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For a long time it was believed that the hall church was Charlemagne's palatine chapel. Archaeological excavations from 1960 to 1963 showed, however, that the church was not built until after the year 900, under Ottonian rule. However, the latest charcoal samples from the foundation date the church to the years 1027-1154, i.e. the time of the Salians. In 2004 archaeologists found two early medieval predecessor buildings to the north of the hall church during excavations. They probably served Charlemagne and the following rulers as a small…
A large plot of land in the 'Kirchgasse' north of the old Kirchweg was once held by the Schultheiß Emmerich von Engelstadt as a fief of the Counts of Nassau. After his death, his descendants received all the properties in Wackernheim as freehold in 1485. From 1819 onwards, the elongated estate was owned by the Michel family. In 1856, the farmer Jakob Michel had the large barn with a cellar built (today Kirchstraße 2a) and enclosed the farm on the road side with a wall. At the same time, the existing outbuildings were…
The Schlossmühle in Heidesheim is now privately owned and a listed building. The enclosed manorial estate from the 13th century is located on the south-western outskirts of Heidesheim. The property also includes a millrace. The mill in the main building was converted into living quarters in the 1920s.
The exhibitons from the series 'Art in the Burggrafiat' take place in regular changes and show artwork of all kinds.
From 1904, Frei-Weinheim had a railroad connection for freight and passenger traffic for exactly 50 years. The former station building in the local style is still preserved. The single-track Selztalbahn connected the Rhine-Hessian hinterland from Jugenheim-Partenheim with the port in Frei-Weinheim. In Nieder-Ingelheim, there was a connection to the Ludwigsbahn on the left bank of the Rhine, which had been running between Mainz and Bingen since 1859. Since the Selztalbahn was mainly used to transport sugar beets, it was called the…
Until 1889, the so-called "Weed" was located here. This was an artificial pond where horses and other draught animals were washed and watered after work. In addition, the Weed also served as a fire-fighting pond. The water basin was fed by a spring that rises in the "Im Schneckenbangert" field. Today it supplies the Weedbrunnen, whose overflow is led to Neustraße. In the summer months, the water runs above ground up to the Catholic church. In 1934, the milk house was built on the site of the filled-in basin. Whereas previously the…
In memory of the last "Ausscheller" in the municipality, a sculpture was erected in 2011, which is supposed to represent the former municipal servant and Ausscheller for public announcements - Mr. Karl Ritzinger. The work of art was made of black sheet metal by Gerd Vollmer and depicts the former parish clerk with the bell raised and the official announcements that he read out at various points in the parish.
Local Fortifications 3.0 Innovative Building Research in Ingelheim Virtual exhibition on the town fortifications of Ober-Ingelheim and Großwinternheim The virtual exhibition Ortsbefestigung 3.0, Innovative Bauforschung in Ingelheim will be available on the website www.ortsbefestigung3punkt0.de from 30.09.2020! In the form of a 360° tour of the castle church, you will be informed on the one hand about two- and three-dimensional building survey methods, and on the other hand about new discoveries at the local fortifications…