The History of Cologne
The podcast about the history of the 2,000 years old city of Cologne in Germany
#9 SPQR in CCAA - How the Romans Ruled Ancient Cologne
Episode Archive
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#9 SPQR in CCAA - How the Romans Ruled Ancient Cologne
In this episode, we get a brief overview of how the Romans ruled ancient Cologne. Chronologically, the episode is not firmly docked to a date. In the context of our podcast so far, however, it d...
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#8 A Tale of Water and Stones - About Cologne's Outstanding Infrastructure in Roman Times
How did young Roman Cologne function: Let's take a look at Cologne's long and high efficient waterline and massive stone wall. Being 95 kilometers/60 miles long, Roman Cologne's was the longest ...
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#7 The Batavian Revolt - Nero's Death in Faraway Rome Has Serious Repercussions for Cologne
The Batavian revolt in the Gallic-Germanic border region in 69 CE has a tight grip over Cologne. The Roman rule is gone for the moment. This episode all these events of this conflict will unfold...
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#6 Vitellius and Marsilius - Cologne's Women Teach Roman Soldiers a Lesson they never forget
DISCLAIMER: I am sorry, for the bad sound compared to earlier episodes. I was still experimenting with my mic settings. Next will be better. Promise!
CONTENT: Cologne is in turmoil in the...
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#5 Empress Agrippina the Younger - a real Cologne girl!
„Roman Empress Agrippina was a monster, a murderer, seductive and ruthless“ that has been the verdict about her since the day she died in 59 CE. Is that true? Born 15 CE in Oppidum Ubiorum, toda...
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#4 Oppidum Ubiorum or Cologne 1.0
Dive into the founding phase of Cologne around the year 1 CE and explore how it was constructed as a satellite town. After the resettlement of the Ubii into the Cologne Lowland in around 19 BCE,...
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#3 Agrippa and the ugly Ubii
The Rhineland around the years of 38-15 BCE. Caesar is dead. His adoptive son Augustus becomes the first Roman emperor. In his attemps to secure the eastern border of Gaul, that is adoptive fath...
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#2 Caesar in the Rhineland - Cologne's history begins with the Roman general
Roman general and later dictator Gaius Julius Caesar is the first human ever to write about the Cologne Lowland. When Caesar attacks and conquers Gaul in 59 BCE, he also fights Germanic tribes o...
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#1 The Cologne Lowland - Stone Age and Prehistory
In this episode, we will talk about the time before there was a City of Cologne in the Rhineland. Just a big and fertile lowland, where half-nomadic people would live for many thousand years. Ge...
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Trailer: History of Cologne
The history podcast about the 2000-year-old City of Cologne (Köln) in Germany. Dive into the early history of the city being founded by the Romans? How did it become a bustling medieval city? Ho...