Speyer
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Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with about 50.000 inhabitants on the Rhine river. It lies 25 km 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.
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.
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- speyer.de the city website (partly in English)
- museum.speyer.de Historical Museum of the Palatinate (in English)
- dom-speyer.de website of Speyer Cathedral (in German)
- Model Map of Medieval Speyer
- Technical (Transport) Museum
