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Cologne (German: Köln kœln ) is, in terms of population, the fourth largest city in Germany and largest city of the 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. It is the 16th largest city in the European Union. At the end of 2003, Cologne's population was 965,954, using the standard method of counting only persons whose primary residence (German: Hauptwohnsitz) was the city. The city of Cologne includes those with non-primary residences (German: Nebenwohnsitz) in its official figure, raising it to 1,020,603.
Its location at the intersection of the Rhine (German ''Rhein'') river with one of the major trade routes between eastern and western Europe was the foundation of Cologne's commercial importance. In the Middle Ages it also became an ecclesiastical center of significance and an important center of art and learning. Cologne was badly damaged during World War II.
Cologne has one university, which has around 49,000 students (autumn semester 2004/2005) and is renowned for its economics faculty. In addition to the university, it has 3 colleges. Fachhochschule Köln (The University of Applied Sciences of Cologne) is, with 18,000 students, the biggest college in Germany. A total of 65,000 students study in Cologne.
Cologne also has a Roman Catholic archbishopric. Cologne cathedral (German ''Kölner Dom''), a Gothic church, was designated a World Heritage site in 1996; it is the city's major landmark and unofficial symbol. The city is 43% Roman Catholic, 18% Protestant and 39% other religions. Until World War II and the following stream of refugees arriving from eastern Germany, Roman Catholicism had a wide majority in Cologne.
Cologne has 31 museums. Exhibits range
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Most of the article was duplicated. Marcello 23:07, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I changed the gamma/contrast of the picture (a bit drastically) in order to make the cathedral more visible. Unfortunately the cloud effects are now less visible and some quality is reduced. The original is still at cologne_cathedral.png if somebody decides to try and do a better job (probably quite easy :-) ). sodium
Does anyone know the original source and copyright status of the text? Much is duplicated at -- http://www.koeln.de/portrait/e/
If this is a copyright violation on our side it was done many months ago (sometime before Feb). Therefore this could just as well be a copyright violation committed by the website you cite against us. So I vote for simply keeping the text in this article and let it evolve into someting different than the other website. This is why it is ''very'' important to check new contribs for violations. --mav
www.koeln.de is run by the City Council of Cologne. They have their own PR writers and don't need to copy anything. I think it's more likely that we copied from them. Cologne is the first word I ever typed into the Wiki search engine - it's my home town. When I read it I thought: "copied from a tourist brochure!".
I'll be working on the page to make it "ours".
User:Renata Sept. 20th, 2002
Boy that will be a lot of work. If you really think it is a violation it might be easier to delete the offending material and start from scratch (using the info in the offending text but not the prose or unique organization). Information cannot be copyrighted, only the artistic choice of words and unique organization.--mav
:For the meantime, I deleted the duplicate text. It's there at the external link if you want it. But History of Cologne still needs to fixed.
Name
I, an Englishman, always refer to this city as Köln. I believe Cologne is the French name for the city; why do we use it as the article name in the English edition of Wikipedia?. -- Chris j wood
University Of Cologne
The University of Cologne (German ''Universität zu Köln'') is one of the largest universities in Germany with approximately 44,000 students. After the introduction of tuition fees for long-time students in 2004, the number of students decreased by more than 15,000. Faculties exist for economics and social science, law, medicine, philosophy, mathematics and natural science, educational science, and adult education.
History
The university originally existed from 1388 (foundation grant from Pope Urban VI) to 1789 (dissolved by the French Government) and was re-established in 1919 by means of a treaty with the Prussian Government.
Contact
:University of Cologne
:Albertus-Magnus-Platz
:50923 Cologne
:tel: (02 21) 4 70-0
:fax: (02 21) 4 70-51 53
:Homepage: http://www.uni-koeln.de/index.e.html
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Cologne Cathedral
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Cologne Cathedral (German: ''Kölner Dom'') is one of the most well-known architectural monuments in Germany and has been Cologne's most famous landmark for centuries. The cathedral is under the administration of the Roman Catholic Church and is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne. From 1880, when its spires were completed, until 1884 it was the World's tallest structure, losing its title at the completion of the Washington Monument in Washington DC. Cologne Cathedral remains the tallest Gothic structure in the world.
Construction of the gothic church began in the 13th century and took, with interruptions, more than 600 years to complete. The two towers are 157m tall, the cathedral is 144m long and 86m wide. The cathedral is dedicated to Saints Peter and Mary.
It was built on the site of a 4th century Roman temple, a square edifice known as the 'oldest cathedral' and commissioned by Maternus, the first Christian bishop of Cologne. A second church built on the site, the so-called "Old Cathedral", was completed in 818. This burned down on April 30, 1248.
The present cathedral was built to house the relics of the Magi, taken from Milan (Italy) by Holy Roman Emperor Fredrick Barbarossa and given to the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainald von Dassel in 1164. The foundation stone was laid on August 15, 1248, by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden. The choir was consecrated in 1322. After this initial rapid progress, construction work gradually came to a standstill, and by the year 1560, only a torso had been built. It was only with 19th century romantic enthusiasm for the Middle Ages and the commitment of the Prussian Court that construction work resumed in 1824 with the addition of the towers and other substantial parts of the cathedral, mostly according to surviving medieval plans and drawings. The completion of Germany's largest cathedral was celebrated as a national event in 1880, 632 years after construction had began. The celebration was attended by
History Of Cologne
The History of Cologne, Germany's oldest major city, can be broken into several periods:
The Romans
In 39 BC, the tribe of the Ubii entered into an agreement with the Roman forces and settled on the left bank of the Rhine. Their headquarters was ''Oppidum Ubiorum'' - the settlement of the Ubii, and at the same time an important Roman military base. In 50 AD, Agrippina the younger, wife of the Emperor Claudius, who was born in Cologne, asked for her home village to be elevated to the status of a ''colonia'' - a city under Roman law. It was called ''Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis'' (a "colony of Claudius and the altar of Agrippina"), or ''Colonia Agrippina,'' "the Colony of Agrippina." In 80 AD water supply was built, the Eifel Aqueduct, one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire, which delivered 20,000 cubic metres of water to the city every day. Ten years later, the ''colonia'' became the capital of the Roman province of Lower Germany ''Germania Inferior.''
In 260 Postumus made Cologne the Capital of the Gallic Empire which included the German and Gallic provinces, Britannia and the provinces of Hispania. The Gallic Empire lasted only twenty years.
By the 3rd century, 20,000 people lived in and around the town.. In 310 AD, the Emperor Constantine had a bridge over the Rhine constructed; this was guarded by the ''castellum'' Divitia (nowadays "Deutz").
Franks, Merovingians and Carolingians
In 355 AD, the Salian Franks besieged the town for 10 months. In 455, they finally captured Cologne and made it their capital city.
The Prince-Bishops of Cologne
framed|right|Archbishop Konrad of Hochstaden's
Cologne Cathedral
Cologne's first Christian bishop was Maternus. He was responsible for the construction of the first cathedral, a square building erected early in the 4th century. In 794, Hildebald (or Hildebold) was the first Bishop of Cologne to be elevated to Archbishop. Bruno I (925-965), younger brother of Otto I,
Cologne (Region)
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| State: | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Capital: | Cologne |
| Area: | 7,364.71 km² |
| Inhabitants: | 4,318,758 ''(2002)'' |
| pop. density: | 586 inh./km² |
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Cologne is one of the five Regierungsbezirke of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the south-west of the country. It covers the hills of the Eifel as well as the Bergisches Land.
It was created in 1815 when Prussia reorganized its internal administration. In 1972 the ''Regirungsbezirk Aachen'' was incorporated.
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''Kreisfreie Städte''
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# Aachen
# Düren
# Euskirchen
# Heinsberg
# Oberbergischer Kreis
# Rhein-Erft-Kreis
# Rhein-Sieg
# Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
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# Aachen
# Bonn
# Cologne
# Leverkusen
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http://www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de Official website
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