Cycling boosts energy, reduces stress, and is good for the environment. The “Brückenschlag Mainz-Wiesbaden” project aims to ensure that, by the summer of 2026, significantly more people commute to work by bike instead of by car.

Over the course of one month, cyclists are encouraged to cross the three main bridges as often as possible. Counts will be tracked via an app and permanently installed devices. Companies will compete against each other in teams. The collected data will be used to plan a permanent high-speed bike route. A permanent bike express route would primarily serve as a flagship project for the entire region, making the connection between the two state capitals more sustainable and faster.

Location: Mainz and Wiesbaden: Public bike paths and streets; MAK Frankfurt: Drawing machine with a virtual representation of the routes traveled.

The creative agency for digital brand management serves clients ranging from international brands to small NGOs. With over 650 awards to its credit, the agency regularly receives national and international recognition. In addition to creating campaigns for clients, it also implements its own projects with a sociopolitical focus. In line with the agency’s own sustainability strategy, “Shared Value,” it develops products such as a CO2 app that encourages users to reduce their daily CO2 emissions.

The sam – Stadtmuseum am Markt is presenting a selection from the exhibition *Heiße! Quellen!*—a participatory photo exhibition organized in 2024 in collaboration with the HSRM and Wiesbaden residents. “Hot! Springs!” is to be understood in a figurative sense: Armed with cameras, the participants roamed the streets in search of places that symbolically radiate special energies. The resulting photo series, supplemented by personal comments, offer unique insights into Wiesbaden from individual perspectives.

We honor the man whose terracotta ornaments and architectural sculptures in the Historicist style shaped the appearance of numerous buildings in Wiesbaden beginning in the mid-19th century. At the Gläsernes Museum, we are showcasing excerpts from the exhibition *The Estate of J.J. Höppli in Wiesbaden*, which was on view in 2022 in the crypt of the Marktkirche. On August 28 and October 2, the sam’s conservator will demonstrate how J.J. Höppli’s architectural ornaments are prepared for exhibitions.

Every month, visitors to the sam select a favorite object from the museum’s collection, which is then displayed in the permanent exhibition. In the Glass Museum, we display a selection of these as object tiles. Every object has a story behind it—what’s your connection to it? We’re collecting your memories, associations, and stories on colorful postcards.

The tenth anniversary of sam at the Marktkeller is an opportunity to reflect on the history of the city museum and its significance for Wiesbaden. Sabine Philipp takes the audience on a journey through the past and present of the sam, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the museum’s operations, and sparks curiosity about all that the sam still has to offer. She opens our eyes to exciting options for the museum’s future development in a new building at a new location outside the historic Marktkeller.

Botany Printing with Lina Becker

Wiesbaden’s history is closely linked to medicinal plants, mineral springs, and scientific research. In the Open Studio, local plants themselves become “printing blocks,” bringing together nature, the city’s history, and creativity.

We’ll capture Wiesbaden’s biotopes on paper using various printing techniques, creating an image together with the plants.

It’s about the process, not the result. We want to observe closely, combine different shapes, colors, and textures, and have fun together.

Come by and join us!

Write Like the Romans? 

When the Roman legions withdrew from Wiesbaden about 1,400 years ago, they left behind not only thermal baths and forts, but also their writing system and the alphabet we use today.

In the writing workshop hosted by sam—Stadtmuseum am Markt at the Gläsernes Museum in WerkRaum—we’ll use a calamus, ink, and papyrus to experience what it was like to work in a Roman writing room. How were papyrus, parchment, and wax tablets used? What were pumice and quills used for? What did Roman script look like, and how did the Latin alphabet differ from ours?

Join us at the Roman writing desk and try your hand at writing with ink, reed, quill, and rush. During the workshop, we’ll create our own papyrus bookmark to take home.

Free admission—Suitable for children ages 6 and up—no registration required

Led by Noah Reichert, Museum Education, sam – Stadtmuseum am Markt 

Joana Brauhardt, research project assistant for the Dell exhibition, will set the stage for Dr. Frank Werner’s subsequent lecture with insights into the (State) Bauhaus in Weimar and the Frankfurt Art School. An open discussion.

The heating transition is one of the major challenges facing our city in the future. Currently, about 70 percent of Wiesbaden’s heating needs are still met by natural gas—yet the goal is for the supply to be climate-neutral by 2045. This can only be achieved through district heating, electricity, and climate-neutral gases.

This public information event will provide residents with an overview of the various options available for their own properties. Learn more about the results of the municipal heating plan, the expansion of district heating, connection options, solutions for decentralized heat supply, and relevant funding opportunities.

History isn’t just about the past—it’s also shaped by the decisions we make today. The heating transition will bring lasting change to Wiesbaden and its neighborhoods, making it part of the city’s history of tomorrow. As part of WerkRaum’s monthly theme “City History(ies),” the event focuses on the future development of our city.

WItopia: An evolving exhibition conceived and curated by WandelWerkstattWelt

We create, invent, and dream up the world, just the way we like it.

Images, stories, and ideas for the future conceived, drawn, painted, dreamed up, observed, and documented by children in Wiesbaden as part of the School Year of Sustainability. The children explored the question: If you could decide for yourselves, what would your little corner of Wiesbaden look like in the future?

Program

The results from last year are on display and being presented. But it doesn’t stop there! Visitors—young and old—will be stimulated, inspired, motivated, and encouraged through questions, interactive exhibits, discussions, hands-on activities, and games to put their own stories, visions of the future, and ideas for the future down on paper and help the exhibition grow.

Dates: 

Between Wilhelmstraße and Westend, the Kurhaus and the vacant SportScheck building, Walhalla and the Platz der Deutschen Einheit—from the need for safety and an equitable transportation policy to affordable housing and heavy rainfall: Hesse’s state capital faces many challenges. Following the success of the documentary theater evening “Our Legacy: Tax Me If You Can,” Helge Schmidt and his team are turning their attention to Wiesbaden itself in their new research project and asking the questions: Who owns the city? How do we want to live together? What could Wiesbaden look like as a just and forward-looking city? Drawing on interviews that explore current urban policy discourses, the project aims to investigate what connects us and our audience: the very place where this theater stands.

City history is the sum of all the stories that have taken place in the city’s various locations. As part of this month’s theme, “City History/Stories,” Alexander Pfeiffer reads stories from Wiesbaden that either actually happened or could have happened.

Pfeiffer’s latest novel, “Terrorballade,” which explores Wiesbaden’s legacy of the RAF, examines the city through the lens of contemporary history. The essay “Sinnieren im Kaffeetakt” offers a caffeine-fueled intellectual stroll through our city center. And even one or two poems from the collection “Leuchtfeuer” cannot hide the fact that they have their origins in the streets of Hesse’s state capital.     

Alexander Pfeiffer was born in Wiesbaden in 1971. He is a writer, host, director of writing workshops, and boxing coach.