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Cologne Cathedral (German: Kxc3xb6lner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
[6] At 157xc2xa0m (515xc2xa0ft), the cathedral is currently the tallest twin-spired church in the world, the second tallest church in Europe after Ulm Minster, and the third tallest church in the world.
The towers for its two huge spires give the cathedral the largest faxc3xa7ade of any church in the world.
[4] Only the telecommunications tower is higher than the Cathedral.
From the 4th century on, however, the site was occupied by Christian buildings, including a square edifice known as the "oldest cathedral" that was commissioned by Maternus, the first bishop of Cologne.
A free-standing baptistery dating back to the 7th century was located at the east end of the present cathedral but was demolished in the 9th century to build the second cathedral.
During excavations of the present cathedral, graves were discovered in the location of the oldest portion of the building; including that of a boy that was richly adorned with grave goods and another of a woman, popularly thought to be Wisigard.
The second church, called the "Old Cathedral", was completed in 818.
It was destroyed by fire on 30 April 1248, during demolition work to prepare for a new cathedral.
With the 19th century romantic enthusiasm for the Middle Ages, and spurred by the discovery of the original plan for the faxc3xa7ade, it was decided, with the commitment of the Protestant Prussian Court, to complete the cathedral.
The completion of Germany's largest cathedral was celebrated as a national event on 14 August 1880, 632 years after construction had begun.
The cathedral suffered fourteen hits by aerial bombs during World War II.
On 6 March 1945, an area west of the cathedral (Marzellenstrasse/Trankgasse) was the site of intense combat between American tanks of the 3rd Armored Division and a Panther Ausf.
The destroyed Panther was later put on display at the base of the cathedral for the remainder of the war in Europe.
The Dombauhxc3xbctte, established to build the cathedral and keep it in repair, is said[by whom?]
On 18 August 2005, Pope Benedict XVI visited the cathedral during his apostolic visit to Germany, as part of World Youth Day 2005 festivities.
An estimated one million pilgrims visited the cathedral during this time.
On 25 August 2007, the cathedral received a new stained glass window in the south transept.
[19] The then archbishop of the cathedral, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, who had preferred a figurative depiction of 20th-century Catholic martyrs for the window, did not attend the unveiling.
On 5 January 2015, the cathedral remained dark as floodlights were switched off to protest a demonstration by PEGIDA.
Unfinished cathedral, 1856 with 15th-century crane on south tower.
The west front of the completed cathedral in 1911 US soldier and destroyed Panther tank, 4 April 1945.
In 1996, the cathedral was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of culturally important sites.
[23][24] The cathedral was removed from the list in 2006, following the authorities' decision to limit the heights of buildings constructed near and around the cathedral.
There is ongoing conservation at the cathedral to address the problem of the black discoloration caused by the sandstone reacting with sulfuric acid during rainfall.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. was modeled after the cathedral.
A large stone statue of St Christopher looks down towards the place where the earlier entrance to the cathedral was, before its completion in the late 19th century.
A "Bird's eye view" shows the cruciform plan The cathedral from the south The exterior of one of the spires The main entrance shows the 19th century decoration
The flying buttresses and pinnacles of the Medieval east end The nave looking east Interior of the Medieval east end, showing the extreme height This "swallows' nest" organ was built into the gallery in 1998, to celebrate the cathedral's 750 years
One of the treasures of the cathedral is the High Altar, which was installed in 1322.
The most celebrated work of art in the cathedral is the Shrine of the Three Kings, commissioned by Philip von Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne from 1167 to 1191 and created by Nicholas of Verdun, begun in 1190.
Her trachyte sarcophagus is considered to be created by the cathedral masonsxe2x80x99 guild around 1280.
[34] Other works of art are in the Cathedral Treasury.
Cathedral organists have included Josef Zimmermann, Clemens Ganz (1985xe2x80x932001) and Winfried Bxc3xb6nig (2001).
The cathedral has eleven church bells, four of which are medieval.
The 22 pieces of artillery were displayed outside the cathedral on 11 May 1872.
The Central Cathedral Association, which had agreed to take over the costs, did not want this bell either.
The colossal bell was shipped to Cologne and on 13 May 1875, installed in the cathedral.
The 24-tonne St. Petersglocke ("Bell of St. Peter", "Decke Pitter" in the Kxc3xb6lsch language or in common parlance known as "Dicker Pitter"), was cast in 1922 and was the largest free-swinging bell in the world, until a new bell was cast in Innsbruck for the People's Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest in Romania.
No other Cathedral is so perfectly conceived, so uniformly and uncompromisingly executed in all its parts.
Of the many works of art in the Cathedral, special mention should be made to the Gero Crucifix of the late 10th century, in the Chapel of the Holy Cross, which was transferred from the pre-Romanesque predecessor of the present Cathedral, and the Shrine of the Magi (1180-1225), in the choir, which is the largest reliquary shrine in Europe.
Criterion (ii): Constructed over more than six centuries Cologne Cathedral marks the zenith of cathedral architecture and at the same time its culmination.
The laws and regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia guarantee the consistent protection of the Cologne Cathedral and its surroundings: The Cathedral is a listed monument according to paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Act on the Protection and Conservation of Monuments in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, dated 11March 1980 (Protection Law).
Conservation and building activities within and outside the property and in the buffer zone are regulated by paragraph 9 (2) of the Protection Law and Local Building Plans in order to ensure the effective protection of the important views of the Cathedral.
A Steering Committee (the Cathedral Construction Commission or Dombaukommission), which was established in 1946 and consists of the Archbishop of Cologne, the Dean of the Cathedral, the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cologne, the Minister of the State North Rhine-Westphalia in charge of monument protection and the State Conservator of the Ministry, supervises the work of the Cathedral Workshop.
The Cathedral Workshop xe2x80x93 under the leadership of the Cathedral architect xe2x80x93 is responsible for the maintenance, conservation and restoration in the medieval tradition and acts in concert with the regional and local historic monument conservation authorities.