Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Mainz, Germany

The Memorial of German Unity, also known as the "Divided Germany" Memorial, as well as the "Memorial of the German East" after its inauguration and before reunification, was inaugurated on 16 June 1961 on Mainz's Fischtor-Platz on the occasion of the anniversary of the popular uprising in the former GDR on 17 June 1953 with the inscription "Germany is indivisible". It contains mostly the names of former German cities east of the Oder and Neisse rivers that were under Polish or Russian administration at the time, and of cities in the former German Democratic Republic.

Wikipedia: Mahnmal der Deutschen Einheit (Mainz) (DE)

The Gutenberg Museum is one of the oldest museums of printing in the world, located opposite the cathedral in the old part of Mainz, Germany. It is named after Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of printing from movable metal type in Western Europe. The collections include printing equipment and examples of printed materials from many cultures.

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Mainz Cathedral or St. Martin's Cathedral is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany. This 1000-year-old Roman Catholic cathedral is the site of the episcopal see of the Bishop of Mainz.

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The Heunen columns, also known as the Heune columns, are round columns made of sandstone, which were originally intended for the reconstruction of the Willigis Cathedral in Mainz, which burned down in 1009. They were probably completed in the 11th century out of anticipatory business acumen in a quarry in the Bullau Mountains near Miltenberg even before the order was placed. However, the client probably opted for other supports, so that the round columns were never needed. There are said to have been 42 of the columns at one time, in the 18th century there were still 14, around 1960 only eight are known.

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The Marktbrunnen in Mainz is a renaissance fountain located at the ″Markt″ of Mainz. It was donated by elector Albert of Mainz and crafted in the workshop of the Mainz sculptor Hans Backoffen. The Marktbrunnen represents one of the first architectural formed decorated fountains of the renaissance.

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The Nail Column in Mainz is a column erected during the First World War on Liebfrauenplatz in front of the east side of Mainz Cathedral, which was created as part of a German propaganda and fundraising campaign as a war nailing.

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The Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum in Mainz, founded in 1925, houses works of art from two millennia in its historic rooms – the Staufen vaulted halls, the two-storey late Gothic cloister and the former chapter houses – which once belonged to the furnishings of Mainz Cathedral or the churches of the diocese. In addition, there is the cathedral's treasury, which can be reached through the chapter rooms and is located in the former St. Nicholas Chapel from the late Gothic period.

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The church of St. Augustin known in German as Augustinerkirche, was the minster of the Augustine friars in the city centre of Mainz. Today it is the seminary church of the Catholic theological seminary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz.

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St. John's Church is located beneath Mainz Cathedral in the historical center of Mainz, Germany. This 1100-year-old church was the first episcopal see of the Bishop of Mainz. It is the oldest church in Mainz, the oldest cathedral in the Germany of today and the only preserved cathedral building from late Carolingian and early Ottonian time in Germany.

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Monuments commemorating Johannes Gutenberg can be found in Mainz, Strasbourg and Frankfurt am Main, among other places.

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The carnival fountain in Mainz is located on Schillerplatz on the corner of Schillerstraße and Ludwigsstraße. The monument is intended to symbolize the foolish season. After three years of construction, it was unveiled on January 14, 1967.

Wikipedia: Fastnachtsbrunnen (Mainz) (DE)

The Osteiner Hof is one of several Baroque-era palatial mansions along Schillerplatz square in the German city of Mainz. The mansion, along the southern edge of the square, was built in 1747-1752 by architect-soldier Johann Valentin Thomann for Franz Wolfgang Damian von Ostein, brother of Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein, who was prince-bishop of Mainz at that time.

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The Older Dalberger Hof on the Ballplatz in Mainz was the Mainz seat of the Barons of Dalberg until their move to the Younger Dalberger Hof in 1718.

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Willigisplatz is an important square in Mainz-Altstadt in terms of building culture and urban development. It was named after the former Archbishop of Mainz and Saint Willigis. The square is designated as a monument zone due to its social and urban history.

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The Collegiate Church of St. Stephan, known in German as St. Stephan zu Mainz, is a Gothic hall collegiate church located in the German city of Mainz. It is known for windows created by Marc Chagall.

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The Alexander Tower in Mainz is a late medieval city tower from the 15th century. The Alexander Tower stands on the foundation of a round tower of the Roman city wall from the 4th century. Together with the wooden tower and the iron tower, it is one of the three city towers of the Mainz city wall that still exist today. Today, the Alexander Tower is located on the private grounds of the Kupferberg sparkling wine cellar on the Kästrich in Mainz and is not open to the public.

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The Altmünster Church in the old town of Mainz is a Protestant church whose origins go back to the Altmünster Abbey, which was founded as early as the 8th century. The church was first made available to a Protestant congregation in 1802 by the French prefect Jeanbon St. André. After it was destroyed in the Second World War, the church building was rebuilt at the end of the 1950s and reconsecrated in 1960. Today, the Altmünster Church is the fourth Protestant church among Mainz's inner city congregations, along with the Christuskirche, the Pauluskirche and the Johanniskirche. It is also used by the Mainz congregation of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

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The Mainz Carnival Museum shows the history of Mainz Carnival since 1837 on about 350 m².

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Proviant-Magazin, also known as Körnermagazin, is a large type of building for the storage of food, which was often part of fortifications and built to be bullet-proof. The magazines were mainly used to store provisions for the military. Primarily for grain, for this reason there was usually an army bakery in the immediate vicinity or in the building itself. In Germany, the administration was subject to the Provisions Office, and this designation was transferred to the group of buildings themselves.

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The Walk of Fame of Cabaret is a sidewalk between Proviant-Magazin and Schönborner Hof in Mainz, Germany, which is embedded with more than 40 seven-pointed irregularly shaped stars featuring the names of cabaret celebrities selected by a group of experts and honored by several sponsors for their contributions to the cabaret culture.

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The Schönborner Hof is an aristocratic court in Mainz, Germany. It was the seat of the noble family of Schönborn, which was important in the Electorate of Mainz after the Thirty Years' War.

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The Schoppenstecher statue is a statue on the edge of Schillerplatz in Mainz between the Schönborner Hof and the Proviant-Magazin, in the former garden of the Schönborner Hof.

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The Mainz Ranzengarde was founded in 1837 by Johann Maria Kertell and is the oldest carnival corporation within the Mainz carnival. She therefore also bears the nickname "Mother of all Mainz Guards". In 1838, with the help of the Ranzengarde, the Mainz Carnival Association (MCV) was founded, which is the oldest carnival club in Mainz.

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The Erthaler Hof is an aristocratic court in Mainz, Germany. It was built as a family residence there by the Mainz bailiff in Lohr am Main, Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal. He belonged to the Elfershausen line of the von Erthal family, who came from Franconia. As a cavalier architect and court councillor of the Electorate of Mainz, he was also responsible for the design. The execution was in the hands of Johann Michael Schmitt and Franz Anton Hermann. Construction began in 1734 and was completed in 1739. At the end of 1739, the widower Philipp Christoph moved into the Erthaler Hof with his children, before his first wife Eva Maria died in Lohr after their tenth child. It thus joins the group of baroque aristocratic courts such as the Schönborner Hof, the Bassenheimer Hof and the Osteiner Hof around Schillerplatz.

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The former telegraph office in Mainz, popularly known as the Telehaus, was built between 1928 and 1930 on the south side of Münsterplatz at the junction of Schillerstraße as the result of a competition held in 1926, together with the tax office, with explicit consideration of the neighbouring baroque Erthaler Hof, at Münsterplatz 2–6.

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The New Fountain in the Bleichenviertel of Mainz is a building from the late Baroque. It was built in the period from 1724 to 1726 by Johannes Weydt. The most striking feature of the fountain is the approximately 12-meter-high obelisk in the center, which is covered with bas-reliefs on various themes. At its base there are a total of four sculptures, each depicting two river gods and two lions. The oval basin and the obelisk are made of red sandstone.

Wikipedia: Neuer Brunnen (DE)

The Antonite Chapel and the Antonite House in Mainz were built in the 14th century as the Antonihof. The site on the outskirts of early medieval Mainz lay fallow for a long time after the Isis cult was no longer practiced in the sanctuary of Isis and Mater Magna towards the end of the 3rd century AD. In the middle to the end of the 13th and 14th centuries, when Mainz was a free city, many monasteries were built in Mainz, the churches of which can still be seen today. The Augustinian hermit monastery, the Augustinian monastery (1260), the Carmelite monastery (1290), the charterhouse behind the monastery of St. Alban near Mainz (1330) and the monastery of the Antonites, later Armklara.

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The Sanctuary of Isis and the Magna Mater was a sanctuary in Mainz, dedicated to Isis and Magna Mater.

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The Catholic parish church of Sankt Emmeran in Mainz was founded in the 8th century. The Gothic church building dates back to the 13th century. The church was badly damaged in the Second World War and rebuilt in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, St. Emmeran is home to the Italian parish of Mainz. Her parish belongs to the Mainz deanery of the Diocese of Mainz.

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The Staatstheater Mainz is a theatre in Mainz, Germany, which is owned and operated by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Situated on the Gutenbergplatz, the complex comprises two theatres which are connected by an underground passage and also by skywalk. Performances of opera, drama and ballet are presented. Its name was Stadttheater Mainz until 1989.

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The Domus Universitatis, the building of the Old University in Mainz, was built from 1615 to 1618 in the Renaissance style. The building served the theological and philosophical faculty of the University of Mainz as well as a Jesuit Latin school.

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The Catholic church of St. Quintin is the parish church of the oldest proven parish in the city of Mainz. Today, St. Quintin together with the cathedral community of St. Martin forms the parish of St. Martin's Cathedral and St. Quintin. Thus the cathedral priest is therefore always the priest of St. Quintin as well.

Wikipedia: St. Quintin's Church, Mainz (EN)

The list of chapels in Mainz lists preserved and no longer preserved chapels in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Wikipedia: Kapellen in Mainz (DE)

The church of St. Christoph in Mainz, known in German as St. Christoph zu Mainz, is an example of early gothic architecture. St. Christoph was originally built between 1240 and 1330. The church is associated with Johannes Gutenberg, who may have been baptised there.

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The Carmelite Church in Mainz is a listed Roman Catholic church. Since 1924 it has been used by the Carmelite mendicant order. The three-aisled Gothic basilica with turret is located in the old town at Karmeliterplatz 5.

Wikipedia: Karmeliterkirche (Mainz) (DE)

The Iron Tower is a mediaeval tower dating to the early 13th century, and modified in the 15th century, which with the Wood Tower and the Alexander Tower is one of three remaining towers from the city walls of Mainz, Germany. Its name derives from the Iron Market (Eisenmarkt), which was held in the immediate vicinity until the 19th century.

Wikipedia: Iron Tower (EN)