Cologne

Cologne, in German KÖLN, is a busy German commercial city engaged in eau-de-Cologne, sugar, tobacco, and other manufactures. It was the capital of Rhenish Prussia, and a fortress of first rank, on the left bank of the Rhine, 175 miles southeast of Rotterdam. It has some fine old buildings, and a picture gallery, but its glory is its great cathedral, founded in the 9th century, burnt in 1248, since which time the rebuilding was carried on at intervals, and only completed in 1880. It is one of the masterpieces of Gothic architecture.

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