© Jorg Hoffmann

Partenheim

Ev. Pfarrkirche, ehem. Wallfahrtskirche

Above the castle, on the walled former cemetery, stands the evangelical church of St. Peter, which originally served as a fortified church. Castle and church used to be connected by an underground passage. When the Romanesque church was destroyed by fire in 1435, the tabernacle with the hosts inside miraculously remained intact. This so-called "Miracle of the Host" gave rise to pilgrimages. The new church was completed in late Gothic style at the end of the 15th century. With its old paintings and grave commemorative plaques, it is an…

Carmelite Church

Mainz

Karmeliterkirche

In 1270, the first Carmelites came to Mainz. The first proper monastery was built together with the church in the first half of the 14th century. During the secularization, the monastery was dissolved in 1802. Only over a hundred years later, in 1924, did the Carmelite church revert to the mendicant order that had been established in Mainz since 1270. Until then, it had been used as a storage space and was saved from demolition only through the protests of Mainz citizens. The construction of the current monastery began in 1963. Since 1964,…

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…