To the north of the church is the Frankish core of the village, a rural structure presumed to be the “Villa Ingilinhaim”. In connection with this Merovingian settlement, one concludes the existence of early predecessor buildings of the church, which were dedicated to the “Apostle of the Franks”, Saint Remigius. In 742/43, King Karlmann granted the church in Nieder-Ingelheim to the newly founded Diocese of Würzburg. Subsequently, it received the patronage of the Würzburg diocesan saint Kilian. Towards the end of the 8th century, the fiscal church was temporarily used as a palace chapel. The significance of the church is evident from the fact that a general synod was held here in 984, attended by Otto the Great and the West Frankish King Louis IV. In 1270, the entire local Würzburg property, including the church, was transferred to the Mainz St. Stephen's Abbey.
The only remaining structure from the medieval period is the five-story Romanesque tower, which was built during the Staufer period (12th/13th century). The bell storeys reflect forms of the Late Romanesque of the Lower Rhine. The gable was renewed in 1881 at the initiative and expense of Wilhelm von Erlanger. The tympanum relief at the tower portal, which was created around 1200/10, was originally installed elsewhere. The current hall building was constructed in 1739 after the division of the church. The curve gable of the pilaster-framed southern portal features the Palatinate coat of arms. The interior boasts significant Baroque furnishings. Epitaphs from the 18th century commemorate Anton Otto von Cloß, his cousin Gerhard von Schrieck, and pastor Förschter.
In front of the church, one can find some impressive tombs in the cemetery that was used until 1836. The wall surrounding the church grounds existed in its current form as early as the 14th century.
The running fountain with a cast-iron trough from the Puricelli foundry (Rheinböllerhütte) at the street corner was donated in the second half of the 19th century by Baron von Erlanger.
To the south of the Remigius Church, analogous to the square in front of the town hall, was a marketplace called the Kleiner Markt. Court proceedings were also held here. In the 15th century, the imperial court of Ingelheim convened on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in Nieder-Ingelheim, at the linden tree in front of the church.
Several institutions were united around the church:
In the east, at the junction of Ottonenstraße, was the tithe barn of the Mainz St. Stephen's Abbey, which is now modernly built over. The farmers of Nieder-Ingelheim had to pay only the fruit tithe, not the wine tithe. In return, the St. Stephen's Abbey was obligated to cover the construction and maintenance of the church and the adjacent rectory.
The late Baroque Catholic rectory (Belzer Straße 8) was built in 1759 by the Mainz St. Stephen's Abbey across from the church, on the site of a predecessor building. The year of construction appears on the beam above the door. The semicircular gate structure on the left side, dated 1675, indicates an earlier creation. Behind the high courtyard wall, service buildings are grouped around a paved yard. The spacious rectory garden, which lost area with the construction of the parish center in 1977, is bordered to the north by a long wall from the 17th/18th century.
To the west of the church, at the site of the current parking lot and parts of the street, once stood the medieval hospital. The Holy Spirit Hospital can be verified from the late 13th/early 14th century. After a fire, it was rebuilt in 1472/78. Notably, from 1495 to 1498, the father of the cosmographer Sebastian Münster was the master of the hospital. The hospital existed until 1835. Next to it, an old Catholic school building was erected in the 18th century, which has since been demolished.
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