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Kaiserslautern, Nähe Hauptbahnhof
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Cologne Cathedral was built between 1248 and 1880. The cathedral is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spire of any church in the world. The cathedral suffered seventy hits by aerial bombs during World War II. It did not collapse, but stood tall in an otherwise flattened city. Visitors can climb 509 stone steps of the spiral staircase to a viewing platform about 98 m (322 ft) above the ground. The platform gives a scenic top view of the Rhine.

The most celebrated work of art in the cathedral is the Shrine of the Three Kings, a large gilded sarcophagus dating from the 13th century, and the largest reliquary in the Western world. It is traditionally believed to hold the remains of the Three Wise Men, whose bones and 2,000-year-old clothes were discovered at the opening of the shrine in 1864.

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"May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours."

Beannacht, in Benedictus (To Bless the Space Between Us), John O'Donohue (1956-2008)

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