5 attractions in Mainz, including Gutenberg Museum, Mainz Cathedral and Römersteine (Roman Aqueduct), Mainz. Map, details and practical tips before you go.
Museums
Mainz
The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz is one of the oldest printing museums in the world, dedicated to Johannes Gutenberg, the Mainz-born inventor of printing with movable metal type. While a new museum is being built on its historic site, the col…
Churches & monasteries
Mainz
Mainz Cathedral (Mainzer Dom, officially the Hoher Dom St. Martin) is the landmark of Mainz, the Rhineland-Palatinate capital on the Rhine River. Together with the cathedrals of Speyer and Worms, it is one of the three great Romanesque "im…
Landmarks
Mainz
They rise from the meadow like weathered teeth: in the Zahlbach valley in south-west Mainz stands a long row of grey stone piers. Locals simply call them the Römersteine, the Roman stones. They are the remains of an aqueduct that brought w…
Churches & monasteries
Mainz
When the sun shines through the east choir, it bathes St Stephen's in deep blue: the stained-glass windows by Marc Chagall make the church on Stephansberg hill one of the most unusual church interiors in Germany. Chagall, a Jewish painter…
Fortresses
Mainz
On the Jakobsberg hill, right above Mainz Römisches Theater station, the city's history is stacked up in one place: a Roman monument at the bottom layer, traces of a medieval monastery, Baroque bastions all around and 19th-century barracks…