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High above the old town of Mainz on the Stephansberg rises St. Stephen's Church – one of the most prominent landmarks of the city. The oldest Gothic hall church in Mainz was built in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and stands on the foundations of an even older church, which Archbishop Willigis had established around the year 990 as an imperial place of worship. Willigis, also the builder of Mainz Cathedral, found his final resting place here in 1011. Heavily damaged in World War II, St. Stephen's was rebuilt in the post-war…
Europe´s first wine church can be found in Alzey-Weinheim. It is a House of God made of vines, alive and growing, that are so near to the sky but tightly-rooted in the earth.
Between the 12th and 18th centuries, various knightly families settled in Saulheim. One of them was Ritter Hundt - today's symbolic figure of the village. According to legend, the local citizen won all drinking competitions with his great thirst for wine and became famous for it as far away as Mainz. A stone monument of him stands today in the middle of the village, next to the building of the Mainzer Volksbank. Sightseeing: Open to the public
The construction of a forester's lodge in the second half of the 18th century is linked to the appointment of a kurfürstlichen forester. He was responsible for the entire Ingelheimer territory. The government aimed to combat the ongoing wood shortage with targeted reforestation. Sand dunes in the Nieder-Ingelheimer district were planted with pines. The wooded floodplains of the Rhine were managed. With the oversight of the planting of white mulberry trees to promote silk production, the forester received an important additional task…
Located below Petersberg, the town enjoyed the rights of a free imperial city in the Middle Ages. Its former importance is evidenced by the large church building, which replaced a predecessor of similar dimensions where the relics of Saint Rufus, Bishop of Metz, were venerated. Since 1705, the church has been divided into a Protestant section (nave) and a Catholic section (choir) by the closure of the choir arch. The two-nave, flat-roofed nave was built around 1420 under Johann von Diepach. Numerous 15th-century murals have been preserved in…
After a chequered history, culture moved into a building erected in 1925 for the Freemasons in 2003. Seminars, conferences, theatre and concerts take place in the pleasant and spacious ambience of the House of the Guest and ensure a varied programme all year round. The concert and theatre hall is the centre of the House of the Guest. There is room for about 200 visitors. Two seminar and lecture rooms are also part of the room programme. The ideal place for conferences and congresses. Exhibitions by contemporary artists enrich the…
In the mid-4th century, the city wall that had existed until then, originally dating back to the 3rd century, was renovated. The wall was significantly shortened, so that the Roman theater, the abandoned legionary camp, and other central parts of the city were located outside. In the renovation, old building stones (spolia) from the barracks were reused. The sandstone paving of the camp road, which led to the former porta praetoria , remained in use. To allow the use of this important road, the city wall was interrupted at this point by a…
The expansive building complex located north of the village (district of Elsheim) includes the courtyard on the plateau edge with adjacent park and agricultural areas extending to the municipal boundary with Schwabenheim. The settlement, created amidst the associated arable land likely through deforestation in the 12th century, belonged to the "Ingelheimer Grund" and only appears in documents in 1307 ("wynthuß berge"). Early owners included, among others, the Monastery of Ingelheimerhausen (1328-1411).