Worms, Cathedral

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The Worms Cathedral is designed and built in the Romanesque style. I find each cathedral extremely fascinating and look forward to visiting the next several dozen, but Emmy thinks that after she has seen a hundred or so, she has seen enough for a few days, or even a few months. Our Travel Journal contains the names of about 200 cathedrals and large churches we’ve visited in Europe, and I can relate something about many of them.
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When visiting these exquisite old buildings we highly recommend the purchase of one of the guidebooks — they contain so much useful information. Usually guidebooks and picture postcards are available in the cathedral’s bookstore. In the guide for the Worms Cathedral, there are four pages of dates and information, starting with the Roman market that already stood at this spot in the year 100.

Churches were built, burned, and collapsed several times; major donations were accepted; a Pope was elected; bishops were buried; the church was robbed and looted; it was used as a warehouse; windows, organs and bells were installed; it was bombed (February 21, 1945); and the latest renovation, started in 1961, took six years to complete.

Sounds like a lot of activity, but then nearly 2000 is a lot of years.