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The historical tour of the medieval centre of Nieder-Saulheim offers a very interesting insight into the village's history, which goes back more than 1250 years. A large number of historic buildings, all equipped with detailed information boards, bring to life the eventful past in the heart of Rhine-Hesse.
On the municipal cemetery, along the path to the village ditch (along the Protestant church), there are gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries. Among them are early classical tombs. Between the funeral hall and the Catholic parsonage stands a stone pillar topped with an ancient helmet, a plate with flags, and a broken cannon. The monument was erected for the soldiers from the canton of Wörrstadt who returned from or fell in the Napoleonic campaigns.
With the proceeds from the house at Aschaffenberg, Gutenberg's cousin Arnold Gelthus co-signed for the start-up financing of the printing workshop in Humbrechthof. Today, it is the oldest half-timbered house in Mainz, located in the picturesque Kirschgarten - right in the heart of the charming old town.
The farmstead, which was built in the 1920s, offer a cross vault cellar which was reconstructed into a restaurant which can host up to 50 persons. General information about Rheinhessencow chapels The origin of the typical Rheinhessen vaults goes back to the early 19th century. At that time, farmers wanted to increase the yield of their cattle by keeping them in stables and use the leftovers as fertiliser for their fields. Initially, the cattle were housed on the ground floor of the half-timbered houses, above which hay and straw were…
The 31-meter-high Bismarck Tower was built from 1907 to 1912 by the recently founded Rheinhessen Bismarck Association on the Westerberg. It was intended as a symbol of patriotic sentiment and as a counterpart to the Niederwald Monument erected in 1871 near Rüdesheim. The architect Wilhelm Kreis from Eltville designed a building type using elements of Art Nouveau and Neo-Romanesque that became significant for the construction of similar monuments in honor of Bismarck throughout the German Empire. Rough-hewn blocks of limestone from…
The clock tower, which is under monumental protection, is the landmark of the municipality Neu-Bamberg. Once it belonged to the 3 gates of the town fortification. The village owes its origin to the Neue Baumburg (Novo Boinburc), which was founded by the Raugrafen in 1253 and whose ruins still characterise the townscape today. Restored half-timbered houses, farms, gardens and the old water house give the village centre on the castle hill its unique charm.
The Malakoffturm marks the southwest corner of the curtain wall around the Ober-Ingelheim castle church. In 1856, the former Alte Wache was renamed and has been called the Malakoffturm since then. The reason was - in the abbreviated version - the storming of the Malakov bastion in the Crimean War (1853-1856) by the Allies. The victory ended the war and as a result massive, large towers were given the name Malakoff throughout Western Europe. From the 19 meter high tower you have a nice view over the roofs of Ingelheim over to the…
The protestant parish church St. Georg is the church of the deceased village Sarlesheim. It was abandoned after the village Neu-Bamberg was built at the foot of the castle. Only the church remained. It was already mentioned in 1522 as the parish church of Neu-Bamberg. The core of the church still dates back to the Middle Ages. Modifications and extensions followed in the 18th century. The stone former altar canopy dates back to 1516.