..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……
Detail on the Heunensäule on the Domplatz
If there are any farmers out there in Droughtland reading this, just send me a couple of business class tickets and we’ll be over in a flash to bring you…
..now you don’t…. Talking with Stefan Sämmer, one of the local paper’s photogs, the other day about the disappearance of the gates at the Gutenberg Museum. “You MUST know about…
> 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…
> jb has talked about the Heuensäule (Giant’s Column) before, so I hope I’m not doubling up here. I have lived in Mainz for almost a year, and have wandered…
>The bronze base of the Heunensäule documents significant events in Mainz’s history, this sculpture depicting the burning of the synagogues in the pogrom of 9-10 November 1938. Mainz has a…
>The four corners of the bronze collar at the base of the Heuenensäule depict significant influences on and through the city. This is the second, an extremely successful symbiosis of…
>The Heunensäule – Giants’ Column – is the centrepiece of the market square in Mainz. Not easy to miss it, really.Neither would you be if you were 6.40 metres high…
Mainz Daily Photo 