Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Cologne, Germany

The Düxer Bock is the unofficial heraldic animal of the Cologne district of Deutz. Numerous clubs and initiatives have the Düxer Bock in their name, logo or 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.

Wikipedia: Düxer Bock (DE)

St. John's Church is a Protestant church in Cologne-Deutz, Germany. It is one of the two church buildings of the Evangelical Parish of Cologne-Deutz/Poll in the Cologne-Mitte church district of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

Wikipedia: St.-Johannes-Kirche (Deutz) (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Klein St. Martin (DE)

Today's Gilden brewery in the Zims on Cologne's Heumarkt, which is protected as an architectural monument, is a town house built in the style of the late Renaissance from the middle of the 16th century.

Wikipedia: Gilden im Zims (DE)

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)

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.

Wikipedia: Jupp Schmitz (DE)

The fragrance museum in the Farina house is within sight of the Cologne town 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.

Wikipedia: Duftmuseum (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Wallraf–Richartz Museum (EN), Website

Alt St. Alban is the preserved ruin of a former parish church on Cologne's Quatermarkt. It is one of the oldest Romanesque church buildings in Cologne.

Wikipedia: Alt St. Alban (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Der Schwebende (DE)

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

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 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

Roonstrasse Synagogue, located in Cologne, Germany, is the only surviving of the five synagogues of the city before the Nazi era.

Wikipedia: Roonstrasse Synagogue (EN), Website

The Karl-Rahner Academy is a Catholic city academy in Cologne in free sponsorship. It sees itself as an independent discussion forum in the “Kulturquartier am Neumarkt” in the center of Cologne and is aimed at people who are interested in theological, philosophical, cultural and social issues. To a high proportion of participants with a university degree, even beyond the borders of the city of Cologne and the Catholic Church.

Wikipedia: Karl-Rahner-Akademie (DE)

St. Georg's Church is one of twelve Romanesque churches in the city of Cologne, Germany.

Wikipedia: St. George's Church, Cologne (EN)

The hidden Epiphany Gate is the only one of the gates of Cologne's many former monastic immunity districts that has 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. Mary in the Capitol with Marienplatz. The small gate is not to be confused with the medieval Three Kings' Gate, a gateway to the city fortifications on the Rhine side that was demolished in 1854.

Wikipedia: Dreikönigenpförtchen (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Rheinauhafen (EN)