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EPISODE · Jun 27, 2026 · 41 MIN

#100 The Battle of Worringen 1288

from The History of Cologne · host Willem Fromm

5th June 1288: A day that changed the Rhineland forever. After five years of conflict, 12,000 participants gathered on the plain of the Fühlinger Heide north of Cologne for the Battle of Worringen, one of the most brutal and bloodiest battles of the Middle Ages. And Cologne in the middle of it

5th June 1288: A day that changed the Rhineland forever. After five years of conflict, 12,000 participants gathered on the plain of the Fühlinger Heide north of Cologne for the Battle of Worringen, one of the most brutal and bloodiest battles of the Middle Ages. And Cologne in the middle of it

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