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Note: The Mainz City Hall is currently undergoing renovation. In November 2019, the resident offices moved out. Colloquially, it is jokingly referred to as the "Fox Den" (in reference to the serving Mayor Jockel Fuchs at the time of its inception) or "Civil Servant Prison": The Mainz City Hall is undoubtedly a characteristic building with its own unique architectural language. Previously, Mainz had been without a city hall for five centuries – until the Mainz City Council commissioned the renowned Danish firm Jacobsen and Weitling to…
On the KulTOUR around the Nierstein market square, you can expect exciting stories about Nierstein's noble courtyards, underground secret passages and the old village smithy. The tour starts at the Haxthäuser Hof in Langgasse 35. 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 16 stations invite you to get to know Nierstein better on your own. After the tour, you can stop off at one of the restaurants around the market square or start…
Even today, the Neustadt owes its architectural and urban face to the city master builder Eduard Kreyßig (1830-1897), despite being heavily affected by the destruction of World War II. Many of the Gründerzeit residential buildings with partly magnificent facades, as well as the prominently visible Christ Church, are still preserved. In particular, in recent years, it has been possible to carefully renovate the Neustadt. Modern architects and artists have contributed to the appearance of the Neustadt with their buildings and…
Gasthouse Kitchen: seasonal, regional, vegetarian, allergy-friendly, international The historic inn is located in Bechtheim, surrounded by vines, directly along the former railway line from Osthofen to Gau-Odernheim. The regional Luther and Rheinterrassenweg passes right by the restaurant. Those wishing to stay a little longer can also book one of the guest rooms in the house. From the on-site parking, one can directly reach the outdoor dining area and hotel section via the old railway bridge. The 125-year-old dining rooms have been made…
The present property "Alte Schmiede Wettig" was a forge workshop from 1776. The workshop with its equipment and tools is still in its original state of the 1920s. The barn and stables offer space for exhibitions, music, literature and theme evenings.
The ruins of the late medieval roadblock are located on a dirt path along an old road from Mainz to Bad Kreuznach, next to the remains of the former mill, southwest of the village on the right bank of the Selz, and marked as a border station the entrance to the "Ingelheimer Reich." The name originates from the former ownership of the St. Ursula Abbey in Cologne in the Selz Valley and is linked to the legend of the 11,000 virgins who allegedly passed through here in the company of the saints on their way back from a pilgrimage to Rome, only to…
Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg
The Rheingrafenstein is a 136 m high porphyry rock formation on the Nahe opposite Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg. Geologically, it belongs to the Kreuznach Massif. On its top stands the ruins of Rheingrafenstein Castle, which was built in the 11th century and destroyed during the Palatinate War of Succession in 1688. The Rheingrafenstein is the landmark of the Bad Kreuznach district of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg. Somewhat below it is the ruined outer castle of Affenstein. A 200-hectare area around the rock formation was…
After the only church at the time, St. Martin, was assigned to the Reformed during the church division, the Catholics initially had to retreat to a chapel in honor of All Saints at Bornstraße 14. There, the Catholic cemetery had already been located since 1610. The Catholic Church of the Sorrows of Mary was built in 1733. Its construction was made possible by a donation from the Mainz patrician family Gedult von Jungenfeld, who provided the land. The interior furnishings partly consist of furniture from other Christian places of…