Speyer

Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in  the state of Rhineland-Palatinate with about 50,000 inhabitants on the Rhine river. It lies  south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Around the year 500 the town gets the name Spira, named after the stream Speyerbach which flows into the Rhine river here.

The center of Speyer is dominated by the Speyer Cathedral. Here are the tombs of several of the Salian emperors: the bodies, however, are believed to have gone missing during one of the French invasions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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References

 Other websites 

speyer.de  the city website (partly in English)
museum.speyer.de  Historical Museum of the Palatinate (in English)
dom-speyer.de website of Speyer Cathedral (in German)
Model Map of Medieval Speyer
Technical (Transport) Museum 

Category:1290s establishments in Europe
Category:13th-century establishments in Germany
Category:1790s disestablishments in Europe
Category:Disestablishments in Germany