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On a shaded bank marked by the Nibelungen bridge and its crenellated gate tower, about fifteen minutes' walk from the historic heart. The Nibelungen Museum is closer still, roughly 500 metres away.
Hagen, caught at the most famous moment of the Nibelungen legend: the treasure hurled into the river never to be recovered. The statue stands on the promenade, a few steps from the landing stage.
St. Peter's cathedral and the Luther monument, both about a kilometre away, then the Heiliger Sand cemetery at 1.5 kilometres. The Nibelungen Museum, 500 metres from the quay, slots in easily on the way back.
Its four red sandstone towers and its compact, almost defensive mass. With Speyer and Mainz, Worms holds one of the three Romanesque imperial cathedrals of the Rhine. The interior is austere, with one exception: a baroque high altar designed by Balthasar Neumann.
In 1521 Martin Luther appeared here before Charles V and refused to recant his writings. The Diet of Worms tipped Europe into the age of the Reformation, and the bronze monument raised to the reformer in the 19th century is among the most imposing of its kind.
On the site of the Heylshof garden, next to the monument, which occupies the ground of the palace where the hearing was held. Today you wander there among sculptures and well-kept beds: the contrast with the gravity of the event is striking.
Worms forms, with Speyer and Mainz, the so-called ShUM cities, inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage for their medieval Jewish legacy. In the old Judengasse, the rebuilt synagogue and the ritual bath sunk beneath a quiet courtyard follow one another on a single walk.
The oldest preserved Jewish cemetery in Europe, whose leaning stones, ranged in the grass, date in the oldest cases from nearly a thousand years ago. The place carries a gravity that stays with travellers: it asks for time and a certain readiness of mind.
Yes, and it is visible: the gothic Liebfrauenkirche rises in the middle of its own rows of vines, north of the centre. That vineyard gave its name to Liebfraumilch, a sweet white once shipped to every corner of the globe.
The epic of Siegfried, Kriemhild and Hagen, much of which unfolds in Worms, presented through sound and visuals inside two towers of the medieval wall. Currency: the euro, cards accepted in the centre.