Structures Insider
Aug 14, 20191 min
Updated: Aug 13, 2020
Location: Domkloster 4, 50667 Köln, Germany 🇩🇪
Architectural Style: Gothic
Construction Start Date: 1248
Spire height: 157 m (515 ft)
Website: koelner-dom.de
Tickets: Book tickets from €23 EUR at here
The choir has the largest height-to-width ratio of any medieval church, at 3.6:1. It is characterised by a French-style arrangement of a tall arcade and a narrow triforium gallery lit by windows.
Bells of the main bell cage weight list:
Aveglocke –830 kg
Kapitelsglocke – 1.4tonnes
Josephglocke – 2.2 tonnes
Ursulaglocke – 2.5 tonnes
Dreikönigsglocke – 3.8 tonnes
Speciosa – 5.6 tonnes
Pretiosa – 10.5 tonnes
St. Petersglocke, Great Bell of Germany – 24 tonnes
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Constructions began in 1248, the construction of this Gothic masterpiece took place in several stages and was not completed until 1880. The North Tower at 157.38 meters (516.33 feet) is 7 centimetres (2.75 inches) higher than the South Tower.
The Cologne Cathedral has the world’s third-largest church interior. From 1880 to 1884, the Cathedral was the tallest building in the world, until it was beaten by the Washington Monument and then the Eiffel Tower.