"Koln, DE" Cologne by dromosapien

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Neumarkt

- New Market

* Cologne / Köln, population: 1,000,000 located along the Rhine River it is Germany's fourth largest city

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Alter Markt

- old market

statue: Johann von Werth (1593-1652) German Catholic general during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) which decimated civilian populations. It was a German civil war of Catholics against Lutherans and Calvinists that involved Austria, France, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Gross Sankt Martin

- Great Saint Martin, one of Koln's twelve Romanesque churches, constructed 1150-1250 on what was at the time an island on the Rhine River, now it's near the river's bank, consecrated 1172. In the background is the Koln Dom which replaced Gross Sankt Martin as the city's main landmark sometime in the 600 years it took to complete the Dom, starting 1248.
location: Martinspförtchen 8

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Koln visits: Oct 1996 / Oct 2000 / May 2006 / Nov. 2009 / Apr 2010 / Nov 2010 / Apr 2013

  • Last visit to Cologne: Nov 2010
  • Intro Updated May 8, 2013
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