Stock Photo - 27 July 2021, Rhineland-Palatinate, Speyer: A man enters the building of the mikvah, which was built in 1120 in the Romanesque architectural style. The Jewish ritual bath with a plunge pool around ten meters below today's street level in its monumental architectural style is considered the oldest known mikvah of its kind. For the first time, Unesco designated Jewish cultural assets in Germany as World Heritage Sites, with the coveted award going to the so-called Shum sites of Mainz, Worms and Speyer as a cradle of European Jewry. Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa. - Speyer/Rhineland-Palatinate/Germany