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Cologne Cathedral: Hidden Underground - Part I

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Cologne Cathedral: Hidden underground Everyone knows Cologne Cathedral - many visitors have also roamed through its "underworld" - except for a few passages around the old foundations and underneath, which are not open to the public. Here, archaeologists have uncovered hidden objects from the late Roman period in order to trace the history of a Christian building site. It all began shortly after the end of World War II, when the concerned canons ordered excavations to examine the substance of the cathedral's foundations after the bombing raids. During the excavations, as one would expect, they came across the remains of the old cathedral, which, archaeologically proven, later became the cathedral we know today in various forms and construction phases since the 6th century. Once they had started, the researchers' enthusiasm could not be stopped - they dug further under the building and supported the ceiling, or rather the cathedral floor above the excavations, meter by meter. The hard-working researchers later made this laborious task easier by carefully removing the actual floor of the cathedral, exposing the excavations underneath and then installing a concrete ceiling on which the stone slabs were returned to their original state. This is how the underworld of Cologne Cathedral was created, which is now almost completely accessible. Large parts of this underworld, however, were filled in again in order to meet the required statics or, for example, to make room for an underground car park. While the cathedral visitors look into the darkness of the underworld there from behind closed iron bars and dream of exploring hidden things, the doors open for me to rooms under the cathedral that are not accessible to the public. I met the archaeologist Dr. Ulrich Back to gain an insight into the hidden world beneath the most famous building on the Rhine. The deepest point of the excavations dates back to the late Roman period. Beneath the foundations you are walking on old Roman ground, at a time when there was still no cathedral in sight. A mysterious coffin from the 11th century lies here, still half buried. When the lid was opened (as can be seen in the picture from the break in the stone), no body was found. It was probably reburied without his coffin when the current cathedral was built (in the Middle Ages). No one knows for sure. During excavations, the former crypt of the Wittelsbach electors was discovered, which was partially plundered during the French Revolution. It has been completely sealed ever since. The coffins made of wood, leather and lead were reburied in their current location after they were discovered. From 1583 to 1761 the Bavarian ducal house of the Wittelsbachs owned the archbishop's seat in Cologne. Since the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Cologne was the spiritual leader, political ruler and, as one of the seven electors, he had the right to elect kings and emperors. More in the blog: http://aufabenteuer.timvonlindenau.de on Facebook: / aufabenteuer on YouTube: / timvonlindenau or the website: http://abenteuer.timvonlindenau.de

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