Cologne Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral

Also known as Kölner Dom

Year

1248

Type

building

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Foundations went down in 1248 under Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, who wanted a French High Gothic cathedral on the scale of Amiens or Beauvais after the old Romanesque church burned. The medieval choir was consecrated in 1322, and work …

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