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The former estate had belonged to the family of the Wackernheim mayor Heinrich Klippel since the beginning of the 19th century. By marriage, the property passed to Heinrich Krebs, who came from the Heidesheim sand mill. In the 1860s, he housed and provided for the community bull. The keeping of the so-called "Faselochsen" (breeding bull) was clearly regulated and supervised by the district office of Bingen. The tenant had to purchase the bull at his own expense. The municipality paid a fixed amount annually for the maintenance of the animal.…
This was once the site of the Catholic schoolhouse, which was built in 1857. As early as 1850, the Catholic pastor of Heidesheim, Heinrich Berthes, had assured the church fund of the donation of this property. It was to serve as quarters for clergymen, as accommodation for the organist and the bell-ringer, and as a classroom for the Catholic denominational school. Until the introduction of the communal schools, the Catholic teacher Josef Becker from Heidesheim lived and taught here. After that, the house was rented out and finally auctioned…
The Wineyard House "Am Hohberg" is located in the middle of the vineyard and marks the final climb back up the Hiwweltour Zornheimer Berg.
The tithe barn is the oldest farm building in the village. The quarry stone building with a crippled hipped roof is thought to have been built around 1700. Around 1350, all the properties of the Fulda Abbey in Wackernheim were transferred to the Mainz cathedral provostry by exchange or purchase. It received the tenth part of the proceeds from a total of 481 acres of farmland and vineyards. Since the levies were paid in kind, a larger barn was needed to collect and store them. A tithe barn is mentioned in Wackernheim as early as 1450. In 1630…
According to historical maps, this round and two storey fortified tower with a pointed stone cone shaped roof was to the south-east of the old defences. The former eastward section of the wall led, across the later Neuweg, towards the Uffhubtor. The tower dates from the first half of the 15th century. This style of tower is most frequent in Ober-Ingelheim. In the 19th century they were often transformed to condominiums.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ON RUPERTSBERG Hildegard of Bingen left her home abbey on Disibodenberg between 1147 and 1151 and founded her abbey on Rupertsberg, on the Nahe river. “This abbey was founded not by an emperor or bishop, a powerful or rich person of this world, but rather by a poor, weak, immigrant woman. Within a short time, after 27 years, it has grown both in monastic spirit and in external construction, such that it is well appointed in all aspects, not with ostentatious but rather with imposing and spacious buildings – such as befit…
Of the two churches in the village, the newer fell to the Reformed. The simple church building is surrounded by a beautifully landscaped garden.