The guides of the city of Heppenheim welcome you!


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The guides of our city welcome you cordially at Heppenheim/Bergstrasse. We invite you to come to know with us our small city during a special sightseeing.

Many years ago, already the Romans stayed here in our region. We owe to them the so called Strada Montana. Later on, this street became one for long-distance trade, and even to-day its run is marked.

Since decades, the „Strada Montana“ enraptures its visitors time and again. With its season of almond- and peach blossom Germany here starts to turn into Italy already said and thought a great many people…

Heidelberg, Ladenburg, Worms, the monastery of Lorsch (UNESCO World culture herency), Bensheim, Zwingenberg, Jugenheim, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, but also the Odenwald – all these places were and still are of importance for the county town Heppenheim/Bergstrasse.

Please follow us to visit the historical places of Heppenheim and its surroundings.

Actuals also provide you informations about new offers and dates, as well as others.

We about us presents you our activities as visitor-guides.

For details concerning our services and prices, please see Actuals.

Actuals


History and wine taste very fine.

Want to have a stroll across our city after a hard seminar?

Having it even as diverting as possible?

Than we have exactly the proper activity for you!

By request, you may accompany all of our guidances with an enjoying drinking of our outstanding wine of the Bergstasse.

According to your wishes, we will offer you 3 – 4 qualities of wine. Additional cost: 2,-- € each person.


At the Bergstrasse, autumn presents its extreme richness in colour.

While the wintagers are engaged in the vintage, at stubble-fields children are flying kites.

We, the city-guides, are preparing us for the contemplative time which is already slowly approaching. During our guidances on customs we take a different view at a great many of forgotten traditions. To our regret, many people do not know about the original significations of customs, symbols and colours.







……..which is the significance of the colours of our Advent garland?........

………since when already exist Advent garland, Advent calendar………

………Santa Claus or the Father Christmas?..……

………when are starting the hoar-frost nights?......

……..at which date, exactly, is Christmas?.........


These are only a few examples of our entertaining Christmas guidance. Be surprised which exciting things still exist. For children and school classes we offer very special guidances. Please ask for them.

We about us


We take pleasure to present us to you.
We are a community of interests of city-guides of Heppenheim, formed at the end of 2006 and propagating our own conception.


For a long time, in many cities the guidances are not offered only by municipal authorities. The fact, Heppenheim now follows, only was a question of time.

During the last years, wishes and requirements of the visitors have extremely changed, and the antique guides of strangers in the meantime have become up-to-date visitor-guides. The classic kind of guidance often is no longer sufficient, and also in and around Heppenheim our visitors anticipate an exceptional guidance. Honorary city-guides can deal with this demand only to some extent.

In this regard, the city-guides want to enrich the offers of our city by new conceptions, presenting to the visitors something special.

We are well trained city-guides enlarging our knowledge constantly by advanced training and schooling, being also certificated by the “Bundesverband der Gästeführer Deutschlands” (Federal organization of visitor-guides of Germany). All of us have already some years of experiency not only at Heppenheim, but also in several cities of the region, knowing quite good the interests and pleasures of the visitors.

Because of our museum-pedagogic training we have developped an appropriated conception not only for adults, but also concerning guidances for children, pleasing them very much.

We would be pleased to guide you across the historical old city of Heppenhem, dressed with our historical attire, tailored by us according to ancient designs. Colours, fashions and accessories meet very closely with
the original garments.


Please convince yourself what fun causes strolling across our city, wearing these garments.

Offer


In addition to our city-guiding we willingly would agree to your special wishes.

We are sure, having the suitable offer for a gay birthday round, the special attributes concerning an age-group meeting, or an extraordinary Christmas party. In the daytime and at night, causing then a “beautiful shudder” –as we say- are related, for example, our “night-shadow-tales..

In historical garments we are guiding you through our old city and its surroundings, telling you tales and playing, also with your partication, scenes with historical source. Thus you immerse in epochs passed long ago.
We care much about prices pleasant to families. Please klick “Stadt- und Burgführungen”, “Themenführungen“, or „Spezialitäten“ in order to find details and prices.
Stadt- und Burgführungen

Themenführungen

Spezialitäten

The Stadtlotsen as pictures


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Press-reports


The city seen from an other point of view. The new booklet „ Looking for traces in Heppenheim – an international stroll across the city“ is informing about immigration to Heppenheim . Its origin was a cooperation between the city-archieves of Heppenheim, the person in charge of foreign people for the district “Bergstrasse” , as well as backed by the female city-guide Ezel Iser of turquish descent.

Landrat Matthias Wilkes (CDU) lobte die Gestaltung des neuen Angebots als „ansprechend und kreativ“ ……

Die vollständige Beschreibung finden Sie hier.

Die Broschüre kann über das Heppenheimer Stadtarchiv, die Ausländerbeauftragte des Kreises Bergstraße oder das Bürgerbüro im Landratsamt (Graben) bezogen werden.

Starkenburger Echo vom 16.12.2006: Zeitreisen in die Vergangenheit Tourismus:

Die Stadtlotsen, eine Interessensgemeinschaft Heppenheimer Gästeführer, bieten Nacht-Schatten-Geschichten

Den vollständigen Artikel finden Sie hier.

Starkenburger Echo vom 19.06.2006 Abschied vom Kindergarten Schulanfänger:

Wald-Erlenbacher „Pfalzbach-Wichtel“ besuchen die Starkenburg WALD-ERLENBACH.

Einen vollständigen Artikel finden Sie hier.

Starkenburger Echo vom 27.2.07

Frauen schreiben Stadtgeschichte

Den vollständigen Artikel finden Sie hier.

Links


Links to our favourite sites.

We are members of the registered Federal Union of Visitor-Guides of Germany www.bvgd.de

and the also registered Visitor-Guidance Odenwald www.gaestefuehrung-odenwald.de

Are you looking for an economic vacations residence in Heppenheim? www.ferienwohnung-trares.de

The observatory Starkenburg already has caused exertion of influence in many people.

Are you interested in small planets and astrometry? In such a case, please visit Erwin Schwab. http://home.arcor.de/erwinschwab

Imprint


Responsible for the contents and editor:

Ezel Iser

Rebenstr.103
Phone: 0 62 52 / 67 29 44
64646 Heppenheim

Mail: stadtlotsen@t-online.de

Bilder: Gerhard Iser, Heppenheim

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