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The Unterhaus Forum Theatre in Mainz is among the best known small stages in Germany. It is the venue of the annual Deutsche Kleinkunstpreis award ceremony for fringe productions and offers a programme covering satirical reviews, intimate plays, and comedy performances. There is also a programme for children. Satirical revue is like a match: if there is no friction, there is no flame. (Werner Finck)
The Catholic church was built in 1760/62 as a Baroque hall incorporating older building fabric. The St. Stephan's Monastery in Mainz was able to finance the choir, as it was obligated to maintain the choir as a recipient of the fruit tithe. The Electoral Palatine ecclesiastical administration paid for the costs of the nave. The ridge turret with bell was a gift from the Gottesthal Monastery in Mittelheim in the Rheingau. It was not until 1928 that the square bell tower was added according to the design of Philipp Starck, an architect from…
The horse chestnut tree in the Ockenheim cemetery is now over 370 years old. Probably planted in 1648, the chestnut has a trunk circumference of 5m and a crown diameter of 25m. The Ockenheim chestnut is the oldest horse chestnut in Rheinhessen and probably one of the oldest chestnuts in Germany.
The Rohrwiesen biotope can be seen from far away on the Hiwweltour Zornheimer Berg. The many species in the biotope welcome hikers with an intensive natural background noise, which only decreases when the Hiwweltour passes into the vineyards.
The eastern wall tower of the Fleckenmauer Flörsheim-Dalsheim is designed as a half-shell tower with three storeys and some embrasures that are still visible today.
Of the Templar church of a moated castle in the Appelbach valley, first mentioned in 1258, only the choir, consisting of a pre-joch and 5/8 end, has survived. It lies hidden in the middle of a farm. The extremely high quality architecture is decorated with naturalistic leaf capitals. These outstanding works belong to the circle of the so-called "Naumburg Master", one of the best sculptors of the 13th century. He was trained in Reims and helped to teach the new forms of architecture on his way via Noyon, Mainz and Naumburg. The small, precious…
The 1914 erected on the Liebfrauenberg pillar reminiscent of a pilgrimage chapel, which was built by the Dalbergern and whose existence on the Liebfrauenberg in 1326 is mentioned in a document.