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Mainz
Excerpted from Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
Mainz (French: Mayence) is a
city in Germany and the capital of
the German federal state of
Rhineland-Palatinate.
Mainz is located on the left
bank of the river Rhine,
opposite the confluence of
the Main river with the Rhine.
Population (2002): 183,822
(an additional 18,619 people
maintain a primary residence
elsewhere but have a second
home in Mainz).
Mainz is easily reached
from Frankfurt International
Airport in 25 minutes by
commuter railway (S-Bahn).
The city consists of 15
districts: Altstadt, Neustadt,
Mombach, Gonsenheim,
Hartenberg-Münchfeld, Oberstadt,
Bretzenheim, Finthen, Drais,
Lerchenberg, Marienborn,
Hechtsheim, Ebersheim,
Weisenau, and Laubenheim.
Until 1945, the districts of
Bischofsheim (now an independent
town), Ginsheim and Gustavsburg
(which together are
an independent town)
belonged to Mainz.
The former suburbs Amöneburg,
Kastel, and Kostheim-in
short AKK-now belong to
the city of Wiesbaden (on the
north bank of the river).
The AKK was separated from
Mainz when the Rhine was
designated the boundary
between the French occupation
zone (the later state of
Rhineland-Palatinate) and the
US occupation zone
(Hessia) in 1945.
Sights
- Roman-Germanic central museum
(Römisch-Germanisches
Zentralmuseum) - Roman, Medieval,
and earlier artifacts
- Antique Maritime Museum (Museum
für Antike Schifffahrt) - the remains
of five Roman boats from the late 4th
century, discovered in the 1980s
- Mainz Cathedral of St. Martin
(Mainzer Dom) - over 1,000 years old
- The Iron Tower (Eisenturm,
tower at the former iron market) -
a tower from the 13th century
- The Wood Tower (Holzturm,
tower at the former wood market) -
a tower from the 14th century
- The Gutenberg Museum - exhibits
an original Gutenberg Bible
amongst many other printed books
from the 15th century and later
- The Mainz Old Town -
what's left of it
- The Electoral Palace
(Kurfürstliches Schloss) -
residence of the prince-elector
- Christ Cathedral (Christuskirche)
- built 1898-1903,
bombed in '45 and rebuilt in 1948-1954
- The Church of St. Stephan
- with post-war
windows by Marc Chagall
External Links
For a more information about
Mainz see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz)
December 2005
All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License (see
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This information was correct in December 2005. E. & O.E.
During 1978 Sarolta and I paid a visit to Mainz and
enjoyed it.
Hui Chin and I went to Mainz twice during our trip
through Germany visiting the Transrapid site in Lathen.
First time we visited it because it was on our list,
of cities we wished to explore.
Most times, when we go to Europe or coming back to New Zealand
we have stopover at Singapore (And stay for a few days, Hui
Chin came from Singapore and her familly lives there) and
Frankfurt, which is more like a distribution point for most
of the European destination.
But to cut a long story short, on our way back to New
Zealand we had nearly a day to wait for our connecting
flight to Singapore, so I picked a nearby city, Mainz
to explore, not remembering until we got to the inner
city, near the Dom, when we both realised, that we have
been here three or for weeks before.
Mainz must have a 'magnetic personality'. Well, I taken some
more photos, to stay in character.
We did enjoy Mainz the second time around as well.
You can click on these photos for an enlargement.
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