This detail of a window designed (and perhaps even made) by Marc Chagall in the St Stephan church at the top end of Mainz always brings me back to a…
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…
Monsignor Klaus Mayer, my luncheon companion of the other day, is having his 90th birthday celebrated for him in style with a concert in his honour in the Stephanskirche this…
Detail in the cloisters of St Stephans church. Here’s the true story (I’m in the process of picking up some work, translating audio book texts. The one about Mainz STILL…
Another excuse to wonder at the Chagall stained glass windows in the St Stephans church at the top of the Gaustrasse
> This one slipped through the cracks back in May when I was hobbling around on crutches and being even less focussed than normal. My mate Christoph‘s son Stephan is…
> St Stephan’s church in Mainz-Gonsenheim is just your common or garden church, but you wouldn’t know by just looking at it. The twin spires (invisible at night and in…