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…
A month and nine days too early Kristallnacht – Crystal Night, a euphemism for the shards of broken glass that littered the streets – was a pogrom against Jews carried…
1599. Original windows. I thinkMaybe not. Bet the paint is, though… Gonsenheim, a flash (more-of-a-small-city-than-a) suburb of Mainz, has a bit of history. Early Stone Age – 4500 years ago…
Used to be a parking bay, Covid came along and stopped inside dining, Stadt Mainz said (surprisingly, they’re normally pretty stick-in-the-mud-ish..) “Grab a spot outside your restaurant and it’s all…
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…
Vikings – that’s what is says on the ship, anyway – heading back down the Rhine to the North Sea and all points north. The bunch I saw drifting aimlessly…
..in 1817 William Turner 1775-1851 English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. There’s a William Turner Route, a…
Andreas Wagner is a polymath Take your pick: Historian/University lecturer/Vintner/Author of academic works/Author of crime and mystery novels/ Family historian It was in the latter role that he fronted up…
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…
Or what goes for one at the intersection of 50°0’N and 8°16’E This *used* to be Mainz and it’s still called Mainz-Kastel ( in brackets: Suburb of Wiesbaden) with the…
…Mainzer Stadtwerke – Mainz Municipal Utilities – who deliver electricity, gas, drinking water and district heating supply in the region and bus and tram services in the city. Cool graphics…
Liesbeth is a cafe on the Zollhafen in Mainz, tucked in next to the Kunsthalle in what used to be the engine shed for the port Port. It’s been there…
The widely extended Selig family had lived in Hechtsheim for several generations and earned their living as fruit, grain and livestock traders. Simon Selig I, born in Wiesenbronn near Würzburg…
That’s local dialect for “Hügel”, a hill. And topographically, Rheinhessen is right up there Someone came up with the idea of developing walks of around 11km through vineyards/woods/open fields and…
On the left bank of the Rhine, we have Mainz – cathedral domes and church spires and stuff. On the other side of the river, we have Mainz-Kastel. Which gets…
…Orbis.Well, not quite accurate – it’s actually Urbi et Orbi (“to the city and to the world”) – and Orbis, a small town in the Palatinate with a population of…
2014 was the celebration of the 1200 year anniversary of the demise of Carolus Magnus’/Charlemagne/Charles the Great/Karl der Große. King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during…
The Jewish cemetery in Hechtsheim
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – dig at your peril in Mainz. You’re likely to stumble across a Roman boatyard with the remains of 17 canoes.…
I attended the laying of two Stolpersteine – “stumbling blocks’ – yesterday morning on a cold wet day that was a friend to no-one and which seemed more than appropriate…
A long time ago (3 years actually, but at my age…), Robin Fullmer wrote to me about a program on a Jewish emigree to New Zealand, I did some research…
…but heaps of other good stuff… Natural History Museum
Mainz has a coloured history – Romans, Franks, Vandals, Swedes, Austrians, French all turned up at some stage and stayed for various periods of time – but it’s the bleu-blanc-rouge…
Or Maria Ward, pronounced in German to rhyme with “bard” Yorkshire lass, born into a Catholic family at a time (16C) of great religious conflict in England, forcing her relocation…
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…
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…
The Dionysos restaurant in the Germanikusstrasse is generally accepted as being the best Greek restaurant in Mainz. Tucked in behind the Kästrich and off the tourist track, you have to…
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.…
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