Do you love reading stories from and about history? Well, here you go: The Rhine-Neckar region offers three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than 200 castles and palaces—and innumerable stories thereof. We follow the traces of the Celts and Romans, the Salic dynasty and St. James pilgrims. We take you to one of the oldest European Jewish cemeteries in Worms and show you the place, where princes in the Bergstraße region used to love taking their breakfast. We invite you to explore Lost Places through the lens of a camera and find old-established businesses.
A broom for life
In Ramberg, Harald Klein keeps an old craft alive.
Of tsars and ladies of the camellias
The Rohrbacher Schlösschen palace houses the only tuberculosis museum in Germany.
A memorial to warn future generations
Martin Galle keeps the history of the Westwall in Bad Bergzabern alive.
The sun rolls downhill spraying sparks
The fire wheels are a special custom during the carnival season in the southern Odenwald region.
The floating museum
The paddle steamer “Mannheim” is telling stories of navigation
Touring through Heppenheim with light makers and white women
Recounting legends of old along the lantern trail during the Raunächte time
Bat castle
Rare species live at Hardenburg Castle near Bad Dürkheim
Fountain pen stories about a queen and Anne Frank
The fountain pen museum tells stories from companies in Heidelberg and elsewhere
The poet and the palace!
The Schillerhaus memorial site in Ludwigshafen
“He was a ‘good-luck pig’ and a trailblazer”
What significance did Elector Carl Theodor have? A conversation with the historian Hiram Kümper
Twelve generations and a rogue knight
Götz von Berlichingen is not the only one Daniela and Dajo von Gemmingen bring to the visitor’s mind on the Hornberg hill.
Deeper insights
The Weitersehen app provides deeper insights on bicycle rides through the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district
Oh, hear now the mill by the babbling brook!
Jasmin Brauch from Hardheim is a twelfth-generation miller.
Walther in a Memory of the World
The Codex Manesse stored in Heidelberg is one of the most important books in the world.
Stony Witnesses
Tracing the Celts near Bad Dürkheim
On the roofs of Europe
The tile-making museum in Jockgrim tells a story from industrial history in the Palatinate.
Homeless, unrecognised, yet admired
The writer Augusta Bender is revered in Schefflenz.
Preserving traditions and creating a new shine
Tobias and Christian Pfeifer are shingle makers in the Odenwald.
Magical medicine
The German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg provides insights into the history of pharmacy.
Experiencing peace and quiet
Jaroslaw Krzewicki runs a guesthouse in the former convent in Esthal.
The floating church
Shipping on the Rhine and Neckar rivers with the ship pastor Anne Ressel
A house that opens up spaces
How the barac project attracts artists to Mannheim
A playful journey into the past
Uwe Groll recreates the world of the Bing company in the Freinsheim Toy Museum.
Saving a piece of history
The Haus zum Maulbeerbaum building embodies Landau’s history.
An adventure below ground
Paying a visit to the Marie in der Kohlbach mine near Weinheim