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06 Sep

Christuskirche

Protestants – non-Catholics in general, actually – had a pretty hard time in Mainz. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first to lift them from their status (shared with Jews) as “tolerated…
6 September, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
29 Apr

>Pollution – #1323

> I’d noticed the mobile cell transmitters (pumping out electro-smog and giving us all instant brain tumours) on the top of this chimney in the Martinsstrasse, but it took a…
29 April, 2011 at 11:00 1 Comment
03 Apr

>Bloody chewing gum…. – #1297

>   “I bet it’s those sodding PIGEONS again. Pick up the chewing gum from the pavement, chew it for a while and just leave it lying around up here.…
3 April, 2011 at 11:00 5 Comments
31 Mar

>Rococo confusion…. -#1294

> Heringsgasse, Altstadt
31 March, 2011 at 11:00 4 Comments
23 Mar

>Lady Madonna – #1286

> Not bad getting a road named after you. Or a square, even.
23 March, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments
22 Feb

>Hand-coloured and lenticularly trussed – #1257

>     Sounds like a lyric from “Highway 61 Revisited”. (Who said speed kills…?) Here be that bridge again with a severe paucity of cumulo-thingies, but a surfeit (that’s…
22 February, 2011 at 12:00 6 Comments
21 Feb

>Back to the drawing board – #1256

> These pigeon barriers appear to require a redesign. Unless of course it’s a pigeon prison which would be a VERY GOOD IDEA. Fort Malakoff
21 February, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments
18 Feb

>Strike a light II -#1253

> “I’ve got my eye(s) on you….” Metallic Triffidity on the Theodore-Heuss bridge linking Mainz with heathen lands.
18 February, 2011 at 12:00 4 Comments
17 Feb

>Shine a light I – #1252

> The floodlight towers between the Rathaus and the Rheingoldhalle. (Jockel-Fuchs-Platz, to give it its correct name) Tweaked just a tad. But only with iPhoto….  (Back in the day, of…
17 February, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments
28 Jan

>Oi! Gimme yer cloak, mate – #1232

> Saint Martin gets mugged again…
28 January, 2011 at 12:00 2 Comments
02 Nov

>Through any window – #1145

> My motto? Never miss a chance to plug my mate Willy Wisely and his wonderful music in the vain hope that he’ll become world famous and do some live…
2 November, 2010 at 12:00 4 Comments
22 Oct

>Ouch – #1134

> The new synagogue in Mainz (don’t ask what happened to the old one – read your history books..) was inaugurated by the Federal President at the beginning of last…
22 October, 2010 at 11:00 7 Comments
15 Oct

>"I am alone….#1127

> …I am not lonely”Neil McCauley played by Robert de Niro in “Heat” 1995 The Café Dinges delivery van thingie parked/abandoned in the Mailandgasse,  contemplating the pure ugliness of the…
15 October, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
31 Aug

>Paul Haenlein woz here – #1082

> That’s not him on the wall – that would be Saint Vincent after whom the hospital originally housed in this building was named. Saint Vincent of Saragossa was one…
31 August, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
27 Aug

>Lenticularly trussed – #1078

> This is how the iPhone spat it out. Honest. Now, I have it on very good authority that these are some form of cumulus (cumuli?). Probably Cumulus humilis, but…
27 August, 2010 at 11:00 4 Comments
24 Aug

>Red carpet – #1075

> Rolling it out at the Mainz State Museum.
24 August, 2010 at 11:00 4 Comments
11 Aug

>Denkmalschutz a la Mayence – #1062

> Something frighteningly prehistoric/Jurassic Park about this image. The Wirges House was built in 1946 and was a Listed Building as a “significant example of post-war architecture” until the other…
11 August, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
13 Jul

>Grate weather we’re having….#1033

> Scene in the Domstrasse outside the Cathedral Museum.
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22 Jun

>And the Lord said… – #1012

>   …”Let there be light”. And verily did arise the Lampenfabrik in the Dagobertstrasse. With a Madonna on the other side of the street to make sure it stays…
22 June, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
20 May

>Ancient and Modern – #980

> The extension/conversion to/of the Lampenfabrik shows just how well modern and industrial architecture can coexist. The 2 cone-heads in the foreground appear to agree. They stayed put for days…
20 May, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
28 Apr

>All lies! – #958

> Crikey, was this tourist guide chappy spinning some yarns! Talk about inventive! And they BELIEVED him too! I was about to leap in and put him straight, but other…
28 April, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
16 Feb

>By request – #886

>  ©Andreas Los The view from the 23nd floor (24th, if you’re American…) from the Vertical Village looking out over Gonsenheim. Surprised no-one’s base-jumped it yet…
16 February, 2010 at 12:00 4 Comments
10 Feb

>It’s nightime in the Big City – #880

> Burning the midnight oil at the Wilhelm-Emmanuel-von-Ketter-Schule, a vocational school just down the road from St Stephans. I think they ran out of wall space for his full name……
10 February, 2010 at 12:00 Leave a comment
05 Feb

>Erdgeschoss – #875

> For example. At the University Clinic, visiting Frank the Potter who’s getting a detached retina undetached. Poor sod. Of course, in America this would be the 1st floor, which…
5 February, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
03 Feb

>Im(mobility) – #873

>  Europe’s different to a lot of other places. Folk tend to stay put, rather than pack everything up and relocate to greener pastures at the drop of a hat.…
3 February, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
22 Dec

>De-Christo-ed – #830

> I though you have to wait until Christmas Day to unwrap your pressies, but it appears to be different around here. The Johanniskirche, looking brand-spanking new, despite being extremely…
22 December, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
13 Dec

>Christo was here -#822

> Well, maybe a failed apprentice, then. The Johanniskirche nicely gift-wrapped for Christmas
13 December, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
05 Dec

>Things are looking up – #814

> The view from the Theatre underground carpark to the old and new theatres.
5 December, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
26 Nov

>If you can’t afford a fish-eye lens… – #805

> ..(which is a given), use the next best thing, which would be a reflective bauble on the Christmas tree in front of the Staatstheater. And yes, I would be…
26 November, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
23 Oct

>Sign of the Cross – #771

> The Cathedral in the crosswires. Leichhof, coming up from the Augustinerstrasse
23 October, 2009 at 11:00 1 Comment
30 Sep

>Gasometer – #748

> This is the Church of the Holy Cross (Heilig Kreuz) in the Silesian Quarter, one of the flasher bits of Mainz. Stunningly bold, given that it dates back to…
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