Speyer
Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate with about 50,000 inhabitants on the Rhine river. It lies 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Around the year 500 the town gets the name Spira, named after the stream Speyerbach which flows into the Rhine river here.
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Location of Speyer
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| Coordinates: 49°19′10″N 8°25′52″E / 49.31944°N 8.43111°ECoordinates: 49°19′10″N 8°25′52″E / 49.31944°N 8.43111°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Urban district |
| Subdivisions | 4 Stadtteile |
| Government | |
| • Lord mayor | Hansjörg Eger (CDU) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 42.58 km2 (16.44 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 92 m (302 ft) |
| Population (2006-12-31) | |
| • Total | 50,648 |
| • Density | 1,189.48/km2 (3,080.7/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 67346 |
| Vehicle registration | SP |
| Website | www |
Imperial City of Speyer Reichsstadt Speyer | |||||||||
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| 1294–1792 | |||||||||
| Status | Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Speyer | ||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Founded | ca 10 BC | ||||||||
• | 1294 | ||||||||
| April 19, 1529 | |||||||||
• Protestation at Speyer | April 20, 1529 | ||||||||
| 1688 | |||||||||
• | 1792 | ||||||||
• Annexed to Bavaria | 1816 | ||||||||
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The center of Speyer is dominated by the cathedral. Here are the tombs of several of the Salian emperors: the bodies, however, are believed to have gone missing during one of the French invasions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Speyer Media
Main street in Speyer with the Speyer Cathedral in the background
View of the river Rhine from the top of the Speyer Cathedral
View of Speyer from its cathedral
Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt
Wilhelm Meyer (1845—1917), German classical scholar
Anselm Feuerbach Self-portrait 1873
Hermann Detzner
References
Other websites
Media related to Speyer at Wikimedia Commons
- speyer.de Archived 2003-08-11 at the Wayback Machine the city website (partly in English)
- museum.speyer.de Archived 2004-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Historical Museum of the Palatinate (in English)
- dom-speyer.de website of Speyer Cathedral (in German)
- Model Map of Medieval Speyer
- Technical (Transport) Museum Archived 2006-12-31 at the Wayback Machine