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Exploring Cologne (Köln) P Overstolzenhaus oval was encircled with a ten-
Rheingasse 8. sided, four-storey structure in
E Kolumba Museum Museum. Destroyed during World War II deprived Cologne early-Gothic style. This is topped
Kolumbastraße 4. Tel (0221) 933 19 30. World War II and subsequently of many of its historic residential with a vast dome, 48 m (157 ft)
Open noon–5pm Wed–Mon. & rebuilt, this museum specializes buildings, but this one has been in diameter, with ribbed vault.
∑ kolumba.de in religious art, mainly from lovingly restored. Built for a
Designed by Swiss architect Peter the Middle Ages. Its collection prosperous patrician family in R St Ursula
Zumthor to much critical acclaim, includes magnificient sculp­ the 13th century, it is one of the Ursulaplatz 24. Open 10am–noon,
this museum houses the tures, gold and ivory items and town’s finest Gothic houses. 3–5pm Mon, Tue & Thu–Sat, 10am–
archbishopric of Cologne’s sacral objects. noon, 3–4:30pm Wed, 3–4.30pm Sun.
collection of religious art. The R St Maria Lyskirchen This church was built in the 12th
building, which opened in 2007, R St Peter An Lyskirchen 12. century, on the site of an earlier
accommodates the ruins of the Leonhard­Tietz­Straße 6. Open 9am–6pm daily. church probably dating from
late Gothic church St Kolumba; a The late­Gothic church of St This, the smallest Romanesque around 400. In the late 13th
chapel built in the 1950s to house Peter is a galleried basilica, built church in Cologne, was built The attractive Romanesque church of St Kunibert, seen from the Rhine century the presbytery was
a statue of the Madonna which in 1515–39. Following its around 1220 and slightly re built in Gothic style. The
miraculously escaped bombing destruction in World remodelled in the 17th originally as a transept basilica R St Aposteln Baroque golden chamber at the
during World War II; and a unique War II, the former century. Its greatest with two choirs. In the mid-12th Neumarkt 30. Open 3–5pm Mon, southern end, added in the 17th
archeological excavation that was vaulting was attractions are century the west choir was 11am–1pm & 3–5pm Tue–Thu, century, is lined with many
made in the 1970s. replaced by a magnificent frescoes replaced by a massive frontage, 11am–1pm Fri. . shrines. According to legend,
ceiling. The of scenes from the but the towers were never added. The vast 12th-century church these hold the remains of St
E Schnütgen-Museum church’s greatest Bible, which adorn of the Apostles, which towers Ursula and 11,000 virgins, all of
Cäcilienstraße 29. Tel (0221) 22 12 23 attractions include the vaults (around R St Pantaleon over Neumarkt, is one of the whom were reputedly killed at
10. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun (to its Renaissance Detail from Stadtmuseum 1250), and the Am Pantaleonsberg 2. Open 9am– most interesting Romanesque the hands of the Huns. The town
8pm Thu). & stained­glass Schöne Madonna, 7pm Mon–Sat, noon–7:30pm Sun. churches in the Rhineland. The insignia of Cologne also testify to
The Romanesque church of windows (1528–30) and the a statue of the Virgin with the A little way from the centre is this original basilica has a trefoil the veneration of the virgins.
St Cecilia, built in 1130–60 as a magnificent Crucifixion of St Infant Christ (around 1420). exquisite church, a for mer eastern closure, a low tower at
nunnery, was taken over in 1479 Peter, pain ted after 1637 by Benedictine monastery founded the junction of the naves and R St Kunibert
by the Augustinian Sisters; Peter Paul Rubens, who spent E Imhoff-Stollwerck- around 950 by Archbishop a tall front tower. Two more slim Kunibertsklostergasse 2. Open 10am–
today it houses the Schnütgen­ his childhood here and whose Museum Bruno, brother of Emperor Otto I. turrets flank the presbytery apse. 1pm, 3–6pm Mon–Sat, 12.30–6pm Sun.
father lies buried in the church. (Schokoladen Museum) The archbishop and the Empress From here, Hahnen straße leads Bishop Kunibert was buried in
Rheinauhafen 1a. Tel (0221) 931 88 Theophanu, who completed the to Rudolfplatz and the Hahnentor, a church on this site in 663.
R St Maria im Kapitol 80. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Fri, building, are both buried here. perhaps the most beautiful of The present Romanesque
Marienplatz 19. Open 10am–6pm 11am–7pm Sat & Sun. & The church has a superb late- all surviving medieval gates. church (1215–47) has precious
Mon–Sat, 1–6pm Sun. This fantastic museum of Gothic choir screen with richly Romanesque stained-glass
Originally built in the early part chocolate explains the history carved ornamentation. R St Gereon windows (around 1220–30).
of the 11th century, as a convent, of cocoa bean cultivation as Gereonsdriesch 2–4. Open 10am–6pm
the church’s exten sion and well as the cultural significance, P Severinsviertel Mon–Fri, 10am–5pm Sat, 1–6pm Sun.
remodelling took until the early use and marketing of chocolate. The Severin Quarter, a district This church must be the most
13th century. Notew orthy are It also shows the production on the southern edge of the unusual edifice in all of Germany.
its extensive crypt and the mid­ process, and lets visitors sample old town, owes its name to the Its oldest part, an oval building
11th­century wooden door in the product. 13th-century Romanesque surrounded by small conchas,
the west closure, richly carved church of St Severinus. The was built in the late 4th century
with reliefs depicting scenes R St Georg church, largely remodelled in on the graves of martyrs and –
from the life of Christ. It also has Georgsplatz 17. the Gothic style in the 15th and accor ding to legend – founded
a superb Renaissance rood Open 8:30am–6pm daily. 16th centuries, features rich by St Helen. The Romanesque
The Romanesque church of St Gereon, screen, and is the only church in This church was built around original furnishings and has a presbytery is an 11th-century The medieval Hahnentor, exit from Cologne
with its vast dome Cologne with cloisters. the middle of the 11th century, mid-10th-century crypt. addition and, in 1219–27, the towards Aachen
Romanesque Churches Towerless Tower at the junction Pair of front towers
Cologne has 12 surviving Romanesque westwork Tower at the junction Front tower of the naves Stairway towers
of the naves
churches, bearing testimony to the flanking the west-
importance of the Church in the town’s Trefoil eastern Biforium work (frontage)
development. Built on the graves of closure
martyrs and early bishops of Cologne, Trefoil eastern
the forms of the churches influenced Semi-circular apse
the development of Romanesque closure
architecture well beyond the Rhineland.
Almost all the churches were damaged in
World War II. Some, such as the church of
St Kolumba, have not been restored, but
most were returned to their former glory. St Andreas St Aposteln Groß St Martin St Pantaleon St Kunibert

For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp500–501 and pp526–9

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