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Explain city history to me

If objects could speak, what would they say? Now you can hear these ones speak: Ten select objects from the collection of the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum let us partake in their stories and historical events. Actress Gertrud “Trude” Alex Hoerle speaks vibrantly of the Golden Twenties in Cologne through her painting, while Hartger Henot vociferates about the unjust execution of his sister as an accused witch through his picture. You will witness the celebration of the Cathedral’s completion, follow the battle at the Ulre Gate with the theatrical and veiled gaze of a painter, learn all about the Father Rhine centrepiece, and take a journey through time for only the bravest balloonists. Come along on a fantastical trip with and through ten stories from Cologne.

Festival to celebrate completion of Cologne Cathedral

KSM, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

The project to construct “the most perfect cathedral” began ambitiously in 1248.

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Hartger Henot and the horsemen of the apocalypse

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Cologne was not spared the gruesomeness of the witch trials.

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The Iron Farmer

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“Hold fast the realm, farmer of Cologne, may it fall, in good times or bad” was written above the colossus in large letters in 1915.

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School scene and threat to the saint by Lucifer and his minions

KSM, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

A school day in the Middle Ages was not very fun. There was a lot of reading, memorisation, and joint recitations.

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Battle at Ulre Gate in 1268

KSM, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

Around 5000 men serving under Duke Adolf V of Berg are said to have entered Cologne on the evening of 14 October 1268.

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Bird’s-eye view of Cologne, 1886 and 1896

KSM, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

We’re writing in Cologne, 1886. Much has happened. Cologne has been under Prussian rule since 5 April 1815, and Cologne Cathedral has been complete for 6 years.

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The vast cityscape of Cologne by Anton Woensam

KSM, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

Anton Woensam’s great cityscape of Cologne from 1531 is 59.2 cm tall and, if you can believe it, over 3.5 m long.

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Cologne contemporaries

KSM, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

What do a boxer, a politician, and a Karneval reveller have in common? They are all immortalised in wax on cardboard and wood – along with Gertrud Alex Hoerle and her husband, local painter Heinrich Hoerle – within the painting Cologne contemporaries from 1932.

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Cologne Cathedral during the Plague – mercy in times of pandemic

KSM, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

Epidemics and pandemics aren’t unfamiliar concepts to us nowadays.

The City of Cologne’s silver stores: the Father Rhine centrepiece

KSM, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

The imperial government commissioned local goldsmith Hermeling to create the centrepiece “Father Rhine” for 16,000 Reichsmarks as a symbol of German gold smithing for the World’s Fair in Paris.

Anton Woensam’dan Köln’ün Panoraması

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59,2 santim yüksekliğinde ve dile kolay 3,5 metre uzunluğunda: Bu, Anton Woensam’ın 1532 yılında yaptığı büyük şehir manzarasıdır.

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