Discover Worms
Accommodation in Worms
Worms offers distinctive starting points for a trip that might include Jewish heritage, Romanesque church architecture, Reformation history and art collections. The city also has remains of medieval walls and a landscaped garden in the Herrnsheim district. If you are looking for a holiday apartment in Worms, you can use these themes to help shape your stay: would you like to focus mainly on history and architecture, or include art and landscape as well?
Der Wormser Dom gehört zu den Kaiserdomen und ist ein bedeutendes Beispiel romanischer Architektur.
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Jewish heritage and the SchUM Sites
The Jewish Museum in the Raschi House focuses on the life of the Jewish community. Its wide-ranging collection covers religion and everyday life from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. The synagogue, the women’s prayer room, other extensions and parts of today’s Raschi House are among the historic features of the synagogue and mikveh complex that form part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “SchUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz: Jewish Heritage for the World.” The Jewish Cemetery of Heiliger Sand is also part of this World Heritage Site.
This gives you the opportunity to explore different aspects of Jewish history in Worms: religion and everyday life in the museum, the historic features of the synagogue and mikveh complex, and the cemetery as a distinct part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Groups can book a one-hour combined tour of the Jewish Museum, synagogue and mikveh for a maximum of ten people. If you are planning the trip together, you can take this limited group size into account when deciding whether this tour format suits your plans.
The cathedral, the Reformation and Romanesque architecture
Together with the cathedrals in Mainz and Speyer, Worms Cathedral of St. Peter is one of the finest creations of Romanesque church architecture. It is also associated with the Diet of Worms in 1521, where Martin Luther appeared before Emperor Charles V. Architecture and a defining chapter of Reformation history thus come together in one building. If you are interested in churches and history, the cathedral offers a concrete starting point for including both topics in your trip.
Another building with medieval connections is St. Paul’s Collegiate Church. It is a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with piers. Bishop Burchard had it built from 1002 onward, on the site of the Salian dynasty’s ancestral castle. Its architectural form and location distinguish the collegiate church in this account from the cathedral’s connection with the Diet of 1521.
The Luther Monument is also part of the city’s Reformation history. The monument was created by Ernst Rietschel and unveiled on 25 June 1868. It is the largest Reformation monument in the world after the International Reformation Monument in Geneva. Its specific date and scale give the monument its own significance if you are exploring how the Reformation is commemorated.
Art collections and traces of the city wall
The Heylshof Museum has an important collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings, as well as decorative arts, particularly glass and ceramics. Cornelius Wilhelm and Sophie von Heyl assembled the collections mainly from the time of their wedding in 1867 onward. The range therefore extends from fine art to decorative art objects. Together with the Jewish Museum, it offers different cultural focuses for your stay, although the two museums do not cover the same themes.
Remains of the medieval city wall can be found again and again around the center of Worms. These traces complement the major buildings with evidence of the city’s former fortifications. If you would like to broaden your trip to include urban history, you can explore this theme alongside the museums, churches and monuments.
Landscape and a work of art on the Rhine embankment
The 10.5-hectare palace park of Herrnsheim Palace is located in the Herrnsheim district of Worms. It is considered the most important English landscape garden in Rhineland-Palatinate. Its size and this distinction make it a unique aspect of the city’s landscape. If you would like to include a garden alongside cultural attractions during your stay in Worms, you can add the park to your itinerary as a separate destination.
Kriemhild’s Rose Garden, an accessible land art installation that changes over the course of the year, is located on the Rhine embankment in Worms. The artist Eichfelder designed it with reference to the epic poem “Rose Garden of Worms,” written around 1230. Rather than a collection or historic building, the focus here is on a work of art whose appearance changes throughout the year. This offers different ways to include art and landscape in your trip.
If you would like to continue your destination research beyond Worms, you can also find pages for Heppenheim An Der Wiese and Abenheim.
For the overview of destinations in the wider region: Rhineland-Palatinate.
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