18 Facts About Worms Germany

Worms Germany has been a Roman Catholic bishopric since at least 614, and was an important palatinate of Charlemagne.

Worms Germany prospered in the High Middle Ages as an imperial free city.

Worms Germany is one of the historical ShUM-cities as a cultural center of Jewish life in Europe during the Middle Ages.

Worms Germany is located on the west bank of the River Rhine between the cities of Ludwigshafen and Mainz.

Worms Germany was in ancient times a Celtic city named Borbetomagus, perhaps meaning "water meadow".

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In 1122, the Concordat of Worms Germany was signed; the 1495 imperial diet met here and made an attempt at reforming the disintegrating Imperial Circle Estates by the Imperial Reform.

Worms Germany was the birthplace of the first Bibles of the Reformation, both Martin Luther's German Bible and William Tyndale's first complete English New Testament by 1526.

The Jewish Cemetery in Worms Germany, dating from the 11th century, is believed to be the oldest surviving in situ cemetery in Europe.

Prominent students, rabbis, and scholars of Worms include Shlomo Yitzhaki who studied with R Yizhak Halevi, Elazar Rokeach, Maharil, and Yair Bacharach.

For hundreds of years, until Kristallnacht in 1938, the Jewish Quarter of Worms Germany was a centre of Jewish life.

Worms Germany today has only a very small Jewish population, and a recognizable Jewish community as such no longer exists.

In 1689 during the Nine Years' War, Worms Germany was sacked by troops of King Louis XIV of France, though the French only held the city for a few weeks.

In 1743, the Treaty of Worms Germany was signed, forming a political alliance between Great Britain, Austria, and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

The Bishopric of Worms Germany was secularized in 1801, with the city being annexed into the First French Empire.

In 1815, Worms Germany passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in accordance with the Congress of Vienna, and the city was administered within Rhenish Hesse.

Worms Germany was a German strongpoint on the west bank of the Rhine, and the forces there resisted the Allied advance tenaciously.

Worms Germany was, thus, heavily bombed by the Royal Air Force and the US Army Air Forces in two attacks on February 21 and March 18,1945, respectively.

Postwar Worms Germany became part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate; the borough Rosengarten, on the east bank of the Rhine, was lost to Hesse.