>Or Schobbeschteschää in the local dialect. (Someone’s going to correct me on that one..)

The statue of the prototypical Mainz wine drinker graces the green patch between the Schönbornerhof and the Proviantamt.

The name is a portmanteau comprising “Schoppen” – the 0.4 litre cylindrical wine glass and “stechen” – as in “stick” your nose in a glass of wine.

Simply someone who regularly enjoys a glass of wine.

Don’t we all…?

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