Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Schifferkirche

Arnis, the smallest town in Germany both by population (300) and by area (0.45 km²) was founded in 1667 by shipping families from nearby Kappeln who wanted to avoid serfdom. In 1666 Detlef von Rumohr tried to press the families of Kappeln into serfdom. The families asked Duke Christian Albrecht for help. Christian Albrecht responded positively and offered the island of Arnis as the place for a new settlement. To support this project he even granted privileges to the families of Kappeln. Detlef von Rumohr put pressure on the emigrants. In the end only 30 houses were built in Arnis and the new settlement faced a crisis during the Scanian War. Christian Albrecht's son, Frederick IV., offered a 10 years tax exemption for new settlers and Arnis began to grow and became in the late 18th and during the 19th century a prosperous skippers place with up to 1000 inhabitants and almost 90 sailing ships. The "Schifferkirche" ("Skipper's Church") from 1673 is the oldest building in Arnis. Shipping was a dangerous trade without the technology that is available today. When the skippers had survived dangerous times at sea, some donated a votive ship.

Arnis, the smallest town in Germany both by population (300) and by area (0.45 km²) was founded in 1667 by shipping families from nearby Kappeln who wanted to avoid serfdom. In 1666 Detlef von Rumohr tried to press the families of Kappeln into serfdom. The families asked Duke Christian Albrecht for help. Christian Albrecht responded positively and offered the island of Arnis as the place for a new settlement. To support this project he even granted privileges to the families of Kappeln. Detlef von Rumohr put pressure on the emigrants. In the end only 30 houses were built in Arnis and the new settlement faced a crisis during the Scanian War. Christian Albrecht's son, Frederick IV., offered a 10 years tax exemption for new settlers and Arnis began to grow and became in the late 18th and during the 19th century a prosperous skippers place with up to 1000 inhabitants and almost 90 sailing ships. The "Schifferkirche" ("Skipper's Church") from 1673 is the oldest building in Arnis. Shipping was a dangerous trade without the technology that is available today. When the skippers had survived dangerous times at sea, some donated a votive ship.

Arnis, the smallest town in Germany both by population (300) and by area (0.45 km²) was founded in 1667 by shipping families from nearby Kappeln who wanted to avoid serfdom. In 1666 Detlef von Rumohr tried to press the families of Kappeln into serfdom. The families asked Duke Christian Albrecht for help. Christian Albrecht responded positively and offered the island of Arnis as the place for a new settlement. To support this project he even granted privileges to the families of Kappeln. Detlef von Rumohr put pressure on the emigrants. In the end only 30 houses were built in Arnis and the new settlement faced a crisis during the Scanian War. Christian Albrecht's son, Frederick IV., offered a 10 years tax exemption for new settlers and Arnis began to grow and became in the late 18th and during the 19th century a prosperous skippers place with up to 1000 inhabitants and almost 90 sailing ships. The "Schifferkirche" ("Skipper's Church") from 1673 is the oldest building in Arnis. Shipping was a dangerous trade without the technology that is available today. When the skippers had survived dangerous times at sea, some donated a votive ship.

Arnis, the smallest town in Germany both by population (300) and by area (0.45 km²) was founded in 1667 by shipping families from nearby Kappeln who wanted to avoid serfdom. In 1666 Detlef von Rumohr tried to press the families of Kappeln into serfdom. The families asked Duke Christian Albrecht for help. Christian Albrecht responded positively and offered the island of Arnis as the place for a new settlement. To support this project he even granted privileges to the families of Kappeln. Detlef von Rumohr put pressure on the emigrants. In the end only 30 houses were built in Arnis and the new settlement faced a crisis during the Scanian War. Christian Albrecht's son, Frederick IV., offered a 10 years tax exemption for new settlers and Arnis began to grow and became in the late 18th and during the 19th century a prosperous skippers place with up to 1000 inhabitants and almost 90 sailing ships. The "Schifferkirche" ("Skipper's Church") from 1673 is the oldest building in Arnis. Shipping was a dangerous trade without the technology that is available today. When the skippers had survived dangerous times at sea, some donated a votive ship.

Arnis, the smallest town in Germany both by population (300) and by area (0.45 km²) was founded in 1667 by shipping families from nearby Kappeln who wanted to avoid serfdom. In 1666 Detlef von Rumohr tried to press the families of Kappeln into serfdom. The families asked Duke Christian Albrecht for help. Christian Albrecht responded positively and offered the island of Arnis as the place for a new settlement. To support this project he even granted privileges to the families of Kappeln. Detlef von Rumohr put pressure on the emigrants. In the end only 30 houses were built in Arnis and the new settlement faced a crisis during the Scanian War. Christian Albrecht's son, Frederick IV., offered a 10 years tax exemption for new settlers and Arnis began to grow and became in the late 18th and during the 19th century a prosperous skippers place with up to 1000 inhabitants and almost 90 sailing ships. The "Schifferkirche" ("Skipper's Church") from 1673 is the oldest building in Arnis. Shipping was a dangerous trade without the technology that is available today. When the skippers had survived dangerous times at sea, some donated a votive ship.

Arnis, the smallest town in Germany both by population (300) and by area. (0.45 km²) was founded in 1667 by shipping families from nearby Kappeln who wanted to avoid serfdom. In 1666 Detlef von Rumohr tried to press the families of Kappeln into serfdom. The families asked Duke Christian Albrecht for help. Christian Albrecht responded positively and offered the island of Arnis as the place for a new settlement. To support this project he even granted privileges to the families of Kappeln. Detlef von Rumohr put pressure on the emigrants. In the end only 30 houses were built in Arnis and the new settlement faced a crisis during the Scanian War. Christian Albrecht's son, Frederick IV., offered a 10 years tax exemption for new settlers and Arnis began to grow and became in the late 18th and during the 19th century a prosperous skippers place with up to 1000 inhabitants and almost 90 sailing ships. The "Schifferkirche" ("Skipper's Church") from 1673 is the oldest building in Arnis. The wooden baptismal font dates back to the time when the church was built.

Arnis, the smallest town in Germany both by population (300) and by area. (0.45 km2)[2] was founded in 1667 by shipping families from nearby Kappeln who wanted to avoid serfdom. In 1666 Detlef von Rumohr tried to press the families of Kappeln into serfdom. The families asked Duke Christian Albrecht for help. Christian Albrecht responded positively and offered the island of Arnis as the place for a new settlement. To support this project he even granted privileges to the families of Kappeln. Detlef von Rumohr put pressure on the emigrants. In the end only 30 houses were built in Arnis and the new settlement faced a crisis during the Scanian War. Christian Albrecht's son, Frederick IV., offered a 10 years tax exemption for new settlers and Arnis began to grow and became in the late 18th and during the 19th century a prosperous skippers place with up to 1000 inhabitants and almost 90 sailing ships. The "Schifferkirche" ("Skipper's Church") from 1673 is the oldest building in Arnis.

Arnis, the smallest town in Germany both by population (300) and by area. (0.45 km²) was founded in 1667 by shipping families from nearby Kappeln who wanted to avoid serfdom. In 1666 Detlef von Rumohr tried to press the families of Kappeln into serfdom. The families asked Duke Christian Albrecht for help. Christian Albrecht responded positively and offered the island of Arnis as the place for a new settlement. To support this project he even granted privileges to the families of Kappeln. Detlef von Rumohr put pressure on the emigrants. In the end only 30 houses were built in Arnis and the new settlement faced a crisis during the Scanian War. Christian Albrecht's son, Frederick IV., offered a 10 years tax exemption for new settlers and Arnis began to grow and became in the late 18th and during the 19th century a prosperous skippers place with up to 1000 inhabitants and almost 90 sailing ships. The "Schifferkirche" ("Skipper's Church") from 1673 is the oldest building in Arnis.

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.