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In 2003, the square in the center was newly created. Eye catcher of the place is the well. The water bubbles here from a large hewn sandstone, which stands under a shady chestnut.
The only part remaining from the original church built in 1330 by the Order of St. Antony is the impressive chancel. Together with the Carmelite Church and the Church of the Rich Clares, it is one of only three remaining monastic churches going back to the Gothic period. From 1620 to the time of secularisation in 1802, it was the church of the adjacent monastery of the Poor Clares. The single-nave church features a complete cycle of wall murals from the original building, the only such work preserved in Mainz. The paintings were exposed and…
The listed mountain church stands on the Goldberg above Osthofen. The church has a varied history and was constantly expanded and rebuilt. At the end of the first millennium, a castle complex, which was used by the governors for Osthofen, developed from the chapel and a neighboring manor. In 1241, after a conflict between the city of Worms and the Worms bishop Landolf von Hoheneck, and the citizens of Osthofen were stopped at the request of the Worms, this fortification was preserved. During the Thirty Years' War, the church burnt down…
There is an air of reverence and mysticism about the Roman castle of Mainz. Soldiers in battle gear walk around a huge bonfire, placing weapons and gifts at its feet. Laments fill the air, and the fire throws eerie shadows onto a cenotaph ... We can only guess what the elaborate annual memorial services held in Roman times in honour of general Drusus entailed. All that has remained of his cenotaph is a 20 m high masonry block on the grounds of the citadel of Mainz. Nero Claudius Drusus was a step son of Emperor Augustus. In 13 BCE, Augustus…
It was built in 1899 at the crossing point of the Alzey-Bingen and Alzey-Mainz railway lines and was in operation for over 100 years. The old mechanical systems of the block and lever works on the upper floor and the tensioning systems on the lower floor are still available and can be visited - now as monuments of the early Rhenish-Hessian railway history. It is planned to expand the old signal box into a museum and to hold information events there on the history of railways in the early industrialization period. On the day of the open…
Chapel and tower were built in the Romantic style in the late 18th century. Today registry office weddings can be held in the chapel which belongs to the Gerhard Hannemann Family.
The all-around accessible main wall was mainly constructed in the 15th century. Its most vulnerable flank at the Mainzer Berg was strengthened by the addition of a Zwinger (inner defence gate). The only entrance (at Grabengasse/Kirchgasse) received an outer gate, a so-called “Barbarkane”. The second, southern breach was created in 1873 and provided access to the vineyards. The most salient point is the so-called Malakoff tower - formerly the “Alte Wache” (old guard post) with its dungeon. It offers an impressive…