Qualla: Linneper Hof https://qualla.com/linneper-hof en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/linneper-hof-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Linneper Hof https://qualla.com/linneper-hof Linneper Hof: Introduction https://qualla.com/linneper-hof/ Photo credit Arnold Mercator († 1587), Public domain. Walk the open plaza south of Cologne Cathedral today and you will see tourists posing for photos, the sleek glass face of the Romano-Germanic Museum, and the cathedral's massive choir blocking out half the sky. What you will not see is a house. But for more than 600 years there was one — the Reifferscheider Hof, later called the Linneper Hof — pressed so tightly against the cathedral choir that the famous Mercator city map of 1571 shows it almost completely hidden. Generations of clerics, bankers, and a single condemned heretic lived inside its walls. By 1864 the last of them was gone and the building came down. The cathedral has outlived almost everything around it. This house is one of the things it outlived.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/linneper-hof-wp/u1hc-linneper-hof-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Linneper Hof: A Gift Beside the Cathedral https://qualla.com/linneper-hof/ Photo credit Arnold Mercator († 1587), Public domain. Archbishop Heinrich I von Müllenark gave the property to the cathedral chapter sometime before his death in 1238, designating it a canon's residence — the kind of house only a senior cleric of the diocese could occupy. The first known resident was the canon Herimann von Heppendor...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/linneper-hof-wp/u1hc-linneper-hof-a-gift-beside-the-cathedral.mp3 0:06 2 full Linneper Hof: Diplomats, Princes, and a 1477 Betrothal https://qualla.com/linneper-hof/ Photo credit Arnold Mercator († 1587), Public domain. The Hof's residents tilted increasingly grand. In 1397 Wilhelm von Sombreffe handed it to Gottfried, lord of Heinsberg and Count of Chiny; a year later Gottfried sold it to the sub-dean Johannes II of Linnep, prior of St. Gereon, and from then on the building carried his family's...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/linneper-hof-wp/u1hc-linneper-hof-diplomats-princes-and-a-1477-betrothal.mp3 0:06 3 full Linneper Hof: The Burgher Who Wouldn't Baptise His Child https://qualla.com/linneper-hof/ Photo credit Arnold Mercator († 1587), Public domain. Not every story inside these walls was about princes. In 1534 the cathedral chapter rented the house — misspelled in the lease as the Lenneper — to a Cologne burgher named Mathias Vorsbach, who moved in with his wife Jutta von Lachem and his children. Vorsbach was a quiet kind of...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/linneper-hof-wp/u1hc-linneper-hof-the-burgher-who-wouldnt-baptise-his-child.mp3 0:06 4 full Linneper Hof: The Seminary, the Demolition, and the Soil Below https://qualla.com/linneper-hof/ Photo credit Arnold Mercator († 1587), Public domain. In 1747 and 1748 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese bought the Linneper Hof from the cathedral chapter, paying to clear ground for the architect Michael Leveilly's new Cologne Seminary, finished by 1748. The seminary itself was relocated in 1827, and the building lingered until 1864,...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/linneper-hof-wp/u1hc-linneper-hof-the-seminary-the-demolition-and-the-soil-below.mp3 0:06 5 full