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The church has become a symbol of the area. The tower, which is over 60 m high, tells of the importance of the place, which once had city rights. The three-aisled church was built within a short period of time between 1431 and around 1475. Its founders were the last Count of Veldenz and his son-in-law, who established a new line of the Wittelsbach family with the Simmern-Zweibrücken family. The founding plaque (two angels with chalices) placed prominently above the entrance is also a reminder of the pilgrimage to the Holy Blood that…
The Flute Player Fountain was inaugurated on 5 May 1990 with a village festival attended by a large number of people. It is a bronze sculpture by Grustav Nonnenmacher, an outstanding formative artist from Worms who has created numerous works. Nonnenmacher integrated one of the old sandstone troughs donated by Kurt Bernhard into the fountain. The flute player symbolises the cheerfulness of the people of Rheinhessen who live here. A boy as a musician, warbling into the air, legs crossed, content with himself and the world. The fountain was…
The Catholic Church in Köngernheim is a branch church of St. Walburga in Friesenheim and today belongs to the parish of St. Mary Magdalene. Since its foundation in 2016, this parish has comprised the parishes of Friesenheim, Undenheim, and Weinolsheim. The church was consecrated in 1932. The interior of the church building is a simple space.
The printing shop in the Gutenberg Museum Mainz serves as both a print workshop and an experimental laboratory, forming the central museum educational offering of the institution. Here, visitors of all ages – from children to teenagers to adults – can experience the "black art" of printing up close, design their own printed materials, and experiment with lead and wood types as well as printing presses. Numerous workshops, guided tours, and creative programs such as children's birthdays or holiday offers convey the history of the…
ST. RUPERTUS AND ST. HILDEGARD WITH HILDEGARD CENTER Not far from the former monastery of St. Hildegard on the Rupertsberg in Bingerbrück stands the Catholic Hildegard Memorial Church. This church, built in the late 19th century, is dedicated to St. Hildegard and St. Rupert. In keeping with the monastery church of the Ruprecht Monastery, the church is designed in Romanesque architectural style . Inside the church, there is a small shrine with relics of St. Hildegard and St. Rupert . The impressive windows in the transept of the…
This vantage point offers a beautiful panoramic view that extends far over the hilly landscape of Rhine-Hesse. There is also a table of wine here. These tables are real Rhine-Hessian resting places. With their length of five metres, they also offer larger groups the ideal opportunity to take a break together. The table of the wine at the Hiwweltour Heideblick is located in the vineyard "Golden Horn" in the district of Siefersheim. Dominant are loess soils. One finds here and there also volcanic stone.
The museum exhibits original finds from the Urrhine near Eppelsheim, which are around 10 million years old, and casts or copies of rare fossils. These include teeth and bone fragments of rhinoceroses, great apes and proboscis animals such as dinotheria and mastodons. Single specimens of the primeval horse, tapi r( claw-footed hoofed animal), Muntja deer, bear hound, beaver and pig are also on display. The centrepiece of the museum is a cast of the skull of a Dinotherium (Dinotherium giganteum), which was recovered from Klipstein and Kaup in…