Military History
4 places in Cologne
Alte Wache (Waidmarkt)
A Prussian guardhouse from 1840/41 on the Waidmarkt, whose listed portico was dismantled and put into storage for possible reconstruction after the 2009 archive collapse.
Alte Wache am Zeughaus
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A Prussian guardhouse from 1840/41 in Neoclassical Florentine style, rebuilt after wartime destruction and now used as a temporary exhibition space of the Cologne City Museum.
The Alteburg Fleet Fort – Headquarters of the Roman Rhine Fleet in Cologne-Marienburg
The district of Marienburg was once home to the headquarters of the Classis Germanica, Rome's Rhine fleet. Nothing of it survives above ground today – the fort lies entirely beneath the densely built-up Alteburg area.
