Speyer (deu)

Speyer

Speyer ranks 2,014th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Greiz, Kavala, and Štip. Memorable people born in Speyer include Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, Johann Joachim Becher, and Anselm Feuerbach. Memorable people who died in Speyer include Rudolf I of Germany. Speyer has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians. Speyer is located in Germany.

Speyer, 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 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, and 21 km south-west of Heidelberg. Founded by the ancient Romans as an 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 Altpörtel dominate the Speyer landscape. In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight Holy Roman Emperors and German kings. Read more on Wikipedia