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Schildergasse. Coordinates: 50°56′11″N 6°57′9″E. Schildergasse as seen from the rooftop of Galeria Kaufhof. The Schildergasse (German: [ˈʃɪldɐˌɡasə]; Kölsch: Schelderjaß [ˌʃel²dɐˈjasˑ]) [what does "²" mean?] is a shopping street in central Cologne, Germany. With 13,000 people passing through it every hour, it is the ...
Cologne (/ kəˈloʊn / ⓘ kə-LOHN; German: Köln [kœln] ⓘ; Kölsch: Kölle [ˈkœlə] ⓘ) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part ...
Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, pronounced [ˌkœlnɐ ˈdoːm] ⓘ, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia belonging to the Catholic Church. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne.
Hohe Straße in 2013. Hohe Straße is a shopping street in the old town of Cologne, Germany, and one of the city's both oldest and busiest streets. [1] Together with many of its adjacent side streets, Hohe Straße is part of a designated pedestrian zone and spans about 680 metres from Cologne Cathedral on its Northern end to Schildergasse on its Southern end.
Innenstadt (German: Köln-Innenstadt) is the central borough (Stadtbezirk) of the City of Cologne in Germany. The borough was established with the last communal land reform in 1975, and comprises Cologne's historic old town (Altstadt), the Gründerzeit era new town (Neustadt) plus the right-Rhenish quarter of Deutz. The Innenstadt has about ...
Köln Hauptbahnhof (English: Cologne Central Station) [6] is the central railway station of Cologne, Germany. The station is an important local, national and international transport hub , with many ICE , Eurostar and Intercity trains calling there, as well as regional Regional-Express , RegionalBahn and local S-Bahn trains.
The History of Cologne covers over 2000 years of urban history. In the year 50, Cologne was elevated to a city under Roman law and named "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium"; since the Frankish rule it is known as Cologne. The city became an influential merchant stronghold in the early Middle Ages due to its location on the Rhine, which allowed ...
The Cologne Ring (known in German as: Kölner Ringe) is a semi-circular, some 6 km long urban boulevard in Innenstadt, Cologne and the city's busiest and most prominent street system. The Cologne Ring is a four lane street and part of Bundesstraße 9. The ring road encircles the old town of Cologne on its southern, western and northern ...