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A gate leads to the area of the modern Jewish cemetery. This was at the latest in the 18th century in the former kennel, a only five meters narrow strip next to the Aula regia. Most of the graves probably date from the 19th century, due to the However, due to severe weathering of the tombstones, an exact dating is no longer possible. After the National Socialist seizure of power, the Jewish cemetery was expropriated in 1935. All 25 tombstones were in the Jewish cemetery in Relocated Ober-Ingelheim. When the entrance to the Aula regia was…
In 1880, the city architect Eduard Kreyssig built a new Jewish cemetery on Untere Zahlbacher Strasse adjacent to the main city cemetery. As a consequence, the old Jewish cemetery known as Judensand at Mombacher Strasse was closed. The entrance to the new cemetery bears a commemorative plaque from 1948. Its inscription can be translated as "Erected in memory of our victims. To shame the murderers. And as a reminder to the living." Fortunately, the graves remained undefiled during the time of the Nazi regime. To this day, members of the Jewish…
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 former Augustinian Canons' Monastery, today the Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is located in the centre of Pfaffen-Schwabenheim. The impressive buildings from the 12th to 18th centuries are among the most important cultural monuments between the Rhine and Nahe rivers. You will find Romanesque, early Gothic and Baroque building elements. The baroque high altar from 1714 and the baroque Heilmann organ from 1775 are particularly worth seeing. The adjoining monastery is now privately owned. On the 1st weekend in August,…
The parish church was built in 1808 at the site of a demolished because dilapidated church. The inauguration took place in 1810. The tower of this church is about 50 years younger.
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.
The town, situated at the foot of the Petersberg, had the rights of a free Reichsstadt in the Middle Ages. From this former importance the large church building, which replaced a previous, similarly constructed building, where relics of the holy bishop Rufus from Metz were worshipped, testifies its former importance. Due to the closure of the vault arches the church has been divided into an evangelical (nave) and catholic part (chancel) since 1705. The two part flat-roofed nave was erected by Johann von Diepach in 1420. Here the north aisle…
The listed mountain church stands on the Goldberg above Osthofen. The church has a varied history and was constantly expanded and rebuilt. At the end of the first millennium, a castle complex, which was used by the governors for Osthofen, developed from the chapel and a neighboring manor. In 1241, after a conflict between the city of Worms and the Worms bishop Landolf von Hoheneck, and the citizens of Osthofen were stopped at the request of the Worms, this fortification was preserved. During the Thirty Years' War, the church burnt down…