{"id":19491,"date":"2013-01-10T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/art-and-culture\/news\/cologne-cathedral-shaken-undergound-702\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:17:51","slug":"cologne-cathedral-shaken-by-new-underground-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cologne-cathedral-shaken-by-new-underground-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Cologne Cathedral shaken by new underground railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/art-and-culture\/news\/cologne-cathedral-shaken-undergound-702\/domhauptbahnhof-cologne-10-underground.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"The sign of the underground station Dom\/Hauptbahnhof is pictured in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, January 10, 2013. (Reuters \/ Wolfgang Rattay)\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"VideoDescription\" class=\"grey mv10\">The sign of the underground station Dom\/Hauptbahnhof is pictured in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, January 10, 2013. (Reuters \/ Wolfgang Rattay)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s most visited landmark Cologne Cathedral is \u201cunder stress\u201d after a new underground train line nearby has become operational.<\/p>\n<p>\u00adThe first tremors were reported earlier this week when trains on Cologne\u2019s No. 5 underground line first went to the new Dom\/Hauptbahnhof station, according to The Local.<\/p>\n<p>The renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture, which took over six centuries to complete, is a World Heritage Site. The cathedral is also the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and gets 20,000 visitors a day.<\/p>\n<p>The vibrations were confirmed by an earthquake measuring station that has five sensors inside the cathedral. The nearby philharmonic concert hall has reported similar problems.<\/p>\n<p>Cathedral officials wrote a letter to the city\u2019s Mayor to warn him of potential damage to the one of Germany\u2019s best known landmarks, the K\u00c3\u00b6lnische Rundschau newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, two people died in Cologne when the historical archive building collapsed. Mistakes made during the construction of the nearby underground train track reportedly caused the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/art-and-culture\/news\/cologne-cathedral-shaken-undergound-702\/domhauptbahnhof-cologne-10-underground.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"The sign of the underground station Dom\/Hauptbahnhof is pictured in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, January 10, 2013. (Reuters \/ Wolfgang Rattay)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The sign of the underground station Dom\/Hauptbahnhof is pictured in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, January 10, 2013. (Reuters \/ Wolfgang Rattay)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s most visited landmark Cologne Cathedral is &ldquo;under stress&rdquo; after a new underground train line nearby has become operational.<\/p>\n<p>&shy;The first tremors were reported earlier this week when trains on Cologne&rsquo;s No. 5 underground line first went to the new Dom\/Hauptbahnhof station, according to The Local.<\/p>\n<p>The renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture, which took over six centuries to complete, is a World Heritage Site. The cathedral is also the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and gets 20,000 visitors a day.<\/p>\n<p>The vibrations were confirmed by an earthquake measuring station that has five sensors inside the cathedral. The nearby philharmonic concert hall has reported similar problems.<\/p>\n<p>Cathedral officials wrote a letter to the city&rsquo;s Mayor to warn him of potential damage to the one of Germany&rsquo;s best known landmarks, the K&ouml;lnische Rundschau newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, two people died in Cologne when the historical archive building collapsed. Mistakes made during the construction of the nearby underground train track reportedly caused the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}