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Worms, einfach sagenhaft! | Worms, simply fabulous! | Worms, tout simplement légendaire!
DEUTSCHLANDS ÄLTESTE STADT | GERMANY'S OLDEST CITY |
LA PLUS VIEILLE VILLE D'ALLEMAGNE | 德国最古老的城市 | LA CIUDAD MÁS ANTIGUA DE ALEMANIA |
120 Orte, die man in Worms gesehen haben sollte | 120 must-see sites in Germany's oldest city | 120 sites incontournables dans la plus ancienne ville d'Allemagne, Worms-sur-Rhin
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VIDEO WORMS & seine Geschichte (Deutsch)
Mein persönliches YouTube Video zur Stadt Worms und seiner Geschichte (deutsche Version)
Please, do also scroll down for a wide selection of photos from the city of Worms, and for publications.
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Worms am Rhein ist die älteste Stadt in Deutschland. Seit rund 6.000 Jahren besiedelt, bestand hier schon in vorrömischer Zeit ein keltisches "Oppidum", das sich zu einer römischen Stadt entwickelte, die den keltischen Namen Borbetomagos trug und Hauptstadt der civitas Vangionum (=Rheinhessen/Nordpfalz) war. Im 4. Jh. ist der erste Bischof belegt. Aus der Bischofstadt wurde eine Stadt für Könige unter Burgundern, Merowingern und Karolingern, dann ein wichtiges Machtzentrum unter Saliern und Staufern, ein Zentum für das erstarkende Bürgertum, daß hier um die Recht von Städten im Heiligen Römischen Reich kämpft. Schauplatz vieler Synoden und Reichstage, insbesondere Reformreichstag von 1495 und natürlich der Reichstag von 1521, auf dem Martin Luther vor Kaiser und Reich stand.
Worms-upon-Rhine is the oldest city in Germany. Having been settled for over 6,000 years, there already has been a pre-Roman "oppidum" (town) when Caesar conquered Gaul. This oppidum developed into a Roman city, still keeping its Celtic name Borbetomagos, probably meaning market town (magos) "in marshy" area or "near springs". It was the capital city of the civitas Vangionum, the state of the Vangiones, covering a large area to Altrip, Bingen and Landstuhl. The foundations of the Roman forum, together with cultic inscriptions and sculptures, were found underneath the medieval cathedral. The first bishop is attested for the year AD 346; around the same time, St Martin was imprisoned in Worms for refusing to accept donations from the later emperor Jullian at the eve of the battle against the Alamanns. His (alleged) prison next to the later St Martin's Chuch became a place of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages.
NEU | NEW | NOUVEAU | WEBSITE WITH SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM | NEUE WEBSEITE MIT AUSSERGEWÖHNLICHEN OBJEKTEN AUS DEM ARCHÄOLOGISCHEN MUSEUM WORMS
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VIDEO: Worms & her history (English)
My personal YouTube Video about the history of Worms (English version). Enjoy!!!
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Worms - the legendary royal city
After the fall of the Roman "limes", Worms, the Gallo-Roman Borbetomagus, had become a frontier city of the Roman empire, constantly threatened by Germanic attacks. In AD 413 the Burgundians were settled here by the Romans as allies to protect the Rhine frontier. In AD 454, with the death of Aetius, the Roman defence of the Rhine frontier ended, thus resulting in the end of Roman rule on the Rhine. From 500, the Franks control the area around Worms. Under the Merowingians, the first cathedral was constructed around AD 600, on the site of the former Roman "forum", on the highest hill of the town. Worms was an important city, a political, cultural and religious hub, under the rule of Merowingians, Carolingians (Charlemagne), the Salii, Staufer, etc. From the 11th century onwards, it also became the centre for the emanicipation of the townspeople (burgher) with the creation of the first city council, the continued privileges granted by emperors, etc. Also from c.1000, there was a thriving Jewish community in Worms which contributed to the economic and political success of the city: still today one can visit Germany's oldest synagogue and Europe's oldest Jewish cemetery. The city of Worms was the venue of important synodes and diets, notably the diet of 1495 that aimed to reform the Holy Roman Empire and of course the diet of 1521 when Martin Luther defended his theses in front of the emperor and representatives of the entire Empire. |
Mehr Beiträge zur Geschichte von Worms & seiner Rolle in europäischer Geschichte, wenn ich die Zeit dazu finde...
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Zum späteisenzeitlichen und römischen Worms // On the city of Worms and the Vangiones in the late Iron Age and in Roman times:
R. Haeussler 2008. The civitas Vangionum: a new sacred landscape at the fringes of the Roman Empire? In R. Haeussler and A.C. King (eds), Continuity and Innovation in Religion in the roman West. Portsmouth: Rhode Island (JRA Supplement 67), pp 185-216. R. Haeussler 1993. The Romanisation of the Civitas Vangionum, Bullettin of the Institute of Archaeology 15, 1993 (1994), pp. 41-104. R. Haeussler 2005. “Worms und die Vangionen”, Varuskurier 11, 2005, 7-9. R. Haeussler 2006. “Wangionen”, in: Hoop’s Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 2nd edition, volume 33, Berlin / New York: W. de Gruyter, pp. 237–247. R. Haeussler 2006. “Worms”, in: Hoop’s Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 2nd edition, volume 34, Berlin / New York: W. de Gruyter, 2007, pp. 225–234 and plate 7. R. Haeussler 2006. “Worms und die Vangionen. Fakten und Fiktionen”, Wormser Heimatjahrbuch 2, 2006, 146-154. R. Haeussler 2007. “Religion im römischen Worms – Romanisation oder Resistenz?”, Wormser Heimatjahrbuch 3, 2007, 153-158. |
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Für mehr Bilder aus Worms, siehe meine Seite "Photo-Gallerie" //
For more photos from the city of Worms, see my page "photo gallery": |
Impressions from the City of Worms
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