Let this be a warning to you if you’re considering installing underfloor heating. St Johannis is the 2nd oldest cathedral in Germany, having been consecrated in 910, but likely having…
Over in the courtyard of the State Museum, they’ve got a stockpile of ready-made construction stoppers. I frequently warned that digging a hole in Mainz will hit mostly something of…
…said Friederike Lauteren (1818–1884) the other week during a garden tour of the Mathildengarten in Nierstein. No, not a voice from the grave, but that of Barbara Reif who effortlessly…
Or 1950, for that matter? (I was mostly still unaware of what was going on, so I can’t help) But if you were George Washington, you’d be giving the first…
My general slackness in things City Daily Photo in recent times logically limits my choice of image, but this is close to the best. iPhone 14 Pro with parallax error…
This is the story of 4 significant sculptures by a significant living artist flanking the entrance to the world’s leading printing museum. The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. It’s…
A forcibly teetotal cherubim (seraphim…?) on the Osteiner Hof.
Raise thine eyes to the heavens and look with wonder at St Stephanus…. Probably has to finish with “I beseech thee” Wouldn’t know…
Pipes of the (relatively) new organ at St Stephans. “New” is always relative around here, given that we’re over 2000 years old. And 3 years old is just the blink…
Oh. They’re always there? (I’m not paranoid, but I just wish they’d stop following me…)
The old Customs building at the river port, a fine example of creative conversion and now housing start-ups and media companies. The rest of the area will be growing apartments…
……”Bring on the cavalry”, you’d be dead wrong. Also if you’re thinking of the English Civil War. Royalists, Roundheads and such. A “Kavalier” is an architectural term, being a firing…
.. these window cleaners at the MED-Centre in the Wallstrasse must be on the verge if canonisation
This detail of a window designed (and perhaps even made) by Marc Chagall in the St Stephan church at the top end of Mainz always brings me back to a…
If you look closely at the top of the column in St Stephan, you’ll identify a truncated whateverit’scalled. (It’s actually a remant of the groin vault that was integral to…
…having discovered America. When you go for a run through the woods in Ober Olm, you’d think that there was significant duplex peripateticism at the time. How else does one…
The Osteiner Hof at the head of the Schillerplatz has a bit of history. Even for Mainz The Osteiner Hof (“Court of Ostein”) is one of several Baroque-era palatial mansions…
Ultra-athletes would undoubtedly be salivating over wall were it not constructed of crumbly sandstone. Terrassenstrasse, part of the Mainzer Actien Brauerei complex
Jürgen Winterberg knows about these things. He runs the meticulously researched bier-in-mainz.de website and has the history of the 78 breweries which have lived and died in and around Mainz.…
The Feldbergschule on the Feldbergplatz is one of those massively forbidding buildings that have survived the onslaughts of bombers and city planners and continue to dominate their surroundings. Built in…
If you’re short of the folding stuff, this is likely where you’ll spend your vacation. In Balkonien, Balkon being German for “balcony”. Cuts down on jet-lag, that’s for sure…
Or doubles?
If you look carefully, you’ll see this (66% quartz, 34% other stuff) sandstone – sourced from a quarry in Flonheim in Rheinhessen – all over the place. Cologne cathedral Mainz…
Show me another kiddies’ playground that backs onto a medieval city wall and I’ll send you a signed 10c coin. Only in Mainz…
….the district military recruiting office in the Kapellenstrasse in Gonsenheim is now a medical centre, healing everything from ingrowing toenails to ER stuff. Also the offices of Theo Plod…er Braunshausen,…
They could have organised the meteorological side of things a bit better and Ms jb could have not been suffering from TFA (Totally F@#&ed Ankle) Syndrome, but apart from that,…
Part of the flood defences along the Rhine. (It’ll cost you €5 to access the viewing platform, €10 if there’s a flood)
Prince Electors’ palace
Prince Electors’ palance, Mainz
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does it work?” The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?” The graduate with…
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