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Landmark Europe religious World Heritage

Cologne Cathedral

1248 CE – still standing

Gothic masterpiece and Germany's most visited landmark

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Cologne Cathedral on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1200 CE)
  2. Holy Roman Empire (1279 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Prussia (1783 CE–1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  4. Germany (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. German Empire (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Germany (1920 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Germany (UK) (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. West Germany (1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Germany (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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Landmark · Europe

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

350 BCE – 1404 CE

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Trade route · Europe

Venice–Constantinople Route

800 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Europe

Butrint

800 BCE – 1800 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Trade route · Europe

Viking North Atlantic Route

870 CE – 1400 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1248 CE and 2026 CE.

1252 CE Stockholm 1253 CE Basilica of St. Francis 1264 CE Second Barons' War 1274 CE Mevlana Museum 1280 CE Wieliczka Salt Mine

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Sundiata Figure · West Africa 1217 CE – 1255 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
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