Aulhausen combines a pottery-making history dating back to an early mention of the settlement with a trail through fields towards Kammerforst. The Aulhausen pottery kiln, St. Mary’s Church at St. Vincenzstift and the Aulhausen Pottery Trail offer concrete cultural and landscape points of interest during a stay. When choosing a holiday apartment in Aulhausen, these features can help you decide what to focus on during your trip: local history and art, or a trail with views towards Niederwald.
Pottery History and Church Art
Aulhausen is regarded as a former pottery settlement; the place was first mentioned by the name Ulenhusen in 1108. The listed Aulhausen pottery kiln near the parish church stands as a testament to this pottery tradition. Here you encounter two distinct connections to the past: Ulenhusen relates to the settlement’s first mention, while the kiln represents the local history of pottery-making.
Another cultural point of interest is the approximately 800-year-old St. Mary’s Church at St. Vincenzstift. Artists with disabilities designed its interior and windows; their work gives the church its distinctive artistic character. Together, the pottery kiln and St. Mary’s Church offer different ways to explore Aulhausen’s history and design.
The Aulhausen Pottery Trail and its Landscape
The Aulhausen Pottery Trail passes through the Gaulskopf fields towards Kammerforst and offers views towards Niederwald and Niederwald Hunting Lodge. Kammerforst is part of one of Germany’s largest uninterrupted forest areas. The trail thus brings open fields and woodland together; the named viewpoints also direct your gaze towards Niederwald and the hunting lodge. This offers a different focus from the historical monuments: here, the landscape and the course of the trail take centre stage.
Culture and Trails in the Wider Destination of Rüdesheim am Rhein
In the wider destination of Rüdesheim am Rhein, Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Cabinet offers a 45-minute musical journey through time, exploring the dance halls and living rooms of earlier generations as well as the technological achievements of the era. The cabinet displays more than 400 self-playing musical instruments. The Mechanicum Rüdesheim offers a different experience: visitors can set more than 100 automata and kinetic objects in motion with a pedal or at the push of a button. The collections thus differ both in their objects and in how visitors interact with them.
Drosselgasse is part of Rüdesheim’s historic old town, with its small lanes; wine taverns line the street. This old-town setting offers a different cultural focus from the collections: here, the lanes and wine taverns take centre stage.
For hikers, the fifth stage of the Rheinsteig from Rüdesheim to Lorch is listed as 20.4 kilometres long. Blue markings indicate the main trail, while yellow symbols mark access routes for shorter or longer stages starting from Rüdesheim. This makes it possible to distinguish between the main trail and access routes; the listed stage also gives you a specific distance and two named endpoints.
The Ring Ticket combines a walk with a boat trip, a cable car ride and a chairlift ride. The Rüdesheim cable car runs from Rüdesheim to Niederwald Temple and the Germania monument; from there, the descent by chairlift continues to Assmannshausen. If you are planning this combination, you can treat the different modes of transport and the walk as parts of a single Ring Ticket option.
The Rüdesheim Winzerexpress offers a roughly 30-minute round trip through Rüdesheim’s lanes and vineyards, with information about sights and winegrowing. Operating details and departure times are seasonal; check them for your planned date. Along the hiking trails in the vineyards around Rüdesheim, there are also wine cabinets where hikers can buy chilled bottles of local wine on site. Availability may vary at individual cabinets.
Discover more destinations: Presberg, Assmannshausen.
Go to the main travel overview: Rüdesheim Am Rhein.
