Tourist attractions Mainz

The reconstruction of a 15C printing workshop in this museum gives an idea of the development of working conditions and techniques in the printing industry. The first two Gutenberg bibles are on display in a strong room. Other notable exhibits includ..

In the former refectory of this Cistercian abbey (14C) can be found a collection of antique presses with decorated columns. The abbey church has a great feeling of austerity and grandeur.

The vast Romanesque edifice has two chancels. The church contains a group of funerary monuments of archbishops. See the baptismal font (1328), made of pewter and decorated with delicate figures. In the western crypt is a modern gold reliquary of..

Mainz Regional Museum gives an overview of Rhineland civilisation since the prehistoric period. The lapidary section houses more than 300 items from the Roman era, notably Jupiter's Column, a copy of which stands on the Deutschhaus-Platz in front of ..

The museum, housed in the former palace of the Electors (15-17C), contains collections pertaining to Mediterranean civilizations, prehistory and the Barbarian peoples. It also contains pieces relating to Roman and medieval archeology.

Emperor Wilhelm II described this establishment, built in 1907, as « the most beautiful spa house in the world». The sumptuous interior decoration was restored to its original state in 1987. A walkway, flanked on either side by the theatre colonnades..

A vast park, laid out in 1852, stretches away to the east behind the spa house. Sonnenberger Strasse and Parkstrasse feature magnificent villas dating from the Gründerzeit.

This cog railway is a monument to technology, still working as well as it did when it was built in 1888. The railway runs up the Neuroberg (245m), Wiesbaden's local mountain.

Only the exterior walls and pillars of the Gothic church (late 13C), severely damaged in 1945, remain. The east chancel was decorated with a remarkable set of windows by Chagall representing subjects from the Old and New Testament. Against the east..

Certain ministries of the State and the French Institute are housed in the Baroque mansions of this quarter. In the centre of the square stands a fountain depicting scenes from the carnival.

Off the Augustinerstraße, a main artery of an old quarter that is nearly intact, opens the picturesque Kirschgarten square, framed by half-timbered houses. The Kapuzinerstraße (houses with sandstone door frames and Rococo panels) passes by St Ignatiu..

Built between 1763 and 1775, St Ignatius Church shows the transition between the Rococo and neo-Classical styles. Outside on the left is a dramatic Crucifixion group by Hans Backoffen (16C).

The recently restored Wiesbaden museum is actually made up of three separate sections: a natural sciences collection , the Nassau antiquities collection and art collections , including the Jawlensky collection. The artist lived in Wiesbaden fro..

The mid-19C Market church was the first brick-built construction in the Nassau region. Its architect, Carl Boos, was inspired by the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin.

The former residence of the Dukes of Nassau was built between 1837 and 1841. Today the castle is the seat of the Hesse Provincial Parliament.

Georg Hauberisser, the architect of the Munich town hall, erected the new town hall in the German Renaissance style between 1886 and 1887.

The old town hall comprises a ground floor in the Late Renaissance style, built 1609-10, and an upper floor in the Romantic Historicist style added on in 1828.

To the south of the theatre colonnade stands this imposing Renaissance-style building erected between 1892 and 1894. Its Rococo foyer bears witness the the turn-of-the-century taste for exuberant decoration.

The Jugendstil building dates from the early-20C and cost 3 million Gold Marks. The entrance hall frescoes are remarkable, as is the steam bath with its majolica glazed tiles manufactured in Darmstadt and Karlsruhe.

This fountain is made up of fifteen springs. Its hot salty water contains iron, as can be seen from the reddish deposits in the granite basin of the fountain. Roman women used this reddish powder to dye their hair and held it in high esteem. The octa..