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In addition to exhibits representing current flora and fauna, there are many fossils on display, some of which found in Rhineland-Palatinate. Among the local finds are primeval horses that lived around 44 million years ago and that were discovered at Eckfelder Maar. There is also a great collection of animals that lived in Europe during the Ice Age. The museum's quagga group is known all over the world. The Natural History Museum in Mainz is the only museum that has three specimens of this now extinct subspecies of plains…
The impressive choir of the church built around 1330 for the Antonites still stands today. Along with the Carmelite and Reichklaren churches, it is one of the three preserved monastery churches from the Gothic period. From 1620 until the secularization in 1802, it served the Poor Clares. The single-aisled choir contains a complete cycle of paintings from the time of its construction, the only one of its kind in Mainz. The paintings were uncovered and supplemented in 1948, so that the uniform overall image conveys the original spatial…
Visitors of all ages – both laypeople and those trained in the printing craft – can immerse themselves in the "Black Art" at the print shop. Various lead and wooden typefaces and printing presses invite for creative experimentation and discovery; professional services complete the overall offering. The print shop is also happy to accept print orders (business cards, certificate printing, gift cards, etc.). A variety of event formats – from children's birthdays to holiday programs – provide children and adolescents the…
The museum offers insights into the life of the author who was born in Bingen in 1868. You can also see his writing desk, part of his bequest libary, examples of different book designs and editions as well as foreign language translations of George´s works and several sculptures.
It is an archive, yes. But also a modern museum about cabaret. In any case, it is an information, event, and meeting place for young people and older visitors. Here, one can quench their thirst for knowledge, laugh, marvel, chat, complain, discuss, engage, and feel good, all to one's heart's content. People meet, at the latest, at the cabaret bar in the tightest of spaces amidst the archive. Since 2019, Martina Keiffenheim has been the director of the German Cabaret Archive. Until 2021, the journalist was also the artistic director of her…
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…
This defense tower is an element of the Hohenstaufen fortification and was probably built around 1160. The "Bolander" secured the southwest side of the Ingelheim Palatinate and the “Rheingässer Gate”. An early pictorial representation of the hall area (name of the archaeological Zone Kaiserpfalz Ingelheim from early modern times) from 1545 by Sebastian Münster shows the original, multi-storey tower Loopholes and battlements (picture in the museum near the Kaiserpfalz). The name "Bolander" goes back to the noble family of…