Worms, Germany Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

A rich web of fact and myth has been spun around WORMS , which lies on the left bank of the Rhine some 40km south of Mainz. Originally settled by Celtic tribes and then by the Romans, the city became the heart of the short-lived fifth-century Burgundian kingdom described in the Nibelungenlied . It was a favoured seat of various subsequent royal dynasties, the scene of the weddings of both Charlemagne and Frederick Barbarossa and of the Concordat of 1122 which settled the power struggle between the papacy and the empire. In the Middle Ages Worms achieved great prosperity and was for a while a venue for sittings of the … more »