Details
Founded: 12th centuryCategory: Religious sites in Germany
Historical period: Salian Dynasty (Germany)
Rating
4.6/5 (based on Google user reviews)
User Reviews
Victoria Page (2 months ago)
Room with bones is beautiful in a creepy way, mind blowing place. It makes sense to wach some youtube video about the story.
Room with bones is beautiful in a creepy way, mind blowing place. It makes sense to wach some youtube video about the story.
Jeronimas (6 months ago)
Beautiful Church and amazing artefacts. It's worth a visit!
Beautiful Church and amazing artefacts. It's worth a visit!
Steve Ginther (6 months ago)
Beautiful church with a mixture of baroque and Gothic architecture. If you have a chance to visit the Golden chamber it is not to be missed. Very friendly parishioner took my €2 and very amiably showed me the chamber and pointed out highlights of the restoration. Not to be missed! Also aside from a beautiful church I found it a very sacred place to pray.
Beautiful church with a mixture of baroque and Gothic architecture. If you have a chance to visit the Golden chamber it is not to be missed. Very friendly parishioner took my €2 and very amiably showed me the chamber and pointed out highlights of the restoration. Not to be missed! Also aside from a beautiful church I found it a very sacred place to pray.
Jay Marciano (7 months ago)
A five-minute walk from Cologne Cathedral, the Church of St. Ursula is definitely worth a visit, particularly the Golden Chamber (Goldener Kammer), which is decorated with skeletal remains that were found on the building site and, according to legend, belonged to St. Ursula and 11,000 virgins who were martyred there, two statements that don't stand up to scrutiny particularly well. (For one , when you build a church on the site of a Roman cemetery, you might consider the possibility that the bones were of Romans who had lived in Colognia. And for that matter, even the number of martyred virgins in the legend of St. Ursula was likely inflated by a factor of 1000 due to a misreading of some Latin. Not to mention that there aren't even close to enough bones to make up 11,000 human bodies.) Nevertheless, the church is worth a visit to see the elaborate arrangement of bones and the decorated skulls. (Note: when I visited in March of 2024, it cost €2 per person to enter the Golden Chamber.)
A five-minute walk from Cologne Cathedral, the Church of St. Ursula is definitely worth a visit, particularly the Golden Chamber (Goldener Kammer), which is decorated with skeletal remains that were found on the building site and, according to legend, belonged to St. Ursula and 11,000 virgins who were martyred there, two statements that don't stand up to scrutiny particularly well. (For one , when you build a church on the site of a Roman cemetery, you might consider the possibility that the bones were of Romans who had lived in Colognia. And for that matter, even the number of martyred virgins in the legend of St. Ursula was likely inflated by a factor of 1000 due to a misreading of some Latin. Not to mention that there aren't even close to enough bones to make up 11,000 human bodies.) Nevertheless, the church is worth a visit to see the elaborate arrangement of bones and the decorated skulls. (Note: when I visited in March of 2024, it cost €2 per person to enter the Golden Chamber.)
MATTHEW CADMAN (20 months ago)
Beautiful Church with a great background, lovely stations of the cross paintings and very impressively creepy chapel (bones x million). The Church's guardians are lovely and eager to tell of the Ursula legend. The Google times are wrong though. The metal rood screen is closed at 4 not 5, so you can't look all around if you're a little late.
Beautiful Church with a great background, lovely stations of the cross paintings and very impressively creepy chapel (bones x million). The Church's guardians are lovely and eager to tell of the Ursula legend. The Google times are wrong though. The metal rood screen is closed at 4 not 5, so you can't look all around if you're a little late.
