Cologne - Kaiser Wilhelm II

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".

Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last German emperor, watching his subjects from the western ramp of the Hohenzollern Bruecke.

Prussia had swallowed the Rhineland after the Congress of Vienna, what the majority of the people of Cologne disliked. So the Prussian Kings financed a big part of the funds needed to complete the Cathedral.