Kranhäuser im Rheinauhafen

This guide to the Kranhäuser at Rheinauhafen in Cologne starts with the harbor crane Herkules hoisting a twenty-four-ton bronze bell at dawn on November the twenty-fourth, nineteen twenty-four, bound for Cologne Cathedral. It traces the crane's own history back to eighteen ninety-seven and explains why the three glass towers behind you copy its upside-down-L shape. You'll also hear the strict rules Archbishop Karl Joseph Schulte set for when the new bell could ever be rung.