Trivia Quiz
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52 s
Marienburg's most expensive building - and why it is now gone!
4 min
Two wonderful villas lost
1 min
Is it of Roman or medieval origin? Excavations gave an initial hint...
2 min
Behold the headquarters of Classis Germanica, the Roman fleet in Germania!
4 min
The colorful history of this central Marienburg location
3 min
A closer look at one of Marienburg's grandest villas
4 min
Three additional mansions by Paul Pott and a sad, all too familiar story
3 min
Home of prolific YouTube star Bianca Heinicke and Julian Claßen (Julienco)
1 min
A closer look at the style that was the mortal enemy of Bauhaus
4 min
The first English mansion in Germany and how it triggered a tit-for-tat race
3 min
Learn about the gentleman who shaped Marienburg like no other
3 min
Marienburg's most beautiful ensemble of three villas
4 min
Marienburg's very first mansion and how it brought misfortune to all its owners
4 min
See how the music room of the Marienburg mansion changes through different times
4 min
Villa Feinhals - Marienburg's most photographed building - lost in the war
4 min
Learn about this typical Marienburg mansion with a diverse history
2 min
Learn how a single inventor/entrepreneur reshaped Cologne's economy to this day
4 min
Why the British built more than 30 mansions in and around Marienburg in 1951
4 min
A scientific approach to the success of the Marienburg real estate project
4 min
Heard of academic fencing ("Mensur"), a crazy German tradition?
3 min
Learn about Robert Pferdmenges who helped shape post-war economic policy
3 min
Marienburg's catholic church, built by our very own dynasty of architects
3 min
Friedrich Carl Janssen who went to prison after the downfall of Sal. Oppenheim
3 min
Explore Marienburg's most stunning building
2 min
A data-driven look at how architectural styles have spread through Marienburg
7 min
24 Vogue cover shots - the "fashion fräuleinwunder" Caren Pfleger
2 min
Discover the remnants of early Nazi architecture in Marienburg
2 min
The story of how the career of Germany's top executive was destroyed in one morning
5 min
Discover the dark Nazi past of this beautiful mansion
2 min
Office of Cologne's premier dynasty of architects
3 min
What does this mansion have in common with one of Germany's leading intellectuals?
3 min
Learn about the biggest architectural fair Cologne has ever seen
5 min
Learn about the surprising social structure of the people that built Marienburg
5 minDiscover the most beautiful and posh neighborhood of 2000-year-old Cologne - Marienburg.
Initiated more than 150 years ago to house rich entrepreneurs outside the city walls, Marienburg has since been home to the rich and famous: Chocolate and tobacco barons, just and ruthless bankers, a federal president, the Iranian Secret Service, countless ambassadors, Germany's leading intellectual and comedian, a Pritzker prize-winning architect, a leading composer, a super model, and Tina Turner.
Hear the stories of why an American dentist from Boston may have been Marienburg's most important catalyst, how the British have shaped Marienburg before and after both world wars (hint: not through aerial bombardment), and explore the "Curse of the Marienburg Mansion".
This tour (by local neighborhood history buff Frank) combines many local stories with dozens of historic pictures and an in-depth knowledge based on a unique data-driven analysis of Marienburg's architecture and social structure.
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