European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 04, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Many parts of the old Watt Stilt ring some of the City. Archway on Karoline Strasse. The Raschi Haus next door houses the City archives and is open 8 . To noon and 2 to 5p.m., monday through Friday. The City s appearance has a certain Unity due to the efforts of late-1 9th-Century City construction superintendent Karl Hofmann whose desire to mimic the Cathedral s romanesque architecture can be seen in the City water Tower and the Bridge Tower on the. Rhine. Worms has two major outdoor events annually a Christmas festival throughout december and the Backfisch fest baked fish festival which takes place in the fall. The City straddles the intersections of Federal highways 0 and 47 on the Western Border of Rheinland Pfalz state. It lies within an hour s drive of Mannheim Heidelberg Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern. The closest Access by expressway is from autobahn 61the main Highway Between Ludwigshafen and Koblenz or autobahn 67 Between Darmstadt and Mannheim. Worms also is tied into the regional Public transit system that serves Mannheim and Heidelberg so riders in those cities can reach Worms easily and cheaply by train or bus. St. Andrew s Church now houses the Worms City museum. Is Joseph own Worms City map t  jewish cemetery municipal museum St. Peters Cathedral Altes Flathaug ? Mark Platz t Luther Monument t St. Martin s Church is. Susan hams j source Day trips in Gaiman of Tan the old City Gate guards the Bridge Over the Rhine River. Is Joseph own Worms. Continued from Page 13 that City councilmen concluded they had offended god. To appease him they built the  holy Trinity Church which still exists on the Market Square. The destruction left the charred Kaiser Dom and a few other churches standing As empty shells but the rest of the town was in ruins. The City recovered very poorly Reuter said. In Many cases the reconstruction was  Worms had about 7,000 residents in 1600, he said. The thirty years War the plague of 1666 and other crises had reduced the total to some 3,500 by the time of the French attack. Four years later Only 1,000 people lived in the town. The French returned in 1780, annexing the entire Rheinland Pfalz Region which includes Worms. They stayed until Napoleon s fail in 1814. France also occupied Worms after world War i and again after world War ii. The Economy remained Flat until the 19th Century when leather and textile factories opened and the British began visiting Worms a t a ribs. Those tourists developed a taste for  a wine from vineyards around the 14th-Century  Church of our Ladya few blocks East of Takkunen Barracks. Other vintners began using the name. Elsewhere however capitalizing on its Fame so now the. Wine of Worms is called  and that of the Church vineyards is  Kirsche stuck. The wine is not easy to find but a Good taste of local history is available at the Andreas Kirche a Church turned into a City museum on the Weckerlin Platz tvo blocks East of the jewish cemetery. November 4, 1993 stripes Magazine 13