Church of St. Ursula

5 Mick Pelling - a month ago

To be fair, I only visited the church to see the Golden Chamber, a lady unlocked the door, and took some time to explain about St Ursula, and her demise, together with 11,000 virgins, whose bones are on display.
There are containers with skulls, and that of St Ursula is marked with red material.
An interesting sight to see and wonder about.
Cost 2 euros.

5 Daniela Letichevskaya - 10 months ago

Amazing place!!! Really worthpassing by and support their cause. An internal staff member gave us a beautiful touraround the golden chamber and gave me a lot of presents as St. Ursula is known by being a powerful symbol for the feminist cause.

5 macedonboy - 2 years ago

The Basilica church of St. Ursula is a minor basilica and one that's associated with the legend of St. Ursula and the 11,000 martyred virgins. The church is supposedly built on the burial grounds of these legendary ladies. The church also has a chamber with a reliquary said to be the bones of some of these martyrs.

The church is an attractive Romanesque style building with some interesting contemporary stained glass windows. The balconies over the nave have pretty Romana arches and interestingly, statues underneath each arch.

The church is located in north west of Central Cologne and off the main tourist circuit. Worth a visit if you have the time. If you spot the church from afar, be sure to look up at the church spire topped with a crown.

5 Deborah Maynard - 3 years ago

Beautiful church which is known for the bone room. I got in on a Friday at 3:30 p.m. I tried the previous Monday at 10:30-11:30 and could not get in. The lady there would not speak English to me but after my many questions she gave me a book in English of which I photographed the pages to help future English speaking visitors enjoy this strange but unique place.

4 Rainier Thiart - 2 weeks ago

Very nice interior, be sure to check before hand if the gold room isnt in renevation as was the case with us.

1 Justin Taylor - 4 years ago

Beautiful from what we could see. Problem is that no one from the church was there to let us in to see the golden chamber (bone room). We came earlier in the day and realized they had specific hours for the room. We came back during the open hours and no one was there. We then went outside and waited for 15 more minutes and still no one was inside. What a waste of time. I understand that things come up and people can’t commit to their obligations but from what I’ve read this is a common issue. Haven’t the nuns realized a church needs money to survive. At 2€ per person to enter the chamber they are missing out. About 10 other visitors also were discouraged and left while we were there. Real shame!

5 Het Erve De Hoff - 3 years ago

Such a nice atmosphere in this church. The most Important in historical way is the gold kammer or golden room where the church hide her old reliques. The last several years they are cleaning and restoring the old gold kammer and giving her back its authentic colors and cleaning all the reliques bustes. When you enter the room you are amazed by the Wow-factor. It's absolutely unique above the Alps. There is no reliques room like this. It simply does not exist.