50 BC – 500 AD: The time period when Cologne was founded and established as a Roman Colony, later being the capital of the Roman province of Germania inferior (Lower Germania)
Listen to this episode: Inside the Pantheon The Rhineland around the years of 38-15 BCE. Caesar is dead. His adoptive son Augustus becomes the first Roman emperor. In his attemps to secure the eastern border of Gaul, that is adoptive father Caesar had conquered, he sends his best friend and son-in-law Agrippa. There, Agrippa comes up with a plan and by doing that he … Continue reading #3 Agrippa and the ugly Ubii
Listen to this episode: Gaul during Caesars campaign in the 50s BCE Continue reading #2 Caesar in the Rhineland – Cologne’s history begins with the Roman general
The Cologne Lowland from above This episode we will talk about the time before there was a Cologne in the Rhineland. Just a big and fertile lowland, where half-nomadic people would live for many thousand years. Get to know how the climate is here and how it benefits Cologne’s geography. If you are not really into all of that, skip this and go … Continue reading #1 The Cologne Lowland – Stone Age and Prehistory
The History of Cologne Podcast 