Mainz Old Town Culture
Stroll through the old town of Mainz
The beautiful old town in Mainz
View of the cathedral St.Martin in Mainz, © © Dominik Ketz© © Dominik Ketz
Cathedral square with view of the cathedral St.Martin in Mainz, © © Dominik Ketz© © Dominik Ketz

Love of life on the Rhine

Mainz

The historic buildings, monuments and museums in Mainz are informative witnesses. If you get close enough and have a good look, you'll learn something about our 2000 year old city. Roman temples, aristocratic palaces, the cathedral and Marc Chagall's blue windows await you!

Joie de vivre and a 200-year-old culture characterize the endearing state capital of Rhineland-Palatinate. Embark on the footsteps of Johannes Gutenberg and the art of printing, for example, at the popular city tour of the same name. Combined with a visit to the cathedral or a walk through the church of St. Stephan with the world-famous Chagall windows, you will experience Mainz from its most beautiful and exciting side. The Roman finds such as the Roman theater, the Isis and Mater Magna sanctuary or the Roman stones in many places in Mainz to the founders of the Rheinstadt.

Roman Castrum Moguntiacum, Jewish Magenza, Electoral residence and capital, Archbishop's seat, university and fortified city in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and Mainz Republic. Epochs of the "Golden Mainz", as the city is called since its heyday in the Middle Ages.

A tour through Mainz

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St. Martin's Cathedral

The cathedral, founded by Archbishop Willigis in 975, is the oldest monumental vaulted building in Germany after Speyer and before Worms. The west building, completed in 1239, is one of the greatest works of German architecture. Dozens of grave...

Cathedral and Diocesan Museum

Cathedral and Diocesan Museum

The cathedral museum - the second largest of its kind in Germany - presents sacred art from late antiquity to the present in rooms steeped in history. Highlights include the unique collection of early Gothic stone sculpture and the treasury of...

Gutenberg Museum

Gutenberg-Museum Mainz

The museum is open from May 27th. Further information at: https://www.mainz.de/microsite/gutenberg-museum-en/index.php Four millennia history of written culture from all over the world and important prints from the 15th century til today....

Museum of Ancient Seafaring

Museum of ancient shipbuilding

Things are moving at the Museum of Ancient Seafaring! The museum is currently under reconstruction. The exhibition is being modernised with funding from the federal government and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate from the “Aktionsplan Leibniz...

Mainz State Museum

Mainz State Museum

200,000 YEARS OF CULTURAL HISTORY The Landesmuseum's art and cultural history collection extends from the Stone Age to the present day. Among them are gold jewelry, shields and swords from prehistoric times, stone monuments from the Roman...

staatstheater Mainz image © Andreas Etter

Staatstheater Mainz

The Mainz State Theater consists of the Large and Small House and the TIC Theater in the City. The offer includes operas, concerts, ballet performances, plays, Christmas fairy tales and Mainz carnival skewers. Wheelchair users can easily get...

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Contact details:

Tourist Service Center Mainz

Brückenturm am Rathaus

55116 Mainz

Tel: (0049) 6131 242888
E-Mail: tourist@mainzplus.com

Contact details:

Tourist Service Center Mainz

Brückenturm am Rathaus

55116 Mainz

Tel: (0049) 6131 242888
E-Mail: tourist@mainzplus.com