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Speyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (341 words) |
 | Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. |
 | Between 1527 and 1689 Speyer is the seat of the Imperial Chamber Court (Reichskammergericht). |
 | In 1526 at the Diet of Speyer, interim toleration of Lutheran teaching and worship is decreed. |
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 | Speyer was ceded to France in 1797 and to Bavaria in 1815. |
 | Speyer, together with the territory of the bishops of Speyer W of the Rhine, was occupied by the French during the French Revolutionary Wars and formally ceded to France by the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797). |
 | Speyer and the episcopal lands W of the Rhine were subsequently given to Bavaria at the Congress of Vienna (1815); they were incorporated into the Rhenish Palatinate, of which Speyer was the capital until 1945. |