Dec 5, 2022 | Harxheim Points of Interest, Local history, Economic center "Old Harxheim"
Butcher shop and economy Fritzsch By Klaus-Werner Fritzsch and Siegfried Schäfer Without Worscht, without Woi…. this and no other could have been a family hymn of the long-established Fritzsch butcher dynasty. In 1896, Philipp Fritzsch and his wife Apollonia...
Dec 5, 2022 | Chronicle, Churches in Harxheim, Harxheim Points of Interest, Local history
The Catholic Church in Harxheim After the end of the simultaneity in 1869, the Catholics built their own church directly opposite the Protestant church in 1870. It was dedicated to St. Lawrence. The church is listed in the monument register of the Mainz-Bingen...
Dec 5, 2022 | Chronicle, Churches in Harxheim, Harxheim Points of Interest, Local history
The stained glass windows of the Protestant church The beautiful and artistically valuable stained glass windows on the sides of the nave of the Protestant church were designed by the renowned Mainz artist Gustel Stein and installed in the church in 1978. A...
Dec 5, 2022 | Chronicle, Churches in Harxheim, Harxheim Points of Interest, Local history
The bells of the evangelical church The present bells of the Lutheran church date back to 1955. Previously, the fate of the church bells was strongly influenced by the history of war. When the new Lutheran church was built in 1873(for the history of the Lutheran...
Dec 5, 2022 | Chronicle, Churches in Harxheim, Harxheim Points of Interest, Local history
The Protestant Church in Harxheim The Protestant church in Harxheim dates back to 1873. However, many centuries before that, a Christian church stood on this spot and became a witness to contemporary history. In particular, political and war events and the Reformation...
Dec 5, 2022 | Chronicle, Churches in Harxheim, Harxheim Points of Interest, Local history
Former evangelical vicarage Until the beginning of the 1950s, the Lutheran parsonage was located at Bahnhofstraße 3. The present building was erected in 1836/37. However, the late Baroque archway in the courtyard wall dates from an earlier construction period. The...
