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Germersheim (German: [ˈɡɛɐ̯mɐsˌhaɪm] (listen)) is a town in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, of around 20,000 inhabitants. It is also the seat of the Germersheim district. The neighboring towns and cities are Speyer, Landau, Philippsburg, Karlsruhe and Wörth.
The coat of arms depicts a golden-crowned eagle against a blue background. The fact that the town was once ruled directly under the German emperor explains the eagle.
After his invasion of Gallia, Gaius Iulius Caesar made the Rhine river the border between the Roman Empire and Germania. Some small areas east of it were later invaded and added to the Roman province of Agri Decumates. As it was attacked more and more it was given up in the second half of the third century and a military camp was founded, named "Vicus Iulii" ("Village of Julius/Julius' Village). It was supported up to the fourth century.
The first record of the name "Germersheim" is from 1090, when it was named in the Sinsheimer Chronik (Chronicle of Sinsheim). The German king Rudolph von Habsburg (Rudolf of Habsburg) gave Germersheim city rights in 1276 (18 August). There is a legend which says that he, as a sick man, rode from Germersheim to Speyer to die there and not in Germersheim.
In 1325, King Ludwig IV gave the town to the Electorate the Palatinate. In the subsequent centuries, it was elevated to a higher rank. In 1298, a Catholic Order established a monastery that it continued to use until 1527.After being nearly destroyed during the Thirty Years War Germersheim, French troops set fire to it in 1674. Only the foundations of Catholic Church and the crypt survived.