Heritage-listed
17 places in Cologne
Bottmühle
The Bottmühle in Cologne's southern Old Town is a 17th-century stone tower windmill standing on an old fortification platform behind the medieval city wall.
Friedenskirche (Cologne-Ehrenfeld)
since 1876Ehrenfeld's oldest Protestant church, built in 1876, repeatedly remodelled and heritage-listed since 1982.
Heilig Kreuz
Catholic parish church in Köln-Weidenpesch, built in 1931 to plans by Heinrich Bartmann and consecrated in 1934 – a brick building poised between tradition and modernity, and a listed monument since 1983.
Katzenbuckelbrücke
since 1957A curving prestressed-concrete pedestrian bridge from 1957 that links the Rhine bank in Cologne-Mülheim with the Katzenkopf river peninsula.
St. John XXIII – Church of the Catholic University Parish Cologne
since 1969A sculptural 1960s concrete church in Sülz whose entire architecture grows out of the symbol of a tree.
Liebfrauenkirche
since 1864Neo-Gothic parish church in Cologne-Mülheim, rebuilt in modern form by Rudolf Schwarz after wartime destruction.
Literaturhaus Köln
A stage for contemporary literature in the medieval Haus Bachem – with some 700 members, one of Germany's largest literature houses.
Neu St. Katharina
since 1894A heritage-listed Neo-Romanesque brick basilica from 1892–1894 in Cologne's Niehl district.
Römerturm
The best-preserved tower of Cologne's Roman city wall, built around 50 AD and decorated on its outer face with an elaborate mosaic of natural stones.
St. Bonifatius (Cologne-Nippes)
since 1914A neo-Romanesque basilica from 1914 in Cologne-Nippes, regarded as the city's only Art Nouveau church.
St. Dreikönigen
since 1929Catholic parish church of 1928/29 in Cologne-Bickendorf, blending New Objectivity with Expressionist touches.
St. Franziskus
Catholic parish church in Köln-Bilderstöckchen, built by Hans Schilling as a round red-brick structure between 1957 and 1961 and listed as a historic monument since 2003.
St. Johannes der Täufer
Listed clinic church of the University Hospital Cologne in Lindenthal, built 1962–1965 by Gottfried Böhm from exposed concrete and connected to the hospital buildings via an underground passage.
St. Joseph (Braunsfeld)
Roman Catholic post-war church in Köln-Braunsfeld, built between 1952 and 1954 to designs by Rudolf Schwarz and Joseph Bernard, and listed as a protected monument since 1999.
St. Karl Borromäus
A Catholic parish church in Cologne-Sülz dating from 1930, listed as a protected monument since 1983 – the first Cologne church to be built as part of an enclosed residential block.
Staatenhaus am Rheinpark
Listed 1920s event hall in Cologne-Deutz – currently the temporary home of the Cologne Opera and a future musical theatre.
