St. George's Church

St. George's Church is marked by its massive, boxy westwork, a feature with walls five meters thick that looms over the street. This building is one of twelve Romanesque churches in Cologne, with its origins tracing back to a collegiate church established by Archbishop Anno the Second around one thousand fifty-nine. It stands as the only column-supported basilica in the Rhineland, a structural choice that diverged from the piers common in other regional churches of the period.