COLOGNE - 2,000 Years in 3D Timelapse (No AI)

Watch Cologne grow on the Rhine for over 2,000 years, from a Roman settlement of the Ubii to the city of a million around its cathedral. Roman walls, Viking raids, the Three Kings, 632 years of building the cathedral, the Battle of Worringen, carnival, the bombing of the Second World War and the rebuilding: every scene is hand-built in 3D on real maps. Chapters 0:00 Two Thousand Years on the Rhine 0:16 Caesar on the Rhine (54 BC) 0:34 The Ubii (c. 38 BC) 0:52 Ara Ubiorum (AD 9) 1:04 Colonia Agrippina (AD 50) 1:15 The Batavians at the Gates (AD 69) 1:28 Capital of Lower Germany (AD 89) 1:42 The Gallic Empire and the Roman Bridge (260–310) 2:01 The Franks (355) 2:20 The Vikings (881) 2:31 Theophanu (972) 2:39 The Three Kings (1164) 2:56 The Great Wall (1180) 3:13 The Cathedral (1248) 3:30 The Staple Right and the Battle of Worringen (1259–1288) 3:56 The Letter of Confederation (1396) 4:12 The Crane on the Cathedral (c. 1530) 4:24 The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) 4:34 The Ice Flood and the French (1784–1794) 4:52 The First Carnival Parade (1823) 5:12 Cathedral Construction Resumes (1842) 5:24 The Cathedral Is Complete (1880) 5:34 The New Town (1881) 5:52 Ford on the Rhine (1930) 6:03 The Bombing of Cologne (1942–1945) 6:21 City of Ruins (1945) 6:39 The Hunger Winter (1946/47) 6:47 Rebuilding 7:03 The City of a Million (1975) 7:22 Cologne Today No AI: every building is hand-modelled in Blender, all sounds are real recordings, and the music is performed by human musicians. Write your city in the comments - we'll explore its story too. Sources and credits Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) Historical images (public domain / CC0): Anton Woensam, View of Cologne (1531); The Battle of Worringen, engraving (Rijksmuseum); Johann Franz Michiels, the cathedral under construction (1855); Theodor Creifelds, the cathedral towers (1880); U.S. Army Signal Corps, Cologne (24 April 1945). Music (Wikimedia Commons): J.S. Bach, Goldberg Variations: Aria - Musopen (CC0); F. Schubert, Piano Sonata D 784, II. Andante - Paul Pitman, Musopen (public domain); E. Grieg, Peer Gynt: The Death of Aase - Musopen Symphony (public domain); J.P. Sousa, The Washington Post March - U.S. Army Band (public domain). Sound effects: U.S. Navy Band, Drum Cadence A (public domain); PDSounds, gravel and stones (public domain); Freesound (CC0): calodas, Max_Headroom, colo777, achats57, TheWoodlandNomad, iwanPlays, klangfabrik, edschaefer, polymorpheva (Kölner Dom bells), brunoboselli, SoundsExciting, karlis.stigis, clif_creates, keithpeter, craigsmith, DeVern, freefire66. #Cologne #Köln #3DTimelapse #CityEvolution #History