Willem Fromm

The History of Cologne

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The History of Cologne is a podcast that tells the story of Cologne, Germany. It’s a city with 2,000 years worth of history and it has so much to tell! Listen to the city growing. Dive into the early history of the city being founded by the Romans. How did it become a bustling medieval city? How did Cologne perform during Napoleon and the Industrial Revolution? And how about the Nazi time? Triweekly schedule, going chronological from the Roman roots up until today. Where is this podcast now in the chronology: 1198

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Willem Fromm

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#4 Oppidum Ubiorum or Cologne 1.0 02.02.2020 22:56

Dive into the founding phase of Cologne around the year 1 CE and explore how it was constructed as a satellite town. After the resettlement of the Ubii into the Cologne Lowland in around 19 BCE, the need for a central settlement is obvious. With the help of the Roman legions, the settlement of the Ubii „Oppidum Ubiorum“ is built. This settlement will turn out to be ancient Cologne. More Info and L...

#3 Agrippa and the ugly Ubii 26.01.2020 25:36

The Rhineland around the years of 38-15 BCE. Caesar is dead. His adoptive son Augustus becomes the first Roman emperor. In his attemps to secure the eastern border of Gaul, that is adoptive father Caesar had conquered, he sends his best friend and son-in-law Agrippa. There, Agrippa comes up with a plan and by doing that he will initiate the founding of Cologne in 19 BCE. More Info and Links to thi...

#2 Caesar in the Rhineland - Cologne's history begins with the Roman general 26.01.2020 24:23

Roman general and later dictator Gaius Julius Caesar is the first human ever to write about the Cologne Lowland. When Caesar attacks and conquers Gaul in 59 BCE, he also fights Germanic tribes on the Rhine. There, he encounters a Germanic tribe, the Ubii. The Ubii will be very important for Cologne‘s history. More Info and Links to this podcast: linktr.ee/thofCGN

#1 The Cologne Lowland - Stone Age and Prehistory 26.01.2020 15:42

In this episode, we will talk about the time before there was a City of Cologne in the Rhineland. Just a big and fertile lowland, where half-nomadic people would live for many thousand years. Get to know how the climate here is and how it benefits Cologne's geography. If you are not really into all of that, skip this and go to the next episode about Caesar. NOTE: I had to re-record this first epis...

Trailer: History of Cologne 26.01.2020 1:19

The history podcast about the 2000-year-old City of Cologne (Köln) in Germany. Dive into the early history of the city being founded by the Romans? How did it become a bustling medieval city? How did Cologne perform during Napoleon and the Industrial Revolution? And how about the Nazi time? All of that narrated by a Cologne citizen. Triweekly schedule. More Info and Links to this podcast: linktr.e...