The twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne are twelve landmark churches in the Old town of Cologne, Germany. All twelve churches are Catholic.
Great St. Martin Church, Cologne
St. Gereon
Interior of St. Andreas
Interior of St. Aposteln
The Great Saint Martin Church is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Its foundations rest on remnants of a Roman chapel, built on what was then an island in the Rhine. The church was lat
Twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne
…example St. Gereon, which was originally a huge mausoleum in a Roman graveyard, or St. Maria im Kapitol, built on the substructure of a Roman temple. Great St. Martin Church stands on the site of Roman warehouses and previously a sports field with a swimming pool, the walls of which can be seen in the basement of the church…
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Aerial view of the Great St. Martin Church, Cologne
An early 19th-century view of the north side of the church, after the demolition of the abbey, reveals the triapsidal Romanesque structure of the eastern end.
Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening (1826) by the British artist Turner depicts the Church on the right