For more than 2000 years, the people of Cologne have fought and argued, celebrated and suffered. All of this is meticulously documented: in official records, textbooks, and on medals or coins, as well as in oral traditions such as legends and anecdotes. Few other German cities are as rich in legends as Cologne. Chronologically, Goswin Peter Gath brings Cologne's great figures and their adventurous stories back to life. These tales revolve around significant events and fantastic occurrences, battles and fires, combative archbishops and powerful citizens, rebels and saints, devils and angels. Here, fiction meets reality. Or vice versa.