Guided tours and more ...

One of the largest and most impressive palaces is waiting for you in Lower Ingelheim. Our tour guide will familiarize you with the early Middle Ages and transport you back into the days of the emperor.

Whether the "Aula Regia", the Heidesheim Gate, the semicircular building, the gates and walls, the Kaiserpfalz has more to offer than just dead stones.

Visit the historical sites where many imperial meetings, synods, Easter coronations, marriages and even an abdication took place. It is an enjoyable and leisurely tour through 8 centuries.

Bookable: throughout the year

Takes:  1½ hours

Participants in each tour: a maximum of 25 people

Foreign languages: English and French

Price per group: 45 euros an 1,5 hour / 60 euros an 1,5 hour with a foreign language

In addition from the summer of 2007 there is the possibility in the Visitors' Centre at the Kaiserpfalz to go on a tour with GPS navigation.

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Sebastian Münster was born in Lower Ingelheim in 1488. He was not only Ingelheim's most important son, but was one of the key figures In the Middle Age. He was born in an age of great discoveries, the invention of the printing press, the appearance of Martin Luther and during the peasants' revolt. During the circular tour, learn more about this great and highly skilled man. The tour begins near the Remigius church in Lower Ingelheim.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes: 1½ hours
Participants in each group: a maximum of 25 people
Foreign language: -------
Price per group: 45 euros

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Defensive walls, towers and romantic parks, a keep surrounded by an almost insurmountable double wall, and visible from outside the various building epochs of the defensive church. Meandering alleys, defensive walls, tower spires, town gates and springs. All of those things are waiting for you to discover in Upper Ingelheim.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes:  2 hours
Participants in each group: a maximum of 25 people
Foreign languages:  English and French
Price per group: 45 euros an hour
                    60 euros an hour with foreign language

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From Großwinternheim near Freiweinheim; from the Kaiserpfalz to the castle church; from the Bismark Tower to the Rhine meadows. You will experience Ingelheim in all its facets. Here are meadows and blossoming plantations, there are steep hills and seemingly endless vineyards. It seems as though time has stood still for a hundred years. Fruit orchards, small farms, dreamy corners and modern industrial plants provide an impressive contrast.

Ingelheim: an amiable and world-open town is waiting to greet you.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes:  2 hours
Participants in each guide: a bus load
Foreign languages: English and French
Price per group: 60 euros
                          80 euros  with a foreign language

N. B.
A trip around Ingelheim is only possible if the group arrives by bus.
Some sites can only be reached on foot!

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A small but very fine museum quite close to the Kaiserpfalz shows exhibits depicting the history of Ingelheim, but also some very interesting findings involving the Kaiserpfalz.

At the Visitors' Centre we will gladly inform you about the individual themes. It is an interesting trip through the history of Ingelheim.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes: 1½ hours
Participants in each group: a maximum of 25 people
Price per group: 45 euros
Ages: adults and children

The guided tour will be adapted to the needs andknowledge of the group

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Archeological findings show that this epoch in the history of Ingelheim was lively. The focal points are two life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman. Who these two were and what was important for them - in life and death - can be comparted with other archeological findings in the region. When the copies of Roman clothing are shown to you, you will feel as if you have gone back in time to the Roman days.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes: 1½ hours
Participants per guide:    a maximum of 15 people
Foreign language: English
Price per group: 45,00 €

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That was how Ermoldus Nigellus in 826/28 described the Kaiserpfalz in Ingelheim, which had been built a few decades earlier. As archeological findings confirm, Ingelheim was one of leading locations of Charlemagne's imperial palaces. What it looked like in those days and what Charlemagne used it is demonstrated in the museum. Afterwards during a circular tour through the Pfalz area there are mainly Carolingian buildings in the Kaiserpfalz.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes: 1½ hours
Participants per guide:    a maximum of 25 people
Foreign language: English
Price per group: 45,00 €

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Three rulers influenced the appearance of the Kaiserpfalz in Ingelheim through the whole Middle Ages: Charlemagne, Otto III and friedrich I Barbarossa. The alterations to the buildings they commissioned also changed the function of the Kaiserpfalz. It was first a representative building and it was a preferred place to celebrate church festivals and, in the end, it was a fortified enclave. How these various stages reveal themselves will be discovered during the circular tour.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes: 1½ hours
Participants per guide:    a maximum of 25 people
Foreign language: English
Price per group: 45,00 €

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The location was favourable geologically, because the Pfalz area was built upon numerous underground water veins. Nevertheless, Charlemagne had a water channel constructed from Heidesheim to Ingelheim, whith was a massive undertaking. How important water was, how it was used and how Charlemagne integrated water in his palace can be experienced during the tour. Fountains, wells and water channels come to life again. For those who enjoy walking, we recommend a walk along Charlemagne's water-supply route from Heidesheim and Wackernheim.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes: 1½ hours (without the walk along the water channel)
Participants per guide:    a maximum of 25 people
Foreign language: English
price per group: 45,00 €, 60,00 € with a foreign language

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Reusing building materials was common throughout history. Large pieces were extremely expensive. One such piece, the figure of a winged horse, was in the Burgkirche (castle chapel) in Upper Ingelheim. Nowadays this valuable sculpture decorates the Kaiserpfalz in Ingelheim. There are several clues that support this assumption. During the tour you can discover the work of scientists, who very often acted like detectives. Afterwards there will be other examples of "recycling" in the Pfalz area.

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes: 1½ hours
Participants per guide:    a maximum of 25 people
Foreign language: English
Price per group: 45,00 €

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Get to know the different facets of all quarters of Ingelheim at a guided bicycle tour. During regular stops along the itinerary you will hear interesting information about the ancient monuments and the history, as well as about the more recent town. Combined with sportive activity you will see the beauty oft he landscape Ingelheim is embedded in.

The guided bicycle tour leads to the following quarters in Ingelheim: Frei-Weinheim  -  Nieder-Ingelheim  - Ober-Ingelheim  -  Groß-Winternheim  -  Sporkenheim  and back to the starting point  (total length:  approx. 30 km);  or to selected quarters as agreed with the group (length of the itinerary, duration and price per group are reduced accordingly).  The respective starting point of the tour can be chosen by the group.

 
Bookable: from March to October

Duration:  approx. 4 - 5 hours; shorter tours as agreed upon with the tour guide

Participants: up to 15 persons per group

Tour routing: bike ways and largely quiet public roads, with some light and medium
                    rises (height above sea level: between 80 m and 130 m)

Starting point: can be agreed upon

Price per group: 90.00 € for the tour to all quarters of Ingelheim, or as agreed upon
                        with the tour guide regarding shorter tours

Further remarks: participants need their own bicycles; rented bicycles cannot be provided.

Participation is at own risks; each participant is responsible to respect the road traffic regulations (German StVO) and the roadworthiness of the bicycle.

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A short walk through the vineyards, orchards and meadows. Which wine is growing here?  What do the vines and grapes look like? Which kinds of fruit are growing in the orchards? Is there a tasty recipe with red wine? Is nature still intact?

These questions will be answered during the circular tour of the Ingelheim wine mile. Experience nature and, at the same time, enjoy a glass of red, white or rosé wine. (Grape juice is, of course, also available).

Bookable: throughout the year
Takes: 1½ hours (walking: 3 km)
Price per group: 26 euros

plus 5 euros per person for tasting 3 glasses of wine (including the wine glass).

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