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 Archbishopric of Cologne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Cologne is the ancient Roman city of Colonia Agrippina.
It became a free city in 1288 and the residence of the Archbishop was moved from Cologne Cathedral to Bonn.
Cologne was, however, reestablished as the seat of a Catholic Archbishop in 1824, and remains one up to the present.
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 Cologne: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Archbishop of Cologne (Archbishop of Cologne: the archbishopric of cologne was one of the major ecclesiastical principalities of the holy...
Cologne was a member of the Hanseatic League (Hanseatic League: A commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in the 13th century and most powerful in the 14th century), but became a free city officially only by 1475.
Cologne lost its free status, and regained its archbishopric during the French period, and, in 1815, at the Congress of Vienna (Congress of Vienna: the congress of vienna was a conference between ambassadors from the major powers in europe...
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 Cologne, Germany
In the early Middle Ages Cologne was besieged by the huns who ceased from Cologne only after the holy Ursula returned, accompanied by 11.000 virgins (according to the legend), from a pilgrimage to Rome and freed Cologne once and for all from the huns.
Cologne thereby received another attraction for pilgrims, leading to the foundation of the cathedral in 1248.
Due to a dwindling of the pilgrims and a general recession of the city, the construction of the cathedral was stoped in 1560 for the next 282 years.
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 Encyclopedia: Archbishopric of Cologne
Adolf of Altena, Adolf of Berg or Adolf of Cologne, (b c 1157; d 15 April 1220 in Neuss) was Archbishop of Cologne from 1193 to 1205.
The Archbishopric of Trier was one of the important ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising — known in the German language as Erzbistum München und Freising and in Latin as Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis — is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany.
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 Talk:Archbishopric of Cologne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
There is a clear difference between the "Archbishopric of Cologne" and the "Electorate of Cologne".
It was ruled by the archbishop of Cologne not in his function as bishop but as a prince of the empire.
The extent of the archbishopric, which exists until today, was much greater than that of the electorate and contained territories of other german princes and Free Imperial Cities.
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 Cologne Germany Travel Information | Asia Travel Europe
Cologne has been one of the most important European traffic junctions for more than 2,000 years, once forming a key intersection of the major roads of the Roman Empire, and is located on the main historical mediaeval trade routes.
Cologne is the city of live music and concerts, with music from all periods from all over the world and in the most diverse stylistic schools and movements performed here every day.
Cologne is a beautiful and diverse city, surrounded by equally attractive and varied countryside.
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 History of Cologne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Cologne is the oldest of the major German cities.
Since 1288 and their military victory over the archbishop and ruler of the city, the citizens of Cologne took political and economic power into their own hands, even though Cologne´s status as a free imperial city was only confirmed de jure in 1475.
Cologne's unique churches, the remains of its city walls and numerous civic buildings (town hall, GŸrzenich, Overstolzenhaus and many more) as well as countless works of art are living proof of the riches and the devoutness of "Heilligen Kšln" (Holy Cologne).
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 Cologne Samples
The University of Cologne (German ''Universität zu Köln'') is one of the largest universities in Germany with approximately 44,000 students.
The cathedral is under the administration of the Roman Catholic Church and is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne.
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.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cologne
Cologne, in size the third city of Prussia, and the capital of the district (Regierungsbezirk) of Cologne, is situated in the lowlands of the lower Rhine on both sides of the river.
Among the churches of Cologne, the foremost is the cathedral, the greatest monument of Gothic architecture in Germany.
Frederick I (1100-31) was the last Archbishop of Cologne to be invested with the episcopal ring and crosier; in 1111, during the three-days fight in the streets of Rome, he saved the Emperor Henry V from defeat, after his imprisonment of Pope Paschal II, but in 1114 abandoned the imperial party.
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 Crave Cologne
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.
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.
Cologne is one of the five Regierungsbezirke of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the south-west of the country.
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During the period of French rule in Cologne the secularized church building served as a stable, storeroom, prisoner-of-war camp etc., and later had the function of a parish church.
After the re-establishment of the archbishopric in Cologne, in September 1842 under the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, a lover of art and the Middle Ages, a second foundation stone was laid for the further construction.
Cologne’s oldest museum has been now housed since the beginning of 2001 in a new building designed by the renowned architect Oswald Mathias Unger.
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 University of cologne
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 Encyclopedia: History of Cologne
In 310 AD, the Emperor Constantine had a bridge over the Rhine constructed; this was guarded by the castellum Divitia (nowadays "Deutz").
In 455, they finally capture Cologne and make it their capital city.
Subsequent Archbishops of Cologne become very influential as advisers to the Saxon, Salian and Hohenstaufen dynasties.
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 Bonn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From 1288 to 1803 it was the residence of the Archbishops and Prince-electors of Cologne.
Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the Romanesque style Münster (cathedral) was built, and in 1597 it became the capital of the principality of Cologne.
Bonn's international airport is Cologne Bonn Airport with low-cost connections to many European cities and a direct connection to Newark, New Jersey (Continental Airlines).
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 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne - Overview
Founded by the Romans, Cologne is the oldest city in Germany and still characterized by its 2000 years of history.
Cologne's unique churches, the remains of its city walls and numerous civic buildings (town hall, Gürzenich, Overstolzenhaus and many more) as well as countless works of art are living proof of the richness and the devoutness of "Hillije Köln" (Holy Cologne).
University of Cologne is the biggest university in Germany and also one of the oldest.
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 The Criterion Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
On Friday, August 19, the Pope will celebrate a private Mass in the archbishopric of Cologne before travelling by car to Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn where, at 10.30 a.m., he is scheduled to pay a courtesy visit to Horst Kohler, president of the Federal Republic of Germany.
At midday he is due to visit the synagogue in Cologne and at 1 p.m.
After lunch in the archbishopric he will go on foot to the "Piussaal" of the seminary of Cologne where he will meet the bishops of the German Episcopal Conference.
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 Historical Flags of Rhineland States (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
With respect to Cologne, Mainz and Trier, the flags I cited were those of the electors (who were the prince bishops).
After the Napoleonic era, Cologne became part of Prussia in 1815.
The fl cross does however appear in the arms of the archdiocese of Cologne (Erzbistum Köln), see for instance the arms of the present-day Rhein-Erft-Kreis County.
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A bit of history: The Archbishopric of Cologne was founded by Charlemagne.
In the 15th century, Bonn was chosen as the episcopal seat by the Bishop of Cologne and the powerful German princes or Electors, so called because they were entitled to participate in choosing the Holy Roman Emperor.
He was known to be ill-tempered and a drunkard, but this latter reputation is now thought to have been vastly exaggerated; in reality, he did not take to the bottle until he had suffered some hard blows in life, such as the death of his wife and daughter.
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 ScienceDaily: Archbishopric of cologne
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Cologne grew quickly and it rose to be the chief town of Germania Secunda, and had the privilege of the Jus Italicum.
Cologne is not called the city of churches for nothing, and the greatest of all churces in Cologne is the Cologne Cathedral.
Cologne is by any means a very holy city and electorate of the Holy Roman Empire so of course we have a wonderful cathedral.
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 Burgundy Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles' involvement west of the Rhine gave him no reason to attack the confederates as Sigismund had wanted, but his embargo politics against the cities of Basel, Strasbourg, and Mulhouse, directed by his reeve Peter von Hagenbach, prompted these to turn to Berne for help.
Charles' expansionist strategy suffered a first setback in his politics when his attack on the Archbishopric of Cologne failed after the unsuccessful Siege of Neuss (1473 – 1474).
In a second phase, Sigismund sought to achieve a peace agreement with the Swiss confederates, which eventually was concluded in Constance in 1474 (later called the Ewige Richtung).
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 Kolumba – Geschichte – Joseph Hoster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Joseph Hoster was born on 27 July 1910 in the Cologne district of Nippes.
In 1947 he was a Sacristy Priest at the Cologne Cathedral, and thus, also custodian of the treasury and director of the Diözesanmuseum, and assistant at the Archbishopric Office for Building, Art and Preservation as well.
From 1966 to 1999 Hoster was chairman of the “Society of Christian Art in the Archbishopric of Cologne and Bishopric of Aachen”.
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 Medieval Cologne (Art 2/8)
Since Charlemagne had founded the archbishopric of Cologne, the city had already developed into one of the most influential cultural, political, and also economic centres of the Holy Roman Empire.
A distinct sign of this proximity is the tomb of Empress Theophanu, the wife of Otto II, a highly-educated, politically-active, and influential Byzantine princess, who brought many artists and academics with her to Germany from the Greek-Roman metropolis on the Bosporus.
As Empress, she always remained linked in a special way to Cologne and, at her own request, was buried in the Romanesque church of St. Pantaleon.
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 Märkischer Kreis County (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The name is not quite appropriate since the modern county includes only the southeastern part of the former Grafschaft Mark, and because some parts of it belonged to other territories (Duchy of Westphalia, belonging to the Archbishopric of Cologne, and the County of Limburg).
County of Mark: on a golden field, a chequered bar in red and white, normally 3 × 9 fields [blazon: Or, a fess chequy Gules and Argent].
Archbishopric of Cologne: fl cross on a silver field [blazon: Argent, a cross Sable].
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 Kolumba – Geschichte – Alexander Scnütgen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In 1875 he was elected to the board of the “Christian Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the Archbishopric of Cologne”.
From 1891 to 1896 and from 1900 to 1906 he was president of the “Christian Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the Archbishopric of Cologne” as well as chairman of the board of the museum.
In 1905 he was the chairman of the preparation committee for the “Handicraft Exhibition” in Cologne.
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 Independent Catholic News
On Friday, August 19, the Pope will celebrate a private Mass in the archbishopric of Cologne before travelling by car to Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn where, at 10.30am, he is scheduled to pay a courtesy visit to Horst Kohler, president of the Federal Republic of Germany.
At midday he is due to visit the synagogue in Cologne and at 1pm will return to the archbishopric for lunch with a group of young people.
At 5pm he is due to meet seminarians at the church of St Pantaleon in Cologne and will then return to the archbishopric to participate in an ecumenical meeting.
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