Cologne - St. Clemens

Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".

Mühlheim, located on the right side of the Rhine, was long part of the Duchy of Berg. Since 1914 it is part oF Cologne.

It was known, that a chapel existed here, right on the Rhine river, since mid 13th century, but during many feuds between Cologne and the House of Berg, the chapel got destroyed. Documents from 1414 state, that the Duke of Berg rebuilt the church in Mülheim with the approval of the City of Cologne.

This chuch got again severy damaged so that different renovations and alterations within the next centuries left a small Baroque church here. During a restoration in 1939 a part of a Romanesque clerestory was found.

St. Clement got severely damaged due to the bomb raids of WWII. In 1949 an investigation of the destroyed church took place and further discoveries proved the early time of origin. The church got rebuilt 1952 - 1960.

Since at least 400 years the "Mülheimer Gottestracht" starts and ends here. This is a Corpus Christi procession done with ships and boats on the Rhine river.

Unfortunately the church was locked.