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.

The Lady of Crimeheim

Crime novelist Ingrid Noll leads visitors through Wein-heim on an audio guide tour

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

Foamy craftsmanship

The Mayer private brewery in Oggersheim brews beer in the traditional way.

High up, deep down

Paying a visit to the Geozentrum Tromm in the Odenwald

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.

A dialect trail leading through the Odenwald

Travelling along the Mundartweg dialect trail from Neckarelz to Hardheim

An adventure below ground

Paying a visit to the Marie in der Kohlbach mine near Weinheim

Into the blue

Anne and Matthias Gaul have planted large fields of lavender in Grünstadt-Asselheim.

The Gleisweiler health shower

An unusual piece of the history of medicine waits for you in Hainbachtal.

Where the water buffalo graze

An association in southern Hesse is campaigning for these massive landscape keepers

A bridging house

A place for art: The house at the weir footbridge in Heidelberg

The bee whisperer

Honey from the Odenwald: the Willared Organic Apiary

Between merry-go-grounds and wolf enclosures

Discovering the Kurpfalz-Park near Wachenheim

Fluffy peace

On the alpaca farm on Pferchelhang in Heidelberg

Path-breaking roads

Germersheim tells us the history of locomotion.

The Ring that opens horizons to the world

The Bensheim Eysoldt-Ring is one of Germany’s most important acting awards

What the “bleat” is going on?!

The Meckerei in Landau makes delicious products from goat’s milk

The world of sounds from Mannheim’s Jungbusch

We pay a visit to the OMM Orientalische Musikakademie Mannheim

Chambers packed with curiosities

The Langbein Museum in Hirschhorn displays local history in a unique way