Step Into History
Walk Cologne in 1250
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Step Into History · City walk
Pilgrims' Cologne, 1250
Cologne in 1250 is a thriving Rhine merchant city and an archiepiscopal centre where an ambitious new cathedral has been set out to receive the famed Shrine of the Three Kings. The walk shows stone Romanesque towers and timber houses crowding narrow streets, busy river quays and the stout city wall with its dozen gates as pilgrims, masons and merchants move through the city.
36 scenes — 21 streets, squares and views, 15 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Cologne as it stood in 1250 (“History of Cologne”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Deutz Riverbank View
- 2. Severin Gate
- ↳ Severin Gate Guardroom · interior
- 3. Heumarkt Square
- ↳ Great Meat Hall · interior
- 4. Great St. Martin Church
- ↳ Nave of Great St. Martin · interior
- 5. Fish Market
- ↳ Fishmongers' Shed · interior
- 6. Old Market
- 7. Town Hall
- ↳ Town Hall Guild Hall · interior
- 8. Hohe Straße
- ↳ Cloth Merchant's Shop · interior
- 9. Schildergasse
- ↳ Goldsmith's Workshop · interior
- 10. Cathedral Works
- ↳ Shrine of the Magi · interior
- ↳ Cathedral Masons' Lodge · interior
- 11. Cathedral Square
- 12. Rhine Quay
- ↳ Rhine Wine Tavern · interior
- 13. Hahnen Gate
- 14. Eigelstein Gate
- 15. St. Maria im Kapitol
- ↳ Choir of St. Maria im Kapitol · interior
- 16. St. Aposteln
- ↳ Westwork Chapel · interior
- 17. St. Gereon
- ↳ Apse Chapel of St. Gereon · interior
- 18. St. Pantaleon
- ↳ Crypt of St. Pantaleon · interior
- 19. St. Kunibert
- ↳ Aisle and Tombs of St. Kunibert · interior
- 20. Breite Straße
- 21. City Wall Vantage