No other district of Ingelheim is more diverse than Nieder-Ingelheim. With the historically significant Imperial Palace, the wine experience world in the Winzerkeller and the modern Neue Mitte, there is something for every taste.
The Ingelheim wine cellar is the centrepiece of the wine and culture experience. It combines tradition and modernity, history and zeitgeist in an unrivalled way. What was once the building of the former Ingelheim winegrowers' co-operative is now a place for wine and cultural enjoyment. Within its historic walls are the Ingelheim Vinothek, the tourist information centre, the Winzerkeller Restaurant and the multimedia wine experience exhibition "Cellar Comrades - Experience the Heritage Up Close". The atmospheric vaulted cellar also regularly…
Life pulsates in Ingelheim's town centre! This is where the people of Ingelheim meet for their weekly shop or a stroll through the town, for a cosy breakfast or an after-work drink. Ingelheim's new town centre is the perfect place to shop, go out and stroll. Well-known brand stores, small boutiques, traditional shops and selected specialist shops - Ingelheim's town centre offers customers a wide range of shopping opportunities on more than 8,000 square metres. Top: the direct connection to the Ingelheim railway station and the numerous…
The proximity to the Rhine and the expansive view of the Rhine plain may have been particularly appealing to Charlemagne when he had the magnificent imperial palace built 15 kilometres west of Mainz towards the end of the 8th century. The imperial palace served a further 17 kings and emperors as a temporary seat of government. In the archaeological zone, which today extends over an entire residential area, impressive ruins still bear witness to the splendour of the former monumental building. The foundations of the rest of the complex lie…
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…
Anyone who grew up with D-Mark has fulfilled one or two wishes with it: Sebastian Münster, the man from the blue hundred. The monument to the city's most famous son stands in front of the Remigius Church. Sebastian Münster was born in Ingelheim in 1488, probably in a nearby hospital that his father ran. As a teenager, Ingelheim left Münster and went to Heidelberg to study Franciscans. He became a polymath and humanist, professor and head of the University of Basel. His greatest legacy was the Cosmographia, an almanac with…
The St. Remigius Church is one of the earliest Merovingian church foundations on the Middle Rhine. Your documentary evidence goes back to Year 741. Archaeological excavations in the years 2010-2013 showed theirs Originated in the 2nd half of the 7th century. The 23 meter long Stone construction was built on an existing Merovingian burial ground established and initially served as a cemetery church for the nearby settlement. The discovery of a rare early medieval baptismal font in the church tower conclude that the church was already a short…
Tourist-Information im Winzerkeller
Binger Straße 16
55218 Ingelheim am Rhein
Tel: (0049) 6132 710 009 200Tourist-Information im Winzerkeller
Binger Straße 16
55218 Ingelheim am Rhein
Tel: (0049) 6132 710 009 200