Buildings The following are listed buildings or sites in
Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: •
Evangelical parish
church, Kirchstraße – formerly
Saint Willigis's and
Saint Martin's, three-naved
basilica, 12th to 15th centuries; south side nave partly
Romanesque; vestry late 13th century; quire, 1488, architect Philipp von Gemünd; square
chapel, 1505 • Village core (monumental zone) – village area within the precincts of the former town wall (the remnants of which are located on, among other streets, Soonwaldstraße and Straße Zur Stadtmauer), 14th century onwards, with a number of historic monuments and buildings, among them
timber-frame houses from the 16th to early 19th centuries • Am Untertor 3 –
Baroque building with half-hip roof, timber framing plastered, 18th century, essentially possibly older • Bachstraße 5 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, mid 18th century • At Bachstraße 7 –
Renaissance portal, marked 1608 • Franziskastraße 1 – Baroque timber-frame house, plastered, possibly from the 18th century, marked 1846 • Hauptstraße, graveyard – three-part
Classicist graveyard portal, about 1830 (about 1871) • Hauptstraße 13 – former
school (?); angular building with hip roof, Heimatstil, about 1914 • Hauptstraße 45 – house; Late Classicist building with half-hip roof, marked 1850 • Hauptstraße 59 – so-called
Alt’sches Haus; very ornate three-floor timber-frame house, marked 1589, gateway arch marked 1658. • Hauptstraße 60 – Renaissance timber-frame house, possibly from the late 16th century, made over in the 18th or 19th century with former
bakery, shop and oven • At Hauptstraße 62 –
Rococo house door leaf, about 1770/1780 • Hauptstraße 63 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1680 • Hauptstraße 64 – ornate Renaissance timber-frame house, 16th century, conversion marked 1787 • Hauptstraße 66 – town hall;
sandstone-block building,
Gothic Revival with Late Classicist characteristics, 1861–1864, District Master Builder Conradi,
Bad Kreuznach, conversion 1878, District Building Inspector Müller • Hauptstraße 69 – Late Baroque building with hipped
mansard roof, timber framing plastered, possibly from the latter half of the 18th century • Hauptstraße 72 – former
inn “Zum Weißen Roß” (“At the White Steed”); Baroque solid building, marked 1738, essentially possibly older • Hauptstraße 74 – house; Renaissance building with corner
oriel windows, marked 1574,
staircase tower, Classicist door leaf marked 1835, barn, partly timber-frame • Hauptstraße 78 – house; building with half-hip roof, partly timber-frame, essentially from the 17th century, marked 1823, commercial section marked 1774 • Hauptstraße 80 – building with half-hip roof, partly timber-frame, essentially possibly from about 1600, made over in Baroque in the 18th century, addition in the late 18th century • Im Niederviertel 9 – plastered timber-frame house, front door with house mark, marked 1628 • Kirchstraße 3 – house, essentially from the 16th century, made over in the 18th and 19th centuries • Kirchstraße 12 – three-floor Renaissance timber-frame house, partly slated, possibly between 1580 and 1600 • Kirchstraße 21? – plastered timber-frame house, essentially possibly Baroque 17th/18th century, marked 1789 • Lehrstraße 3 – Late Baroque timber-frame house, slated, marked 1781 • At Lehrstraße 5 –
spolia, former portal lintel, 18th century, volute stone, marked 1737 • At Lehrstraße 10 –
chimera, 17th/18th century • At Rathausstraße 2 – house door, two-leafed, earlier half of the 19th century • Rathausstraße 4 – timber-frame house, Late Baroque building with hipped mansard roof, partly timber-frame, marked 1764 • Rathausstraße 9 – Baroque building with half-hip roof, timber framing plastered, 18th century • Soonwaldstraße 2 –
Gründerzeit villa, Renaissance motifs, about 1880 • Zur Stadtmauer 2 – estate complex; plastered timber-frame house, 16th/17th century, stately side building, partly timber-frame, mansard roof, essentially possibly from about 1600 • Zur Stadtmauer 6 – estate complex along the street, 18th/19th century; timber-frame house, plastered, essentially possibly Baroque • Zur Stadtmauer 7 – timber-frame house with
knee wall, apparently from 1734, possibly partly from the early 16th century • Vineyard house – possibly from about 1910/1920 File:Altsches Haus Monzingen.jpg|Hauptstraße 59 – so-called
Alt’sches Haus File:Haus Pathenheimer Monzingen.jpg|Hauptstraße 63 – Baroque timber-frame house File:Haus Mueller Monzingen.jpg|Hauptstraße 64 – ornate Renaissance timber-frame house File:Monzingen1.jpg|Hauptstraße 66 – town hall File:Haus Weber Monzingen.jpg|Hauptstraße 74 – house
Synagogue There was no purpose-built
synagogue in Monzingen. There was simply a prayer room in one of the Jewish houses, which for a while also housed the Jewish school. This building, whose site is to this day still called
Judenschule (“Jewish school”), was from 1833 to 1892 under Jewish ownership. It is registered in the cadastral plan as an estate area (
Hofraum), which at the time was the customary term for a house with a yard. After the owner moved to the Saarland, the house was sold to a
Christian salesman. It is believed that no new prayer room was ever set up, as it could by then already be foreseen that the shrinking Jewish community would not be able to muster the ten men needed to form a
minyan.
Jewish graveyard The Jewish graveyard in Monzingen lay outside the old town wall. It is unknown when it was first laid out. In
Flurbuch XIV (now kept at the
Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, stock 441/553; catalogue 730/553), the oldest map of the municipality of Monzingen, from 1830, the graveyard is marked. The gravestones formerly standing here but now preserved at the graveyard in
Bad Sobernheim come from the years 1853 to 1913. In 1938, by which time
Adolf Hitler had come to power in Germany, the graveyard had to be dissolved and levelled on the
National Socialists’ orders. In early autumn of that year, the gravestones were removed and taken to the Bad Sobernheim graveyard and set up there. In connection with this deed, there is a story about Monzingen's last Jewish inhabitant, Jettchen Ullmann:The last Jewish woman in Monzingen, Mrs. Jettchen Ullmann (b. 1856), had admonished a high party functionary about building a
Hitler Youth clubhouse on the Jewish graveyard’s lands. The very elderly woman felt compelled to go on and on until she had made sure that the graveyard would not be passing into the party’s hands, but rather would be bought by a resident as building land for a
head saw works. The stones were driven by workers from the firm Marum, then still owned by Alfred Marum, the last leader of the Sobernheim Jewish community, to Sobernheim, where for the most part they were stood in a row. At the same time, there were also some reburials, among them Ferdinand Ullmann, who had already died in 1907, Jettchen Ullmann’s husband.Older inhabitants in Monzingen remember that the graveyard was found in the village's southwest, right outside the town wall. Even by the late 1940s, parts of the wall from around the entrance were still to be seen there, even though the land was now being used as a sawmill. The sawmill's storage yard, which had been laid out on the graveyard's former grounds, has for some years no longer existed. Three garages have since been built there.
Winegrowing Monzingen's first documentary mention in AD 778 is bound with
winegrowing. The document in question bears witness to a donation of
vineyards to
Lorsch Abbey, thus showing that the village has a long and successful winegrowing tradition. Even
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe drank and praised Monzingen
wine. At
Saint Roch’s Festival at
Bingen in 1815, he wrote:Nahe Society is now vaunting a wine that grows in the area, called
Monzinger. It should be lightly and enjoyably drunk up, though before one knows it, it can go to one’s head. In Monzingen it is mainly the classic grape varieties that are grown, such as
Riesling,
Silvaner,
Müller-Thurgau,
Pinot blanc,
Pinot gris,
Bacchus and
Dornfelder. Monzingen has the following
Weingüter (
wineries): •
Weingut Eckhard Alt •
Weingut Emrich-Schönleber •
Weingut Heinrich •
Weingut Jaeger •
Weingut E. Schauß & Sohn •
Weingut Axel Schramm •
Weingut Udo Weber Clubs The following clubs are active in Monzingen: •
Angelsportverein Nahemühle —
angling club •
Bauern- und Winzerverband — farmers’ and winegrowers’ association •
CDU-Ortsverband Monzingen —
Christian Democratic Union of Germany local chapter •
DRK Monzingen —
German Red Cross local chapter •
FDP-Ortsverband Monzingen —
Free Democratic Party local chapter •
Förderverein “Sanierung Evangelische Martinskirche Monzingen” — Saint Martin's Church restoration promotional association •
Förderverein Der Grundschule Monzingen —
primary school promotional association •
Förderverein des Kindergartens —
kindergarten promotional association •
Förderverein Freiwillige Feuerwehr Monzingen —
fire brigade promotional association •
Förderverein TuS 04 Monzingen —
gymnastic and
sport club promotional association •
Freie Wählergemeinschaft Monzingen e.V. — Free Voters’ Association •
Freiwillige Feuerwehr Monzingen — volunteer fire brigade •
Freundeskreis Monzingen-Entrains — Monzingen-Entrains circle of friends •
Gesangverein Sängerlust Monzingen — singing club •
Hunsrückverein Monzingen — local history and geography club •
Landfrauen Monzingen — countrywomen's club •
Männergesangverein 1880 — men's singing club •
SPD-Ortsverein Monzingen —
Social Democratic Party of Germany local chapter •
Sportfischerverein Monzingen —
sport fishing club •
TuS 04 Monzingen — gymnastic and sport club •
Verkehrsverein Monzingen — transport club ==Economy and infrastructure==