Variety is also intriguing for travellers.
The Southern Higher Rhine Regional Association presented a cooperation project on crucial cultural monuments in Rheinau. The challenge aims to deliver an overview of cultural web-sites in the Ortenau area.
Picture: Karen Christeleit
The cultural landscape is flourishing in the south of the Higher Rhine. And that isn’t going to just refer to the flourishing fruit crops. There are many things that one would not affiliate with a cultural landscape at to start with look. For instance, the lots of guarded cultural monuments involving the Black Forest and the Vosges.
At its most current conference in Freistett, the Southern Higher Rhine Regional Affiliation has now offered a brief description of all these exclusive and historically unconventional destinations.
The catalog, which is 196 internet pages prolonged and can be downloaded totally free of charge from the World-wide-web, was compiled by the State Place of work for the Conservation of Monuments in Stuttgart. “All of Baden-Württemberg has additional than 19,000 lawfully guarded cultural monuments,” said Professor Claus Wolf at the presentation. “Additional than 900 objects were collected in the south of the Higher Rhine on your own. All of them are substantial simply because of the place in which they are located.”
Overlooking the host region of the regional affiliation assembly, the president of the Point out Office environment for the Preservation of Monuments reported on the massive amount of these monuments that can be uncovered in the Ortenau district. Of system also about Rheinau and Achern.
The Ortenaukreis has many cultural web pages to supply
Individual desire was compensated to the cemetery in close proximity to Diersheim, where Freiburg archaeologists have been looking into and excavating for years and have occur throughout a lot of uncommon finds (ABB noted in depth). The catalog, which is made up largely of a district sorted record, also contains a large photograph of remarkable artifacts from the Diersheim excavations.
The old town of Gengenbach, the middle of Willstätt and the ruins of the old Allerheiligen monastery also show up on the image internet pages.
There ended up no images of Achern, but there had been quite a few entries on the general checklist. Including lots of of the church buildings in the metropolis heart and districts. The historic Schollenhof close to Wagshurst, the former sanatorium and nursing home in Illenau, Rodeck Castle, the Vogtjürgehof, Eindachhof and Hundshof in Kappelrodeck, Aubach Castle and Neuwindeck Castle ruins in Lauf, several 50 percent-timbered courtyards in Ottenhöfen and Seebach, the castle in Renchen, the city center and Brigittenschloss in Sasbachwalden, as effectively as the Erlenbad monastery in Sasbach and the region of the prehistoric settlement around Bühl-Moos belonging to Sasbach.
Conservationists wrote brief texts for all registered cultural monuments, describing why the respective object was integrated in the collection.
Panoramic of cultural landscapes also fascinating for tourism
Individuals accountable had also recorded proof of the background of targeted traffic and the overall economy, as well as forms of land use of cultural and historic great importance, this kind of as the so-called h2o meadows and frequent pastures. “Thus, the southern Higher Rhine has a full, up-to-day and region-vast inventory,” reported Claus Wolf.
He pressured that this information and facts could be utilized for tourism. Interested citizens can choose suggestions for on-website visits below. Nonetheless, the premier protector of monuments in the nation sees the legitimate intent of presenting setting up places of work, authorities and project developers a very little support in their work, also by way of an attached card.
On the website of the Southern Upper Rhine Regional Association, www.rvso.de, you can download the brochure and the corresponding map.
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