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Dom Kämmererstraße powerfully implements their own LutherringSt. Peter The cathedral in Worms (1) is the 3 1 Petersstraße ideas. The theological theme of all the Andreasstraße smallest but also the finest of the three ornamentation of the portal, which is Marktplatz 8 Romanesque on i Hagenstraße often referred to as a stone bible, is 7 the . Its four slender, round the triumph of the Christian church Neumarkt towers, the beautiful of Willy-Brandt-Ring over the Old Covenant. This message Willy-Brandt-Ring 2 the west choir and its rich architectural culminates in the sculpture in the structure give it a distinctive gable which is unique in medieval appearance. Parts of the imposing imagery: the church (Ecclesia) is Valckenbergstr. building that stands at the highest point presented riding on a beast that 1 St. Peter's Cathedral 6 Mountain church in Hochheim of the city centre still date from the comprises the symbols of the four 2 Weckerlingplatz, 7 Torturmplatz with time of Bishop Burchard who was evangelists. St. Andrew's Collegiate Church, Nibelungen Museum bishop of Worms from 1000 until 1025 St. Magnus' Church 8 Romanesque house wall and had a first large cathedral built. Anyone who walks round the 3 St. Paul's Collegiate Church i Tourist Information The current building was begun cathedral and puts their head right 4 St. Martin's Collegiate Church under the Hohenstaufen back discovers many more strange 5 Synagogue The cathedral and rulers and consecrated in beasts up above, as well as the so- 1181. When the Gothic style called master builder, on whose the Romanesque period came into fashion, Worms shoulder a monkey is sitting, the wanted to keep up and they legendary cathedral dachshund and a changed the whole south side, rat that was added at the time of the extended St Nicholas' Chapel plague. Inside, Balthasar Neumann's and added the Chapel of St. Anne high in its opulence and St. George. The new eye- stands opposite the grand Romanesque catching feature was now the south west choir. The other sights in the portal (beginning 1300), an cathedral include the sumptuously excellent piece of work by the carved choir stalls, the five stone reliefs Worms cathedral builders' lodge, from the late Gothic period in the which, although it is based on eastern aisle, which reproduce the Tourist Information Worms models in Strasbourg Cathedral, most important scenes from the history Neumarkt 14 · D-67547 Worms Tel: (0 62 41) 853 7306 Fax: (0 62 41) 853 7399 [email protected] nibelungenstadt

www.worms.de Worms Gestaltung: Visuelle Kommunikation Beykirch U. Beykirch Fotos: Stadt Worms, Ulrike Schäfer Text: of salvation, St. Nicholas' Chapel with the Romanesque period with its By some miracle, not only the the lion font, the history window and, powerful arcades and richly decorated aforementioned churches have last but not least, the Salian crypt, in capitals. St. Andrew's Church is also because he refused to fight for the survived the repeated destruction of which the forefathers of the Salians, unable to deny its relationship with emperor; there is also the legend of the city, but so too have large sections including Conrad the Red, are buried. the cathedral. The small nearby St. the magic goose, which is told in of the city wall, which had been The cathedral is the crown of the city, Magnus' Church (2) also has connection with the medieval plague magnificently extended in the but far from being the only Romanesque characteristics; it has even pogrom. Hohenstaufen period. Anyone who Romanesque religious building. Within older foundations than all the other Of course, we should not imagine that comes from the Rhine into the city , it is only in Cologne that churches in Worms. the construction of the synagogue (5) has the feeling in Torturmplatz (7), there are more Romanesque churches can be traced back to the building- with the two excellently preserved city than in Worms. One of the most It was the aforementioned Bishop loving bishop, but it is clear that the towers (now the Nibelungen attractive ensembles in the city is Burchard who started a real building same master builders were at work as Museum), that they are looking St. Andrew's Collegiate Church in boom in Worms during his period in in the cathedral and the other directly into the Middle Ages. Anyone Weckerlingplatz (2) with a view to office. He had St. Paul's Collegiate Romanesque churches. This is revealed who would like to can follow the city the cathedral, which now houses the Church with its towers with an oriental by the design of the pillars and much wall in the east and north, and in the City Museum with a large exhibition appearance built on the foundation more. It is reasonably certain, however, south-west and west, through narrow on the early period, the Romans, the walls of the former Salian castle - today, that Burchard was involved in the streets or flourishing parks. All that and the Middle Ages, as well St. Paul's Collegiate Church (3) construction of the mountain church remains of a s, or more accurately a as the Luther Room. Bishop Burchard belongs to the Dominican monastery, (6) in the Hochheim district. The single wall, can still be seen in had St. Andrew's Collegiate Church which frequently opens the late small Romanesque crypt is one of the Peterstraße. built. The highlight is the picturesque medieval cloister and the romantic main treasures of the region. The altar cloister, a popular place for cultural monastery gardens for spiritual events table, which was only rediscovered a events and atmospheric celebrations, and concerts -, and he probably also few years ago, comes from the TIP the southern part of which comes from arranged for the construction of Burchard period. St. Martin's Church (4), which is When you visit the cathedral in Worms, pay particular attention to surrounded by a number of legends. the figurative stained glass windows in the Gothic chapels. Thus, There is not only the legend that the the "history window" in St. Joseph's Chapel is like a historical saint himself languished in prison here kaleidoscope and is related to the "bible in pictures" of the south portal. Particularly popular: daily guided tours of the cathedral for individual visitors from April to October at 14:00 (except for Sundays and bank holidays). Further information: www.worms.de