Celebrating Seventeen Centuries of “Shared History” in 2021
Excavations around the Cologne Cathedral in 1969/70 revealed about 65 meters of road paved during the Roman era, when Jews first arrived in what is now Germany. Gerd Harder / Alamy Stock Photo.
Emperor Constantine's edict from 321 CE giving the town council of Cologne the right to require the service of Jews on the council is the first historical evidence of a Jewish presence north of the Alps. Codex Theodosianus, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat 866 f435 recto.
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