Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Cologne, Germany

KölnTriangle is a 103.2 metres (339 ft) tall building in Deutz, Cologne, and a prominent landmark in Cologne. The building was designed by Dörte Gatermann of Cologne-based architecture firm Gatermann + Schossig and completed in 2006. Its south facade consists of a double-facade, allowing natural ventilation even at high floors. Next to the high-rise structure, part of KölnTriangle is also a much larger six-story office block with a total gross floor area of 84,300 m2 (907,000 sq ft).

Wikipedia: Kölntriangle (EN)

The equestrian statue of Frederick William IV of Prussia by the sculptor Gustav Blaeser, made of bronze, is located on the portal of the Hohenzollern Bridge on the right bank of the Rhine. The equestrian statue of his brother and successor Wilhelm I by Friedrich Drake stands only a few meters away on the other side of the railway line. Frederick William IV had been very committed to the completion of the cathedral building. Both monuments were originally located on the former cathedral bridge. The monument was inaugurated in 1867.

Wikipedia: Reiterstandbild Friedrich Wilhelms IV. (Köln) (DE)

The Kölner Philharmonie is a symphonic concert hall located in Cologne, Germany. It is part of the building ensemble of the Museum Ludwig and was opened in 1986. The Kölner Philharmonie is located close to the Cologne Cathedral and the Cologne Main Station. The ensemble was designed by the architects Busmann + Haberer in the 1980s.

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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.

Wikipedia: Peristylhaus mit dem Dionysosmosaik (DE)

The former Hotel Fürstenhof is an office and commercial building in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord district. Due to its location directly opposite the cathedral, the building, which stands on the corner of Marzellenstraße 2–8 / Trankgasse, is one of the best-known secular buildings in Cologne. It was built in 1911 and 1912 according to a design by the Cologne architect Carl Moritz.

Wikipedia: Fürstenhof (Köln) (DE)

The finials of Cologne Cathedral from the tops of the two 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.

Wikipedia: Finials of Cologne Cathedral (EN)

The Blau-Gold-Haus is an office and commercial building in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord, Domkloster 2, in the immediate vicinity of Cologne Cathedral. It was completed in 1952 and has been a listed building since 1991, was gutted in 2010–2012 and converted into a hotel. It is considered an important example of German post-war modernism.

Wikipedia: Blau-Gold-Haus (DE)

The Heinzelmännchen are a mythical race of creatures, appearing in a tale connected with the city of Cologne in Germany akin to gnomes, or elves.

Wikipedia: Heinzelmännchen (EN)

Josef Cardinal Frings was a German Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal.

Wikipedia: Joseph Frings (DE)

Jupp Schmitz was a German entertainer, pop singer and Krätzchen singer. Among his best-known songs are Am Aschermittwoch ist alles vorbei, Wer soll das zahl? and There is still soup there.

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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.

Wikipedia: Archäologische Zone Köln (DE), Website

The Fragrance Museum in the Farina House is within sight of the Cologne City Hall and opposite the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and is housed in the birthplace of the Eau de Cologne in the original production rooms of the 18th century.

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The Gaffel Haus is the oldest building on the Alter Markt in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord and has been home to a brewery of the Cologne private brewery Gaffel since 1987, which today bears the name "Zum Prinzen".

Wikipedia: Gaffel Haus (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Kallendresser (DE)

Senftöpfchen is a theatre in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Hänneschen-Theater is a traditional puppetry-theatre in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1802. The stage is situated in a building on Eisenmarkt in downtown Cologne. The pieces are set in Knollendorf, a fictional village somewhere in the outskirts of Cologne. The popular puppets represent fictional characters who embody typical traits of cologne people, so Tünnes and Schäl, Hänneschen and Bärbelchen, as well as other unique characters. In addition to the ever-changing pieces that are staged for adults and children, the puppet shows are also an important part of the Cologne Carnival. The carnival puppet session is each year a loving parody of a conventional Carnival session.

Wikipedia: Tünnes and Schäl (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Great St. Martin Church, Cologne (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Pegel Köln (DE)

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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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.

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The Antoniterkirche is a Gothic church building on the Schildergasse in central Cologne, Germany, named after the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony who founded it between 1350 and 1370–1378. Now used by the Protestant Church, it is the second most-visited church in the city after Cologne Cathedral. The Resistance fighter Freya von Moltke was baptised there.

Wikipedia: Antoniterkirche (Cologne) (EN), Website

St Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, run by the Jesuits. The painter Rubens was baptised in the church and his The Crucifixion of St Peter is on display there – it was commissioned in 1638 by the Cologne art collector and businessman Eberhard Jabach. The building also houses the 'Kunst-Station Sankt Peter', a centre for contemporary art, music, and literature.

Wikipedia: St Peter's Church (Cologne) (EN), Website

The name Opernterrassen is a former commercial building and restaurant at Brüderstraße 2–4 in Cologne, which belonged to the ensemble with opera house and playhouse created by Wilhelm Riphahn. With its large glass surfaces and terrace porch, it was considered a "typical gastronomy pavilion of the 50s".

Wikipedia: Opernterrassen (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Schauspiel Köln (EN), Website

Theater am Dom is a theatre in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Wikipedia: Theater am Dom (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Richmodis-Haus (DE)

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.

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

Wikipedia: Hiroshima-Nagasaki-Park (DE)