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…
The Nasengässchen (Nose Alley) links Leichhof (the site of the original church cemetery, Leiche meaning corpse) and Grebenstrasse (possibly originating from Graben, a ditch) in the Altstadt. There are heaps…
…but not off topic. In Frankfurt (which STILL doesn’t have a DP…) the other day and was taken by strips of fabric on the phalanx of plane trees lining the…
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,…
Rotes Tor, Rheinpromenade, 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…
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.
Wilhelm Holzamer, novelist, librarian to Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, Paris correspondent for a number of German newspapers, Nieder-Olmer gets his own monument.
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…
Or is it “Iri”? Whatever. Roof garden at the top of Emmerich-Josef-Strasse. (Named after Prince-Elector and Archbishop Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim. Doubtlessly truncated to spare the city coffers…
…or has your horse been playing “tag” again..? St Martin about to take the last fence in the Kupferbergterrassen Stakes
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…
It keeps on reminding you of how bad things can get. A good couple of 100 metres from the Rhein. And I didn’t have to bend down much to take…
I got up to 650, which matches historical evidence. Ober-Olm, a village about 10k from Mainz, dates back to the early Stone Age and finds in recent (i.e 1866…) years…
..of Mary Whitehouse, what filthy mind designed that lighthouse” Mary Whitehouse was a firebrand protectress of public morals in Britain in the 1960s and 70s – Sisyphus springs to mind……
There are these ones, of course, but I’m trying to avoid brutal modernism as much as I can these days… Used to be gas, now electric bulbs, LEDs can’t be…
This morning, I did my Good Samurai act in saving Cynthia, Judy and Carol (all originally from New Jersey, but now spread between there, Baltimore and Texas) from a fate…
When you’re 1000 or so years old, things can start getting a bit shonky. Not talking of personal experience, of course, but Mainz cathedral is a bit like the Golden…
I stumbled over this very tired looking steamroller at the side of the road in Hechtsheim. Made in the late 1930’s by Henschel for Heinrich Zinggreber of Eschwege, a company…
There’s an excellent article in the current issue of Intelligent Life about Stolpersteine (“stumbling stones”) – brass plates set into pavements around Germany (and in some other European countries) to…
The building that houses the “Löwen Apotheke” (Lion Pharmacy) has been around since 1568 and in this possie (with a brief relocation around the corner in the Schusterstrasse due to…
Spring fever getting you down? Can’t be feeling as faded as these 2, I’m sure. Mind you, you’re not a couple of hundred years old….. Sandstone plaque at St Stephans.
Stunningly modern new organ at St Stephans, Windows by Chagall.
Anzac Day occurs on 25 April. It commemorates all New Zealanders killed in war and also honours returned servicemen and women. The date itself marks the anniversary of the landing of New…
The Fischergasse – as the name indicates – was in days gone by the centre of all things piscatorial in Mainz, in the same way that the Eisenturm marked the…
…(half) timbers. Do you REALLY think that these glass and concrete edifices are going to be around in 700 years like timber-framed houses with wattle and daub panels? No, me…
…sinker. A new take on one of the first posts on MDP – the door of St Stephan’s church at the top of the Gaustrasse.
St Stephan, patron saint of meteorologists deacons, headaches, horses, coffin makers, and masons, checks out the weather above the portal of the rectory of the eponymous church. Which reminds me…
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