Cologne, Minnesota Cologne, Minnesota Cologne is a city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,519 at the 2010 census. The city is about 30 miles from Minneapolis. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water. U.S. Highway 212 and Minnesota State Highway 284 are two of the main routes in Cologne. Cologne was platted in 1880, and incorporated in 1881. The community was named for Cologne, Germany. In 1939, the town of Cologne was preserved on film in the amateur short subject "", which chronicles
Historical Archive of the City of Cologne Rhine-Westphalia is based on the "Archivgesetz des Landes NRW" bill of 1989. The municipal archive of Cologne is also governed by the municipal archive ordinance "Archivsatzung" (last revised in 2007). The federal "Bundesarchivgesetz" bill does not apply. An early programme of holding archival records in Cologne was the so-called "Schreinswesen" (shrine system), used for documenting citizens' rights. A "Schrein" (shrine, from Latin "scrinium") was a wooden chest or cabinet where parish administrations stored records and charters. Such shrines were used for records storage throughout the Middle Ages and into early modern times, most notably in the parish of St. Lawrence