The so-called “Bonaparte's House” or also “green house” was built around 1820 by Jakob Friedrich Weitzel. He was the Mayor of Nieder-Ingelheim under French rule and an admirer of the French Emperor. Therefore, he was called “Bonapart-Weitzel.” He remained mayor even under Hessian administration.
From 1890, the building served as a guest house for the von Erlanger family. Until it was used as a pharmacy, there was a chemical factory here in the meantime that produced adhesives for the shoe industry.
Commerce Council A.-Boehringer Park
The park area surrounds a war memorial for the fallen of World War I, which was donated in 1925 by the chemical manufacturer Albert Boehringer. In an honor hall, Christ and a dying soldier rise in life-size limestone. Subsequently, a plaque was added to the ground in memory of the victims of World War II.
The chemist Albert Boehringer acquired a small tartar factory on Binger Straße in Nieder-Ingelheim in 1885, which evolved into the globally successful pharmaceutical family company “Boehringer Ingelheim.”
