The History of Cologne
The podcast about the history of the 2,000 years old city of Cologne in Germany
#40 1000 AD - Cologne at the turn of the millennium
Episode Archive
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#40 1000 AD - Cologne at the turn of the millennium
Cologne in the Year 1000 AD. This year was a year like many others. But let's take advantage of the beginning of the new millennium to discover the city on foot again.
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#39 Theophanu - A Greek Princes saves the Holy Roman Empire
How did the young Byzantine princess Theophanu become the richest woman in Europe at only 12 years old at the end of the 10th century? And how did she become the most powerful woman in Europe at...
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#38 How Archbishop Bruno changed the face of Cologne forever - until today
Cologne in the middle of the 10th century. The largest city of medieval Germany just before the turn of the millennium. The city is experiencing a tremendous boom. Economic development, church b...
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Retrospective on Frankish Cologne
Cologne's Frankish era is often overlooked. Yet this period was just as long as the Roman era. A whole 500 years! You can look back, but of course you can also look forward.
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#37 Bruno - The Archduke of Cologne
Cologne becomes the starting point of the so-called imperial church system that forms in eastern France in the middle of the 10th century. The little brother of Emperor Otto I, also called Otto ...
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#36 From the Empire of the Franks to the Land of the Germans
Cologne is in an intermediate phase around the year 900. In the whole region of the former Frankish Middle Kingdom of Lothar the question is going around, which empire can protect it better? To ...
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#35 Sancta Colonia - Cologne at the end of the 9th century
Only recently, the Vikings sacked Cologne in 881. While the people of Cologne are still busy rebuilding, new dangers are already approaching. The Magyars, also known as the Hungarians, are attac...
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#34 The Vikings
Cologne and the Rhineland at the end of the 9th century. For quite some time, the various heirs of the once great but now fragmented Frankish Empire have been fighting each other. The Vikings ta...
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Bonus: Q&A Episode
The answers to all your questions regarding the show or other topics about me or the history of Cologne.
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#33 A Frankish Double Divorce Drama
The death of Charlemagne's son Emperor Louis the Pious starts a good old Frankish habit. Breaking up empires to equally share it to a emperor's sons. Cologne or rather the political leadership o...