Speyer (, older spelling ; ; ), historically known in English as Spires, is a city in

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in the western part of the

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with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river

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, Speyer lies south of

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and

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, and south-west of

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. Founded by the

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as a fortified town on the northeast frontiers of their

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, it is one of Germany's oldest cities.

Speyer Cathedral Speyer Cathedral, officially ''the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen'', in Latin: Domus sanctae Mariae Spirae (German: ''Dom zu Unserer lieben Frau in Speyer'') in Speyer, Germany, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bish ...

, a number of other churches, and the ("old gate") dominate the Speyer landscape. In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight

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s and

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. The city is famous for the 1529 Protestation at Speyer. One of the ShUM-cities which formed the cultural center of Jewish life in Europe during the Medieval / Middle Ages, Speyer and its Jewish courtyard was inscribed on the UNESCO (

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)

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in 2021.

History

The first known names were ''Noviomagus'' and ''Civitas Nemetum'', after the Teutonic tribe, Nemetes, settled in the area. The name ''Spira'' is first recorded in the 7th century, taken from ''villa Spira'', a Frankish settlement situated outside of ''Civitas Nemetum''.

Timeline

* In 10 BC, the first

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military camp is established (situated between the town hall and the episcopal palace), guarding the northeast frontier of the Roman Empire against Germanic barbarian tribes across the river to the east in Germania * In AD 150, the town appears as Noviomagus on the world map of the Greek geographer

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. * In 346, a Western Christian / Roman Catholic bishop for the town is mentioned for the first time. * 4th century, ''Civitas Nemetum'' appears on the Peutinger Map. * 5th century, ''Civitas Nemetum'' is destroyed. * 7th century, the town is re-established, and named ''Spira'' after a nearby Frankish settlement. * In 1030, emperor Conrad II starts the construction of

, today one of the

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. Also in the 11th century, the first city wall is built. * In 1076, emperor Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire embarks from Speyer, his favourite town, for

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. * In 1084, establishment of the first Jewish community in Speyer. * In 1096, as Count Emicho's Crusader army on their journey in the

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(also known as the

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) to the Muslim-occupied Holy Land, rages across the Rhineland slaughtering innocent Jewish communities in the

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. Speyer's Bishop John, with the local leader Yekutiel ben Moses, manages to secure the community's members inside the episcopal palace and later leads them to even stronger fortifications outside the town. It was ruled that anyone harming a Jew would have his hands chopped off. * In 1294, the Roman Catholic bishop loses most of his previous rights, and from now on Speyer is a Free Imperial Town of the

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. * In 1349, the Jewish community of Speyer is wiped out in a persecution pogrom. * Between 1527 and 1689, Speyer is the seat of the Imperial Chamber Court. * During the 16th century Protestant Reformation era in 1526, at the first Diet of Speyer (1526) interim toleration of

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teaching and worship is decreed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. * In 1529, at the second Diet of Speyer (1529) the

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states and supporting princes / electors of the Holy Roman Empire protest against the anti-

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resolutions (19 April 1529 Protestation at Speyer, hence the beginnings of the use of the descriptive term "Protestantism" / "Protestants"). * In 1635, Marshal of France Urbain de Maillé-Brézé, together with Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, conquers Heidelberg and Speyer at the head of the Army of Germany. * In 1689, the town is heavily damaged by invading Royal French troops. * Between 1792 and 1814, Speyer during the long period of the

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and subsequent

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is under French occupation and jurisdiction under the

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and following

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(Emperor Napoleon I), continuing earlier during the 18th century, by Royal French troops of the

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, after the

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, a century before in 1703 during the

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(1701–1714). * In 1816, (following the fall of Napoleon), Speyer becomes the seat of administration of the Palatinate and of the government of the Rhine District of the

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(later called the Bavarian Palatinate), and remains so for 129 years until the end of World War II in 1945. * In 1861, at the Speyer Cathedral,

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was introduced to his future wife

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by Crown Princess Victoria. * Between 1883 and 1904, the Memorial Church is built in remembrance of the Protestation of 1529 at the Diet of Speyer * In 1947, during post-

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western Allied Powers-occupied Germany, the State Academy of Administrative Science is founded (later renamed

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). * In 1990, Speyer celebrates its 2000th anniversary, on the eve of a reunified

, following the ebbing close of the

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Main sights

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* Altpörtel – Old Town Gate * Gedächtniskirche – Memorial church * Dreifaltigkeitskirche – Trinity church * Jewish courtyard (''Judenhof Speyer'') – remnants of medieval synagogue and intact mikve, UNESCO

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* Technikmuseum Speyer – Transportation Museum * Historical Museum of the Palatinate

Transportation

Speyer lies on the Schifferstadt-Wörth railway and offers hourly connections to

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and cities in the Rhine-Neckar area (of which Speyer is also a part) Speyer Airfield (German: Flugplatz Speyer) (

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: EDRY) is a

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located 4 km south of the central business district of the city of Speyer.

Mayors

Since 1923 the mayor was a Lord Mayor.

Twin towns – sister cities

Speyer is twinned with: * Spalding, United Kingdom, since 1956; discontinued 2021 *

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, France, since 1959 *

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, Russia, since 1989 *

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, Poland, since 1992 *

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, China, since 2013 *

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, United Kingdom, since 2023

Notable people

Born before 1900

* Samuel of Speyer (after 1096–death unknown), Exeget of Torah and Midrash * Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (1140–1217), scribe and philosopher * Julian of Speyer (before 1225– ~ 1250), medieval choir master, composer and poet from the

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Order of the

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* Gabriel Biel (~ 1415–1495), scholastic philosopher * Dietrich Gresemund (1477–1512), author *

Georg von Speyer Georg von Speyer (1500, Speyer, Holy Roman Empire – 11 June 1540, Coro, Klein-Venedig) was a German conquistador in New Granada and Venezuela. His birth name was Georg Hohermuth but he chose to call himself after his place of birth. H ...

(1500–1540), conquistador/ explorer for the

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in the Americas * Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1588–1635), Reichsgraf of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg * Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), German physician, alchemist, precursor of chemistry, scholar and adventurer * Moritz Georg Weidmann (1658–1693), publisher and bookseller * Adolf von Dalberg (1678–1737), Prince of Fulda * Simha of Speyer (13th century) German rabbi and tosafist. He was one of the leading signatories of the Takkanot Shum. * Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann (1709–1760), landscape and historical painters as well as copper cutters * Johann Martin Bernatz (1802–1878), landscape painter *

Anselm Feuerbach Anselm Feuerbach (12 September 1829 – 4 January 1880) was a German Painting, painter. He was the leading neoclassicism, neoclassical painter of the German 19th-century school. Biography Early life Feuerbach was born at Speyer, the son of ...

(1829–1880), German painter * Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1832–1902), German physician *

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(1835–1900), German-American journalist, (reporting as a war correspondent for the

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in the

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(1861–1865) and in Europe during the

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of 1866, then publisher of the ''

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'' newspaper and ''

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'' magazine and finally President (railroad executive) for the trans-continental

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. * Hermann von Stengel (1837–1919),

Administrative Officer in the

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* Wilhelm Meyer (philologist) (1845–1917), classical philologist, mediavist and librarian * Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (1879–1940), general of the artillery, ballist and defense scientist, in the German Empire (Second Reich) / Republic of Germany (Weimar Republic) / Nazi Germany (Third Reich) * Hans Purrmann (1880–1966), painter, graphic artist, art writer and collector * Hermann Detzner (1882–1970), leader of the German Schutztruppe in the

overseas colony

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in the southwest Pacific Ocean * Karl-Adolf Hollidt (1891–1985), Army officer (Generaloberst) and war criminal * Margarete Freudenthal-Sallis (ca.1893–1984), German-Jewish sociologist of the changing role of women in home economics * George Waldbott (1898–1982), German-American physician

Born after 1900 (20th century)

* George John Dasch (1903–1992), World War II spy who foiled terrorist attacks in the United States by

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* Jakob Brendel (1907–1964), wrestler *

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(1913–2005),

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music educator and radio presenter * Helmut Bantz (1921–2004), gymnast * Alfred Cahn (1922–2016), German musician and composer * Edgar E. Stern (born 1926), clinical social worker and author of ''The Peppermint Train: Journey to a German-Jewish Childhood'' * Gabriel Kney (born 1929), Canadian pipe organ builder * Karl Hochreither (1933–2018), German organist and musicologist * Volker Straus (1936–2002) German tonmeister * Jürgen Brecht (born 1940), fencer * Wolf Frobenius (1940–2011), musicologist * Gerhard Vollmer (born 1943), physicist and philosopher * Jürgen Creutzmann (born 1945), politician ( FDP) * Hans-Joachim Lang (born 1951), journalist, Germanist, historian and honorary professor * Axel Schimpf (born 1952), Vice Admiral of the

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of the

* Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953), artist * Kay Friedmann (born 1963), footballer * Markus Kranz (born 1969), football player * Christoph Bechmann (born 1971), German field-hockey player * Anke Vondung (born 1972), opera singer * Ralf Schmitt (born 1977), football player * Simone Weiler (born 1978), swimmer * Jochen Kühner (born 1980), rower * Martin Kühner (born 1980), rower * Matthias Langkamp (born 1984), football player * Christian Reif (born 1984), long jumper * David McCray (born 1986), basketball player * Florian Krebs (born 1988), football player * Sebastian Langkamp (born 1988), footballer * Lars Stindl (born 1988), German footballer * Elias Harris (born 1989), German international basketball player * Jonas Marz (born 1989), footballer * Gianluca Korte (born 1990), footballer * Raffael Korte (born 1990), footballer

Notes

External links

speyer.de
the town website (partly in English)
museum.speyer.de
Historical Museum of the Palatinate
dom-speyer.de
website of Speyer Cathedral
Explore the ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture

Model Map of Medieval Speyer

Speyer, its cathedral and the library of its chapter

Technical (Transport) Museum

www.speyer.de: living history in past times

www.speyer-tour.de: Guided tours through Speyer

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