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6 places in Cologne

Adolph Kolping Monument© Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0

Adolph Kolping Monument

A 1903 bronze monument in front of the Minorite Church to the ‘journeymen's father' Adolph Kolping, founder of the Catholic Kolping Society.

Käthe Kollwitz Museum© Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0

Käthe Kollwitz Museum

The world's largest collection of Käthe Kollwitz on Neumarkt – reopened in autumn 2025 after a major renovation.

Minorite Church© Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0

Minorite Church

A Gothic Franciscan church on Kolpingplatz – burial place of the ‘journeymen's father' Adolph Kolping and the theologian John Duns Scotus.

Neumarkt© Raimond Spekking · CC BY-SA 4.0

Neumarkt

Cologne's largest square and a central transport hub – at the edge of the Schildergasse shopping street and the Kulturquartier museums.

Opera Fountain© Horsch, Willy - HOWI · CC BY 3.0

Opera Fountain

A sculptural mosaic fountain from 1966 on Offenbachplatz in front of the opera – a colourful work of post-war modernism.

St. Mary of the Assumption© Hps-poll , Hans Peter Schaefer · CC BY-SA 3.0

St. Mary of the Assumption

A magnificent Baroque Jesuit church near the cathedral – long Cologne's largest church after the cathedral and one of the city's few Baroque monuments.