Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 2.6 km
Ascend 42 m
Descend 41 m

Explore Oestrich-Winkel in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Oestrich-Winkel

Sight 1: Sankt Martin

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St. Martin is the name of a Catholic church and former parish in Oestrich, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Germany. It was built as a hall church from 1508 in late-Gothic style. It was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and rebuilt in simpler style, but restored to its Gothic appearance in 1894.

Wikipedia: St. Martin, Oestrich (EN)

380 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Oestricher Kran

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Oestricher Kran

The Oestich crane, also called old Rhine crane and wine loading crane, is a baroque harbor crane in Oestrich (Rheingau) in Hesse. The wooden crane was mainly used to load wine barrels, but also by other goods such as tree trunks on Rhine ships.

Wikipedia: Oestricher Kran (DE)

1009 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 3: Evangelische Kirche Mittelheim

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Evangelische Kirche Mittelheim

The Evangelical Church in Mittelheim is a church building of the Protestant parish of Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau region. The group of buildings consisting of church, bell tower and rectory is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Kirche (Mittelheim) (DE)

492 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Basilika St. Ägidius

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The Basilica of St. Ägidius is a three-nave Romanesque church building in Mittelheim in the Rheingau region of Hesse, Germany. The church, dedicated to Saint Aegidius, dates back to the early 12th century, but was partly built on the foundations of a chapel from the 10th century, making it the oldest church in the Rheingau. Today, St. Aegidius is a subsidiary church of the parish of St. Peter and Paul Rheingau, a new type of parish. Since 2015, St. Peter and Paul in Eltville has also been the parish church of Mittelheim.

Wikipedia: St. Ägidius (Mittelheim) (DE)

761 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 5: Graues Haus

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Graues Haus Marion Halft / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Graues Haus (Oestrich-Winkel) (EN)

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