Jockel-Fuchs-Platz

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Jockel-Fuchs-Platz with town hall

The square in front of the Mainz town hall was renamed on March 6, 2003 after Jakob "Jockel" Fuchs from Halleplatz to Jockel-Fuchs-Platz .

The Rathausbrücke (a pedestrian bridge) spans Rheinstrasse and leads to the Brand-Zentrum, a business and shopping center in downtown Mainz. The bridgehead opposite the town hall is formed by the bridge tower, also built by the team of architects Arne Jacobsen and Otto Weitling . The floor accessible from the bridge is used by the city's tourist office, while the floors above are used by the city's property management and the city of Mainz's economic development agency (GVG).

Works of art

Life force

On the square is the sculpture Life Force made of spirally arranged aluminum rods . The sculpture, designed by Andreu Alfaro from the twin city of Valencia in 1979, was placed in front of the town hall in September 1982. The object bears a certain resemblance to the symbol of the XX. 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , but here in three-dimensional form. During a renovation of the town hall and the sculpture carried out in 2006, it was not set up again in its original orientation (the first stick was at the "1 o'clock position", now it is at 4 o'clock). In 2007 it was corrected so that the aluminum bars are back in the correct starting position.

  • Life Force by Andreu Alfaro

  • Life force in the background of the Mainz Cathedral

  • The bars are made of aluminum.

Hour Striker's Key

In the direction of the Rhine and Rheingoldhalle was the 800 kilogram and 4.16 meter high biomorphic sculpture "Key of the Hourly Striker" . It is a replica of a sculpture that Hans Arp created in 1962, enlarged eight times . It was a gift from the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate to the city of Mainz in 1974 for the inauguration of the new town hall. The work of art has been on loan from the city of Mainz in the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck since May 2011 . Originally, the sculpture was supposed to come back at the end of December 2012 after the end of the major exhibition, but will be postponed due to the expected renovation work on the town hall and the square and may not come back to Mainz until after their modernization.

  • The "key of the hour hammer" by Hans Arp. Location: Jockel-Fuchs-Platz

  • Location: Exhibit at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck during the Federal Garden Show 2011

Parking garage

A public parking garage is located under the terraced square. A glass elevator and two stairwells connect the parking garage with the square.

  • Jockel-Fuchs-Platz with the main entrance to the town hall

  • Extension of the Rheingoldhalle as seen from Jockel-Fuchs-Platz

Web links

Commons : Jockel-Fuchs-Platz (Mainz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Stundenschläger's” travels - RATHAUS-KUNST Hans Arp's sculpture goes to the exhibition in Remagen ( memento from September 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) by Michael Jacobs; in: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, April 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ Application for Hans-Arp-Plastik: Bring back from the museum by Silvia Dott, Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main from January 25, 2013
  3. ↑ Information board at the original place of the sculpture; As of August 4, 2012.
  4. ↑ Plastic longer in Remangen - return of the hour hammer at the earliest after the decision to the town hall; by Michael Jacobs in the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz; January 14, 2013; P. 14.

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 4.7 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 35.1 ″  E