Ingelheim am Rhein

Ingelheim am Rhein is the local administrative centre of the Mainz-Bingen district (200,000 inhabitants). The geographical area is 4,987 ha. From north to south the town’s territory stretches 7.9 km, from east to west 5.0 km. Ingelheim has 26,300 inhabitants (22,000 in 1990)

After the town of Ingelheim am Rhein had come into being in April 1939 by the joining together of the previously separate communities of Nieder-Ingelheim, Ober-Ingelheim und Frei-Weinheim the idea of establishing a town centre with shops and a town-hall was developed from 1976 onwards. The new town-hall has been in use since 1982.

In the town centre, between the town-hall and the station, the circular local administration building was built in 1994/5, and thus the centre of local administration was moved from Mainz to Ingelheim. Ingelheim has been the local administration town for the Mainz-Bingen district since 1996.

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Since 1885 the town of Ingelheim has been the location of the pharmaceutical firm “Boehringer Ingelheim”. With more than 40,000 employees in 143 companies on all continents this firm researches, develops, produces and markets pharmaceuticalproducts for humans and animals the whole world over. Boehringer Ingelheim counts as one of the most significant research companies internationally and has an important place world-wide.

This family firm, with its headquarters in Ingelheim, belongs to the TOP 10 in the pharmaceutical field in Germany. It has more than 6,000 employees at its Ingelheim base.

Apart from Boehringer there are numerous other important firms based in Ingelheim. Amongst them are the Institute for Laboratory Investigations – “Bioscientia”, the “OMNIMAGO Gmbh” for film and TV work, the building firm “Karl Gemünden”, “HZ-Profile” for the manufacturing of synthetic materials, the “Midas Pharma GmbH”, the “VOG” (United Wholesalers of Fruit and Vegetables) or the weather and climate advisory company – “Weathernews Deutschland GmbH”.

In addition there are a large number of medium-sized and smaller trading and production companies, most of which have joined together in a joint syndicate of businesses known as "Ingelheim aktiv e.V."

Vacant industrial spaces are available or are in preparation for the relocation or expansion of new businesses.

The wine growing area consists of 321 ha of white wine and 324 ha of red wine (including the world-famous Ingelheim Spätburgunder – “Late Burgundy”). Also fruit-growing with c. 2,000 ha characterises the agricultural scene here in Ingelheim. The Ingelheim Fruit Wholesalers (VOG) is one of the biggest morello cherry markets in Europe. On 120 ha the so-called noble vegetable, the asparagus, is grown. It thrives particularly well in the mild climate of the region and is cut between May and June.

The Further Education Centre, WBZ Ingelheim, an independent foundation with evening classes, music school, youth education centre and Fridtjof Nansen Academy for Political Studies is one of the biggest and most acknowledged centres of Youth and Adult Education in the Rhineland Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). Since 1977 it has been maintained by the town of Ingelheim and the Society of Friends of the Fridjof-Nansen-Haus. Every year there are about 1,000 events, which are visited by up to 18,000 participants. From 2002-2004 the building was extended and modernised.

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For almost five decades the “Internationale Tage” in Ingelheim have been offering special insights into art and culture, the world of individual artists or significant art movements. Thematic exhibitions, for example on the art of the South Seas, on Japanese coloured wood cuts, fauvism and expressionism, Viennese Biedermeier or the spirit of the fifties in Paris have inspired the visitors not only because of their exhibits, but also because of their conception and didactics.

The organiser is Boehringer Ingelheim

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There is virtually no other wine festival in the Rhine-Hessen region which takes place in such an attractive setting, surrounded by vineyards, as the Ingelheim Red Wine Festival.

Every year on the last weekend in September this popular wine festival is opened with the ceremonial crowning of the Red Wine Queen.

The “Red Wine Village” which is in the romantic area around the Burgkirche (“Castle Church”) offers the visitors a colourful, varied and ambitious festival programme for a whole week. Along with the many items on the programme in the festival tent and on the open air stage, there is also no shortage of culinary delights at the Red Wine Festival.

The Ingelheim vintners give you a chance to sample the entire diversity of their produce from red, white and rosé wines to lively sparkling wines.

Red Wine Festival

The town of Ingelheim has a number of attractive leisure facilities on offer. There are hiking trails, barbecue facilities, a stadium with an all-weather track, a shooting range, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, an open-air pool, a modern bowling-alley as well as many football pitches and training areas, including two artificial turf pitches. A leisure pool (Rheinwelle) was built in cooperation with the town of Bingen and was opened in 2005.

Town Twinning:

Autun (Frankreich) seit 1963

Stevenage (England) seit 1963

San Pietro in Cariano (Italien) seit 1984

Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg seit 1971

Limbach – Oberfrohna/Sachsen seit 1990

Neisse (Polen) seit 2002


Förderverein Ingelheimer Städtepartnerschaften e.V.

Sponsorships:

Flugzeug Boeing-737 der Lufthansa mit Namen „Ingelheim am Rhein“

The youth centre at the station is maintained by the town and was inaugurated in 1988. It is open daily except Mondays. Visitors can make use of a wood and metalwork shop as well as a creativity workshop, an internet café, a climbing wall as well as a photographic darkroom.

The youth care on offer ranges from various free time and educational arrangements such as the options on the children’s holiday pass to the stewardship of the youth centre “Die Palm” in the Frei-Weinheim town district.

Jugendhaus und Jugendpflege

As well as 11 children’s day centres under communal sponsorship (including a day nursery and a crèche) Ingelheim families have a choice of four church facilities as well as a private crèche for the care of their children.

KiTa / Kindertagesstätten

As well as a small wooded area by the Bismarck Tower, Ingelheim has a large area of woodland (1,185 ha) in the Vorderhunsrück region near Rheinbollen. The youth education and leisure centre of the town of Ingelheim is also there. Extensive hiking trails offer an especially valuable source of local recreation.

The exhibition of the museum on François-Lachenal-Platz 5 in Nieder-Ingelheim gives information about the sojourns of Charlemagne in Ingelheim and in the Pfalz (“Palace”) he built here around the year 800. Furthermore it gives an insight into the prehistoric epochs, the Roman and the Merovingian periods in the Ingelheim region. For a number of years archaeological excavations have been undertaken in the Saal area, which make it possible to some extent to make a reconstruction of the various historical building stages of the Palace of Charlemagne – the Kaiserpfalz. The tourist development of the Pfalz e.g. the Aula regia or the Heidesheim Gate as well as the visitors’ centre give the visitor an impressive view into the previous history of the town. In the visitors’ centre of the town of Ingelheim those who are interested have a chance to gain information about the history of the Kaiserpfalz and amongst other things they can experience a virtual reconstruction of the Aula regia. Alongside this the computer-assisted information system gives a presentation on the (building) history of the Pfalz site on more than 600 screen pages. Four workstations are available on which the information system can be viewed. Large OHP demonstrations are possible.

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The community centres in the districts of Frei-Weinheim und Großwinternheim are used in particular by Ingelheim societies and institutions. The Old Market Hall in the district of Nieder-Ingelheim has space for larger events.

The Town Archive with old documents on the history of the town is in the new town hall (Neues Rathaus, Neuer Markt 1).