Buildings The following are listed buildings or sites in
Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:
Catholic Parish Church (
Pfarrkirche St. Antonius von Padua), (inside view)
Schlosskirche (“Palace
Church”) •
Altstadt (“Old Town”) (monumental zone) – Old Town with building begun in the 14th century within and including the 14th-century town wall, the Gießen (arm of the
Glan, possibly an old millrace) with the
tanning houses as well as the building before the former
Obertor (“Upper Gate”) and
Schlosskirche (“Palace Church”) (see also
below) • Former Powder Tower (
Pulverturm also called
Bürgerturm) – round town wall corner tower, after 1315, later altered •
Evangelical Schlosskirche (“Palace
Church”), Schlossplatz 1 – former
Knights Hospitaller church,
Late Gothic hall church, 1479–1504, architect Philipp von Gmünd, 1766–1770 interior conversion by Philipp Heinrich Hellermann; breast wall with Late Gothic portal, marked 1484 (see also
below) •
Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Parish Church (
Pfarrkirche St. Antonius von Padua), Klenkertor 7 – former
Franciscan monastery church:
Baroque aisleless church, 1685–1688, architect Franz Matthias Heyliger,
Baroque Revival tower, 1902, architect Ludwig Becker,
Mainz (see also
below) • Town fortifications – long sections, partly with
allure, of the town fortifications begun before 1315, partly destroyed in 1689 • Am Herrenschlag –
Eiserner Steg (“Iron Footbridge”); iron construction with segmental arches, 1893 • Am Herrenschlag 1 –
Gelbes Haus (“Yellow House”), former Knights Hospitaller
commandry; essentially from 1349 (?) or before 1489, conversion in early 18th century; stately
timber-frame building with half-hip roof, towards the back a “shield gable” (that is, a gable that forms part of the façade). Furnishing; bridge to the
Schlosskirche churchyard, estate gate complex • Am Herrenschlag 2 – Late Baroque house, partly slated timber framing, marked 1765 • Am Untertor –
Untertorbrücke (“Lower Gate Bridge”); three-arch
sandstone bridge, possibly after 1784, put back in order after damage in 1811, widened in 1894 • Am Untertor –
Untertor (“Lower Gate”); three-floor town gate, 13th century and later • Am Wehr – town wall remnant with allure; 13th century and later • Am Wehr 2 –
Gründerzeit sandstone-block building with
knee wall,
Late Classicist façade, 1879 • Am Wehr 3 – former tanning house; quarrystone building, partly timber-frame, between 1768 and 1820 • Am Wehr 4 – former tanning house; essentially from the latter half of the 19th century • Amtsgasse 1 – stately Baroque estate complex; building with hipped
mansard roof, great barn, 1763–1765, architect Philipp Heinrich Hellermann (?) • Amtsgasse 2 – former
Amtsgericht; Late Classicist sandstone-block building, 1865/1866 • Amtsgasse 4 – plastered building with eaves facing the street, about 1822/1826 • Amtsgasse 5 – three-floor Classicist house, marked 1833 • Amtsgasse 7 – Classicist house, about 1822/1823 • Amtsgasse 11 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 1631 • Amtsgasse 13 – former
Hunoltsteiner Hof; three-wing complex, 16th to 18th centuries; main wing, partly timber-frame, 16th century, Baroque side building, 1791–1721, timber-frame building above a columned hall • Amtsgasse 15 – Late Baroque house, marked 1752 • Amtsgasse 19 – Late Baroque house, marked 1778; essentially possibly from the 17th century • An der Bleiche – sandstone arch bridge, latter half of the 19th century • Bismarckplatz 1 –
railway station;
Late Historicist sandstone-block building with tower, goods shed, side building, 1894 • At Hammelsgasse 1 – Late Baroque door leaf, late 18th century • Hammelsgasse 3 – house, essentially before 1726, marked 1833 • Hammelsgasse 5 – Baroque timber-frame house, before 1739 • Hans-Franck-Straße – one-arch quarrystone bridge, marked 1761 • Herzog-Wolfgang-Straße 9 – former agricultural school;
Neoclassical plastered building, marked 1922/1923 • Hinter der Hofstatt 9 –
clinker brick building,
Art Nouveau motifs, 1904 • At Hinter der Hofstatt 11 – Classicist summer house, about 1830 • Klenkertor 2 – Late Baroque building with hipped mansard roof, marked 1784, essentially possibly after 1686 • Klenkertor 3 – shophouse, partly timber-frame, marked 1604, conversion in the late 18th century • Klenkertor 6 –
inn „Zum Engel“; stately timber-frame building, possibly from the early 18th century • Klenkertor 7 – Catholic rectory; former Franciscan monastery, Baroque two-wing complex, marked 1716 and 1732, former monastery garden • Klenkertor 9 – inn with dwelling; two Baroque timber-frame houses with gables facing the street, partly solid, 1704 and 1714, joined in 1818 • Klenkertor 16 – timber-frame house, partly solid, possibly from the 16th or 17th century • Klenkertor 20 – quarrystone barn, before 1768, conversion marked 1853 • Klenkertor 26 – rich three-floor timber-frame house, marked 1618 and 1814 • Klenkertor 30 – house, possibly from the 17th century and later • Klenkertor 36 – post-Baroque building with half-hip roof, 1822 • Lauergasse 3 – Late Baroque house, marked 1770, essentially possibly older • Lauergasse 5 – Baroque house, marked 1739 • Lauergasse 8 – Baroque house, essentially possibly from the early 18th century • Liebfrauenberg – sculpture group mother and child, 1937/1938, sculptor
Arno Breker • Lindenallee 2 – Late Classicist house with knee wall, 1843 • Lindenallee 9 –
school, Heimatstil building with Renaissance motifs, 1908, Building Councillor Häuser,
Kreuznach (see also
below) • Lindenallee 21 – stately Late Historicist villa, 1911 • Marktgasse 2 – Baroque timber-frame house, before 1761, conversion 1782 • Marktgasse 3 – timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially possibly from the 16th century, conversion marked 1809 • Marktgasse 5/7 – Classicist house, about 1830, essentially possibly from the 17th or 18th century • Marktgasse 9 – three-floor Late Baroque house, marked 1782 • Marktplatz 2 –
Mohren-Apotheke (
pharmacy); three-floor
Renaissance building, essentially from the 16th century • Marktplatz 3 – three-floor shophouse, essentially from the 16th century (?), conversion 1841 • Marktplatz 4 – former market hall; long rich building with pitched roof, timber-frame, columned portico, possibly about 1550/1560 or from the 17th century • Marktplatz 5 – Late Classicist sandstone-block building, 1856 • Mühlgasse 3 – former town mill; town wall tower/mill tower, great building with half-hip roof, essentially from the late 18th century, conversion marked 1860; three- to four-floor storage building,
Rundbogenstil, 1897, with town wall tower, 14th century, wall remnants • Mühlgasse 6 – Baroque timber-frame house, plastered, marked 1705 • Mühlgasse 8 – former stable (?), partly timber-frame, 18th century (?) • Mühlgasse 10 – barn, partly timber-frame, 18th/19th century • Mühlgasse 12 – house, essentially 1565 (?), timber-frame upper floor possibly from the 18th century • Mühlgasse 14 – former hospital; plastered building, before 1768, conversions in the 19th and 20th centuries, barn 1706 • Obergasse 1 – Late Classicist house, marked 1852, essentially possibly older • Obergasse 2 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1720 • Obergasse 3 –
Kellenbacher Hof (estate); Late Gothic solid building with box
oriel window and
staircase tower, marked 1530 • Obergasse 4 – so-called
Ritterherberge (“Knights' Hostel”); two- to three-floor pair of
semi-detached houses, partly timber-frame (Baroque), essentially from the latter half of the 16th century; marked 1723 • Obergasse 5 –
Steinkallenfelser Hof (estate); Late Gothic solid building with staircase tower, about 1530, in 18th and 19th centuries made over • Obergasse 6 – pair of semi-detached houses, partly timber-frame, essentially Late Gothic (15th/16th century), façade made over in Classicist style about 1840 • Obergasse 7 – former
Reformed rectory; Late Baroque building, about 1760, timber-frame barn • Obergasse 8 –
Fürstenwärther Hof (estate); 16th century; three-floor house, Late Classicist façade, 1855, Master Builder Krausch, side building 18th and 19th centuries • Obergasse 12 – Late Baroque house, before 1768 • Obergasse 13 – Baroque timber-frame house, plastered, 1713, converted before 1823 • Obergasse 15 – Baroque timber-frame house, 17th or early 18th century • Obergasse 16 – house, partly slated timber-frame, essentially before 1730, conversion in the early 19th century; hind wing on Marktgasse (“Market Lane”): timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially from the 17th century, conversion about 1800 • Obergasse 17 – Renaissance timber-frame house, 16th century • Obergasse 18 – former
mikveh; Art Nouveau house door • Obergasse 19 – so-called
Inspektorenhaus (“Inspector's House”); former
Lutheran rectory, Renaissance timber-frame building with polygonal staircase tower, after 1588 • Obergasse 21 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1728 • Obergasse 22 – Late Gründerzeit house, clinker brick façade, 1906–1908, Master Builder Wilhelm • Obergasse 23 – timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially possibly from the 17th century, Late Baroque conversion (1764?) • Obergasse 25 – house with
reliefs on windowsills, marked 1931 • Obergasse 26 – ''Boos von Waldeck'scher Hof'' (estate); essentially from the
Late Middle Ages; three-floor plastered building, staircase tower, marked 1669, conversion 1822 • Obergasse 29 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, 17th century • Obergasse 31 – house, marked 1612, essentially possibly Gothic (13th or 14th century?), conversion 1891, addition, partly timber-frame, about 1900 • Obergasse 33 – inn „Zur Blume“; Late Baroque building with mansard roof, before 1768 • At Obergasse 35 – Gothic window and
corbels • Obergasse 41 – three-floor Baroque timber-frame house, about 1704 • Obertor 13 – Art Nouveau villa, 1906/1907 • Obertor 15 – former Bonnet
brewery; whole rambling complex of Gründerzeit buildings with former
malt house and storage building with four
chimneys, commercial yard,
Gothic Revival style elements, last third of the 19th century • Obertor 24 – villa; Late Gründerzeit building with hip roof,
Renaissance Revival, three-floor tower, 1890–1893, architect Jean Rheinstädter, Kreuznach • Obertor 30 – former forester's house; one-floor Late Gründerzeit building with half-hip roof, 1898 • Obertor 34 – Late Gründerzeit villa, 1896/1897 • Obertor 36 – Historicized villa, 1906 • Obertor 38 – villa, Historicized Art Nouveau, 1906 • Rapportierplatz – running well, 1938, fountain bowl and post by Jordan,
bronze figure by
Emil Cauer the Younger • Rapportierplatz 4 – inn with dwelling, timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially from the late 16th century, in 1754 described as made over in Baroque • At Rapportierplatz 5 – portal, Baroque, marked 1718 • Rapportierplatz 6 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, 17th century, marked 1758 • Rapportierplatz 7 – Late Baroque building with mansard roof, mid-18th century • Rapportierplatz 8 – three-floor timber-frame house, plastered, earlier half of the 19th century • Rapportierplatz 12/14 – three-floor Late Baroque house with knee wall, before 1768, conversion 1870 • Rathausgasse 1 – former Lutheran
Christianskirche (church); Late Baroque building with hip roof, 1761–1771, architect Philipp Heinrich Hellermann • Rathausgasse 3 – former barn, partly timber-frame, before 1550 (apparently 1495) • Rathausgasse 7, 9 – house, barn, mainly Baroque group of buildings, 18th century, building with half-hip roof, gateway with timber-frame superstructure, quarrystone side building • Rathausgasse 8 – house, essentially possibly Late Gothic (16th century?), made over in the 18th century, about 1820 and in the 20th century; stately timber-frame side building • Rathausgasse 10 – Baroque building with hipped mansard roof, 18th century • Raumbacher Straße,
Alter Friedhof (“Old Graveyard”) (monumental zone) – laid out before 1829; gravestones from the 17th century to about 1900; surrounding wall • Raumbacher Straße 3 – house, Art Nouveau, 1906, architect Wilhelm • Raumbacher Straße 5 – bungalow, Art Nouveau motifs, 1906/1907 • Raumbacher Straße 7/7a – one-and-a-half-floor pair of semi-detached houses, 1905 • Raumbacher Straße 9/11 – pair of semi-detached houses; bungalow with mansard roof, Art Nouveau, 1907/1908 • Behind Saarstraße 3 – summer house,
Rococo, 1766 • Saarstraße 3A – former
synagogue; three-floor sandstone-block building, Rundbogenstil, 1866 (see also
below) • Saarstraße 6 – stately Late Classicist complex with single roof ridge, about 1840 • Saarstraße 7 –
leprosarium's former
chapel (?); marked 1745, made over about 1900; Late Classicist house, about 1850/1860, belonging to it? • Saarstraße 9 – villa, Renaissance Revival, 1893 • Saarstraße 12 –
post office; Heimatstil building with
Expressionistic motifs, 1933, Postal Building Councillor Lütje • Saarstraße 16 – shophouse, three-floor Late Gründerzeit house, Renaissance motifs, 1898 • Saarstraße 17 – villalike Late Historicist house, 1908–1910 • Saarstraße 21 – former
bank building; Late Gründerzeit house, Renaissance motifs, 1901/1902, garden architect Karl Gréus, carried out by architect Schöpper • Saarstraße 23 – Late Gründerzeit inn, Renaissance motifs, 1904 • Inside Schillerstraße 4 – two Classicist doors, stairway • Schillerstraße 6 – former
oilmill; Baroque timber-frame house, half-hip roof, 1693 • Schillerstraße 8 – Late Gründerzeit house, Renaissance Revival, 1902 • Schillerstraße 18 – former saddler's shop (?); one-floor workshop building with shop about 1900 • Schlossplatz – on the town wall a relief of a warriors' memorial 1914-1918, angel with trumpet,
terracotta, sandstone, 1924, sculptor
Robert Cauer the Younger • Schlossplatz 3 – former palace of the Dukes of
Palatine Zweibrücken,
Magdalenenbau (“Magdalene Building”) of the former palace; eight-sided staircase tower, 1614, architect Hans Grawlich, floor added in 1825; side wing, 1825, architect
Georg Moller (see also
below) • Schmidtsgasse 1 – three-floor timber-frame house, plastered, essentially from the 16th or early 17th century, conversion 1885 • Schmidtsgasse 2 – one-and-a-half-floor magazine building, 1876 • Schweinsgasse 7 – house with knee wall, essentially possibly from the 18th century, made over in Late Classicist style about 1830 • At Schweinsgasse 12 – Classicist house door leaf, earlier half of the 19th century • Schweinsgasse 14 – former barn, essentially before 1768 • Schweinsgasse 16 – house, 1905 • Near Stadtgraben 7 – Classicist summer house, about 1820 • Near Stadtgraben 9 – Classicist summer house, marked 1836 • Untergasse 1 – Baroque timber-frame house, plastered and slated, possibly from the 17th century, marked 1716 • Untergasse 2 – three-floor building with half-hip roof, essentially from the 15th century, west eaves side from the 17th and 18th centuries • Untergasse 8 – three-floor shophouse, timber-frame, essentially possibly from the latter half of the 16th century, possibly made over in the 18th century • Untergasse 10 – Baroque shophouse, marked 1724 • Untergasse 12 – timber-frame house, partly solid, mid-16th century, Baroque makeover in the 17th century • Untergasse 15/17 – shophouse, marked 1658, made over in the 19th century, shop built in about 1900 • Untergasse 18 – shophouse; three-floor Late Classicist sandstone-block building, 1872; belonging thereto Late Classicist house, mid-19th century • Untergasse 19 – timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1529, Baroque makeover in the later 18th century • Untergasse 20/22 – three-floor shophouse (pair of timber-frame semi-detached houses), essentially before 1768; volute stone with mason's mark, possibly 16th or 17th century • Untergasse 23 – former town hall; three-floor Late Gothic building with half-hip roof, partly slated timber framing, hall ground floor, about 1517, architect possibly Philipp von Gmünd; staircase tower 1580, newel 1652 • Untergasse 24 – shophouse façade, building with hipped mansard roof, essentially before 1768, floor added about 1825 • Untergasse 28 – three-floor shophouse; timber-frame, essentially from the earlier half of the 16th century • At Untergasse 29 – former house door and
closet, 1797 • Untergasse 32 – three-floor Late Baroque house, formerly marked 1787 • Untergasse 33 – three-floor shophouse, late 17th century • Untergasse 34 – shophouse, timber-frame house with box oriel window, apparently from 1526, possibly rather from the latter half of the 16th or early 17th century • Untergasse 35 – three-floor shophouse; timber-frame, essentially before 1768, conversion in the 19th century • Untergasse 36/38 – shophouse; no. 36: essentially from the late 18th century, Classicist shop built in; no. 38: 1932, architect Wilhelm • At Untergasse 37 – house door; Rococo door leaf, about 1780 • At Untergasse 39 – Classicist door leaves, about 1820; stone tablet with builder's inscription, 1817; wooden stairway, 1817 • Untergasse 40 – three-floor Classicist house, 1822/1823 • Untergasse 53 – three-floor shophouse, timber-frame, early 17th century • Untergasse 54 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, polygonal staircase tower, about 1570/1580, portal marked 1775 • Untergasse 55/57 – three-floor shophouse; two timber-frame houses combined under one roof, 16th century • Untergasse 56 – Baroque shophouse, 17th or 18th century • Untergasse 59 – timber-frame shophouse, partly solid, essentially possibly from the 18th century, conversion 1838 • Untergasse 60 – shophouse, marked 1820; Baroque hind wing, 18th century • Untergasse 62 – three-floor shophouse, essentially from the 15th century (?), timber-frame possibly from the 18th century • Untergasse 66 – inn „Zum Untertor“ (“At the Lower Gate”); Baroque inn with dwelling, before 1768 (possibly from the 17th century) • Wagnergasse 1 – Classicist house, essentially about 1800 • Wagnergasse 2 – Baroque house, before 1712 • Wagnergasse 5 – timber-frame house, essentially before 1685, marked 1772 • Wagnergasse 8 – former postal station; timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1671, made over in Late Baroque marked 1780 • Wagnergasse 11 – Late Classicist house, mid-19th century • Wagnergasse 13 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, 17th or 18th century • Wagnergasse 20 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, mansard roof, marked 1743 • Bridge, in the valley of the
Glan – two-arch Baroque sandstone bridge, marked 1749 • Summer house, Obern Klink – Late Baroque plastered building with upswept roof, 1766 • Summer house, Im Bendstich – Late Baroque plastered building, apparently from 1793 • Jewish graveyard, east of the Meisenheim–
Rehborn road (monumental zone) – opened early in the 18th century, expanded in 1850, some 150 gravestones • Water cistern, on
Kreisstraße 6 – sandstone-block front, marked 1899
More about buildings Old Town Meisenheim's Old Town is the only one in the area that can boast of continuous development, uninterrupted by war, fire or other destruction, since the 14th century. It also has an in places well preserved girding wall with a still preserved town gate, the
Untertor (“Lower Gate”), the 1517 town hall, many noble estates and townsmen's buildings as well as a
mediaeval scale for weighing freight carts. The town's oldest noble estate, the
Boos von Waldeckscher Hof, was built about 1400. The building is today livened up by an event venue and can be visited.
Palatial residence Left over from the
Schloss (palatial residence), formerly held by the
Counts of Veldenz and later the Dukes of
Palatine Zweibrücken, extensively renovated in the 15th century but beset with fire in the 18th century and a round of demolition in the 19th, is only one major building, the
Magdalenenbau, which was built in 1614 as a residence for
Magdalena, the Ducal Zweibrücken
widow, and considerably remodelled in the 19th century by the Landgraves of
Hesse-Homburg. It is nowadays used by the
Evangelical Church and hence also bears the name
Herzog-Wolfgang-Haus (“
Duke Wolfgang House”) after the Duke who lent the
Reformation considerable favour.
Palace Church The Evangelical
Schlosskirche (“Palace
Church”), a three-naved
hall church, was built between 1479 and 1504. At the time of building, it stood right next to the
Schloss and was the estate church, the town parish church and the
Knights Hospitaller commandry's church. Its
Late Gothic west tower is shaped by rich stonemasonry. In the grave
chapel, the 44 mostly
Renaissance-style tombs of the
House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and the rich Gothic
rib vaulting bear witness to sculptors' highly developed art; also often praised is the wooden
Rococo pulpit. The
organ restored in 1993/1994 on the west gallery with its
Baroque console was completed in 1767 by the renowned Brothers Stumm, and was already at the time, with its 29 stops, 2 manuals and pedal, one of the most opulent works of organ building in the Middle Rhine region. Together with the organ at the
Augustinian Church (Augustinerkirche) in
Mainz, it is one of the biggest preserved instruments built by this Hunsrück organ-building family.
Catholic church The Baroque
Catholic parish church, Saint
Anthony of Padua, has very lovely interior décor, parts of which were endowed by former
Polish king
Stanisław Leszczyński, who for a time during his
exile lived in Meisenheim.
Former school On Lindenallee, which was fully renovated amid great controversy in 2007, stands the stately old
Volksschule (public school), which after serving 90 years as a
school is now an “adventure
hotel”.
Former synagogue At first, there was a
Jewish prayer room. In 1808, a
synagogue was built on Lauergasse. After it grew too small to serve the burgeoning Jewish community in the 19th century, the community decided in 1860 to build a new synagogue at the town's
bleachfield on what is now called Saarstraße. From the earliest time during which donations were being gathered comes a report from the
magazine Der Israelitische Volkslehrer published in October 1860:Meisenheim. This time, the local community has celebrated a very nice
matnat yad. After using considerable sums to expand and beautify the graveyard two years ago, and one year ago, for the rabbi's maintenance, correspondingly voting for a payrise for him, it granted over the last few festive days the sum of 2,000
Rhenish guilders to build a new synagogue. The one used until now was at the time of its founding 52 years ago was reckoned on a much smaller membership and even about 12 years ago became bereft of light as its neighbouring properties on all sides were built up; so that, seen from the point of view of the demands for better taste, it lacked light, air and room. Anyone who knows the local community's circumstances will not consider this willingness to make sacrifices slight and will not refuse the community's goodwill the fullest approval. Of course, this sum is still not enough and it is hoped all the more that there will be outside help, as people here never stood idly by when a call for help came from outside. The earlier synagogue was torn down a few years later. The new building was to become a representative building. The financing – costs reached 15,200 Rhenish guilders – could be ensured with a bit of effort. On 3 August 1866, the consecration of the new synagogue, designed by architect Heinrich Krausch, took place. It had seating for 160 worshippers. It was equipped with, among other things, six
Torah scrolls, elaborate Torah ornamentation,
silver candlesticks, an
organ and a library. The prayer books were kept in six lecterns. Outwardly, it was a six-axis aisleless building with a three-floor façade with twin towers. On
Kristallnacht (9–10 November 1938), the Meisenheim synagogue sustained considerable damage. All doors, windows and great parts of the galleries were reduced to rubble and a fire was set, although this was quickly quenched once the
Brownshirt thugs realized that one of the neighbouring buildings was an
SA house. The synagogue, however, was not torn down as so many others were, although the upper levels of the twin towers were removed in 1940. In the time of the
Second World War, the building was mainly used as an industrial works, quite contrary to its originally intended purpose, and thereafter as a municipal storehouse. From 1951 on, it was a private storehouse for grain, fodder and fertilizer. In a conversion, the remnants of the
women's galleries were torn out, the windows were walled up and upper floors were built inside. In 1982, the building was placed under monumental protection. In 1985, the Meisenheim Synagogue Sponsorship and Promotional Association was founded, which acquired the former synagogue the following year and had it restored. On 9 November 1988 – fifty years to the day after Kristallnacht – the former synagogue building was opened to the public as the
Haus der Begegnung (“House of Meeting”). This new name corresponds to the literal meaning of the
Hebrew term for “synagogue”: (
beyt knesset, literally “house of assembly”). On the upper floor, as a visible reminder of the former synagogue, a glass window by the
Israeli artist Ruth van de Garde-Tichauer was installed. The window was created with technical assistance from Karl-Heinz Brust from
Kirn. The window's content is the return of the
Twelve Tribes of Israel to
Jerusalem based on the text from the
Amidah (;
Tefilat HaAmidah “The Standing Prayer”), also called the
Shmoneh Esreh (; “The Eighteen”): “Sound the great
shofar for our freedom; raise a banner to gather our exiles, and bring us together from the four corners of the earth into our land.” In a decision taken on 21 May 1997, the synagogue building received the protection of the
Hague Convention as a cultural property especially worthy of protection. Since 1999, above the entrance, has been a
Star of David made of Jerusalem
limestone, endowed by the
Bad Kreuznach district's partner town in
Israel,
Kiryat Motzkin. The former synagogue's address in Meisenheim is Saarstraße 3.
Jewish graveyard The Jewish graveyard in Meisenheim was laid out no later than the early 18th century. The oldest preserved gravestone dates from 1725. In 1859, the graveyard was expanded with the addition of the “newer part”. The last burial that took place there was in 1938 (Felix Kaufmann). The graveyard has an area of 4,167 m2. In the graveyard's “older part”, gravestones are still standing at 105 of the graves, and in the “newer part”, this is so for a further 125 graves. The “newer part” is bordered on the east by a quarrystone wall. There is a great
wrought-iron entrance gate. The graveyard lies outside the town to the east, east of the road from Meisenheim to
Rehborn, in a wood called the “Bauwald”. It can be reached by walking about 200 m along a farm lane that branches off the highway.
Regular events • ''Mai'n Sonntag'' (shops open on Sunday), each year on the third Sunday in May •
Heimbacher Brunnenfest, folk festival on the first weekend in July •
Wasserfest (“Water Festival”), staged by the volunteer
fire brigade •
Mantelsonntag (shops open on Sunday), each year on the third Sunday in October •
Weihnachtsmarkt (“Christmas Market”, with craft presentation at town hall) ==Economy and infrastructure==