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The district of Wackernheim lies between the Rabenkopf nature reserve and the Mainzer Berg in the midst of fruit and vegetable fields. Water has been a special topic for the town since the Middle Ages, so the water supply from the Karlsquelle supplied the area around the Wackernheim valley.
The building used today as the Protestant parish hall is an example of the traditional quarry stone construction typical of the region. It was built in 1828 as a Protestant school with a teacher's flat, stable and barn, after the old building at Schulgasse 6 was no longer sufficient. In 1827, the Grand Ducal Hessian government introduced compulsory schooling from the age of six to fourteen for girls and boys. Until 1842, children in the countryside only attended school from November to Easter. During the warmer seasons, they helped out on…
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.…
A church dedicated to St. Martin is mentioned in a Fulda document as early as 788. At that time, the church was owned by the Otakar noble family who lived here. In 1348 it belonged to the parish of Wackernheim as a parish church. In the middle of the 16th century, at the instigation of the Palatine Electors, first the Lutheran and then the Reformed confession was introduced. When the church was divided, the church, which had been badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War, fell to the Reformed, who made up the majority of the inhabitants. The…
After St. Martin's, the only place of worship until then, had been awarded to the Reformed during the division of the church, the Catholics initially had to move to a chapel in honour of all the saints at Bornstraße 14. The Catholic cemetery had been located there since 1610. The Catholic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was built in 1733. Its construction was made possible by a donation from the Mainz patrician family Gedult von Jungenfeld, who provided the land. The interior is partly furnished with furniture from other Christian…
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Binger Straße 16
55218 Ingelheim am Rhein
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Binger Straße 16
55218 Ingelheim am Rhein
Tel: (0049) 6132 710 009 200