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In 2004, two predecessor buildings of the Saal Church were discovered during archaeological excavations on the Saalplatz. The older of these buildings is a so-called tri-apsidal church (Trikonchos), named after its three semicircular building ends, which resemble the shape of a cloverleaf remember. It is an ancient building with a reference to Byzantine architecture. The eleven metre long sacred building from the 8th or The 9th century was connected to the north wing. Recent research suggests that it was a stately private chapel. Later the…
The individual graduation towers are between 70 and 350 metres long and 9 metres high, embedded in a rocky valley, where thermal healing water trickles down from the 500-metre-deep spring and a fresh sea breeze blows with an evaporation area of 16,000 square metres in the Salinental valley. From 1732 - 1998 salt for baths and foods was produced with the help of these salt waterfalls.
The town hall building was erected in 1851/52. The ridge turret contained the fire bell that warned of fire danger. The ground floor housed the equipment for extinguishing fires. The entrance to the fire engine room was on the west side. In former times, the Schöffenhaus (aldermen's house) stood on the site of the town hall. It is mentioned as early as 1394 as a respectable two-storey building with an attached bakehouse. There is also evidence of a forge leaning against the north in 1508. The community forge with stables was abandoned in…
The jubilee forest is a project from 2016. 200 trees were planted in total in honour of Rheinhessen's 200th birthday, which are now growing and thriving alongside the sculpture by local artist Florian Handel.
Mysteriously, without revealing its history, on the slope of the L430 feeder road from Udenheim to the former B 40, now the L401 in the Nieder-Saulheim district, stood the little shrine, popularly called "Heljerheisje". The Gothic wayside shrine has a four-sided base made of limestone. The upper, widened half contains four niches facing all points of the compass, which are protected against wind and weather by a roof-like closure. Inside the niches there were probably figures of saints in earlier times. The Heiligenhäuschen was mentioned…
The museum mis located on three floors in the old city hospital. On second floor you can find the exhibition 'geology and palaeontology'. This is dedicated to the 'basin of Mainz' whose development can be followed over millions of years simply by usingt fossils. On the first floor you can find the exhibiton pre and early history'. It shows the demolition of the cultural and historical development of inner Rhinehesse from the neolithic period over the bronze, iron and romanian period to the merovingian times. The exhibition on the ground…
The Oppenheim Toad Fountain was once used to supply water to the town of Oppenheim. Today, you can take a break here if you are walking along the Rheinterrassenweg.
