Cologne (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Joseph Lins · 1913
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Description
Joseph Lins's entry covers Cologne as both a German city and an archbishopric. The city, third in Prussia, lies on both banks of the lower Rhine. It covered 45 square miles. On 1 December 1905 it held 428,722 people, of whom 339,790 were Catholics. Its history runs back before Christ. After Agrippa moved the Ubii across the Rhine in 38 B.C., their center stood on the site. In A.D. 50 Agrippina founded the colony of veterans called Colonia Agrippina.
Cologne grew rich in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In the sixteenth-century religious upheavals it stayed Catholic, thanks largely to its university. Its cathedral stands as the greatest Gothic monument in Germany. The archbishopric, first surely held by Saint Maternus in 314, later made its holders princes of the Empire. Five Wittelsbach electors ruled it to 1761, and in 1750 it counted 860 parishes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joseph Lins |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |