Cologne - University

Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".

The University of Cologne was established in 1388 and existed until 1798, when the university was abolished by the French, who had invaded Cologne in 1794. In 1919 the university got re-established and with more than 50.000 students is one of the large universities in Germany.

The charta was signed in 1919 by Cologne Mayor Konrad Adenauer, who later became Chancellor of Germany (1949–1963).

The main building (here seen from the eastern "garden side"), erected in 1934, is embellished with an astronomical clock .