Caring for and maintaining Bacharach’s building monuments, spurred on in the early 20th century by the Rhenish Association for Monument Care and Landscape Preservation ("Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz") which took on the then highly endangered town wall and Stahleck Castle ruin jobs, and the great dedication of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate to the "Wernerkapelle" have seen to it that Bacharach is still a jewel of the "Rheinromantik" and a multifaceted documentary site of mediaeval architecture on the Middle Rhine. The "Wernerkapelle" ruin is under monumental protection and before it a plaque has been placed recalling the inhuman crimes against Jewish residents and also containing a quotation from a prayer by Pope John XXIII for a change in Christians’ thinking in their relationship with the Jews: