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Cologne has a new city administrator as of last month, but one who is already very familiar with the city.

Cologne has a new city administrator as of last month, but one who is already very familiar with the city.

Boasting a variety of Christmas markets with everything from mulled wine to local delicacies and handicrafts, Cologne during the festive season is a must, writes Clodagh Dooley. Here's why It’s 6pm on a Tuesday in December. I’m standing under a sparkling tent of starlight, surrounded by charming wooden Christmas chalets, with a mug of Glühwein

I remember the first time I saw the little brass plates tucked between cobblestones in the German town I grew up in – the street my grandmother had lived on for a large part of her life. I was a teenager, walking with one of my friends when they stopped us in our tracks; their small inscription forcing us to kneel to read them: Here lived Max Mayerfeld. Nanny Spiro. Leo Spiro. Frank Spiro – aged only 12 at the time of his death. Deported 1942 towards the East. Killed 1942 in Treblinka.

Kasalla füllt normalerweise ganze Arenen. So war es auch zum 10. Geburtstag geplant. Stattdessen hat jetzt WDR 4 gratuliert, mit einem Konzert im ganz kleinen, aber besonders feinen Rahmen.