…withe Canaletto, then I’d say that was very perspective..er.. perceptive of you.. Emmerich-Josef-Strasse from ground level
That’s shadow castle to you. Taken in Acker, a narrow dead-end street that leads to the Breitenbachstrasse (and Kaffee Kommune II) and keeps me away from the murderous Gaustrasse traffic
…let there be skylights This is what goes for aircon in these parts….
…has surely come. Not this year – they’re looking for an average harvest on account of the dry spring and early summer – and at the moment, they’re scampering to…
The first St Stephan zu Mainz was built in 991 as a side project to the building of the cathedral. (Willigis, the first bishop of Mainz, had a hand in…
A motley collection of geriatrics kicking up a fuss in front of the cathedral this morning and demanding an uninterrupted view of cathedral in Worms. Eh? Worms is 48km from…
St Stephan
An 18 metre neon sculpture in the underground passageway leading to the Arp Museum in (NQM) Rolandseck. Designed by Richard Meier (think Getty Center, perched above the 405 in LA),…
….but when I asked the Holzturm for directions to the Rhine, they just said…….
Normally you have no idea what lies behind the facades of the uninterrupted rows of buildings as you walk through the back streets of Mainz. But sometimes – just sometimes…
New place just down the road from the remnants of the city wall (which would still have been standing, had not the populace murdered Archbishop Arnold von Selenhofen in 1160…
An embrasure (aka loophole, slit, arrowslit, balistraria, barbican, crenel) in the remants of the city wall on the Rheinstrasse.
Kupferbergterasse down to the Emmerich-Josef-Strasse. And back up again.
The month of May has been a bit dodgy. April was stupidly warm, with only a few days below 20C. May turned out to be April a month late. And…
…or by crook
The fortified church of St Igbert stands on the eastern reaches of Ingelheim, below the Mainzer Berg (200 metres, you drop 100 metres in little over a kilometer, most of…
Company….dis..missed! This what the Osteiner Hof used to be. The Osteiner Hof (“Court of Ostein”) is one of several Baroque-era palatial mansions along Schillerplatz square in the German city of…
…back in the northern hemisphere, storm clouds are gathering… Industrial architecture at the Panzerwerk in Mombach. (If you want better weather, check out notthenelsondailyphoto.com
Maler-Becker-Schule, Gonso
…with cathedral. Corner of Domstrasse and Liebfrauenplatz
The finance sector’s glass palaces in Frankfurt at sunset
Overpass at Mainz station
St Stephan’s (of Chagall window fame): 990 years old. Which isn’t REALLY old for around here, but it’ll do Grungy post-war utilitarian on the left: 60-ish New: The flash apartment…
Lars Reichow, a local satirist and cabaret artist, is rarely at a loss for an elegant turn of phrase. In his weekly newspaper column, he segues from bemoaning the lack…
Christmas baubles capping flagstaffs? OTT, IMHO.
Frankfurter Hof, Mainz
Details in the cloisters at St Stephans
Mainz Daily Photo 