Helenenwallstrasse 28, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, 50679, Germany
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Cologne Cathedral
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...........past the museum........
Catherdral Interior
what is the name and location of the pub in old town where you can order beer by the meter? they serve it on long boards with many glasses of beer in cut out holes?
Just a guess, but look at http://www.germanbeerguide.com/CityDetail.asp?City=Kln and go down to Haxenhaus zum Rheingarten. The restaurant's website is http://www.haxenhaus.de/index.php (it appears to be only in German). I note that they claim to be 10 minutes on foot from the train station through the old town...so maybe this is it...
Bill
All brewery houses in the Altstadt (old town) will serve beer by the meter (11 x 0,2 l glasses). This is pretty standard in Cologne.
http://www.koeln.nicecity.de/english/breweries.htm
http://www.koelner-brauhaus-wanderweg.de/
The local custom for lovers here is to attach a padlock (or a pair of interlocking ones) with their names on them to the mesh fence on the main railway bridge (Hohenzollernbrucke) then throw the key into the river.
Best to make sure threre isn't a passing boat first though!
Here's a few pics:
'Live Music Hall', Köln-Ehrenfeld
Some old industry building with
lots of (yes) live music :-) and regular parties
on two floors. Often EBM/Gothic on the (separated)
second floor above the main hall. Many, many concerts. None. Just be prepared to wear something that you
are comfortable to dance in. Black clothes (although
not dress code) on the 2nd floor.
There is an international airport in Cologne (Köln/Bonn) and another one in Düsseldorf. But I suggest that you arrive to Cologne by train. The train station is situated just beside the Dom, so as you approach the city by the Hohenzollern bridge, the view will be astonishing, as it will be what you see as you step out of the station.
There is an U-Bahn (subway system) in Cologne and, public transportation is very good.
In the Girkeller you can have a traditional medieval dinner. It is in a beautiful old cellar, one of the oldest in Cologne.
There's only one problem: This isn't really a restaurant but you have to book in advance for one of these dinners to be organised. An ideal place for company christmas parties or other events like that! I've only been at a party here once and I enjoyed the drinks and the cellar the most.
We went into the Rathaus which on looking back on it seemed a strange place for a tour to go as municipal buildings are most often viewed from the outside unless one has some business there.
Inside was a modern stained glass window - "The Life of the Town" by Professor Georg Meistermann. It was a kind of timeline of history. The major figures in the city of Cologne are lined up along its abstracted Rhine in a window. These included historical figures such as Agrippina in addition to more modern people. The 13 x 9-meter window is in the stairwell of the recently renovated Town Hall.
I took a picture of it and it is one of the few photos of the first part of my 1964 trip that I have so far found. But when I looked on the internet I could find no mention of it whatever, and no photos on VT. The internet problem was solved when GrumpyDiver explained that I was misspelling his name - it isn't Meisterman as I had thought. Even with the correct spelling I can find only one photo on the internet (other than mine which has a young girl named Scarlett who was on the tour with us standing in front of it) and that is on Wikipedia, which says
George Champion Meistermann (b. June 16 1911 in Solingen, June 12th 1990 in Cologne) was a painter, illustrator and graphic designer, and created over a thousand glass window at about 250 locations throughout Europe.
It is certainly a contrast with the Cathedral. We also saw (according to my notes from 1964) the foundations of the Roman Praetorium (or palace) which was underneath the Rathaus. These ruins were discovered in 1953 when they were doing excavation for a new wing of the Town Hall. It turned out to be the Roman city headquarters. The remains still lie under the city hall and can be viewed. The picture that I took of this is still missing.
There is an information desk in the lobby of the Town Hall where one can enquire about viewing the excavations.
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