Church · Cologne, Germany

Kölner Dom

Begun in 1248, abandoned for three centuries, finished in 1880 to the original plans. It survived the war standing in a flattened city because bomber crews used it to navigate.

Kölner Dom is in Cologne, and this is Cologne — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 1–2 hours · Open year-round · 50.941°N, 6.958°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

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Cologne · The Rhine & the West · Germany

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Other places in Cologne

Roman-Germanic Museum

Built over the Dionysus mosaic where it was found, which is the correct way to display a floor. Cologne was a Roman colony and this is what is left of it.

Museum

Journeys that stop here

The European Heritage Route

London to Budapest by rail

20 days

The record

What this atlas holds about Kölner Dom, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Church
Give it: 1–2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 50.941°N, 6.958°E
In: Cologne