Top 10 Natural Monuments around Worms

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Originally a cemetery, it was converted into a picturesque green space and named after Albert Schulte, a former mayor of the city. The park is known for its historical grave monuments and memorials to the fallen, which form a monument zone.

The fountain was created in 1913 by the Munich sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand and erected in 1921. It is made of shell limestone and is designed as a heptagonal dome. On top of the fountain stands Siegfried with his sword, which represents the scene of the dragon slayer from the legend.

It is very beautiful here.

The Old Market Fountain from 1778 originally stood on the Worms street market, roughly on the site of the Siegfried Fountain, built by the city of Worms and a neighborhood fountain. It had a predecessor in a Renaissance fountain with Justitia that was destroyed in 1689. In 1908, the fountain was demolished as a result of the new construction of the Cornelianum and, after a thorough renovation, was re-erected on Karolingerplatz, where it has visibly fallen into disrepair. In 1977, it returned to the market and stands in front of the town hall. Worms craftsmen and the sculptor Lempik renovated the decoration and technology. The fountain draws its water directly from the town hall, where the water reservoir and circulation system are installed. The baroque sandstone fountain is designed as a fountain column. A pillar with an inscription and the town's coat of arms rises on the pedestal with a gargoyle, with a Justitia figure on top. The pillar is flanked by the much larger late Baroque figures of Neptune and Hercules. The fountain is associated with Worms' market history and is also the oldest surviving fountain in Worms.

At this point, after about 43 km, the Pfrimm, which rises near the Sippersfelder Weiher (nature reserve) in the Donnersberg district, flows into the Rhine.

Around 300 years ago, the most impressive monument of Worms' prehistory was lost - a monumental burial site. This is a tumulus (hill grave) about thirteen meters long, which was marked with "two stones (menhirs) protruding from the earth". The menhirs of the tomb probably date from the Megalithic period, a pre-Indo-European cultural stage whose origins can be found in the darkness of the early Neolithic period. The tumulus was probably built at the same time or was added later during the Bronze Age. Later generations linked legends to this grave, stories of giants and dragon slayers, and ultimately the "Song of the Horned Seyfrid". This is a widespread Rhenish local tradition that has been almost completely forgotten alongside the great Nibelungenlied, although its archetypal fragments probably represent a precursor to the epic. Marquard Freher described the tumulus in 1613 as "the grave of the giant who was sung about throughout Germany and who made the place famous through his monument" This is therefore a work of art by the Worms artist Eichfelder, which was modelled on the grave of Siegfried described in the literature (probably 1km from here). Source and further information: https://www.nibelungenlied-gesellschaft.de/03_beitrag/eichfelder/kunst/SiegfriedsGrab/tumulus.html

The Rhine is one of the most important rivers in Europe. This is not primarily because of its length of 1,230 kilometers, but because of its importance for energy and water supply, for cooling industrial plants, for shipping, for fishing - and last but not least as an attraction for recreation and leisure activities. 50 million people live in the Rhine catchment area. Some of their lives are influenced and shaped by the Rhine every day as a source of income or as a source of life.