kING culture centre Ingelheim has a multi-purpose culture centre, named
kING, located close to the station.
Museums The
Museum bei der Kaiserpfalz ("Museum at the
Imperial Palace") has an exhibit dedicated to the Imperial Palace built in Ingelheim after 785 by
Charlemagne. On show are small archaeological finds, objects from architectural sculpture and a demonstrative model of the once imposing building. Remnants of the Imperial Palace can be seen right near the museum. Of Europe-wide importance is the golden
solidus found in 1996, which is hitherto still the only gold coin ever found struck with Charlemagne's effigy.
Ohrenbrücker Tor The Ohrenbrücker Tor is the southwestern gate in the
city wall. The gate comprises two towers and a
gothic arch. The northern tower had been reconstructed together with the arch in the middle of the 20th century. It is assumed that at the top of two of the towers, slender upright spires at the top of their buttresses existed. The gate was equipped with a
machicolation above the arch. Both towers are decorated with
Lombard bands. The first reference to the gate dates back to the 13th century. It had been erected as an infrastructure provision for the Westerberg. Naturally the terrain outside the gate was a marshy ground fed by the Selz. It was difficult to come inside or outside the town by carts. Simply a small bridge for pedestrians existed.
Ingelheimer Fassenacht There is in Ingelheim a well-developed
carnival culture, which admittedly is very much under the
Mainz carnival’s influence. All together, the town counts four Carnival clubs: • Carneval-Verein "Wäschbächer" 1885 • Carnevalverein Frei-Weinheim • Ingelheimer Carnevalverein • Narrenclub Ingelheim 1987 ("Fools’ Club")
Music • Further Education Centre Symphony Orchestra • Ingelheimer Konfettis (performing and singing group) • Ingelheim church choir • Bläserchöre Ingelheim (wind choirs) • Carolus Magnus-Ingelheimer Kaiserpfalzbläser (wind ensemble) • Telemann-Chor Ingelheim (choir)
Singing clubs • GV Liederkranz 1857 • GV Einigkeit 1885 • GV Germania 1862 • MGV 1866 • Schubert-Quartett 1924 e.V. • Boehringer Jazz & Pop Chor 2009
Buildings The town has at its disposal a range of historical buildings worth seeing: File:BurgkircheKriegerdenkmal.JPG|
Burgkirche File:OI-Altes-Rathaus.JPG|Ober-Ingelheim Old Town Hall File:SaalkircheSommer2009.JPG|Evangelical Church, built in 997 as Saint Peter's Chapel of the Imperial Palace File:WestUffhubtor.JPG|
Uffhubtor File:Selztaldom2.JPG|
Selztaldom ("Selz Valley Cathedral") File:Remigius-Münster.JPG|Saint Remigius's Church (Cath.) with
Sebastian Münster statue File:NI-Kaiserpfalz.JPG|The
Aula Regia at
Charlemagne’s Imperial Palace File:MalakoffturmIngelheim.jpg|Malakoff tower File:OhrenbrückerTor.JPG|Ohrenbrückertor File:IngelheimBismarckturm.JPG|Bismarck Tower
Others • St. Michael with Plague Cross •
Carolingian aqueduct • Heidesheimer Tor (gate) • Bismarck Tower •
Ohrenbrücker Tor (gate) • Jewish graveyard • Old market hall in
Nieder-Ingelheim Parks • Kommerzienrat-Boehringer-Anlage • Emmerlingscher Park • Rosengärtchen • Uffhubtor-Anlage
Natural monuments over Ingelheim • Drifting chalk sands and dunes In the cadastral areas of Nieder-Ingelheim and Frei-Weinheim, mainly north of the
Autobahn along Konrad-Adenauer-Straße, but also south of the Autobahn – even within the
Boehringer Ingelheim industrial lands – are found drifting chalk sands. Likewise a deposit is to be found in the area of the
Griesmühle (mill). These formations are under conservational protection under the Rhineland-Palatinate State Care Law. Damaging them or removing them, among other acts, is considered an incompensable encroachment on nature and the landscape. Municipal building uses in drifting chalk sand areas are therefore routinely excluded or only approved in very special cases. Two such exceptions were the building of Konrad-Adenauer-Straße (from the Autobahn bridge to Rheinstraße) and the building of the daycare centre on Sporkenheimer Straße.
Sport • 1. Schwimmsportverein Ingelheim 1966 e.V. (swimming) • RV Ingelheim • SpVgg Ingelheim • TUS Ober-Ingelheim • Turngemeinde 1847 Corp. Nieder-Ingelheim (gymnastics) • SV Ingelheim 1949 e.V. • VfL Frei Weinheim • HSC Ingelheim • TV Frei-Weinheim (gymnastics) • MFG-Ingelheim e.V. - Modellfluggruppe Ingelheim e.V. • TSC Ingelheim • FSC Ingelheim 07 • Bridgeclub Ingelheim
Common welfare •
Mütter- und FamilienZentrum e.V. MütZe The
MütZe ("Mothers’ and Families’ Centre", with the abbreviation resembling the word
Mütze – "cap") is to be found at the old
Gymnasium. The
MütZe takes upon itself a generation-spanning exchange for all Ingelheim residents. A babysitter exchange, handicraft classes, breakfast and lunch, housework and holiday support are regularly offered, as well as courses and events covering every family theme from babies to health to creativity. In Ingelheim there are also a House of Youth (
Haus der Jugend, although this is soon to become a shopping centre and will be replaced with another House of Youth) and a
Mehrgenerationshaus.
Regular events • Since 1972 there has been a yearly folk music event, the
Eurofolkfestival Ingelheim, on the Burgkirche Fairgrounds. It is said to be one of the successor festivals to the famous Waldeck-Festivals. A great number of the visitors are people from the hippie culture and youths from the local area and from throughout Germany. The number of visitors varies from 2,000 to 3,000. It is usually held between mid-June and mid-July and always lasts from Friday to Sunday. Out of the
Eurofolkfestival grew the
OpenOhr Festival (a youth cultural festival) in Mainz in 1974 and 1975. •
Hafenfest auf der Jungau ("Harbour Festival on the Jungau"), each year in early August. •
Ingelheimer Rotweinfest ("Ingelheim Red Wine Festival") on the Burgkirche Fairgrounds, is held each year from the last weekend in September to the first weekend in October. •
Kerb in Groß-Winternheim ("
kermis, or church consecration festival"), second weekend in September •
Internationale Tage ("International Days"), each year since 1959. Organized for
Boehringer Ingelheim by
François Lachenal till 1997.till 2000 curated by Patricia Rochat and since then by Ulrich Luckhardt. •
Umsonst-und-drinnen, international music festival for new blood groups. •
Kinderfest der DPSG Ingelheim ("Ingelheim
DPSG Children’s Festival"), each year on
Ascension Day since 1969 on the Jungau in Frei-Weinheim. •
Entekerb ("Harvest Kermis"), in October in Frei-Weinheim. •
Altstadtfest ("Old Town Festival"), second weekend in August, staged by NCI •
Fest der Generationen, second Saturday in September around the old Gymnasium, staged by the MütZe
Culinary specialities Regional
Rhenish-Hessian specialities are
asparagus and morello
cherries (a
cultivar of
sour cherries). == Economy and infrastructure ==