Walking tour to the history of Cologne Cathedral with VR elements Discount Tickets

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location pin icon Cologne, Germany
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Duration: 1 hour

Overview

With the support of 6 VR stations, the 60-minute city tour brings more than 700 years of cathedral history to life. Visitors will be taken on an emotional journey, starting from the planning of the cathedral building in the Middle Ages, to the laying of the second foundation stone after a long construction break, through the horrors of the 2nd century. World War I, right up to the present. A classic city tour around the cathedral is combined with a virtual reality experience. In a varied tour you will learn about the background of the cathedral building, learn all kinds of exciting facts and figures and dive directly into important times for the cathedral building. You put on glasses at the stations and look directly into the past.

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Please keep an eye out for the blue flag.

Language Offered

German-GUIDE

Itinerary

1. Modell Einer Kreuzblume Vom Kolner Dom, In Originalgrosse.
First, the visitor to station 1 gets a Overview map explaining the different construction phases of the cathedral. After that, the virtual image into a 360° painting from around 1300. It shows the moment as bishop and master cathedral builder in the atrium of the old cathedral, which had stood on the same site since 870, the The cathedral was completed many centuries later as Cologne Cathedral.
Duration: 10 mins
2. Roncalliplatz
At Station 2, the group of visitors is located on Roncalli Square and looks out over through the VR glasses into the year 1520. While you are in the midst of everyday market activity of this period, look at the construction site of the cathedral in the Renaissance period, briefly before the construction work ceases for three hundred years. Up on the South Tower The construction crane is already enthroned, which has been a landmark of the city for centuries will apply. At Station 3, the visitor sees the cathedral from almost the same perspective and in the same Construction condition, but about 300 years later. Since 1815, the Prussians have been in Cologne, important infrastructure projects. In 1842, the Emperor himself invites As protector of the prestige building, one for the solemn second laying of the foundation stone of the cathedral. And you're in the middle of the festivities. And now it will be fast ... the Cologne-based Cathedral was completed in 1880 as a German national symbol.
Duration: 20 mins
3. Domherrenfriedhof
At Station 4, at the Domherrenfriedhof, the view of a still young Cathedral around 1926. It shows not only the magnificent Cologne before the 2. World War I, but You can also see why the cathedral has been given its dark colour, looking at the main train station where a steam locomotive is currently entering. Your black smoke is heading towards the cathedral.
Duration: 10 mins
4. Cologne Central Station
You will experience the lively traffic on the station forecourt, including cars and trams, before a wailing siren the next VR scene. The animated beauty of the 1920s is passé. Their journey through time can be seen in the same place in 1945. Around it a rubble landscape. The formerly splendid Wilhelmine Central Station is heavily damaged and can only be recognized in its basic structure, with its characteristic entrance portal.
Duration: 10 mins
5. Domplatte
On the way to the last stop, visitors learn about the severe post-war years and the construction of the city. Cologne Cathedral has also been hard hit, but as a symbol of the Kölsche Hätz he always gave hope for better times. At the end it goes back to the dome plate. At Station 6, you will find yourself surrounded by the crowds that gather around the cathedral every day, learning how the cathedral became the symbol of the city of Cologne and how it attracts millions of visitors from all over the world every year.
Duration: 10 mins

Inclusion

Tour outside around the cathedral

VR glasses

Live Guide

Exclusion

Access to the cathedral

Cancellation Policy

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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

  • 100% refund if cancelled 1+ days before the start date
  • 0% refund if cancelled less than 1 day(s) before the start date

Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Service animals allowed

Public transportation options are available nearby

Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Supplied by TimeRide

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