The Palatinate. - Verbandsgemeinde Winnweiler

Primeval Museum Geoskop, Burg Lichtenberg ThallichtenbergMuseum of Local History, Kusel with Fritz Wunderlich Memorial Room, KuselD2 North Palatinate Museumof Local History, RockenhausenFinds from prehistory and the early Romanera through to the heyday of the Palatinatecastle-building and the Baroque age. A presentationof old handcraft occupations andthe furnishing of a North Palatinate parlourfrom the 19 th century.Opening times: March – Christmas.Bezirksamtsstraße 8, Tel. +49 6361 7335or +49 6361 1089 or +49 6361 451252B3 Museum of Jewish Country Life,SteinbachE2 Jewish Museum, WinnweilerJewish history of the Northern Palatinateand the history of Winnweiler.Opening times: Easter – January.Schlossstraße 37, Tel. +49 6302 1256C2 Sightseeing Chalk Mine,WolfsteinE2 Castle Ruins FalkensteinRising almost 100 m vertically above thevillage of Falkenstein, the castle sits on topof the rugged Melaphyr cliffs.Tel. +49 6352 1712 or +49 6302 60261,www.donnersberg-touristik.deD1 Parish Church,Finkenbach-GersweilerAt one time more than 30 % of the peoplein Steinbach were of the Jewish faith. Thismuseum is dedicated to this fact.Tel. +49 6383 1476, www.j-museum.vg-glm.deB2 Musician Country Museum,Burg Lichtenberg ThallichtenbergDocumentation of the history of the travellingmusicians. Demonstration pieces andoriginal music bring the former lifestyle to life.Tel. +49 6381 8429, www.pfaelzerbergland.deB2 Primeval Museum Geoskop,Burg Lichtenberg ThallichtenbergInsights into the Permo-Carboniferous geologicalera with fossils from 290 – 250 millionyears ago, including the “great white shark”.Tel. +49 6381 993450,www.urweltmuseum-geoskop.deC2 Oil Mill St. JulianA jewel in the handcraft history. The millhas been operational since 1730, but todayonly demonstrates the oil extraction process.The mill has one of the last intact stamppresses in Europe.Tel. +49 6387 8430, www.sankt-julian.deThis is not a dry museum visit – there is anexpert-accompanied tour in the tunnels. A collieryrailway takes the visitor into the depthsof the mine. Wine tasting under ground!Tel. +49 6304 913103 or +49 6304 9130,www.kalkbergwerk.comCHURCHES, CASTLES,STATELY HOMESF1 Hane Monastry, BolandenFounded around 1120 with a church thatmust have been a triple-nave basilica. Todaythe monastery is a beautiful location forconcerts and exhibitions.Tel. +49 6352 4004-0,www.kirchheimbolanden.deC2 Wolfskirche, BosenbachVaulting paintings from the 14 th centurywith an iconographic special feature: thepalm donkey of Christ as usually only seenin the art of the 6 th century in Ravenna.Tel. +49 6381 424270, www.wolfskirche.deThe building is characterized today by thelate-Gothic style and displays the passioncycle with 17 murals (from around 1500).Tel. +49 6352 1712,www.donnersberg-touristik.deB2 Remigiusberg with Church andRuin Michelsburg, HaschbachThe church was once an affiliated monasteryof the abbey of St. Remy near Reims.Under the choir is the family vault of theearls of Veldenz.Tel. +49 6381 424270, www.remigiusberg.deF2 Monastery Ruin Rosenthal,Kerzenheim-RosenthalCistercian abbey with side wall remains,buttresses and the western gables which supportsthe little tower with the stone cowl roof.Opening times: April – October.Tel. +49 6352 1712 or +49 6357 407401,www.donnersberg-touristik.deF1 Protestant Courtyardand City Church St. Paulus,KirchheimbolandenBaroque absolutist courtyard and city churchthat forms a unit with the castle and castlegarden. Stumm organ which Mozart playedon in 1778. There are regular organ concerts.Tel. +49 6352 40040,www.kirchheimbolanden.de43