20 Sights in Speyer, Germany (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Speyer, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 20 sights are available in Speyer, Germany.

Sightseeing Tours in Speyer

1. Speyer Jewry-Cout

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Speyer Jewry-Cout

The Judenhof Speyer was the central district of the medieval Jewish quarter of Speyer and consisted of the synagogue including the women's school, synagogue courtyard and yeshiva as well as the oldest surviving mikveh in Central Europe, the ritual immersion bath of the Jews. The synagogue was built around 1100, and the women's school was added a little later. The mikveh also dates from this period. The site was no longer used after 1534 and fell into disrepair. Speyer's new synagogue on Maximilianstrasse, built in 1837, was destroyed during the November pogroms of 1938. The Judenhof with women's school, old synagogue and mikveh has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2021.

Wikipedia: Judenhof Speyer (DE)

2. Historisches Museum der Pfalz

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The Historical Museum of the Palatinate is a museum in the city of Speyer in the Palatinate region of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is situated across the square from the Speyer Cathedral. The museum's focus is on the History of the Palatinate; it has a collection of about 1 million artifacts, the oldest being an approximately 190,000-year-old hand axe. The museum is among the most important in Germany, and is known for its special exhibitions. With over 200,000 visitors per year it is one of the major attractions of Speyer.

Wikipedia: Historical Museum of the Palatinate (EN), Website

3. Gedächtniskirche der Protestation

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Gedächtniskirche der Protestation

The Gedächtniskirche der Protestation is a United Protestant church of both Lutheran and Reformed confessions in Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, that commemorates the Protestation at Speyer in defense of the evangelical faith, specifically Lutheranism. Built between 1893 and 1904, the church was constructed in memory of the protest that took place at the Diet of Speyer by the Protestant rulers of the Holy Roman Empire in 1529. The tower is the tallest bell tower in the whole Palatinate at 100 metres (330 ft).

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4. Dom zu Speyer

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Speyer Cathedral, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, in Latin: Domus sanctae Mariae Spirae in Speyer, Germany, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer and is suffragan to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg. The cathedral, which is dedicated to St. Mary, patron saint of Speyer and St. Stephen is generally known as the Kaiserdom zu Speyer. Pope Pius XI raised Speyer Cathedral to the rank of a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church in 1925.

Wikipedia: Speyer Cathedral (EN), Website, Url, Heritage Website

5. Dornier Emmen C-3605

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The F+W C-3605, nicknamed Schlepp ("Tug") or "Alpine Anteater", was a target towing aircraft operated by the Swiss Air Force from 1971–1987. The aircraft was developed during the latter half of the 1960s by the Swiss Federal Construction Works (EKW), renamed Farner Werke (F+W) in 1972, as a conversion of the existing C-3603 ground attack/target towing aircraft. Following a successful prototype conversion in 1968, 23 aircraft were converted between 1971–1973 with 2 still flying in private hands.

Wikipedia: F+W C-3605 (EN)

6. Transall C-160D

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Transall C-160D bomberpilot / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Transall C-160 is a military transport aircraft, produced as a joint venture between France and Germany. "Transall" is an abbreviation of the manufacturing consortium Transporter Allianz, comprising the companies of MBB, Aerospatiale, and VFW-Fokker. It was initially developed to meet the requirements for a modern transport aircraft for the French and German Air Forces; export sales were also made to South Africa and to Turkey, as well as a small number to civilian operators.

Wikipedia: Transall C-160 (EN)

7. Helmut Kohl

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Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest of any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck, and oversaw the end of the Cold War, the German reunification and the creation of the European Union (EU). Furthermore, Kohl's tenure of 16 years, 26 days is the longest for any democratically elected chancellor of Germany.

Wikipedia: Helmut Kohl (EN)

8. St. Joseph Kirche

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St. Joseph's in Speyer is a Catholic church and the center of a whole complex of buildings of the parish of St. Joseph. In the cathedral parish of Pax Christi, which covers the entire city area, it serves as a place for joint parish services, while the cathedral is the seat of the parish. The church, with its extraordinary size and magnificent furnishings, was built as a reaction to the construction of the neighbouring Protestant Memorial Church of the Protestation.

Wikipedia: St. Joseph (Speyer) (DE)

9. Adolf von Nassau

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Adolf von Nassau

Adolf was the count of Nassau from about 1276 and the elected king of Germany from 1292 until his deposition by the prince-electors in 1298. He was never crowned by the pope, which would have secured him the imperial title. He was the first physically and mentally healthy ruler of the Holy Roman Empire ever to be deposed without a papal excommunication. Adolf died shortly afterwards in the Battle of Göllheim fighting against his successor Albert of Habsburg.

Wikipedia: Adolf, King of the Romans (EN)

10. Franz Hellinger und Ferdinand Wiesmann

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Franz Hellinger und Ferdinand Wiesmann

The Autonomous Palatinate was the name given to the attempts to establish the Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine as an autonomous state independent of Bavaria after the First World War. During the period of French occupation after the First World War, separatist tendencies developed, first with the aim of an independent state in the union of the German Reich, and later also with the creation of a state independent of the Reich and based on France.

Wikipedia: Autonome Pfalz (DE)

11. Villa Körbling

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The upper-middle-class Villa Körbling in Speyer, Bahnhofstraße 15, was built between 1911 and 1912 for the Speyer ophthalmologist Eberhard Körbling and his wife Anna Körbling, née Pallmann. The villa has been preserved in its original condition and is included in the list of cultural monuments in Speyer. In 2014/2015 it was restored in accordance with the requirements of the listed building.

Wikipedia: Villa Körbling (DE)

12. Synagogue Speyer

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The historic synagogue of Speyer was built at the beginning of the 12th century and was the second synagogue in Speyer. The community was expelled in the course of the 15th century and the building was destroyed in the War of the Palatine Succession in 1689, except for the outer walls. Today, the ruins are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the ShUM sites.

Wikipedia: Synagoge (Speyer) (DE)

13. Feuerbachhaus

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The Feuerbachhaus is a museum dedicated to the Feuerbach family at Allerheiligenstraße 9 in Speyer, Germany. The property has a baroque garden and borders the old city walls. The archaeologist Joseph Anselm Feuerbach lived there with his family for 10 years. His son, the eminent painter Anselm Feuerbach, was born in this house.

Wikipedia: Feuerbachhaus (Speyer) (DE), Website

14. Domnapf

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The Domnapf is a large bowl made of sandstone in front of the Imperial Cathedral in the city of Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate). According to tradition, it is to be filled with wine "for all the people" after each new election of a bishop. The bowl has a capacity of 1580 litres and bears a Latin inscription.

Wikipedia: Domnapf (DE)

15. St. Bernhard

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The Catholic Church of Peace of St. Bernard in Speyer, often referred to as St. Bernard's Church, was built between 1953 and 1954 and inaugurated as a church of peace in the presence of French and German bishops, because it was intended to serve as a symbol of reconciliation between Germany and France.

Wikipedia: St. Bernhard (Speyer) (DE)

16. Dreifaltigkeitskirche

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Dreifaltigkeitskirche

The Dreifaltigkeitskirche is a late Baroque, Protestant parish church in Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Since 1988 it has been a cultural asset worthy of protection within the meaning of Article 1 of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Speyer (EN), Website

17. Fatih Camii

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The Fatih Mosque Speyer is a prayer and meeting centre of the Turkish-Islamic Community and Cultural Centre Speyer at Brunckstraße 16, in the industrial area north between the Speyer districts of Speyer-Nord and Speyer-West. Since April 2012, the congregation has been using the building for prayer.

Wikipedia: Fatih-Moschee (Speyer) (DE), Website

18. Vickers Viscount 814

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Vickers Viscount 814 Ralf Manteufel / GFDL 1.2

The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee, it entered service in 1953 and was the first turboprop-powered airliner.

Wikipedia: Vickers Viscount (EN)

19. Altpörtel

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The Old Gate is the medieval west city gate of Speyer, and is one of the original 68 towers in the old walls and gates. Today it is one of the largest and most architecturally significant of the remaining city gates in Germany.

Wikipedia: Old Gate (Speyer) (EN)

20. St. Konrad

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St. Konrad Claus Ableiter / CC BY-SA 3.0

St. Konrad is a church with a parish centre, parish hall, rectory, kindergarten, youth centre and an old sisters' house and is the centre of the Catholic parish of the same name in the Speyer-Nord district of Speyer.

Wikipedia: St. Konrad (Speyer) (DE)

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