Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Cologne, Germany

The Cologne Overstolzenhaus is one of the oldest buildings in the city of Cologne, is the oldest preserved patrician house in Germany next to the Trier Epiphany and was mainly used as a residential building. It is somewhat hidden in Rheingasse 8, old town south.

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Klein St. Martin was a Cologne parish church, which together with the Groß St. Martin collegiate church and many other churches and buildings determined the Cologne Rhine Panorama. The church was canceled in secularization and demolished around 1824. The church tower was preserved and was rebuilt after destruction in the Second World War.

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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.

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The Schnütgen Museum in Cologne is devoted to Christian religious art, mainly medieval, but some parts of the collection, such as its textiles and prints, extend from antiquity to the modern period. In 1906, the collection of Alexander Schnütgen was donated to the city, and the collection has continued to expand, so that until the opening of a new building in 2010, only about 10% of its 13,000 items could be displayed. Now some 2,000 objects are on display in 1900 sq. metres of gallery space, with an additional 1300 sq. metres for special exhibitions. Schnütgen (1843–1918) was a Catholic priest and theologian; according to the museum website "Up to now people tell stories about his zealous and sometimes crafty collection tactics".

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The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum is a museum of ethnography in Cologne, Germany. It was reopened in 2010. The museum arose from a collection of over 3500 items belonging to ethnographer Wilhelm Joest. After his death in 1897, the collection was left to his sister Adele Rautenstrauch.

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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 one plaster cast exist today.

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Palatium is the name of a commercial building in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord, which is located on Schildergasse near Hohe Straße.

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Jupp Schmitz was a German entertainer, pop and scratch singer. His best -known songs are over on Ash Wednesday, who should pay for? And there is still soup.

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The Minoritenkirche or Church of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic church on the Kolpingplatz in Cologne. Built in the 13th century, it is now used by the Franciscan and the Kolpingwerk social association.

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The Kolumba is an art museum in Cologne, Germany. It is located on the site of the former St. Kolumba church, and run by the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is one of the oldest museums in the city, alongside the Wallraf-Richartz Museum.

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The Cologne Opera Fountain is a fountain on Cologne's Offenbachplatz in front of the Cologne Opera House. 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 architectural art. The fountain sculpture was designed and realized by the Cologne artist Jürgen Hans Grümmer.

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St. Maria in der Kupfergasse is a Baroque church in Cologne, western Germany, in the district of Innenstadt. The pilgrimage church is dedicated to St. Mary, the Black Madonna. It was completed in 1715 and measures 37.20 meters in length and 17.30 metres in width.

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The Gloria-Theater is a multi-purpose theatre and event space, originally a cinema-theatre, in the centre of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on Apostelnstraße north of the Neumarkt, near the Basilica of the Holy Apostles.

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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.

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The Kölnischer Kunstverein is an art museum in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. It is named after the historical art society of the same name.

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The Hahnentorburg is one of the original 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.

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Resting traffic is an action plastic on the Cologne Hohenzollernring, which was created by Wolf Vostell in 1969 - it consists of a fully concreted car, the contours of which have been roughly simplified and ironicized the "dormant traffic" in public road traffic.

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The Cologne rings are a consequence of coherent streets with a boulevard character that are semicircular around the old town in Cologne on the left Rhine. They are based on the course of the medieval Cologne city wall and are 7½ kilometers long.

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The Hiroshima Nagasaki Park was inaugurated on 7 August 2004 in a part of the Inner Green Belt in Cologne's Neustadt-Süd district.

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Stephan 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, which was already on 27/28. May 1941 was destroyed. Only the church tower was restored in a changed form after the Second World War. The church tower and some equipment of the church were listed on July 24, 1985 and June 19, 2001 and entered the list of monuments of the city of Cologne.

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