The Hohe Strasse Halfway House is a Hollow One Chantry in Cologne, Germany.
Overview[]
Cologne has been around since AD 50 when Agrippina, Roman empress and wife of Emperor Claudius, made the area where she was born an official city. Evidence of the city's Roman beginnings exist throughout the area. The 2000 year old Hohe Strasse, a street lined with shops of all sorts, was once a Roman road. At one end of it stands the cathedral while at the other is Neumarkt Square. The cathedral towers over the Hohe Strasse; its Gothic spires stretch upward 157 meters to pierce the sky.
Three quarters of the way down the street, an access gate beside a women's shoe shop opens onto an interior courtyard. Built in the 18th century, the courtyard still has its original cobblestone. The building that surrounds it on three sides houses people who work in Hohe Strasse. In the far corner, a particularly large apartment serves as the local Hollow halfway house. Visitors must often sleep in bunk beds or on the floor if space gets too tight but, overseen by Fraulein Kirchin, the Hohe Strasse Halfway House never turns away an Orphan in need of a place to eat, rest, and study.
The chantry doesn't have a stable cabal. Only the Fraulein remains. Rather, the chantry houses from three to ten mages at any one time, depending on the season and the magi-political activities occurring in Europe.
References[]
- MTAs. Tradition Book: Hollow Ones, p. 42.