What is Speyer?
Q: What is Speyer?
A: Speyer is a city in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Q: How many inhabitants does Speyer have?
A: Speyer has about 50,000 inhabitants.
Q: Where is Speyer located?
A: Speyer is located on the Rhine river, 25 kilometres (15.5 miles) south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim.
Q: Why is the town called Spira?
A: The town is called Spira after the stream Speyerbach which flows into the Rhine river here.
Q: What dominates the center of Speyer?
A: The center of Speyer is dominated by the cathedral.
Q: Whose tombs are located in the cathedral?
A: The tombs of several of the Salian emperors are located in the cathedral.
Q: What happened to the bodies of the Salian emperors?
A: The bodies of the Salian emperors are believed to have gone missing during one of the French invasions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
