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Cologne Cathedral

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Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
Phone:
+49 221 17940555

Hours:
Sunday6am - 9pm
Monday6am - 9pm
Tuesday6am - 9pm
Wednesday6am - 9pm
Thursday6am - 9pm
Friday6am - 9pm
Saturday6am - 9pm


Cologne Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is a renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day, and currently the tallest twin-spired church at 157 m tall. 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. The towers for its two huge spires give the cathedral 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.
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