Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Six Hundred Years a_Building. [ARTICLE]

Six Hundred Years a_Building.

Cologne, a fine old city on the Rhine, can boast of possessing the grandest Gothio cathedral in the world. The building of it was begun In 12411, and as each portion of the church was finished it was utilized for the purposes of divine service. It was not until 18H0, however, that the whole structure was complete in every, part. The cathedral, as a perfect temple, was opened on the 15th of October in tno latter year, in the presence of the Emperor, William 1., grandfather of the present German Emperor. Thus this famous cathedral was more than six hundred years abuilding.