No extra costs involved. We will be using our Eurail passes. Bring packed lunch and dinner.
Admission fees paid by professor/Metz program.
Departure Metz-Ville at 8:44 am
Lunch eaten on train. Bring packed lunch.
Arrival Worms 12:44 am
This ancient city traces its beginnings to the earliest civilizations. Before the Romans settled here, Germanic peoples had made Worms their capital. Here Siegfried began his legendary adventures, recorded in The Nibelungenlied. The town's most famous visitor, Martin Luther, arrived under less desirable circumstances. He was "invited" to appear before the Imperial Diet at Worms, and after refusing to retract his grievances against the Church of Rome, he was declared an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Now that the majority of Worms is Protestant, it has erected a huge monument to Luther and other giants of the Reformation.
Then stroll through Old Town (Altstadt):
Lutherplatz and Lutherdenkmal, Hagen-Denkmal
Cathedral St. Peter (free) (tourist info across from cathedral)
Jewish Cemetary, Synagogue, Judengasse, Jüdisches Museum (students DM 1.50)
Kunsthaus Heylshof mit Schlossgarten (admission DM 2 for students)
Liebfrauenkirche, Magnuskriche
Train back to Metz:
dep. Worms Hbf 17:12
Eat packed dinner or pay for your dinner in the train restaurant.
arr. Metz-Ville 20:21
Further information on Worms:
Intermediate German (Field trips)
Metz-Intermediate German
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