Worms, Germany

Place in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Worms

Town

Nibelungen Bridge over the Rhine at Worms

Nibelungen Bridge over the Rhine at Worms

Flag of Worms

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Coat of arms of Worms

Coat of arms

Location of Worms within Rheinland-Pfalz

File:Rhineland-Palatinate WO.svg

Worms is located in Germany

Worms

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Worms is located in Rhineland-Palatinate

Worms

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Coordinates: 49°37′55″N 08°21′55″E﻿ / ﻿49.63194°N 8.36528°E﻿ / 49.63194; 8.36528Coordinates: 49°37′55″N 08°21′55″E﻿ / ﻿49.63194°N 8.36528°E﻿ / 49.63194; 8.36528
Country| Germany
State| Rhineland-Palatinate
District| Urban district
Government

• Lord mayor (2018-26) | Adolf Kessel[1] (CDU)
Area

• Total| 108.73 km2 (41.98 sq mi)
Highest elevation

| 167 m (548 ft)
Lowest elevation

| 100 m (300 ft)
Population

(2020-12-31)[2]

• Total| 83,459
• Density| 770/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes|

67547–67551

Dialling codes| 06241,
06242, 06246, 06247
Vehicle registration| WO
Website| www.worms.de

File:Worms Dom Ostfassade Vierung2005-05-27a.jpg

The medieval Cathedral of Worms

File:Rathausturm Worms 2009-Carschten.jpg

Town hall of Worms

Worms (German pronunciation: [vɔʁms] (Audio file "De-Worms.ogg " not found)) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about 60 km (40 mi) south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had about 82,000 inhabitants as of 2015[update].[3]

A pre-Roman foundation, Worms is one of the oldest cities in northern Europe. It was the capital of the Kingdom of the Burgundians in the early fifth century, hence is the scene of the medieval legends referring to this period, notably the first part of the Nibelungenlied.

Worms has been a Roman Catholic bishopric since at least 614, and was an important palatinate of Charlemagne. Worms Cathedral is one of the imperial cathedrals and among the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in Germany. Worms prospered in the High Middle Ages as an imperial free city. Among more than a hundred imperial diets held at Worms, the Diet of 1521 (commonly known as the Diet of Worms) ended with the Edict of Worms, in which Martin Luther was declared a heretic. Worms is also one of the historical ShUM-cities as a cultural center of Jewish life in Europe during the Middle Ages. Its Jewish sites (along with those in Speyer and Mainz) were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021.[4]

Today, the city is an industrial centre and is famed as the origin of Liebfraumilch wine. Its other industries include chemicals, metal goods, and fodder.

## Contents

* 1 Geography
* 1.1 Geographic location
* 1.2 Boroughs
* 1.3 Climate
* 2 History
* 2.1 Antiquity
* 2.2 Middle Ages
* 2.3 Modern era
* 3 Main sights
* 4 Twin towns – sister cities
* 5 Notable people
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 Further reading
* 9 External links

## Geography[edit | edit source]

### Geographic location[edit | edit source]

Worms is located on the west bank of the River Rhine between the cities of Ludwigshafen and Mainz. On the northern edge of the city, the Pfrimm flows into the Rhine, and on the southern edge, the Eisbach flows into the Rhine.

### Boroughs[edit | edit source]

Worms has 13 boroughs (or "quarters") around the city centre. They are:

Name  | Population  | Direction and distance from city centre

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Abenheim | 2,744  | Northwest 10 km (6.2 mi)
Heppenheim | 2,073  | Southwest 9 km (5.6 mi)
Herrnsheim | 6,368  | North 5 km (3.1 mi)
Hochheim | 3,823  | Northwest
Horchheim | 4,770  | Southwest 4.5 km (2.8 mi)
Ibersheim | 692  | North 13 km (8.1 mi)
Leiselheim | 1,983  | West 4 km (2.5 mi)
Neuhausen | 10,633  | North
Pfeddersheim | 7,414  | West 7 km (4.3 mi)
Pfiffligheim | 3,668  | West
Rheindürkheim | 3,021  | North 8 km (5.0 mi)
Weinsheim | 2,800  | Southwest 4 km (2.5 mi)
Wiesoppenheim | 1,796  | Southwest 5.5 km (3.4 mi)

### Climate[edit | edit source]

The climate in the Rhine Valley is temperate in winter and enjoyable in summer. Rainfall is below average for the surrounding areas. Winter snow accumulation is low and often melts quickly.

## History[edit | edit source]

### Antiquity[edit | edit source]

Worms was in ancient times a Celtic city named Borbetomagus, perhaps meaning "water meadow".[5] Later it was conquered by the Germanic Vangiones. In 14 BC, Romans under the command of Drusus captured and fortified the city, and from that time onwards, a small troop of infantry and cavalry was garrisoned there. The Romans renamed the city as Augusta Vangionum, after the then-emperor and the local tribe. The name does not seem to have taken hold, however, and from Borbetomagus developed the German Worms and Latin Wormatia; as late as the modern period, the city name was written as Wormbs.[6] The garrison grew into a small town with a regular Roman street plan, a forum, and temples for the main gods Jupiter, Juno, Minerva (whose temple was the site of the later cathedral), and Mars.

File:Martinskirche Worms Portal.jpg

St Martin's Church

Roman inscriptions, altars, and votive offerings can be seen in the archaeological museum, along with one of Europe's largest collections of Roman glass. Local potters worked in the town's south quarter. Fragments of amphorae contain traces of olive oil from Hispania Baetica, doubtless transported by sea and then up the Rhine by ship.

During the disorders of 411–413 AD, Roman usurper Jovinus established himself in Borbetomagus as a puppet-emperor with the help of King Gunther of the Burgundians, who had settled in the area between the Rhine and Moselle some years before. The city became the capital of the Burgundian kingdom under Gunther (also known as Gundicar). Few remains of this early Burgundian kingdom survive, because in 436, it was all but destroyed by a combined army of Romans (led by Aëtius) and Huns (led by Attila); a belt clasp found at Worms-Abenheim is a museum treasure. Provoked by Burgundian raids against Roman settlements, the combined Romano-Hunnic army destroyed the Burgundian army at the Battle of Worms (436), killing King Gunther. About 20,000 are said to have been killed. The Romans led the survivors southwards to the Roman district of Sapaudia (modern-day Savoy). The story of this war later inspired the Nibelungenlied. The city appears on the Peutinger Map, dated to the fourth century.

### Middle Ages[edit | edit source]

(Imperial City of) Worms

(Reichsstadt) Worms

1074–1815
Status| Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
(until 1806)
Government| Oligarchic republic
Historical era| Middle Ages

• Gained Reichsfreiheit

| 1074

• Concordat of Worms

| 1122

• Reichstag concluded Imperial Reform

| 1495

• Diet of Worms: Martin Luther banned

| 1521

• Sacked by French during War of Grand Alliance

| 1689

• Occupied by the First French Republic and the First French Empire

| 1792–1814

• Awarded to the Grand Duchy of Hesse

| 1815

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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| File:Frankenrechen.svg | Duchy of Franconia

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| Grand Duchy of Hesse | File:Flagge Großherzogtum Hessen ohne Wappen.svg

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File:Worms 1630 P7160060.JPG

Map of Worms in 1630: The Jewish ghetto is marked in yellow.

The bishopric of Worms existed by at least 614. In the Frankish Empire, the city was the location of an important palace of Charlemagne. The bishops administered the city and its territory. The most famous of the early medieval bishops was Burchard of Worms. In 868, an important synod was held in Worms. Around 900, the circuit wall was rebuilt according to the wall-building ordinance of Bishop Thietlach.

Worms prospered in the High Middle Ages. Having received far-reaching privileges from King Henry IV as early as 1074, the city became an imperial free city. The bishops resided at Ladenburg and only had jurisdiction over Worms Cathedral itself. In 1122, the Concordat of Worms was signed; the 1495 imperial diet met here and made an attempt at reforming the disintegrating Imperial Circle Estates by the Imperial Reform. Most important, among more than 100 imperial diets held at Worms, that of 1521 (commonly known as the Diet of Worms) ended with the Edict of Worms, in which Martin Luther was declared a heretic after refusing to recant his religious beliefs. Worms was also the birthplace of the first Bibles of the Reformation, both Martin Luther's German Bible and William Tyndale's first complete English New Testament by 1526.[7]

The Free Imperial City of Worms, known in medieval Hebrew by the name Varmayza or Vermaysa (ורמיזא, ורמישא), was a centre of medieval Ashkenazic Judaism. The Jewish community was established there in the late 10th century, and Worms's first synagogue was erected in 1034. In 1096, 800 Jews were murdered by crusaders and the local mob. The Jewish Cemetery in Worms, dating from the 11th century, is believed to be the oldest surviving in situ cemetery in Europe. The Rashi Synagogue, which dates from 1175 and was carefully reconstructed after its desecration on Kristallnacht, is the oldest in Germany. Prominent students, rabbis, and scholars of Worms include Shlomo Yitzhaki (Rashi) who studied with R. Yizhak Halevi, Elazar Rokeach, Maharil, and Yair Bacharach. At the rabbinical synod held at Worms at the turn of the 11th century, Rabbi Gershom ben Judah (Rabbeinu Gershom) explicitly prohibited polygamy for the first time. For hundreds of years, until Kristallnacht in 1938, the Jewish Quarter of Worms was a centre of Jewish life. Worms today has only a very small Jewish population, and a recognizable Jewish community as such no longer exists. After renovations in the 1970s and 1980s, though, many of the buildings of the quarter can be seen in a close-to-original state, preserved as an outdoor museum.

### Modern era[edit | edit source]

In 1689 during the Nine Years' War, Worms (like the nearby towns and cities of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Oppenheim, Speyer, and Bingen) was sacked by troops of King Louis XIV of France, though the French only held the city for a few weeks. In 1743, the Treaty of Worms was signed, forming a political alliance between Great Britain, Austria, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. In 1792, the city was occupied by troops of the French First Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars. The Bishopric of Worms was secularized in 1801, with the city being annexed into the First French Empire. In 1815, Worms passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in accordance with the Congress of Vienna, and the city was subsequently administered within Rhenish Hesse.

After the Battle of the Bulge in early 1945, Allied armies advanced into the Rhineland in preparation for a massive assault into the heart of the Reich. Worms was a German strongpoint on the west bank of the Rhine, and the forces there resisted the Allied advance tenaciously. Worms was, thus, heavily bombed by the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Forces in two attacks on February 21 and March 18, 1945, respectively. A postwar survey estimated that 39% of the town's developed area was destroyed. The RAF attack on Feb. 21 was aimed at the main railway station on the edge of the inner city, and at chemical plants southwest of the inner city, but also destroyed large areas of the city centre. Carried out by 334 bombers, the attack in a few minutes rained 1,100 tons of bombs on the inner city, and Worms Cathedral was among the buildings set on fire. The Americans did not enter the city until the Rhine crossings began after the seizure of the Remagen Bridge.

In the attacks, 239 inhabitants were killed in the first and 141 in the second; 35,000 (60% of the population of 58,000) were made homeless. In all, 6,490 buildings were severely damaged or destroyed. After the war, the inner city was rebuilt, mostly in modern style. Postwar Worms became part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate; the borough Rosengarten, on the east bank of the Rhine, was lost to Hesse.

Worms today fiercely vies with the cities Trier and Cologne for the title of "Oldest City in Germany". A multimedia Nibelungenmuseum was opened in 2001, and a yearly festival in front of the Dom, the Worms Cathedral, attempts to recapture the atmosphere of the pre-Christian period.

In 2010, the Worms synagogue was firebombed. Eight corners of the building were set ablaze, and a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a window, but with no injuries. Kurt Beck, Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate, condemned the attack and vowed to mobilize all necessary resources to find the perpetrators, saying, "We will not tolerate such an attack on a synagogue".[8]

## Main sights[edit | edit source]

File:Liebfrauenkirche Worms - Süd.jpg

The Gothic Liebfrauenkirche (Church of Our Lady). Wine from the adjacent vineyard gave its name to the (now more generic) Liebfraumilch style.

* The renovated (1886–1935)[9] Romanesque Cathedral, dedicated to St Peter (12th-13th century)
* Reformation Memorial church of the Holy Trinity, the city's largest Protestant church (17th century)
* St Paul's Church (Pauluskirche) (13th century)
* St Andrew's Collegiate Church (Andreaskirche) (13th century)
* St Martin's Church (Martinskirche) (13th century)
* Liebfrauenkirche (15th century)
* Luther Monument (Lutherdenkmal) (1868) (designed by Ernst Rietschel)
* ShUM city of Worms, UNESCO World Heritage Site[10]
* Rashi Synagogue and Mikvah
* Jewish Museum in the Rashi-House
* Jewish Cemetery
* Nibelungen Museum, celebrating the Middle High German epic poem Das Nibelungenlied (The Song of the Nibelungs)
* Magnuskirche, the city's smallest church, which possibly originates from the eighth century

## Twin towns – sister cities[edit | edit source]

File:Worms Wappen 2005-05-27.jpg

Worms' twin towns

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Worms is twinned with:[11]

* File:Flag of France.svg Auxerre, France
* Bautzen, Germany
* Mobile, Alabama, United States
* File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ningde, China
* File:Flag of Italy.svg Parma, Italy
* St Albans, England, United Kingdom
* File:Flag of Israel.svg Tiberias, Israel

## Notable people[edit | edit source]

File:Edinger.JPG

Ludwig Edinger painted by Lovis Corinth

File:Götz (Schleuen).jpg

Johann Nikolaus Götz 1755

File:Rudi Stephan.jpg

Rudi Stephan

* Samuel Adler (1809–1891), German-American Reform rabbi
* Curtis Bernhardt (1899–1981), film director
* John Derst (1838–1928), baker
* Marvin Dienst (born 1997), German racing driver
* Hans Diller (1905–1977), classical scholar specializing in Ancient Greek medicine
* Ferdinand Eberstadt (1808–1888), textile merchant and mayor of Worms
* Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918), anatomist and neurologist
* Saint Erentrude, or Erentraud (c. 650–710), virgin saint of the Roman Catholic Church
* Hans Folz (1435/1440–1513), notable medieval author
* Friedrich Gernsheim (1839–1916), composer, conductor and pianist
* Florian Gerster (born 1949), politician (SPD), former chairman of the Federal Employment Agency
* Petra Gerster (born 1955), television journalist (ZDF)
* Johann Nikolaus Götz (1721–1781), poet
* Siegfried Guggenheim (1873–1961), lawyer, notary and art collector
* Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi (died 1070), French rabbi
* Heribert of Cologne (c. 970–1021, archbishop-elector of Cologne and Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empıre
* Timo Hildebrand (born 1979), footballer
* Richard Hildebrandt (1897–1951), politician in Nazi Germany and member of the Reichstag executed for war crimes
* Hans Hinkel (1901–1960), journalist and Nazi cultural functionary
* Hanya Holm (1893–1992), choreographer, dancer, educator and one of the founders of American Modern Dance
* Vladimir Kagan (1927–2016), furniture designer
* Solomon Loeb (1828–1903), American banker and philanthropist
* Meir of Rothenburg (1215–1293), rabbi and poet
* Conrad Meit (or Conrat Meit) (1480s–1550/1551), Renaissance sculptor, mostly in the Low Countries
* Minna of Worms (died 1096), influential Jewish citizen, victim of the Worms massacre (1096)
* Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki; 1040–1105), rabbi, studied in the Worms Yeshiva in 1065–1070
* Juspa Schammes (1604–1678), caretaker of the Worms Synagogue and writer
* Alica Schmidt (born 1998), track and field athlete, fitness coach
* Hugo Sinzheimer (1875–1945), legal scholar, member of the Constitutional Convention of 1919
* Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965), organic chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953
* Rudi Stephan (1887–1915), composer
* Monika Stolz (born 1951), politician (CDU), Member of Landtag Baden-Württemberg since 2001
* Ida Straus (1849–1912), wife of Isidor Straus, voluntarily remained with husband on board the RMS Titanic
* Emil Stumpp (1886–1941), cartoonist, died in jail after doing an unflattering portrait of Adolf Hitler
* Rod Temperton (1949–2016), English songwriter, record producer and musician
* Markus Weinmann (born 1974), agricultural scientist in the area of plant physiology

## See also[edit | edit source]

* Wormser

## References[edit | edit source]

1. ^ Wahl der Oberbürgermeister der kreisfreien Städte, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 30 July 2021.
2. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2020, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden". Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2021.
3. ^ Statistisches Landesamt (2015-12-31). "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.Dezember 2015 - A1033_201522_hj_G.pdf" (PDF). Statistik.RLP.de (in German). Rheinland Pfalz. p. 15. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
4. ^ "ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
5. ^ "Etymologie". Etymologie.info. "damit der Bedeutung von 'Borbetomagus' = dt. 'Wasserwiese'"
6. ^ see Apologia Der Stadt Wormbs Contra Bistum Wormbs, 1694.
7. ^ Teems, David. "Tyndale: The man who gave God an English voice." Nashville: Thomas Nelson (2012). Chapter 4.
8. ^ "Worms synagogue fire-bombed". Haaretz. 17 May 2010.
9. ^ "Dom St. Peter Worms". pg-dom-st-peter-worms.bistummainz.de. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
10. ^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
11. ^ "Städtepartnerschaften". worms.de (in German). Worms. Retrieved 2021-02-17.

## Further reading[edit | edit source]

* Roemer, Nils H. German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms (Brandeis University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-58465-922-8 online review

## External links[edit | edit source]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Worms.

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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for [[Wikivoyage:Worms#Template:Wikidata|Worms]].

* The Official website of the city of Worms (in English)
* Explore the ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture
* Nibelungenmuseum website (in English)
* wormser-dom.de, website of the Worms Cathedral with pictures (in German) (click on the "Bilder" link in the left panel)
* Wormatia, Worms football club (in German)

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File:Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor (after 1400).svg Upper Rhenish Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire

Ecclesiastical|

* Basel
* Fulda
* Hersfeld
* Metz1
* Odenheim–Bruchsal
* Prüm
* Speyer
* Straßburg
* Toul1
* Verdun1
* Weißenburg
* Worms

Map indicating the Upper Rhenish Circle of the Holy Roman Empire

Secular|

* Bar
* Heitersheim
* Hersfeld
* Hesse
* Darmstadt
* Homburg
* Kassel
* Marburg
* Rheinfels
* Isenburg-Birstein
* Kaiserslautern
* Lorraine2
* Nassau
* Idstein
* Ottweiler
* Saarbrücken
* Usingen
* Weilburg
* Salm
* Kyrburg
* Salm
* Savoy
* Simmern
* Solms-Braunfels
* Sponheim3
* Veldenz / Lautereck
* Waldeck3
* Zweibrücken

Counts / Lords|

| With
Imp. Diet
seats|

* Hanau
* Lichtenberg
* Münzenberg4
* Isenburg
* Birstein
* Büdingen
* Büdingen-Birstein
* Königstein
* Mainz
* Stolberg
* Kriechingen
* Leiningen
* Dagsburg
* Hardenburg
* Westerburg
* Salm
* Grehweiler
* Grumbach
* Solms
* Hohensolms
* Laubach
* Lich
* Rödelheim
* Wetterau
* Wittgenstein
* Berleburg
* Wittgenstein

|

Without|

* Bretzenheim
* Dagstuhl
* Falkenstein
* Isenburg
* Meerholz
* Wächtersbach
* Mensfelden
* Olbrück
* Reipoltskirchen
* Salm-Dhaun
* Wartenberg

Cities|

| Décapole|

* Colmar
* Hagenau
* Kaisersberg
* Landau
* Mülhausen5
* Münster im Elsaß
* Oberehnheim
* Rosheim
* Schlettstadt
* Türkheim
* Weißenburg

|

Others|

* Frankfurt
* Friedberg
* Metz
* Speyer
* Straßburg
* Toul
* Verdun
* Wetzlar
* Worms

1 Part of the Three Bishoprics. 2 Nomeny after 1737. 3 without Reichstag seat. 4 until 1736. 5 Joined Swiss Confederacy in 1515.

Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon
Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish ·  Unencircled territories

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Free imperial cities of the File:Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor (after 1400).svg Holy Roman Empire

By 1792

* Aachen
* Aalen
* Augsburg
* Biberach
* Bopfingen
* BremenH
* Buchau
* Buchhorn
* CologneH
* Dinkelsbühl
* DortmundH
* Eßlingen
* Frankfurt
* Friedberg
* Gengenbach
* Giengen
* GoslarH
* HamburgH
* Heilbronn
* Isny
* Kaufbeuren
* Kempten
* Kessenich
* Leutkirch
* Lindau
* LübeckH
* Memmingen
* Mühlhausen
* MülhausenD, S
* Nordhausen
* Nördlingen
* Nuremberg
* Offenburg
* Pfullendorf
* Ravensburg
* Regensburg
* Reutlingen
* Rothenburg
* RottweilS
* Schwäbisch Gmünd
* Schwäbisch Hall
* Schweinfurt
* Speyer
* Überlingen
* Ulm
* Wangen
* Weil
* Weißenburg in Bayern
* Wetzlar
* Wimpfen
* Windsheim
* Worms
* Zell

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Free Imperial Cities as of 1648

Lost imperial immediacy or no longer part of the Holy Roman Empire by 1792

* BaselS
* BernS
* Besançon
* Brakel
* Cambrai
* Diessenhofen
* Donauwörth
* Duisburg
* Düren
* Gelnhausen
* HagenauD
* Herford
* KaysersbergD
* KolmarD
* Konstanz
* LandauD
* Lemgo
* LucerneS
* Mainz
* Metz
* MunsterD
* ObernaiD
* Pfeddersheim
* Rheinfelden
* RosheimD
* St. GallenS
* Sarrebourg
* SchaffhausenS
* Schmalkalden
* SchlettstadtD
* SeltzD
* SoestH
* SolothurnS
* Straßburg
* Toul
* TurckheimD
* Verden
* Verdun
* Warburg
* Weißenburg in ElsaßD
* ZürichS

* D Member of the Décapole
* H Member of the Hanseatic League
* S Member or associate of the Swiss Confederacy

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Important cities and tourist sites in Germany: Greater region of Heidelberg / Rhine-Neckar–Palatinate

Major cities|

* Heidelberg
* Kaiserslautern
* Ludwigshafen
* Mannheim
* Neustadt
* Speyer
* Worms

Other touristic sites|

* Bad Dürkheim
* Bad Rappenau
* Buchen
* Eberbach
* Edenkoben
* Ladenburg
* Lorsch
* Mosbach
* Neckargemünd
* Sinsheim
* Weinheim
* Walldürn

Landscapes|

* German Wine Route
* Kurpfalz
* Neckar river
* Odenwald
* Palatinate Forest
* Rhine river

Neighboring areas|

| Germany|

* Frankfurt
* Heidelberg
* Karlsruhe
* Saarbrücken
* Stuttgart
* Trier
* Würzburg

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France|

* Alsace
* Lorraine
* Wissembourg

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Flag of Rhineland-Palatinate Urban and rural districts in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany

Urban districts|

* Frankenthal
* Kaiserslautern
* Koblenz
* Landau
* Ludwigshafen
* Mainz
* Neustadt
* Pirmasens
* Speyer
* Trier
* Worms
* Zweibrücken

Rural districts|

* Ahrweiler
* Altenkirchen
* Alzey-Worms
* Bad Dürkheim
* Bad Kreuznach
* Bernkastel-Wittlich
* Birkenfeld
* Bitburg-Prüm
* Cochem-Zell
* Donnersbergkreis
* Germersheim
* Kaiserslautern
* Kusel
* Mainz-Bingen
* Mayen-Koblenz
* Neuwied
* Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
* Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
* Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis
* Südliche Weinstraße
* Südwestpfalz
* Trier-Saarburg
* Vulkaneifel
* Westerwaldkreis

Districts of German states (Full list)

* Baden-Württemberg
* Bavaria
* Brandenburg
* Bremen
* Hesse
* Lower Saxony
* Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
* North Rhine-Westphalia
* Rhineland-Palatinate
* Saarland
* Saxony
* Saxony-Anhalt
* Schleswig-Holstein
* Thuringia

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