Gedenkstätte

Osthofen

National-Socialist Documentation Centre

In Osthofen, in an old disused paper factory on Ziegelhüttenweg, the only early concentration camp for the then People's State of Hesse was located from the beginning of March 1933 to the beginning of July 1934. Today, the Rhineland-Palatinate Nazi Documentation Center / Osthofen Concentration Camp Memorial is located here under the sponsorship of the State Center for Civic Education (LpB). The Project Osthofen e.V. support association, founded in 1986, works closely with the LpB. The concentration camp memorial in Osthofen is a place…

Katholische Pfarrkirche

Gundersheim

Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Remigius

The church is the oldest building in the town. There was originally a wooden basilica here, which was mentioned as early as the 9th century, followed by a stone building from the 13th century. The choir with sacristy visible today dates from 1492 and the tower was built around 1520 as a defensive tower. The nave was expanded into three naves in 1911 based on Gothic styles.

Fabians- oder Marienkapelle

Flörsheim-Dalsheim

Fabians- oder Marienkapelle, heute ev. Gemeindehaus

Heute ev. Gemeindehaus, Gründung im 9. Jahrhundert durch Kloster Hornbach. Der romanische Turm ist aus dem 13.Jh. Im Pfälzer Erbfolgekrieg 1689 teilweise zerstört und 1707, nach der Pfälzer Kirchenteilung, an reformierte Gemeinde übergeben danach Wiederaufbau 1708-1712 mit barocker Turmhaube aus dieser Zeit. Stummorgel und Holzausstattung aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Auch Sommerkirche genannt, da damals keine Kirchenheizung vorhande. Seit 1979 wird das Gebäude als Gemeindezentrum genutzt Text Beschilderung mit…

Weingewölbe Grünewald

Bingen-Büdesheim

Kuhkapelle im Weingut Bernhard Grünewald

The cross vault cellar of the Bernhard Grünewald family is used as a rustic tavern in the winter months from november to february. General information about Rheinhessen cow 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 stored.…

Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Wackernheim

Ingelheim am Rhein

The bull stall

The former estate had belonged to the family of the Wackernheim mayor Heinrich Klippel since the beginning of the 19th century. By marriage, the property passed to Heinrich Krebs, who came from the Heidesheim sand mill. In the 1860s, he housed and provided for the community bull. The keeping of the so-called "Faselochsen" (breeding bull) was clearly regulated and supervised by the district office of Bingen. The tenant had to purchase the bull at his own expense. The municipality paid a fixed amount annually for the maintenance of the animal.…

Deinotherium giganteum

Eppelsheim

Dinotherium-Museum Eppelsheim

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…