===Modern era===In 1689 during the Nine Years' War, Worms (like the nearby towns and cities of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Oppenheim, Speyer and Bingen) was sacked by troops of King Louis XIV of France, though the French only held the city for a few weeks.
Odlični študenti, rabini in strokovnjaki Wormsa so Shlomo Yitzhaki (Rashi), ki je študiral z R. Yizhak Halevi sgan haleviya, Elazar Rokeach, Maharil in Yair Bacharach.