WORMS. vorms, Hesse-Darmstadt, town as the Rhine, nine miles northwest of Mannheim The town is irregularly built and has remains of its mediteval walls and ramparts. Its princi pal building is the cathedral, completed and can secrated in 1101, a noble Romanesque structure with four elegant towers, two domes, a double choir and a flamboyant 15th century Gothic portal. The interior is 357 feet long. 87 feet wide, across the transepts 117 feet and is wry imposing from its grand simplicity. On the north side of the cathedral is the site of the Bischofshof or episcopal palace, the seat of the celebrated Diet of Worms in April 1521. It was destroyed by the French in 1689, and again in 1794. On its massive red sandstone sob structure the Heilsche Haus has been erected in the rich Renaissance style. The restated church of Saint Martin, and the church of Saint Paul secularized as a museum, are also of notable ecclesiastical architecture. Outside
the town stands the Liebfrauenkirdse (dating from the 15th century), which gives its name to the Liebfrauenmikh, a much-esteemed wine grown in the vicinity. The finest monument in Vs'orrns is that to Luther, erected from Rictschers designs in 1868 at a cost of WACO Worms is a considerable river port with a rood harbor and an active shipping trade The pros cipal industries of Worms are the manufacture of patent leather, machinery, worsteds. chicory. slate, tobacco, beer, soap and amber wares Worms is one of the most historical towns of Germany. It was known to the Romans as Borbetomagss. and later as Augusts Vangisems„ the flower-beads of certain species of Artemisia (q.v ) used as a vennifuge_ See also ERYSI M U M ; Gooseroor.