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The eagle monument is situated on the Mühlberg and is a war memorial from the first world war. Probably it was already inaugurated during the war what was really unusual during this time. The building type, it's created with field stones, also makes it special.
The rectangular hall building is medieval at its core and was rebuilt in 1616. The west tower of today's Protestant parish church dates back to 1914.
The Falkenberghütte, located above Dienheim, offers hikers along the RheinTerrassenWeg a place to rest. Donated by the Dienheim Development Community, two panoramic windows with views of Oppenheim and Dienheim offer beautiful photo opportunities.
The former Gothic church was devastated and the inauguration of the current Baroque church took place in 1715. The preserved chancel of the former church is still used today as a sacristy. Especially noteworthy are the Baroque altars, which are unusual for a small village church. From this period date the donation box and the baptismal font. The colored stained glass windows designed by an artist from Mainz in 1906 depict beautiful images of saints. Next to the high altar, one can see the statues of the patron saints Philip and James. In the…
A cultural provider with magnetic appeal Initially, it was a rather small group of culture enthusiasts from Stadecken-Elsheim, led by founding chairperson Heidi Burkhart and Stefan Christiansen, who was responsible for finances from the beginning, that founded KiStE - Culture in Stadecken-Elsheim - in 2003. It was intended to be a local citizen initiative for the permanent establishment of a diverse range of events in the Selztal community. Today, the number of members stands at nearly 60, who have dedicated themselves - under the…
Leiningen Castle, located in the town center, has a multifaceted past. The shell of the building was completed in 1708, but no further extensions were made at first as the owner at the time, Count Carl Ludwig von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, died in 1709. His wife, Countess Anna Sabina von Nostitz, sold the estate to the Electoral Palatinate Privy Council in 1717 due to financial hardship. In the years that followed, the castle fell more and more into oblivion until 70 years later, in 1787, a member of the Leiningen family once again became…
The crossing of the Rhine at Nierstein in 1945 by American troops was a key operation on the Western Front in the final phase of World War II. Starting from Nierstein, 18 km south of Mainz in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate, several hundred American infantrymen crossed the Rhine into southern Hesse and built bridges, which were then used to transport 60,000 vehicles for the further occupation of the German Reich. The operation went down in military history as the “Nierstein Crossing – Silent Crossing” because it took place…
Hildegard von Bingen left her home monastery on the Disibodenberg between 1147 and 1151 and founded her monastery on the Rupertsberg near the Nahe. In her nearly 30 years on the Rupertsberg, she wrote her main works . During the Thirty Years' War, the monastery was destroyed. Only six pillars of the southern nave wall of the monastery church have survived. In the villa on the Rupertsberg, the vanished Hildegard monastery has "come back to life," starting from the original monastery arcades from the Hildegard church, and can be explored…