Travel Guide Speyer

47 km south of Worms, 25 km from Mannheim, Speyer the Imperial is another prestigious relic of the past on the Rhine. It has a beautiful old town and prestigious monuments.With its large cobbled main street, whose old door to one end faces, on the other, to the sumptuous Romanesque cathedral, one of the three large in Rhineland with Mainz and Worms, Speyer is an unavoidable tourist stop in the Rhine Valley.Its foundation dating back to the Roman era, the town of Speyer was first a seigneurial centre of the German empire (in the th and th centuries). It then grew considerably in 1294, obtaining the status of «imperial city free»; It was one of the most important cities of the Empire. An imperial residence, she was in her cathedral of burial of the Emperors for more than 300 years.In the th century, the Reichstag (Imperial Chamber meetings) took place in Speyer, which formalized the schism of the Catholic Church and the reform. It was the seat of the Imperial Chamber until 1689. It is indeed on that date that the troops of Louis XIV decided to cut Spire into ashes.Speyer was rebuilt in the th and th centuries in baroque style. His old town looked after all the traces, as she went through the wars and tragedies of the last three centuries without scratches.