Worms

Worms was a Free Imperial City on the Rhine. Its citizens held imperial privileges, while its bishops resided at Ladenburg and retained jurisdiction over the cathedral precinct.

At the Diet of 1495, Worms hosted the launch of imperial reform; in 1521 another diet condemned Martin Luther, whose German Bible was soon printed in the city. Louis XIV's troops sacked Worms in 1689, and French revolutionary forces occupied it in 1792. The Congress of Vienna assigned the city to Hesse in 1815.