Speyer

Speyer (, older spelling ; ; ), historically known in English as Spires, is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in the western part of the Federal Republic of Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer lies south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, and south-west of Heidelberg. Founded by the ancient Romans as a fortified town on the northeast frontiers of their Roman Empire, it is one of Germany's oldest cities. Speyer Cathedral, a number of other churches, and the ("old gate") dominate the Speyer landscape. In the cathedral, beneath the high altar

diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany

Oldest unopened bottle of wine

Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire

national graduate school

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1964 Type 205 submarine of the German Navy

Meeting of the deliberative body of the Holy Roman Empire

thumb|270px|Speyergau (Spiragowe) in Rhenish Franconia, c. 1000 Speyergau was a medieval county in the East Frankish (German) stem duchy of Franconia. It was centred around the administrative centre of Speyer and roughly covered the former Roman administrative area of Civitas Nemetum, which is today the south-eastern portion of the Palatinate region between the Rhine river, the Palatinate Forest range, and some smaller parts of northern Alsace. The Speyergau, together with the neighbouring Wormsgau and Nahegau, was part of the major possessions held by the Salian dynasty of German kings and Ho

an Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in 1526

1544 meeting

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