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Extract from the Oppenheim Travel Guides:
Rhine-Hesse's leading wine town is
OPPENHEIM
, midway along the rail line between Mainz and Worms. It has a hilly setting just back from the river, and is full of half-timbered houses set in narrow little streets. At its highest point is the
Katharinenkirche
, a grandiose church built over more than two centuries: the towers are Romanesque, the east end and transept early Gothic, the nave high Gothic. As an afterthought, the west chancel, which has the appearance and dimensions of a self-contained church in its own right, was added in late Gothic style. Inside, look out for the Oppenheimer Rose, a fourteenth-century s...
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