Top 8 Castles around Lörzweiler

The Mainz South Bridge (also known as the Mainz-South Railway Bridge, and at times as the Mainz-Gustavsburg Railway Bridge) is a railway bridge on the Mainz–Frankfurt railway line, spanning the Rhine at river kilometer 496.4 and connecting Mainz in Rhineland-Palatinate with Gustavsburg in Hesse. A footbridge attached to the north side of the bridge allows pedestrians and cyclists to cross the river.

The former country hotel has become a retirement home

On the archway of Sörgenloch Castle is the coat of arms of Barons Köth von Wanscheid from the 18th century. The history of Sörgenloch Castle goes back to the 12th century. At that time, the place was owned by the St. Alban Monastery in Mainz and was more of an estate with a few residential buildings than a real town as we know it today. The estate's task was to supply the monastery with food and money through the so-called "tithe". However, it is unknown who managed the estate on behalf of the monastery. The place attracted attention around the same time that Sörgenloch Castle was built. At that time, coins and vessels from the Iron Age and antiquity were found. The Celts and the Romans had also already settled here. The place around Sörgenloch Castle gained economic importance as an important place of pilgrimage in the 17th century. The money of the pilgrims who came to visit was also responsible for the fact that a simple manor house could be turned into the castle we see today a good 100 years later. The small Renaissance-style castle was built by the Köth-Wanscheid family, who ruled the town in the 18th century. Sörgenloch Castle is no longer owned by the local lords, but is run privately as a restaurant. Also part of the castle, but now independent, are the Catholic rectory and a second, former castle.

The keep has been preserved and can be climbed. The upper (narrow) section is a bit dark, but the climb is worth it!

Here you can find information about Landskron Castle: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Landskron_(Oppenheim)

History Before the Landskron Castle was built, a Salian or Staufen fortification probably stood in the same place, which was mentioned in 1118 as "praesidium" and was destroyed in the possession of King Henry V by troops of the Archbishop of Mainz, Adalbert. The castle itself was probably built at the beginning of the 13th century. The oldest surviving written mention of "Reichsburg Oppenheim" dates from 1244. This castle was destroyed in 1257 and 1275 by the citizens of Oppenheim in a dispute with the castle dwellers over their privileges. However, Rudolf von Habsburg forced the citizens to rebuild the castle by 1281. In 1375, Emperor Charles IV pawned the castle to Ruprecht of the Palatinate. Ruprecht accordingly had the castle expanded. He was followed by his grandson Ruprecht III as owner of the castle, who also died there. Elector Frederick V commissioned a palace-like renovation of the castle in 1615. The castle burned down in the Thirty Years' War during the Oppenheim town fire

The southern bridge serves the Rhein-Main-Bahn from Mainz via Darmstadt to Aschaffenburg and the Mainbahn running south of the Main from Mainz to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, on which the S 8 line between Mainz, Frankfurt (Main) Airport and Frankfurt also runs. After the Roman bridge and Charlemagne's Rhine bridge, which burned down shortly after its completion, the southern bridge in Mainz from 1862 was the first fixed Rhine bridge in Mainz, which until then only had a ship bridge. At the same time, it was the fourth railway bridge over the Rhine after the Waldshut–Koblenz bridge on the Upper Rhine, the Kehl bridge and the Cathedral bridge in Cologne. While today it connects two federal states - Rhineland-Palatinate on the left bank of the Rhine and Hesse on the right bank - both banks belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse or the People's State of Hesse at the time of construction and up to 1945, to its left bank of the Rhine province of Rheinhessen and to its right bank of the Rhine province of Starkenburg .

From the imposing castle ruins, there is a great view over Oppenheim and the Rhine plain 👍 https://www.regionalgeschichte.net/rheinhessen/oppenheim/kulturdenkmaeler/burg-landskron.html