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The synagogue in Mainz-Weisenau was built in 1737/38 and is the only house of Jewish worship in Mainz that survived the time of the Nazi regime and the Second World War without damage. Incidentally, it is also the oldest still intact building in Weisenau. In the 18th century, about a quarter of the inhabitants of the village of Weisenau were Jewish, and the community therefore had its own synagogue at Wormser Strasse. The building was badly damaged during the siege of Mainz in 1793, and it took 25 years to restore the synagogue to its…
In 2003, the square in the center was newly created. Eye catcher of the place is the well. The water bubbles here from a large hewn sandstone, which stands under a shady chestnut.
This defense tower is an element of the Hohenstaufen fortification and was probably built around 1160. The "Bolander" secured the southwest side of the Ingelheim Palatinate and the “Rheingässer Gate”. An early pictorial representation of the hall area (name of the archaeological Zone Kaiserpfalz Ingelheim from early modern times) from 1545 by Sebastian Münster shows the original, multi-storey tower Loopholes and battlements (picture in the museum near the Kaiserpfalz). The name "Bolander" goes back to the noble family of…
The Wineyard House "Am Hohberg" is located in the middle of the vineyard and marks the final climb back up the Hiwweltour Zornheimer Berg.
Shaped from fire and water: The Goose Rock Formation From the Salinental, one looks eastwards to a rock formation that looks like a huge slagheap. This was given its name in Celtic times: "Ganda", i.e. steep slope with rock debris. Elementary forces have shaped the goose. 280 million years ago, magma came to the surface from the earth's interior, solidified and formed a rock massif to which both Rotenfels and Rheingrafenstein belong. The Nahe - Celtic "Nawa" - carved its way into this rock and dug its way deeper and deeper into it. This is…
The trullo, or rather the trulli (plural), as there are 6 of these vineyard houses around Flörsheim-Dalsheim, originally served as a shelter for the field marksmen (Wingertsschützen). At the time when most of these houses were built - in the middle of the 18th century - their main task was to protect the vines and the vineyard stakes from wood theft. The Trullo am Nussbaum in Flörsheim-Dalsheim was awarded a prize by the Rheinhessen Wine Brotherhood in 2016 - on behalf of all the Flörsheim-Dalsheim trulli - and stands at a…
The farmstead, which was built in the 1920s, offer a cross vault cellar which was reconstructed into a restaurant which can host up to 50 persons. General information about Rheinhessencow chapels The origin of the typical Rheinhessen vaults goes back to the early 19th century. At that time, farmers wanted to increase the yield of their cattle by keeping them in stables and use the leftovers as fertiliser for their fields. Initially, the cattle were housed on the ground floor of the half-timbered houses, above which hay and straw were…