Cologne Cathedral, Germany – Take the Narrated HD Video Tour

The Cologne Cathedral is one of the world’s most spectacular and important historical sites.  Many such sites are also designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including this one

The following Worldsiteguides.com excerpts give an overview of the cathedral’s history and features.

• The construction of the Cathedral began in the year 1248 when the foundation stone waylaid by the reigning Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden.
• The total cost of this last part of the construction phase is estimated to an equivalent of 1 billion dollars. Cologne Cathedral was completed in 1880 and celebrated as a national event under the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
• The mighty Cologne Cathedral is one of the world’s largest churches. Cologne Cathedral, or Kölner Dom as it is known in German, has been classified as a world heritage site with the motivation that it is an “exceptional work of human creative genius.”
• The Cathedral was actually the tallest building in the world once it was completed but only remained so for four years, until the Washington Monument was raised and beat it by four meters.
• Cologne Cathedral also houses the largest functioning free-swinging church bell in the world; the St. Peters Bell, which weighs a massive 24 tons.

 

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The stained glass replacement window below was redesigned from the original collection of Christian figures and symbols have proved to be quite controversial.

 

 

Worldsiteguides.com used to have a full-featured website featuring detailed articles as well as narrated HD videos of most sites. Its only remaining current web presence, however, is a YouTube channel of its videos. This YouTube channel is well worth checking out as it has dozens of HD narrated famous sites from around the world.

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldSiteGuides/videos

 

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