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076 - Cologne Cathedral
Wonders of the World
English - January 14, 2021 05:00 - 55 minutes - 101 MB - ★★★★★ - 302 ratingsHistory Society & Culture Places & Travel wonders food history travel world Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It was the world's tallest building, 632 years after work started: an exercise in persistence. Cologne Cathedral is a Gothic masterpiece.
Cologne itself is a good place to tell the story of the 13th century's great disaster: the Black Death, and the social upheaval it brought, including the pogroms that swept through the Rhineland.
Willem Fromm of the History of Cologne podcast brings a local perspective to his home city, its magnificent cathedral and its 2000 years of history. And beer! And potato soup!
Sources:
Di Duca, Marc. Lonely Planet Germany
Kelly, John. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Orent, Wendy. Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease
Ozment, Steven E. A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
Rick Steves Germany
Photo by Nikolai Karaneschev