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On the KulTOUR from the castle tower to Froschmühle Nierstein-Schwabsburg, you will travel back to the 13th century and learn more about the old bakery in Schwabsburg and the Froschmühle. The tour starts at the Schwabsburg castle tower. 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 6 stations invite you to get to know Nierstein-Schwabsburg better on your own. After the tour, you can stop off at one of the restaurants around the…
The Catholic church was built in 1760/62 as a Baroque hall incorporating older building fabric. The St. Stephan's Monastery in Mainz was able to finance the choir, as it was obligated to maintain the choir as a recipient of the fruit tithe. The Electoral Palatine ecclesiastical administration paid for the costs of the nave. The ridge turret with bell was a gift from the Gottesthal Monastery in Mittelheim in the Rheingau. It was not until 1928 that the square bell tower was added according to the design of Philipp Starck, an architect from…
Its tower, over 30m high, towers over Gau-Algesheim and provides orientation. The parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian was consecrated in 1889. The church was built on the foundations of the medieval predecessor. Only the present nave and the tower up to the first storey were preserved and extended. On the outside, a peculiar flat passage leads under the choir, the arches of which bear the stonemason's mark of Johann von Diepach. Liebfrauenland - Gothic in Rheinhessen
The palaentologic museum in Nierstein shows geological findings from all over Europe. The evolution of the living world can be seen in its developent over millions of years to the modern times during a visit in the museum. The fossil collection is reallly diverse: more than 1000 exhibits from all over Europe are shown, the oldest are 500 million years old, including several new discoveries and singke findings. Kids have a table with fossil shark teeth.
If you want to find out how people lived and died during Roman times, studying their graves is a good way to start. Items buried along with the body enable archaeologists to get a good picture of everyday life at the time. A major burial site dating from the 1st century CE was excavated in the Weisenau district of Mainz. From the grave goods that include olives and dates, we know for example that the legionary base of Mogontiacum was supplied with produce from Southern Europe.
The central attraction of the Rochusberg is the pilgrimage church of St. Rochus, built in 1895 in neo-Gothic style. The first chapel was built on this site in 1666. The Rochus pilgrimage with Rochus festival also goes back to this time. A special feature is the Hildegard and Rupertus altar from 1895: The Hildegard altar shows scenes from the lives of the saints (outside of the service times only the church vestibule is open). In the Hildegard Forum of the Sisters of the Cross, exhibitions, lectures and seminars deal with the saint. A…