Cologne the Central Franconian and Ripuarian dialect areas. The city's famous Cologne Cathedral ("Kölner Dom") is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne. There are many institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the University of Cologne ("Universität zu Köln"), one of Europe's oldest and largest universities, the Technical University of Cologne ("Technische Hochschule Köln"), Germany's largest university of applied sciences, and the German Sport University Cologne ("Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln"), Germany's only sport university. Cologne Bonn Airport ("Flughafen Köln/Bonn") is Germany's seventh-largest airport and lies in the southeast of the city. The main airport for the Rhine-Ruhr region
History of the Jews in Cologne 6 synagogues and other community and meeting places in Cologne, which were all violated in the Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938 and were completely destroyed after the war, until the reconstruction of the synagogue in Roonstraße. Also in Cologne there were Nazi and antisemitic attitudes in the population and society. In fact Cologne politicians like Konrad Adenauer or writers like Heinrich Böll demonstrated a spirit of defiance and sovereignty that "no tyrant, no dictator can feel well in Cologne". A few Cologne people made an open opposition to Nazism or hid Jews (a known example of this is the Ehrenfeld