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13 Aerial photos from Nordrhein-Westfalen:
from: Bad Godesberg | Bergisches Land | Bonn | Köln |
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Cologne Cathedral is the third largest church in the world and one of the best known architectural monuments in Germany. Construction of the Gothic church began in 1248 and took with interruptions until 1880. On of the treasures of the Cologne Cathedral is the shrine of the Three Kings. The sarcophagus from the 13th century contains the remains of the Three Wise Men and is one of the largest reliquaries in the world.
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Picture taken 1.5.2007 -
aerial photo #0011-1045
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The Ruhr-Area in North-Rhine-Westphalia, in the foreground the Ford car factory in Merkenich und the Bayer Chemical Factories in Leverkusen.
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Picture taken 1.5.2007 -
aerial photo #0011-1033
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The district Godorf is located in the South of Cologne. There are petrochemicalfactories but timbered houses can be found as well. Godorf harbour was in 1967 the biggest trans-shipment center for brown coal.¸
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Picture taken 1.5.2007 -
aerial photo #0011-1060
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