the beginning of the sixties to do justice to the growth of the community in the districts of Sülz and Klettenberg.
92. Klettenbergpark
The Klettenbergpark in the Cologne district of Klettenberg is a 6-hectare high-altitude park designed as a natural garden. It was planned since 1903 and laid out by the Cologne garden director Fritz Encke from 1905 to 1907 on the site of a 10 m deep gravel pit on Luxemburger Straße.
93. Tersteegenhaus
The Tersteegenhaus in Emmastraße in Cologne-Sülz is the second church in the Cologne-Klettenberg parish, which belongs to the Cologne-Mitte church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. It was consecrated in 1928 and last rebuilt and renovated inside in 2004. Initially, it was only referred to as the "parish hall" and only after 1945 was it named after Gerhard Tersteegen (1697–1769), a theologian and writer of Reformed Pietism.
94. Merheimer Heide
The Merheimer Heide on the right bank of the Rhine is a local recreation area in Cologne, the layout of which goes back to the plans of Fritz Schumacher. These envisaged the creation of an outer green belt encompassing the city. The green spaces of the Merheimer Heide touch or extend over the districts of Buchheim, Holweide, Merheim and Höhenberg. Due to residential and motorway construction, the terrain was greatly reduced to its original size of 150 hectares in the eastern area.
95. Simultanhalle
The Simultanhalle – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst is an exhibition hall in Cologne-Volkhoven, Volkhovener Weg 209–211. It was originally built in 1979 as a test building for the Museum Ludwig by the architects Busmann + Haberer on the site of a former school in order to test lighting, exterior, ceiling and floor coverings. The shed roof construction is characteristic.
96. Schauspielhaus Köln
Schauspiel Köln is a theatre and company in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It forms together with the Cologne Opera and other houses the Bühnen der Stadt Köln. The listed building has 830 seats in the Grand House, 120 in the locksmith and 60 in the refreshment room. In addition, the listed 'Halle Kalk' has 200 seats, it was used until closing in the summer of 2015 because of the danger of collapse. Since the 2013/14 season Depot 1 and Depot 2 have been used as interim venues during the extensive renovation of the Schauspielhaus on the site of the former Carlswerk in Schanzenstraße in Cologne-Mülheim.
97. Stapelhaus
The Cologne Stapelhaus, named after the Cologne Stapelrecht, stands in front of the choir of the Groß St. Martin church. Today, the Stapelhaus is considered a symbol of the trading metropolis of Cologne, although little is known about its actual former function.
98. Memorial for Defectors and the Victims of Nazi Military Justice
The Deserters' Monument in Cologne-Altstadt-Nord on Appellhofplatz pays tribute to deserters and war opponents from the National Socialist era in the form of a pergola by Swiss designer Ruedi Baur. It was officially opened to the public on September 1, 2009.
99. St. Hildegard in der Au
St. Hildegard in der Au was a Roman Catholic parish church in the Cologne district of Nippes, which was built in 1960/1961 according to plans by the architect Stefan Leuer and consecrated on the first Sunday of Advent in 1961. The church was under the patronage of Saint Hildegard of Bingen. It was decommissioned on September 20, 2020 with a solemn mass and is expected to be demolished.
100. Basilica of the Holy Apostles
The Basilica of the Holy Apostles is a Romanesque church in Cologne (Köln), located near Innenstadt's busy Neumarkt (Köln). The former collegiate church is dedicated to the twelve Apostles. It is one of the twelve Romanesque churches built in Cologne in that period.
Wikipedia: Basilica of the Holy Apostles, Cologne (EN), Website
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