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On the KulTOUR from the town hall to the Wartturm Nierstein, you can expect exciting information about the oldest vineyard in Germany, noblemen in Nierstein and a medieval signal tower. The tour starts at Nierstein's present-day town hall at Bildstockstraße 10. All you need for this tour is a smartphone with a QR code scanner. Each building on the tour has a QR code with interesting facts behind it. A total of 10 stations invite you to get to know Nierstein better on your own. After the tour, you can stop off at one of the restaurants…
The Sironabad in Nierstein was a former Roman bathhouse with two sulfur springs and two freshwater springs. The springs led to early settlements, as finds from Celtic, early Germanic, and Roman times clearly prove. The sulfur spring of the Sironabad was rediscovered in 1802 after being buried for centuries. During cleanup work, copper coins dated 87 to 267 AD and small figurines were found in stone basins surrounded by plaster balls. These finds prove beyond doubt that the fountain was in operation during this period and was used by the…
The Wineyard-House "Schindegaul" is a small refuge which, like many others of its kind, offers shelter or a dry shelter to winegrowers, but also to hikers or cyclists in bad weather.
The Heisje was built during the war as a bunker for the Osthofen Flak observation post. After the war, a wooden cabin was built on the bunker as a Wingertsheisje. Parts of it are still present today. In 2014, the Osthofen Wine Ring renovated the bunker as a viewpoint, which offers beautiful views all the way to the Bergstraße and is a popular photo hotspot. Architectural Details: triangular base form, designed as an observation platform, with stainless steel staircase and railing the bunker entrance was bricked up during the…
The cross vault of the former winegrowers' farm is used in the Augenwaide as a sales room for flowers and decorations. The origin of the typical Rhine-Hessian vaults dates back to the early 19th century. In the course of secularisation, during which church properties, among other things, were nationalised, farm animals moved into cross-vaulted cellars for the first time. Lightweight brick was easy to work with and did not rot; it was also fireproof and more hygienic. Another reason for this construction method is the tried-and-tested…
The castle Neu Baumburg, also called Neu-Bamberg, Neubamberg, is the ruin of an elevated castle above the community Neu-Bamberg. It was built around 1253 by the Raugrafen, mentioned in 1253 as "Novum castrum apud Sarlesheim" and in 1283 in the possession of the Raugrafen Heinrich II of Neuenbaumburg. On April 12, 1338, half of the castle and the village was pledged by the roughnecks to Archbishop Heinrich III of Mainz for 1,300 pounds of heller and on March 11, 1419, Archbishop Johann II of Mainz and Count Johann V of Sponheim-Starkenburg…
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).
A virtual tour in 360°-mode invites you to explore the exhibition rooms of the Museum at the Kaiserpfalz. This makes it possible to visit the museum at any time, even from a distance.