Culture in Rhineland-Palatinate

In the Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum you can explore traditional rural everyday life in the whole region, which includes Eifel, Hunsrück and Saargau, as well as parts of Lorraine and Luxembourg. In the school exhibition, there’s a demonstration of the type of conditions in which children had to learn in a 1912 classroom. There is also a traditional grocer’s, a barber and a village pub. In addition there are interesting exhibitions, including "From Corn to Bread" or "Winegrowing on the Moselle, Saar and Ruwer". In the building complexes around Roscheider Hof houses and farm buildings from the 19th and early 20th have been rebuilt and furnished exactly as they originally would have been.

Karl der Große (748-814) wählte Ingelheim als Stützpunkt für seine Reisen durch sein Frankenreich und ließ eine repäsentative Pfalz bauen - so hießen die Regierungssitze seinerzeit

So luxuriös lebten römische Gutsherren in der schönen Südeifel. Und sie prägten sogar Münzen. Doch nicht Falschgeld, oder? Fahren Sie mal hin!

The neighboring ruins of the Lion Castle, also known as Monreal Castle, and the Philippsburg, popularly called "the Rech" (roe deer), lofty above the picturesque half-timbered Monreal on a 350 m above sea level. NN high mountain spur.

The medieval village of Herrstein takes you to a charming idyll from the past. Your journey back in time will take you back 500 to 300 years - far away from today's everyday hustle and bustle.

Bad Dürkheim and wine simply belong together - where guests can enjoy regional specialities not only in the world's largest wine barrel, it is almost a matter of course that the municipal museum is partly housed in a former winery. But in the former property of the Catoir family, namesake for the entire cultural centre in the city centre, more than the history of viticulture is told.

The traditional craftsmanship of bell casting was still practiced here from 1770 until 2002. Today, the bell foundry is open to the public as a museum and, containing the fully preserved equipment, is a unique cultural heritage and industrial monument. Apart from the museum, the Kulturgiesserei offers further interesting services and facilities for young and old, and has thus developed into a popular meeting place.

Driving out of Bad Dürkheim almost takes your breath away. Towering over everything, dominating the valley, are the ruins of the former Benedictine abbey. Did you know that the dates of the Sundays of Advent as we know them were set here? Did you know that the insignia of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation were kept here?

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