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oval was encircled with a ten-
sided, four-storey structure in
early-Gothic style. This is topped
with a vast dome, 48 m (157 ft)
in diameter, with ribbed vault.
R St Ursula
Ursulaplatz 24. Open 10am–noon,
3–5pm Mon, Tue & Thu–Sat, 10am–
noon, 3–4:30pm Wed, 3–4.30pm Sun.
This church was built in the 12th
century, on the site of an earlier
church probably dating from
around 400. In the late 13th
The attractive Romanesque church of St Kunibert, seen from the Rhine century the presbytery was
re built in Gothic style. The
originally as a transept basilica R St Aposteln Baroque golden chamber at the
with two choirs. In the mid-12th Neumarkt 30. Open 3–5pm Mon, southern end, added in the 17th
century the west choir was 11am–1pm & 3–5pm Tue–Thu, century, is lined with many
replaced by a massive frontage, 11am–1pm Fri. . shrines. According to legend,
but the towers were never added. The vast 12th-century church these hold the remains of St
of the Apostles, which towers Ursula and 11,000 virgins, all of
R St Pantaleon over Neumarkt, is one of the whom were reputedly killed at
Am Pantaleonsberg 2. Open 9am– most interesting Romanesque the hands of the Huns. The town
7pm Mon–Sat, noon–7:30pm Sun. churches in the Rhineland. The insignia of Cologne also testify to
A little way from the centre is this original basilica has a trefoil the veneration of the virgins.
exquisite church, a for mer eastern closure, a low tower at
Benedictine monastery founded the junction of the naves and R St Kunibert
around 950 by Archbishop a tall front tower. Two more slim Kunibertsklostergasse 2. Open 10am–
Bruno, brother of Emperor Otto I. turrets flank the presbytery apse. 1pm, 3–6pm Mon–Sat, 12.30–6pm Sun.
The archbishop and the Empress From here, Hahnen straße leads Bishop Kunibert was buried in
Theophanu, who completed the to Rudolfplatz and the Hahnentor, a church on this site in 663.
building, are both buried here. perhaps the most beautiful of The present Romanesque
The church has a superb late- all surviving medieval gates. church (1215–47) has precious
Gothic choir screen with richly Romanesque stained-glass
carved ornamentation. R St Gereon windows (around 1220–30).
Gereonsdriesch 2–4. Open 10am–6pm
P Severinsviertel Mon–Fri, 10am–5pm Sat, 1–6pm Sun.
The Severin Quarter, a district This church must be the most
on the southern edge of the unusual edifice in all of Germany.
old town, owes its name to the Its oldest part, an oval building
13th-century Romanesque surrounded by small conchas,
church of St Severinus. The was built in the late 4th century
church, largely remodelled in on the graves of martyrs and –
the Gothic style in the 15th and accor ding to legend – founded
16th centuries, features rich by St Helen. The Romanesque
original furnishings and has a presbytery is an 11th-century The medieval Hahnentor, exit from Cologne
mid-10th-century crypt. addition and, in 1219–27, the towards Aachen

Tower at the junction Pair of front towers
of the naves Stairway towers
flanking the west-
Biforium work (frontage)

Trefoil eastern Semi-circular apse
closure

Groß St Martin St Pantaleon St Kunibert

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