The 1934 Duerkheimer Riesenfass in Bad Duerkheim was built as an oversized wine barrel monument, 15 metres long and 13.5 metres across, built from approximately 200 Black Forest fir trees. The interior houses a Pfalz restaurant and event hall.
Address: St.-Michaels-Allee 1, 67098 Bad Duerkheim, Germany, Pfalz
Roman wine estate and press at Weilberg above Bad Duerkheim-Ungstein, discovered 1981 and excavated as an open-air archaeological park. Roman press house and farm buildings document Pfalz viticulture from the second to fourth centuries.
National monument and museum on a 325-metre Haardt foothill above Hambach, site of the 1832 Hambacher Fest. Permanent exhibits trace the cradle of German democracy and the connection between Pfalz viticulture and 19th-century political reform.
Regional history museum in Speyer with the famous Speyerer Weinflasche, a Roman amphora-glass bottle from around AD 325 still containing residual wine. Pfalz wine and Salian-era exhibits sit alongside permanent collections on Pfalz history.
Local heritage museum in Kallstadt with exhibits on viticulture and village life. Centred on the Kallstadter Saumagen and Kobnert sites, the museum traces the cooperative since 1902 and the Pfaelzer Saumagen culinary tradition.
Royal villa of King Ludwig I of Bavaria above Edenkoben, completed 1852 in Italian Renaissance style. Surrounded by Pfalz vineyards; permanent collection of Max Slevogt paintings and exhibits on Pfalz wine culture under the Bavarian crown.
Wine culture museum in the historic Deidesheim town hall on the market square, opened May 1986. Three floors of exhibits trace the relationship between humans and wine across religion, art, science, medicine, politics and economics.
