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Rhineland-Palatinate
Palatinate

Speyer

Speyer is a city in the region of . It is one of the oldest German cities and has a beautiful old town. Speyer has been a diocesan town since 346; its first churches and monasteries were built in the 6th and 7th century.
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  • Type: Town with 50,300 residents
  • Description: town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
  • Also known as: “Noviomagus” and “Spires”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Speyer Cathedral and Technik Museum Speyer.

Church
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, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, in Latin: Domus sanctae Mariae Spirae in Speyer, Germany, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer and is suffragan to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg.

Museum
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The is a technology museum in Speyer, .

Protected area
The Jewish courtyard in Speyer, is an historic and archeological site located in the inner city of Speyer, . Built in stages between 1104 and the 14th century, the courtyard contains some of the oldest and best-preserved Jewish community buildings.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Römerberg and Altlußheim.

Village
is a municipality in the , in , . It is situated on the left bank of the Rhine, approximately 5 kilometres southwest of Speyer. is situated 4½ km southwest of Speyer.

Village
is a municipality in and belongs to . sits in the Rhine rift directly on the right bank of a meandering of the Rhine, where the flows into the Rhine. is situated 5 km east of Speyer.

Village
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is a municipality in the , in , . The almost 980-year-old village was once a pure agricultural and fishing village. is situated 6 km north of Speyer.

Speyer

Latitude
49.3166° or 49° 18′ 60″ north
Longitude
8.4336° or 8° 26′ 1″ east
Population
50,300
Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)
IATA airport code
ZQC
United Nations Location Code
DE SPE
Open location code
8FXC8C8M+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240074382
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2830582
Wiki­data ID
Q6829
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Speyer” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Speyer”
  • Amharic: “ስፓየር”
  • Arabic: “شباير”
  • Aragonese: “Espira (Alemanya)”
  • Aragonese: “Espira”
  • Armenian: “Շպայեր”
  • Asturian: “Speyer”
  • Bashkir: “Шпайер”
  • Basque: “Speyer”
  • Basque: “Spira”
  • Belarusian: “Шпаер”
  • Breton: “Speyer”
  • Bulgarian: “Шпайер”
  • Catalan: “Espira”
  • Catalan: “Speyer”
  • Catalan: “Spira”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Speyer”
  • Cebuano: “Speyer”
  • Chinese: “施派尔”
  • Chinese: “施派爾”
  • Chinese: “詩貝亞”
  • Croatian: “Speyer”
  • Czech: “Speyer”
  • Czech: “Špýr”
  • Danish: “Speyer”
  • Dutch: “Speyer”
  • Dutch: “Spiers”
  • Esperanto: “Speyer”
  • Estonian: “Speyer”
  • Finnish: “Speyer”
  • French: “Speyer”
  • French: “Spire”
  • Georgian: “შპაიერი”
  • German: “Speyer”
  • Greek: “Σπάιερ”
  • Hebrew: “אשפיירא”
  • Hebrew: “אשפירא”
  • Hebrew: “שפייר”
  • Hebrew: “שפיירא”
  • Hungarian: “Speyer”
  • Hungarian: “Spira”
  • Icelandic: “Speyer”
  • Indonesian: “Speyer”
  • Interlingue: “Speyer”
  • Irish: “Speyer”
  • Italian: “Spira”
  • Japanese: “シュパイアー”
  • Kazakh: “Шпейер”
  • Korean: “슈파이어”
  • Kurdish: “Speyer”
  • Ladin: “Speyer”
  • Latin: “Spira Nemetum”
  • Latin: “Spira”
  • Latin: “Spirae Nemetum”
  • Latin: “Spirae”
  • Latvian: “Špeiere”
  • Lithuanian: “Špajeris”
  • Lithuanian: “Špejeris”
  • Low German: “Speyer”
  • Luxembourgish: “Speyer”
  • Macedonian: “Шпајер”
  • Malagasy: “Speyer”
  • Moksha: “Шпайер”
  • Northern Frisian: “Speyer”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Speyer”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Speyer”
  • Norwegian: “Speyer”
  • Ossetian: “Шпайер”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Speyer”
  • Persian: “اشپیر”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Schbaya”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Speyer”
  • Piemontese: “Speyer”
  • Polish: “Spira”
  • Portuguese: “Espira”
  • Portuguese: “Speyer”
  • Romanian: “Speyer”
  • Russian: “Шпайер”
  • Russian: “Шпейер”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Speyer”
  • Scots: “Speyer”
  • Serbian: “Шпајер”
  • Serbian: “Шпејер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Speyer”
  • Silesian: “Speyer”
  • Slovak: “Speyer”
  • Slovenian: “Speyer”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اشپیر”
  • Spanish: “Espira”
  • Swahili: “Speyer”
  • Swedish: “Speier”
  • Swedish: “Speyer”
  • Swedish: “Spira”
  • Tatar: “Шпайер”
  • Thai: “ชไปเออร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Speyer”
  • Turkish: “Speyer”
  • Ukrainian: “Шпаєр”
  • Uzbek: “Speyer”
  • Vietnamese: “Speyer”
  • Volapük: “Speyer”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Speyer”
  • Welsh: “Speyer”
  • Western Frisian: “Spiers”
  • Wu Chinese: “施派尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “施派爾”
  • “Speyer”

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