Life in Cologne

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Life in Cologne

• By Rebecca Laubach

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Cologne Cathedral My favourite building in
Cologne. It is very old and a famous building.
There are many stories about its history.

• Built from 1248 to 1530.
• And from 1842 to 1880.
• Still now there is much work to do, because of
  the pigeons.
• 156m high
• The bones of the Three Wise Men are supposed to
  be there.
• Many tourists visit the Cologne Cathederal every
  year.

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The story of building the old cathedral - which
was at the same place as the new cathedral - on
the holy hill of Cologne Cologne got a new
archbishop. He wanted to have a cathedral in his
city to get more importance. Many people came
together to dig the hole for the basis. As they
dug, they found huge stones formed by humans and
saw devils coming out of them and saw them
becoming one big devil in the air. They went to
the bishop and told him that they could not dig
any more. The bishop laughed at them and said
they should continue digging. Otherwise they
would not get money. They went back, started
digging and saw the devils again and came back to
the archbishop. After this happened the 4th time,
the bishop thought about what to do although he
didn't believe in devils. He took very much holy
water because devils hate it and went to the holy
hill of Cologne. 6 days and nights he walked
around this place and spread holy water
everywhere until he was sure that everyone in
Cologne had seen what he was doing and was sure
that there were no devils any more. On the 7th
day the archbishop saw the devils and was
shocked. But because he had holy water in his
hand, the devils could not hurt him. In this
moment the wind came and blew the devils to the
other side of the Rhine. So now we know the
descendants of the people who were born on the
other side of the Rhine are offspring of the
devils.
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The fifth season of the year-Carnival-
Carnival is a big festival in Cologne. There are
many parades, the largest is the one on the fifth
day. There are many people who like Carnival but
- and that's the bad side - many of them drink
too much alcohol.
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Pupils...
get to school
spend their free time with music and sports
by bike
by bus
by tram
my sisters
me
by car
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How to get to school
Most pupils in our class come to school by
subway. Some of them are using the same line. One
boy is late almost every day. His excuse is
always the same My train was late How come
that the pupils who are using the same line are
in time? Im always riding my bike but some
days my bike is faster and sometimes slower. In
the morning I am riding through a big park. In
the wintertime I am only meeting a few people
there - every morning the same, so we say hello
to each other.When it rains, all leaves are
shining. I like the fog very much, too. A few
meters before the end of my way to school there
is an old fort and part of the old Roman wall of
Cologne. Now its owned by a famous carneval
association.