Talk:Cologne Cathedral
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[edit] peer
Sanssouci is currently up for peer review here. If anyone has any comments to make to improve it, I would be very grateful.
[edit] bells
16 April 2006: This web page: http://www.willkommeninkoeln.de/media/sound/dom.htm has the sound of one of the bells of the Dom, the one that seems most fredquently heard. The only problem is that I don't know the name of the bell. Could someone who knows that add the webpage (which is the Cologne Cathedral website) and also indicate which bell this is in the external links?
Also, the Cologne cathedral now has a webcam for services. Itr would be very nice to note that in the external links. It works very well. Nkb
[edit] Contradictory dates
The caption of the photo says this building was the world's tallest from 1880 to 1890. The article's introduction indicates it was surpassed in 1884. Which is it? --dreish~talk 18:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Clean up
I placed the clean up tag on this article. While reading it, I noticed that this article repeats itself, specifically the fact that the cathedral used to be the tallest in the world before the Washintgon Monutment was built. This is possibly the rsult of some contributors editing one section without carefully reading the other sections.ErinHowarth 22:16, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- I have removed the stuff about its tallest-building status from the lead, which eliminates the repetition. List of tallest buildings and structures in the world says that the Cathedral was the tallest from 1880 until 1884, when it was surpassed by the Washington Monument. The text of this article now says the same.
- The infobox on the right is a bit different. It had said that Cologne Cathedral was the tallest until 1889, when it was surpassed by Ulm Munster. That infobox refers to the "world's tallest buildings" as being fully habitable, self-supported, from main entrance to rooftop. This is not the definition used by the list of tallest buildings, which doesn't even include Ulm Munster. There is a whole consistent run of infoboxes linking tallest buildings as defined this way, though, so I'm not going to mess with it. However, Ulm Munster was finished in 1890, not 1889 (that was the Eiffel Tower) so I fixed the date.
- I've removed the clean-up tag, as that was the only issue listed. If more is required, feel free to restore it.Eron 17:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A roman temple?
Recent archaeological research dealing with former buildings on the site of Cologne Cathedral suppose that there rather a horreum (roman store-house) has been than a temple. Diggings in the city center of Cologne brought several remains of those horrea out into the open, and it is correct that throughout the Imperium Romanum horrea were used as places of christian worship when christendom reached the provinces. Cologne’s romanesque St. Martin-church in the city center also is built onto the foundations of a horreum, what can be seen in the modern crypt. After WW II archaeologists recovered foundations of the warehouse beneath the gothic cathedral and, following an ancient assumption, called it a temple. Maybe that early christians in Cologne used the room for service so that there is an liturgical tradition at this place from the beginning until now.
I apologize that my English may be not quite correct.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.176.230.140 (talk • contribs) .
