The Historial Archive with Rhenish Picture Archive is the municipal archive of Cologne, Germany. It ranks among the largest communal archives in Europe.
Archive administration and reading room of the archive in Cologne
Cologne City Hall tower, 2007
Detail from the Kölner Verbundbrief charter
Ferdinand Franz Wallraf, collector, portrait by Johann Anton de Peters
Heinrich Böll
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Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Böll in 1981
Book cover Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum