Bastion of Schönborn

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Bastion of Schönborn

The bastion of Schönborn is a rebuilt blockhouse as part of the former Federal Fortress Reduit (Mainz-Kastel) on the right bank of the Rhine fortress Mainz .

The building was named after the builder of the former Mainz ship bridge , which was built after the Thirty Years' War , the Archbishop of Mainz Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1605–1673).

The bastion of Schönborn was built as a Vorwerk at the same time as the Reduit built between 1830 and 1834. It served to provide additional protection for the south-eastern flank of the fortifications and the ship bridge. At the same time, from 1861, it was briefly the landing stage for the ferry boats of the Royal Railway Directorate in Frankfurt , which before the completion of the Mainzer Südbrücke served the traffic between Mainz and the Kastel train station of the Taunus Railway to continue to Frankfurt.

During the Second World War damaged, the plant has been restored in the 1950s. In 1998, the entire Reduit area was acquired by the local history association “Society for Home History Kastel eV (GHK)” and has been further developed since then. A restaurant with a terrace has been in operation in the Schönborn bastion since 1999 and, in the summer months, the Kasteler beach with a panoramic view of the city of Mainz opposite .

On the first floor of the building is the so-called raftsman's room , a rafting museum that honors this old profession with numerous exhibits. The rafting profession had a tradition of more than 400 years in Kastel. Tree trunks brought over the Main from the Bavarian Steigerwald and the Odenwald were re-bundled here with regional timber and then led further down the Rhine.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Stefan Dumont: The Reduitkaserne in Mainz-Kastel. Stefan Dumont, website "Fortress Mainz - The 'Bulwark of Germany' 1620-1918", accessed on February 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Stumme: The history of the Mainz Rhine bridges. Chapter "The first railway bridge (south bridge)". Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, regionalgeschichte.net, July 25, 2016, accessed on February 24, 2020 .
  3. ^ City of Wiesbaden: Reduit in Kastel. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b GHK: Rafters room. Gesellschaft für Heimatgeschichte Kastel eV (GHK), accessed on February 24, 2020 .
  5. ^ Restaurant: Bastion of Schönborn. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 20.3 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 52.9 ″  E