Cologne Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral (High Cathedral of Saints Peter and Mary) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne, currently, since his 2014 transfer from Berlin, Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki, and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and is a World Heritage Site. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day.

Construction of Cologne Cathedral commenced in 1248 and was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work restarted in the 19th century and was completed, to the original plan, in 1880. The cathedral is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spires. Its two huge spires give it the largest façade of any church in the world. The choir has the largest height to width ratio, 3.6:1, of any medieval church.

Cologne's medieval builders had planned a grand structure to house the reliquary of the Three Kings and fit its role as a place of worship for the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, Cologne Cathedral eventually became unified as "a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value" and "a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe".

  • Südseite vom Dom. South side of the cathedral
  • Kölner Dom at night, March 2008
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  • Cathedral of Cologne (Köln) - Germany
  • Kölner Dom (und skater in der Luft) Roncalliplatz
  • Kölner Dom mit Weihnachtsmarkt
  • Cologne / Кёльн
  • Details am Kölner Dom
  • Window outside
  • Strebepfeiler am Domchor
  • Alemania, Colonia, Catedral, 1968
  • DE - Köln / Cologne - Dom vom Roncalliplatz gesehen
  • Der Glockenstuhl im Dom zu Köln
  • Cologne Cathedra(RamaReddy Vogireddy)
  • Köln, Kölner Dom - Catedral de Colonia
  • Inside the Kölner Dom, Köln / Cologne, Germany.
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  • Kölner Dom
  • Da hat einer Langeweile gehabt . . .
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  • Gargoyles on Dome of Cologne, Kölner Dom

Country:
Germany
Rating:
10
Latitude:
50,9412776
Longitude:
6,9581677
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