Brauhaus FRÜH am Dom
Cathedral-square beer hall built inside a former nineteenth-century theatre, its grand room designed by a Cologne carnival sculptor.
Brauhaus FRÜH am Dom's guide opens with a simple question: how old is this room, really? It traces the building's layered past in Cologne, from a seventeenth-century inn under that crow-stepped gable, through decades as the Central Theatre, before brewer Peter Josef Früh moved his business in and hired sculptor Georg Grasegger, the same artist behind the city's Carnival Fountain, to shape the great hall. It follows how the building's fortunes shifted through the twentieth century, including damage during the war. Raise a glass of Kölsch at a table near the old stage line, where the room's earlier life as a theatre is easiest to picture.
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