Nieder-Olm - town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Nieder-Olm is a town in Rhenish Hesse a few kilometres south of Mainz.

Understand

Get in

By car

Exits 4 and 5 of the A63

By train

Rail station is on the Mainz-Alzey line

Get around

See

• Katholische Kirche Sankt Georg (Saint George’s Catholic Church), Alte Landstraße 30, 49.909616°, 8.202762°. The Catholic parish church was built in the late 1700s but the quire tower on the east side is a remnant of the old mediaeval church from the 12th century.

Do

• Klein-Winternheim is a village whose recorded history dates to April 1100. The region's economy was dominated by wine-growing for a long time. Nowadays many people live in Klein-Winternheim because it's close to the state capital, Mainz. It has a few shops, bakery and ice cream cafe. There are two retail areas, one off Oppenheimer Street near the rail station, the larger to the west of the autobahn exit 4.

Eat

• Il Vecchio Mulino, Bussolengo-Platz 6 (Just off Pariser Straße), 49.907958°, 8.199393°, +49 6136 7665545. Good Italian food, good décor and service.
• Olli's Snackbox, Am Neuberg 7 (In industrial estate west of Autobahn), 49.911476°, 8.18192°, +49 6136 766808. MF 10:00-18:00. Excellent German fast food stand with some Dutch items: Currywürst, large burgers, fries etc. Standing only, very popular with truckers and local office workers. 2015-11-12
• Phönix, Kleine Wassergasse 3, 49.909561°, 8.203669°, +49 6136 3627. Good Chinese food 2015-11-12
• Zur Krone, Backhausstraße 12, 49.910314°, 8.20155°, +49 6136 75880. Typical German food. Attached to Hotel Becker.
• Gleis Thai Restaurant, Ludwig-Eckes-Allee 1, 49.905591°, 8.204667°, +49 6136 9231537. Well modernised conversion of the station building, quality Thai dishes, although not spicy. 2017-11-15

Drink

• Blums Cafe, Pariser Str.aße 127, 49.907858°, 8.200392°, +49 6136 9260965. Pleasant place for coffee and cake.

Sleep

• CB Hotel Becker, Backhaus Street 12, 49.91029°, 8.201583°, +49 6136 75880.
• Das Crass, Pariser Str. 129, 49.907730°, 8.199715°, +49 6136 814480. Modern hotel with restaurant 2015-11-12

Go next

• Mainz
• Stadecken-Elsheim
• Alzey