Cologne:12 Romanesque Churches-Part 1

Cologne has 12 important Romanesque churches, all of which stand within the medieval city wall. Although devastated during World War II, all of them have been fully restored and once again recapture Cologne's rich early medieval heritage.

St. Andreas Church: near the cathedral  contains the tomb of St. Albertus Magnus, a wealth of late Romanesque architectural sculpture, and murals in the crypt.

St. Aposteln Church: Situated right in the heart of the metropolis, St. Aposteln is a monumental oasis of peace: a completely different world. Its glory, the domed clover leaf chancel, was built around 1200.

St. Cecilia's Church : dates from the late 12th century. It has a fine tympanum carving of the patron saint over the north door and murals in the choir and nave. It now houses the Schnütgen Museum of medieval art, which contains sculpture, paintings, church furnishings, ivory reliefs and more.

St. Georg Church is the only remaining Romanesque pillared basilica in the Rhineland and was a stop on the medieval pilgrimage to Santiago. It has carved capitals in the porch and an impressive forked crucifix from the early 14th century.

St. Gereon Church: According to a medieval legend, the name patron to St. Gereon was a Roman officer, who died for his Christian faith together with 318 legionaries. An oval-base church was built on the martyrs’ grave in ancient times.

St. Kunibert Church: Cologne’s latest Romanesque church dominates the Rhine panorama in the north of the cathedral city. In 1247, it was completed, one year before the foundation stone to the Cologne Cathedral was laid.


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