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"Reconstruction of Cologne in the 17th century"

That picture caption would be clearer if written instead as: "Reconstruction of 17th-century Cologne". (Assuming, of course, that that is the intended meaning.) Toddcs (talk) 19:33, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Connect history of Jews in Cologne?

I believe a link should be made to the Wikipedia page History of the Jews in Cologne. In the World War II section of this article, the concentration camp in Cologne isn’t even mentioned. Thoughts? Jhurley85 (talk) 13:46, 11 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and added a link to the history of Jews in Cologne article in the religion section. Graham87 (talk) 14:42, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

An error here surely

The Allies dropped 44,923.2 tons of bombs on the city during World War II, destroying 61% of its built up area. During the Bombing of Cologne in World War II, Cologne endured 262 air raids[21] by the Western Allies, which caused approximately 20,000 civilian casualties and almost completely wiped out the central part of the city. During the night of 31 May 1942, Cologne was the target of "Operation Millennium", the first 1,000 bomber raid by the Royal Air Force in World War II. 1,046 heavy bombers attacked their target with 1,455 tons of explosives, approximately two-thirds of which were incendiary.[22] This raid lasted about 75 minutes, destroyed 600 acres (243 ha) of built-up area (61%)

So it was either 61% of the built up area during the entire war or during a single 1,000 bomber raid. I'm inclined to think that the effect of a single night's bombing would not be recorded separate to any other damage with that kind of accuracy and that 1 raid of around 2% of the total bombs dropped would not be more devastating than 261 other raids.90.242.145.106 (talk) 11:49, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Population

Populaton of Cologne in 2023 1.086.138.
The figure of 3.1 million for the urban area includes Cologne and Bonn plus neighbouring counties; it is not a proper value for Cologne.
The populaton including the suburbs (from Kerpen in the West to Overath in the East) is about 1.75 million.--95.91.214.121 (talk) 12:46, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What?

After a wave of removing alternative German place names from Poland and Czechia etc., this has somehow spread to Cologne? Is this place Polish too all of a sudden? 95.193.65.160 (talk) 12:28, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]