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| Country | Germany |
| Region | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Surface | 97.76 km² |
| Population | 197 778 |
| Postal Code | 55001–55131 |
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Mainz(Mainz) - city with poviat rights in Germany, located on the Rhine. It is the capital of the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate.
Characteristic
The city is situated opposite Wiesbaden, in the western part of the Rhine-Main agglomeration dominated by Frankfurt am Main. Mainz is the cradle of European and world printing on an industrial scale thanks to its illustrious craftsman Jan Gutenberg.
Drive
By plane
By train
There is a serviced, among others via ICE train station Mainz Hauptbahnhof. WITH Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden connects Mainz with the S8 line (Rhine-Main S-Bahn).
By car
Mainz is an important road junction. The A60, A63 and A643 motorways as well as the B9 and B40 national roads run through the city or in its vicinity.
By bus
By ship
In Mainz there is a river port with an area of approx. 30 ha and a transshipment of approx. 1.3 million tons per year.
Communication
Worth seeing
- House Haus zum Römischen Kaiser from the Jan Gutenberg Museum;
- romanesque catholic cathedral st. Marcin and Stefan (House Sankt Martin und Stefan) from the 11th century, rebuilt in the 13th and 18th centuries. The cathedral has two opposite choirs (a solution characteristic of German Romanesque architecture) and a western transept. The aisle crossing is crowned with an octagonal tower. Two round towers are embedded in the arms of the transept;
- Old Town (Altstadt) with many half-timbered buildings;
- the late Carolingian church of St. John (Sankt Johanniskirche);
- gothic church of St. Quintin (Sankt Quintin);
- baroque parish church (Sankt Peter);
- church (Sankt Ignatz);
- church of st. Stephen (Sankt Stephankirche) with Marc Chagall's stained glass windows;
- prince's palace (Kurfürstlisches Schloß) from the 15th century, rebuilt in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. It houses the Museum of Roman-Germanic History (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum);
- historic fortress (Zitadelle Mainz) from the 17th century, there is a column from ancient times in its area Rome.
Nearest neighborhood
work
Science
- Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz);
- Fachhochschule Mainz;
- part of the Catholic University of Technology;
- Max Planck Institute of Chemistry (Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie - Otto-Hahn-Institut);
- Max Planck Institute for Research on Polymers (Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung).