Worms
Worms is a city in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany. You can still see many vestiges of the old city walls, particularly the Torturmplatz and the Karolingerstraße.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Jewish cemetery “Holy Sand” and Worms Cathedral.
Old Jewish cemetery “Holy Sand”
Protected area
Photo: PanchoS, Public domain.
The Jewish Cemetery in Worms or Heiliger Sand, in Worms, Germany, is usually called the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Europe, although the Jewish burials in the Jewish sections of the Roman catacombs predate it by a millennium.
Worms Cathedral
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Peter's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral in Worms, southern Germany. The cathedral is located on the highest point of the inner city of Worms and is the most important building of the Romanesque style in Worms.
Worms Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Photo: Jivee Blau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Worms Hauptbahnhof is, along with Worms Pfeddersheim station, one of two operational passenger stations in the Rhenish Hesse city of Worms, Germany. The station with its pedestrian underpass is also an essential link between the eastern and the western parts of central Worms.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bobenheim-Roxheim and Horchheim.
Bobenheim-Roxheim
Village
Photo: Jivee Blau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bobenheim-Roxheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approximately 5 km south of Worms, and 13 km northwest of Ludwigshafen. Bobenheim-Roxheim is situated 6 km south of Worms.
Horchheim
Suburb
Photo: PMScigne, Public domain.
Horchheim is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Worms.
Trinity Church, Worms
Locality
Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.
The Holy Trinity Church, full name Reformation Memorial Church of the Holy Trinity is the largest Protestant church in Worms. The baroque hall building is centrally located on the market square of the city and is now under conservation.
Worms
- Type: Locality with 86,800 residents
- Also known as: “07319000” and “Stadt Worms”
- Location: Worms, Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.6327° or 49° 37′ 58″ northLongitude
8.3619° or 8° 21′ 43″ eastPopulation
86,800Elevation
105 metres (344 feet)Open location code
8FXCJ9M6+3QGeoNames ID
6554822
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yiddish—“Worms” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቩርምዝ”
- Arabic: “فورمس”
- Belarusian: “Горад Вормс”
- Bulgarian: “Вормс”
- Chinese: “沃尔姆斯”
- Greek: “Βορμς”
- Hebrew: “וורמס”
- Japanese: “ヴォルムス”
- Kazakh: “Вормс”
- Korean: “보름스”
- Latin: “Wormatia”
- Latvian: “Vormsa”
- Lithuanian: “Vormsas”
- Persian: “ورمز، آلمان”
- Pfaelzisch: “Woʳms”
- Polish: “Wormacja”
- Russian: “Вормс”
- Serbian: “Вормс”
- Ukrainian: “Вормс”
- Yiddish: “ווארמז”
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