and two-thirds by the ZDV. Another US$1 billion was paid to "unveil" the cathedral, i.e. to purchase the houses around it and make it possible to view it from all sides; of this amount, half was financed by the ZDV. Much of the Verein's income derived from a special lottery, the Dombaulotterie. Today, the annual budget of the cathedral, which amounts to appr. US$3,5 million, is financed by half by the ZDV. The income comes from membership fees, donations, bequests, fines (German judges can order that fines in civil cases are paid to the ZDV), and especially a Federal lottery. Legally, the Cathedral belongs to itself, not to the Catholic Church or the Archbishop; not even to the Metropolitan Chapter, which administers it based on the legal fiction that it has been charged with this by the cathedral. Prominent members Konrad Adenauer Wolfgang Drechsler Josef Frings Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Joseph Görres Joachim Meisner Manfred Melzer Willy Millowitsch Fritz Schramma Bibliography Kölner Domblatt, yearbook of the ZDV; last issue is vol. 70, 2005 Pilger, Kathrin (2004), Der Kölner Zentral-Dombau-Verein im 19. Jahrhundert. Zur Konstitutierung des Bürgertums durch formale Organisation, Köln: SH-Verlag (The Central Cathedral Building Association of Cologne in the 19th Century. The Constitution for the middle class through a formal organization.) Non-profit organisations based in North Rhine-Westphalia Religious organisations based in Germany Culture in Cologne Organizations established in 1842 Organisations based in Cologne 1842 establishments in Prussia