Art & Tech Why Is TikTok So Hot for Cologne Cathedral? Gaping at Gothic architecture is in! A reveler poses in front of the Cologne Cathedral during the Women's Carnival Day on February 8, 2024.

After a 300 year lull, construction of the Cologne Cathedral resumed in 1821. (Source: New York Public Library Digital Collections) 1794 began a dark period in the cathedral's history when French ...