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Cologne (German: Köln)is, in terms of population, the fourth largest city in Germany and largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
It is one of the most important German inland ports, and considered the economic, cultural, and historic capital of the Rhineland.
Cologne became a city in 50 A.D., had a bishop as early as 313, and, in 785, became the seat of an archbishop. The Archbishop of Cologne was one of the seven Electors of the Holy Roman Empire. He ruled a large area as a secular lord in the Middle Ages, but in 1288 he was defeated by the Cologne citizens and forced to move to Bonn. Cologne was a member of the Hanseatic League, but became a free city officially only by 1475.
Cologne lost its free status, and regained its archbishopric during the French period, and, in 1815, at the Congress of Vienna was made part of the kingdom of Prussia. Cologne became an industrial city, and the current cathedral, started in 1248 but abandoned in the mid-1500s, was eventually finished in 1880.
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Cologne incorporated numerous surrounding towns, and by the time of World War I had already grown to 600,000 inhabitants. In World War II, it was repeatedly bombed, and much of the city was in ruins. It took some time to rebuild the city, but afterwards it grew again, and, in 1975, reached 1 million inhabitants for about one year.
Buildings and Places of Interest in Cologne:
The Kölnturm (150 m)In 310 Constantine builds a bridge over the Rhine at Cologne.
Cologne Cathedral (der Kölner Dom) is the city's famous landmark.
University of Cologne.
Fragrance-Museum Farina House, the birthplace of Eau de Cologne.
Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Museum Ludwig
Römisch-Germanisches Museum (English: Roman-Germanic Museum)
Kölner Philharmonie (English: Cologne Philharmonics)
Ford Motor Company plants, assembling the Ford Fiesta and Ford Fusion as well as manufacturing engines and parts.
RheinEnergieStadion, the major Cologne soccer stadium, seating 50,997 visitors in national games and 46,134 in international games, home to the local Bundesliga team, 1.FC Köln, and to the local NFL Europe team, the Cologne Centurions.
Kölnarena, a multifunctional stadium, home to the local ice hockey team, the Kölner Haie (English: Cologne Sharks).
Kölnturm (English: Cologne Tower), with 150 metres in height Cologne's second tallest building, second only to the cathedral.
Colonius - a telecommunication tower with an observation deck.
Colonia-Hochhaus - German's tallest building, in which people live.
Rheinseilbahn - an aerial tramway crossing the Rhine.
Fair Tower Cologne.
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