The Audioguide Cologne is your personal tour guide, that describes fifteen famous sights and works completely offline. It comes with human speech, GPS-Navigation, automatic sight recognition and tour-recommendations. With the cityguide app Cologne you discover the stronghold of the Carnival on the Rhine off your own bat. Listen to interesting and sometimes also amusing facts and stories about the 15 most important places of interest. Get to know, among the rest, whether the city hall tower was built with respect to the quota for number of women and where you can see taken down trousers and outstretched tongues.
The Roman-Catholic Cathedral Saint Peter and Maria is with 157-metres height after the Ulmer Münster the second-highest church in Germany as well as the third-highest church of the world.
In the 19 th century, the Silesian poet August Kopisch wrote a poem about the famous brownies of cologne called Hainzelmännchen. Because he would have become hundred years old in 1899, the Cologne embellishment association donated the brownie’s well to honour him.
“ Alder Maat ” is the dialectical name for the heart of the Old Town, the place called “Alter Markt”. Here on the Old Market, the so called “Jecken” come together on the 11. of November around 11 minutes past 11 at the official beginning of the carnival time as well as in the carnival’s women’s day for the start of the street carnival.
Everyone who visits the Cologne city hall built in the 13-th century, should do this, when the big pointer of the clock, which can bee seen from the old market, points at the Twelve.
The Severinstorburg, one of three preserved medieval city gates, differs from the others, because attached to it are several metres of the old city wall ragged in 1881.
When in October 1794 the French had taken the city of Cologne, they decided to provide all 7440 buildings of the city with sequential house numbers. The house in the Glockengasse which received the number 4711 was inhabited the businessman Wilhelm Mühlens.
The very well-preserved Roman’s tower originates from the 2nd and 3-rd century and was the most northwest tower of the Roman city fortification at that time.
The name Gereonsmill refers to the no longer existing Gereonsgate, one of 12 city gates existing at that time by which 8 were torn off together with the biggest part of the 600 year-old city wall in 1881.
The castle Eigelsteintor, one of the most-visited places of interest of Cologne, was built in the first half of the 13-th century in the course of the third city extension.
In the 13th century the Hahnentorburg, which maybe translated to ‘cock gate castle’, was built. Walking under it means strolling on the traces of emperors and kings.
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