Weinheim/Rhein-Neckar-Kreis/Metropolitan Region Rhein-Neckar.Weinheim (traditional) history started in the very north, at the confluence of Weschnitz and Grundelbach.Even today there are many historical gems in this district around Peterskirche, Domhof, old cemetery and Rodensteiner Brunnen.During a walk on Sunday.30.August, city guide Franz Piva takes the participants with the exciting historical past, the oldest Weinheim district.From the first settlement to the municipalities - this is the whole arch of Weinheimer history, the participants experience on this journey through time.As a chronicler, Franz Piva leads to the diocese of Mainz and the Neustadt (around today's marketplace), was created in the dispute and was awarded to the Palatinate Count.He leads to the places where famous contemporaries such as the drinking -resistant Elector Friedrich, Liselotte von der Pfalz, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe opened their quarters and left their mark.
In a good two and a half hour tour, the Rodensteiner Brunnen with its legendary figures, the Domhof, the Alte Postgasse, the boxer bridge, the night watchman path, the northern main street and the former Hinnergässer district are explored.The "Untere Hildebrand's Mühle", the Neumaurerpforte, the Peterskirche their previous construction already 861 N.Born.the first mentioned, as well as the industrial culture of the Nordstadt, are other topics.Above the Peterskirche, the path then leads to the "old cemetery", a hidden gem, such as wildly romantic and enchanted in Sleeping Beauty.Many of the 104 graves are reminiscent of the fees of a large Weinheim industrial history, such as the Freudenberg, Square, Hirsch, Weisbrod, Hildebrand, Fuchs or also honorary citizens Dr.Adam Karrillon and Consul General Bissinger, the educator and school founder Karl Friedrich Bender and the composer Anton Zimmermann. Die nächste öffentliche Führung findetamSonntag,30.August instead.
Meeting point: Rodensteiner Brunnen 2 p.m. - Duration about 2.5 hours of price: 6 euros per person - school children up to 14 years 3 euros.
Pre-registration provider required at the city and tourism marketing Weinheim, Hauptstraße 47 phone: 06201-82 610 E-Mail: Tourismus@Weinheim.de
