Historical tour of the village – Harxheim Points of Interest
On the Historic Tour of Harxheim you will find many interesting and historic buildings that still exist or are long gone. Their locations and history are recorded in the so-called “POI-Documentations” (Points of Interest) and offer extraordinary insights into the life and work of Harxheimers in past times.
For those who are interested, corresponding signs are attached to the respective buildings on the Harxheimer Ortsrundweg.
Historical town circuit – overview board
Source: HVV-Harxheim
The war memorial – memorial column in memory of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71
Based on research by Franz GötzOn the north side of the Lutheran church there is a war memorial in...
Lambinet family in Harxheim
The farms in Untergasse 21 and Untergasse 18 are closely linked to the history of the Lambinet...
Bakery Darmstadt
Until 1969, the Darmstadt bakery, one of the two bakeries in Harxheim, was located at Obergasse...
Forstbaumscher Hof
The Forstbaumsche Hof is the only building with a stately character in Harxheim. Its name is...
Schick´sches Weingut
The farm, built in 1725 for the Schick family from Mainz, was bequeathed to the city of Mainz in...
Happel Estate and Wine Farm
Im stattlichen Hof in der Obergasse 1 befanden sich bis zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre der...
The tube well
The Harxheim tube well is an integral part of the old village center and used to be the village...
Old town hall
The former seat of the local administration is affectionately called Old Town Hall by the people...
Former estate and wine farm Rösch
The large brick-built courtyard complex at Mainzer Straße 1 impresses with its closed and...
The Gaustraße
Today, the state road L425 runs through Harxheim. It corresponds in large parts to the Gaustraße...
Bakery Böhm
The well-preserved courtyard housed the bakery of the Böhm family until the end of the 1960s....
Messigny-et-Vantoux Square
The communities of Harxheim and Messigny-et-Ventoux in Burgundy have been linked by a partnership...
Historic Lotz Winery
By Tanja Reßler and Siegfried SchäferNestled between Obergasse and Untergasse and bordered by the...
The cornerstone
Wheel deflectors to protect the corners of buildings and gateways were already used by the ancient...
House Krone
The Krone House - today privately owned - looks back on an interesting history. In the first...
The Catholic Church in Harxheim
After the end of the simultaneity in 1869, the Catholics built their own church directly opposite...
The stained glass windows of the Protestant church
The beautiful and artistically valuable stained glass windows on the sides of the nave of the...
The bells of the evangelical church
The present bells of the Lutheran church date back to 1955. Previously, the fate of the church...
The Protestant Church in Harxheim
The Protestant church in Harxheim dates back to 1873. However, many centuries before that, a...
Former evangelical vicarage
Until the beginning of the 1950s, the Lutheran parsonage was located at Bahnhofstraße 3. The...
Harxheimer wine tavern
The small, rural farmstead from the beginning of the 19th century is now known as the Harxheimer...
Friedenstraße
After World War II, 12 million Germans from the East sought a new home in the Federal Republic. In...
The local scales – the scales in the lower lane
Every community in Rheinhessen had a functioning community scale until the mid-1990s. The old...
