Urban history - Time Travel to the Past
It is definitely the citizens of Cologne who are to blame. Had these self-confident people not given their Archbishop Siegfried von Westerburg such a hard time in the 13th century and prompted him to flee to nearby "broglio", Brühl would have hardly been awarded its town charter in 1285.
There would have been neither the moated castle nor the city wall, and the numerous potteries in the Middle Ages that sold their earthenware as far afield as Scandinavia would not have existed without the civic trading privileges they were granted. And if a young Bavarian nobleman Clemens August had not worked his way up to Elector-Prince of Cologne in 1723, we would not have the magnificent pair of castles, Schloss Augustusburg (Brühl Palace) and Falkenlust Hunting Lodge, which are registered as UNESCO World Heritage sites.
