--- title: "Gau-Algesheim – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Gau-Algesheim, Germany: Gau-Algesheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Nearby: Imperial Palace Ingelheim…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gau-algesheim" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gau-algesheim.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Rheingau_%2841473999030%29.jpg/1920px-Rheingau_%2841473999030%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Rheinland-Pfalz # Gau-Algesheim Gau-Algesheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. ![Gau-Algesheim](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Rheingau_%2841473999030%29.jpg/1920px-Rheingau_%2841473999030%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gau-Algesheim), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingelheim_Imperial_Palace) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheingauer_Dom) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsberg_Priory) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisenheim_Grape_Breeding_Institute) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selztaldom) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graues_Haus_(Oestrich-Winkel%29) 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. Bicycle 2. Market Baroque style town hall and Neo-Gothic church. 3. Laurenzikirche Laurenziberg. 4. Jakobsberg Priory Am St. From [Wikivoyage: Gau-Algesheim](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Gau-Algesheim), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Do ## Things to do There are a number of short hiking trails in the area. Laurenziberg, is on the Rheinhessischer Jakobsweg (pilgrim way). From [Wikivoyage: Gau-Algesheim](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Gau-Algesheim), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. Eat ## Where to eat 1. Schlemmer House Basic modern clear décor one step up from a fast-food restaurant or "Imbisstand". From [Wikivoyage: Gau-Algesheim](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Gau-Algesheim), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us. 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/frankfurt-am-main-lautzenhausen-to-gau-algesheim) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Frankfurt+am+Main+%28Lautzenhausen%29&to=Gau-Algesheim) - Köln (Cologne) → Gau-Algesheim 132 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/koln-cologne-to-gau-algesheim) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=K%C3%B6ln+%28Cologne%29&to=Gau-Algesheim) - Rheinmünster → Gau-Algesheim 134 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/rheinmunster-to-gau-algesheim) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Rheinm%C3%BCnster&to=Gau-Algesheim) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Gau-Algesheim) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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 in Ingelheim has two exits off the A60 between Bingen and Mainz, and is also reachable from the Rheingau via the Oestrich-Winkel ferry. - Get around To the north is Frei-Weinheim where you take the ferry for Oestrich-Winkel. From [Wikivoyage: Ingelheim](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 425 km 2. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 437 km 3. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 660 km 4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 666 km 5. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 746 km If you know how people move in Gau-Algesheim – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cgau-algesheim&title=Gau-Algesheim&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fgau-algesheim), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Gau-Algesheim Gau-Algesheim is 51 km from [Frankfurt am Main](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/frankfurt-am-main), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Ingelheim am Rhein](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ingelheim-am-rhein) seat of Landkreis Mainz-Bingen and city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 4 km - [Mainz-Bingen district](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mainz-bingen-district) district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 5.6 km - [Geisenheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/geisenheim) town in Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in Hesse, Germany 5.2 km - [Appenheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/appenheim) municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 2.5 km - [Aspisheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aspisheim) municipality of Germany 5.3 km - [Bubenheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bubenheim) municipality in Mainz-Bingen district, Germany 5.5 km [The place page for Gau-Algesheim](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/gau-algesheim) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Germany](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-DE) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gau-algesheim, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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