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Mainz City Guide.




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Fast Facts
Area
97.75 km²
Population
195,740

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Genernal Information

Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz is located on the river Rhine across from Wiesbaden, in the western part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area.


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Sights
  • Roman-Germanic central museum (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum) – Roman, Medieval, and earlier artifacts
  • Antique Maritime Museum (Museum für Antike Schifffahrt) – the remains of five Roman boats from the late 4th century, discovered in the 1980s
  • Roman remains, like Jupiter's column, Drusus' mausoleum, the ruins of the theatre and the aqueduct
  • Mainz Cathedral of St. Martin (Mainzer Dom) – over 1,000 years old
  • The Iron Tower (Eisenturm, tower at the former iron market) – a tower from the 13th century
  • The Wood Tower (Holzturm, tower at the former wood market) – a tower from the 14th century
  • The Gutenberg Museum – exhibits an original Gutenberg Bible amongst many other printed books from the 15th century and later
  • The Mainz Old Town – what's left of it, the quarter south of the cathedral survived World War II
  • The Electoral Palace (Kurfürstliches Schloss) – residence of the prince-elector
  • Christ Church (Christuskirche) – built 1898–1903, bombed in ’45 and rebuilt in 1948–1954
  • The Church of St. Stephan – with post-war windows by Marc Chagall
  • Citadel

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