Herxheim near Landau/Pfalz: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Herxheim near Landau/Pfalz combines culture, history, and paths through the surrounding area. Anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Herxheim near Landau/Pfalz can then continue their search for accommodation.

Culture and History

The Herxheim Museum presents the Linear Pottery culture. A permanent Neolithic exhibition focuses on a settlement that existed at this site from around 5300 to 4950 BC, including its unusual destruction ritual. Overall, the museum presents permanent exhibitions on the Neolithic period and local history across more than 400 square metres, as well as temporary archaeological and cultural-history exhibitions. The local history exhibition covers tobacco cultivation, weaving, and architectural history. In addition to the exhibitions, the museum offers guided tours, workshops, and regular activity days. All exhibition areas in the Herxheim Museum are accessible to wheelchair users.

The publicly accessible park of Villa Wieser provides the setting for open-air events, theatre performances, and readings. Concerts, exhibitions, and readings are regularly held at Villa Wieser in the centre of Herxheim. Chawwerusch is a professional theatre collective with its own modern theatre venue in Herxheim and presents three to five new productions each year.

The parish church of St. Mary of the Assumption combines a fully preserved late Gothic choir dating from 1507 with a nave enlarged in 1776/77. Its tower reaches a height of 56 metres with its pointed Gothic spire. A bronze sculpture from 1995 commemorates Hugo Ball, one of the co-founders of Dadaism, in Herxheim.

Cycling and Trails

Several named cycling routes run directly through Herxheim: the Kraut und Rüben Cycle Route, the Südpfalz Cycle Route, the Klingbach Cycle Route, the Tobacco Tour, and the southern section of the Palatinate Way of St. James. The Tobacco Tour runs through Herxheim and Hayna between tobacco fields and traditional drying sheds. It is designed as a circular route and can be cycled in either direction. Herxheim’s attractions include traditional tobacco sheds.

Surrounding Area

In the wider surrounding region of Herxheim, nearby vineyards combine with developed cycling and walking paths that allow visitors to explore the landscape.

More local pages: Pleisweiler-Oberhofen, Böbingen, Schweigen-Rechtenbach, Vorderweidenthal, Gossersweiler-Stein, Münchweiler am Klingbach, Burrweiler, Klingenmünster

To the higher-level travel overview: Southern Wine Route.