Gau-Algesheim
Gau-Algesheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Gau-Algesheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Gau-Algesheim, a kind of collective municipality.
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Worth seeing in and around Gau-Algesheim
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Imperial Palace Ingelheim
The Ingelheim Imperial Palace was an important imperial palace erected in the second half of the 8th century in Germany. It served kings of Francia and later Holy Roman Emperors and Kings as a residenz and place for governance until the 11th century.
5 km · an important Imperial Palace erected in the second half of the 8th century in Germany · Wikipedia - 02Rheingauer Dom
Rheingauer Dom is the colloquial name for the Catholic parish church in Geisenheim, Germany. Officially Pfarrkirche Heilig Kreuz, the large church in the Rheingau region is called Dom although it was never a bishop's seat.
5.1 km · Catholic parish church in Geisenheim, Germany · Wikipedia - 03Jakobsberg Priory
Jakobsberg Priory is a Benedictine monastery at Ockenheim, in the district of Mainz-Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the missionary Ottilien Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation.
2.7 km · abbey · Wikipedia - 04Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute
The Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute was founded in 1872 and is located in the town of Geisenheim, in Germany's Rheingau region. In 1876 Swiss-born professor Hermann Müller joined the institute, where he developed his namesake grape variety Müller-Thurgau, which became Germany's most-planted grape variety in the 1970s.
5.5 km · German research institute · Wikipedia - 05Selztaldom Großwinternheim
The Evangelische Pfarrkirche in Großwinternheim, part of Ingelheim am Rhein, also called Selztaldom meaning Selz valley cathedral, is a romanesque revival aisleless church built according to Romanesque architecture blueprints from the Middle Rhine. The building is protected by cultural heritage management.
4.9 km · Protestant church in Ingelheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Wikipedia - 06Graues Haus
Graues Haus is a Romanesque house in Winkel in the Rheingau, Germany. It is assumed that it was erected in the late tenth century and is therefore among the oldest stone houses in Germany.
5.3 km · medieval quarry stone building of a two-story residential building facing the Rhine and cultural monument in Winkel, Hesse, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Bicycle
- 02Market
Baroque style town hall and Neo-Gothic church.
- 03Laurenzikirche
Laurenziberg.
- 04Jakobsberg Priory
Am St.
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Things to do
There are a number of short hiking trails in the area. Laurenziberg, is on the Rheinhessischer Jakobsweg (pilgrim way).
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Where to eat
- 01Schlemmer House
Basic modern clear décor one step up from a fast-food restaurant or "Imbisstand".
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Getting to Gau-Algesheim
- Airports
- Frankfurt Main (FRA), 40 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 54 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 119 km
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Gau-AlgesheimTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Köln (Cologne) → Gau-Algesheim132 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €18–25
- Rheinmünster → Gau-Algesheim134 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €18–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Gau-Algesheim
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gau-Algesheim. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIngelheim has two exits off the A60 between Bingen and Mainz, and is also reachable from the Rheingau via the Oestrich-Winkel ferry.
- Get aroundTo the north is Frei-Weinheim where you take the ferry for Oestrich-Winkel.
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Next door to Gau-Algesheim
Gau-Algesheim is 51 km from Frankfurt am Main, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ingelheim am Rheinseat of Landkreis Mainz-Bingen and city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany4 km
- Mainz-Bingen districtdistrict of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany5.6 km
- Geisenheimtown in Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in Hesse, Germany5.2 km
- Appenheimmunicipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany2.5 km
- Aspisheimmunicipality of Germany5.3 km
- Bubenheimmunicipality in Mainz-Bingen district, Germany5.5 km