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Gau-Algesheim

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

Gau-Algesheim
Gau-Algesheim · Thomas Woodtli from Zürich, Switzerland
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Imperial 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
  2. 02
    Rheingauer 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
  3. 03
    Jakobsberg 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
  4. 04
    Geisenheim 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
  5. 05
    Selztaldom 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
  6. 06
    Graues 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Bicycle
  2. 02
    Market

    Baroque style town hall and Neo-Gothic church.

  3. 03
    Laurenzikirche

    Laurenziberg.

  4. 04
    Jakobsberg Priory

    Am St.

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Do

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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Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Schlemmer House

    Basic modern clear décor one step up from a fast-food restaurant or "Imbisstand".

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Go there

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-Algesheim
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Köln (Cologne) → Gau-Algesheim
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €18–25
  • Rheinmünster → Gau-Algesheim
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €18–25
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Ingelheim, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    425 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    437 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    660 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    666 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    746 km

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Around it

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