Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Cologne, Germany

The Theater im Bauturm – Freies Schauspiel Köln is an independent theatre that was founded in 1983 in the building of the architectural group Bauturm. It is located in the Belgian Quarter on Aachener Straße, behind the café in the Bauturm, diagonally opposite the Volksbühne.

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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.

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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 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 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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Kreissparkasse Köln is a public savings bank and universal bank based in Cologne. It is a special-purpose savings bank with the districts of Rhein-Erft, Rhein-Sieg, Rheinisch-Bergisch and Oberbergisch as the sponsor, over which its business area also extends. In terms of total assets, it is the second largest savings bank in Germany.

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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.

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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.

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The Cologne Opera refers to both the main opera house in Cologne, Germany and its resident opera company.

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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".

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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.

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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 Heinzelmännchen are a helpful household spirits or kobolds associated with the city of Cologne in Germany, akin to brownies of Scotland.

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

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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.

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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 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.

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St. Columba was a virgin and martyr of the early church. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church; her feast day is December 31.

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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.

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

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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 Jawne was a Jewish Reformrealgymnasium in Cologne.

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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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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.

Wikipedia: Ruhender Verkehr (Plastik) (DE)