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The sand-lime brick profile and the accompanying information panel provide information about the geology of the region and its impact on wine growing.
From 2001 to 2004, the banks of the Rhine in Heidenfahrt were extensively redesigned. Today, the river landscape combines local recreation and nature conservation and is one of the most popular destinations in the region, especially in the summer months. Some highlights of the riverbank section are the promenade and sunbathing lawn, numerous water birds near the shore and a fantastic view of the Rheingau.
The parliament - the parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate - is housed in different buildings: The seat of the state parliament is the Mainzer Deutschhaus. This building is currently being thoroughly and sustainably renovated. It is not available during several years of work. The plenary hall is located during the construction phase in the stone hall of the Mainz State Museum. The office of the President of the Landtag and the offices of the Landtag Administration are housed in the Isenburg square. The House of Representatives…
The building was erected in 1826/27 on the site of a previous building from 1608 (see the date on the cellar gate) in the former “Kirchgasse” (today “An der Burgkirche”). The hipped roof building has a gable-crowned middle part and a clock-tower with a clock and weather flag, added in 1837. Below the balcony the date 1827 can be seen. This is the most important classicistic town hall in Rheinhessen. The initial use as a town hall and courthouse for Ober-Ingelheim lasted until the three old Ingelheim village…
The door frame of the private property Zuckerberg 26 dates from the year 1612. At this time Ingelheim was under the government of the Electorate of the Palatinate. The door frame is no longer in its original position today Place, but probably belonged to the Electoral Palatinate Schaffnerei, which in the area of former Aula regia (throne hall) had been built. The Schaffnerei was the seat of the government administrator, who in Ingelheim Represented the interests of the Electoral Palatinate. Under the Ingelheim taxes to the Kur- pfalz were…
Its tower, over 30m high, towers over Gau-Algesheim and provides orientation. The parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian was consecrated in 1889. The church was built on the foundations of the medieval predecessor. Only the present nave and the tower up to the first storey were preserved and extended. On the outside, a peculiar flat passage leads under the choir, the arches of which bear the stonemason's mark of Johann von Diepach. Liebfrauenland - Gothic in Rheinhessen
The Carmelite Church is the only medieval church of a mendicant order still standing in Mainz. The Carmelites first came to Mainz in 1270. Their first monastery and church in the city were however only built in the early 1300s. The monastery was dissolved in 1802. In 1924, more than one hundred years later, the Carmelite Church was handed back to the mendicant order that had been part of the city's Christian community since 1270. For a period before 1924, the building served as a warehouse, and it was only the protests of the citizens of…
The medieval Liebfrauenkirche is surrounded by vineyards. It was built in the Gothic style from 1276 and was completed in 1465 according to the building inscription. Originally, it served as a collegiate church, in whose construction the citizens of Worms took a lively interest. It is the only one of the many Gothic churches in Worms that have been preserved. The surrounding vineyards and their wine, the "Liebfrauenmilch", received their name from the church. The original "Liebfrauenmilch" is still cultivated in the area around the church…