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{{Short description|Historical building in Cologne, Germany}}
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[[File:Keoln Maerz 2009 PD 20090327 028.JPG|thumb|275px|The city hall's [[Renaissance]] style loggia of 1573 as seen from Rathausplatz]]
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The City Hall is located on the site of the former Ancient Roman [[Praetorium]], which until the year 475 was seat of the [[Roman governors of Germania Inferior|Roman Governor]] of [[Germania Inferior]]. [[Merovingian]] kings are known to have used the praetorium as a ''[[regia]]'' until 754, however the building was ultimately destroyed by an earthquake in the late 8th century.<ref>Ulrich Krings and Walter Geis: Köln: Das gotische Rathaus und seine historische Umgebung, J.P. Bachem Verlag, Köln, 2000</ref> Under [[Hildebold]] of Cologne, the city was [[List of bishops and archbishops of Cologne|elevated from a bishop's to an archbishop's see]] in 795, and the area around the former praetorium has become home to both a group of wealthy [[Patrician (post-Roman Europe)|Patrician]] merchants and [[History of the Jews in Cologne|Cologne's Jewish community]], many of whom were under [[Immunity from prosecution|immunity]] granted by the king.
With Emperor [[Otto I]]'s younger brother [[Bruno the Great]] becoming archbishop in 953, the [[Ottonian dynasty]] established a secular government by an [[Electorate of Cologne|ecclesiastic]] archbishop. This abundance of power in [[Medieval Europe]] was in stark confrontation to the emerge of emancipating [[:wikt:burgher|burgher]]s: armed conflicts in 1074<ref>Annals of [[Lambert of Hersfeld]]: The 1074 uprising against [[Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne|Anno II]]</ref> and 1096 were followed by the formation of a ''[[Medieval commune|commune]]'' and first municipal structures as a basis for [[urban autonomy]]. In order to consolidate their economic and political rights, Cologne burghers established [[fraternities]] and trade [[guild]]s (most notably the ''[[Richerzeche]]''). In the 1106 war of succession between [[Emperor Henry V]] and his father [[Emperor Henry IV]], they took deliberate opposition to the archbishop, after which they gained benefit in regards to the city's territorial expansion over the following years. As – at the time – one of Europe's
By 1180, the citizens of Cologne won a legal battle against [[Philip I, Archbishop of Cologne]], for another extension of Cologne's city walls. With the [[Battle of Worringen]] fought in 1288, Cologne became independent from the Electorate and on 9
During the [[Bombing of Cologne in World War II|bombing]] the entire city hall was destroyed except for the front portion and part of the tower, the remaining part being rebuilt in modern style.
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=== Piazzetta ===
[[File:Köln-Piazzetta-039.jpg|thumb|upright|View of Saalbau from the Piazzetta]]
Likened to a small piazza with various building making up the perimeter walls, the 900 square metre large and 12
=== Spanischer Bau ===
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