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Basilica of St. Gereon, Cologne

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Rhine Promenade Cologne – Old Market loop from Köln West

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2. Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) – Rhine Promenade Cologne loop from Neumarktviertel

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3. Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) – Hohenzollern Bridge loop from Neumarktviertel

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Mike 🇪🇺

January 18, 2018

St. Gereon is an outstanding example of late antique and high medieval architecture. The defining element of the building is a vaulted late antique oval building, which was “converted” in the early 13th century into the shape of a decagon (decagon) with four ancient conches in both the north and south; this late Romanesque central building is unique in its kind north of the Alps. The central ribbed vault, which closes the room divided into four floors, can be referred to as the largest dome construction of its time (1227). It reaches a height of 34.55 meters at the apex and measures 21 meters and 16.90 meters in diameter. The windows of the top wall zone, grouped like a tracery, follow early Gothic models from France.
To the west of the central room is the porch in Gothic forms, in which the late antique narthex lives on. To the east of the Decagon is the two-bay long choir with the choir square above the crypt, to which the two east towers and the apse are connected. The Staufen floor choir, richly designed from the outside, has seven blind arcades with three windows.
The three lower floors of the towers end with the apse apex, followed by two more with mock windows and a fifth floor with two spacious double arcade windows. The tower roofs are richly folded. The towers themselves have a close visual relationship with the decagon, which also emphasizes the singular character of the basilica in the distant view.
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SantiagoFreundeKöln

July 7, 2021

Although the episcopal city of Cologne is best known throughout the world for its Gothic-style cathedral from the 13th century - not only a place of worship, but also a UNESCO World Heritage Site - the older 12 large - and even other smaller - Romanesque churches deserve credit also attracts attention, as does the church "Sankt Gereon" in Cologne's city center, the Gereonsviertel in the north of the old town named after it.
The “Förderverein Romanische Kirchen Köln e.V.” takes care of researching their history and corresponding publications (here in particular the “Yearbook”), as well as funding for preservation. very committed.

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Knut 🚴🏻‍♂️

August 29, 2022

Next to the Cologne Cathedral, for me it is the most worth seeing church in Cologne.
A visit to the church is really worth it, very impressive.

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Elevation 80 m

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Basilica of St. Gereon, Cologne

1. Rhine Promenade Cologne – Old Market loop from Köln West

2. Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) – Rhine Promenade Cologne loop from Neumarktviertel

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