List of monuments, fountains and sculptures in Mainz

The following list contains sights of the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz .

Monuments

Gutenberg Monument ( Lindenschmit , Thorwaldsen and Crozatier )

Regimental mark 117

Dativius Victor Arch (copy from 1962) with Christ Church in the background

Monument to the Gonsenheim Napoleonic Society

• 117er Ehrenhof - memorial for the infantry body regiment "Grand Duchess" (3rd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 117
• 1848 Prussian Monument, main cemetery ( see: Straße der Demokratie )
• 27 Memorial - Memorial of the 1st Nassau Field Artillery Regiment No. 27 Orange
• 87 Memorial - Memorial for the 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 87
• 88 Memorial - Memorial for the 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 88
• Basalt columns, in front of the Rheinhessen Chamber of Crafts
• Citizen's Memorial, Bretzenheim, Hinter St. Georg
• Bürgerermal, Hechtsheim
• Citizen column Gonsenheim
• The Greater French Monument ( Louis-Henri Nicot )
• The smaller French monument, main cemetery
• Dativius-Victor arch
• Monument to the German soldiers
• Monument to the Austrian soldiers
• Memorial of the Ludwigsverein Bretzenheim
• Monument of the Ludwig Association Gonsenhein
• Monument to Capuchin Father Alphons Neyssen
• Memorial to the memory of the powder tower explosion , main cemetery
• German war memorial
• The divided capital, Berlin settlement
• Drususstein
• Honorary cemetery for the French, Austrian and German soldiers, main cemetery
• Ehrenhof 1933, war memorial, Gonsenheim
• Cenotaph for the cruiser SMS Mainz , Adenauer-Ufer
• Frauenlob monument, in the cathedral cloister ( Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler 1842)
• Frauenlobstein, in the cathedral cloister (grave slab of the minstrel Frauenlob , 1318 - renovated, supplemented and erected in 1783)
• Garden of Time, Midnight (stones from different epochs of the earth's history, 1992)
• Gautor
• Commemorative plaque for the bomb victims of February 27, 1945 , Emmeransstrasse
• Giebelstein vom Powder Tower, Ballplatz (683 kg, had been hurled to this point in the powder tower explosion in 1857 )
• Gonsenheim Gate
• Tombstone of Blussus, Weisenau, dance area
• Gutenberg bronze bust, in front of the Gutenberg Museum , ( Wäinö Aaltonen 1962)
• Gutenberg Monument ( Bertel Thorvaldsen 1837)
• Gutenberg-Letters, Liebfrauenplatz (9 stone blocks with a text theme, created at the symposium of the Rhenish Hessian stonemasons and stone sculptors guild, 1997)
• Gutenberg sculpture, Karmeliterplatz / Christofsgässchen ( Karlheinz Oswald , 2001)
• Main cemetery in Mainz , as a general monument
• Hessendenkmal Finthen
• Hessian war memorial
• Heunensäule , Markt (gift from the city of Miltenberg on the occasion of the cathedral anniversary in 1975 - there are still 6 columns in the forest near Miltenberg, which were probably intended for the Mainz cathedral . Base with motifs of the city's history by Gernot Rumpf 1980)
• Great Jupiter Column in Mainz
• Cross, Weisenau, Heiligkreuzweg
• War memorial, Kirchgasse Finthen
• War memorial, Drais
• War memorial at the Weisenau cemetery / Heiligkreuzweg
• War memorial 1870/71, Ebersheim parish church
• War memorial, French garrison cemetery
• Napoleon stone in Gonsenheim
• Peter Cornelius Monument, in the park between Drususwall and Fort Elisabeth, ( Hugo Lederer 1930)
• War memorial St. Christoph
• Prince Holstein Monument
• Roman stones
• Schiller Monument, Schillerplatz
• Stele: Master - Apprentice - Journeyman, Robert-Koch-Strasse
• Entrance portal to the Domstiftskurie ( Episcopal Palace ), Bischofsplatz
• Indivisible Germany, Fischtorplatz
• Veterans Memorial

Fountain

Mainz Carnival Fountain

Source men and herring

Neustadt

• Fountain of praise for women
• Maeancer Buwe, on Bismarckplatz ( Heinz Müller-Olm )

Old town

• Bilhildis fountain at the Erthaler Hof; Statue of the abbess with a staff and the model of the Altmünster monastery
• Three girls fountain on the ball court
• Carnival fountain ( Blasius Spreng , 1967)
• Market fountain , from the Renaissance
• Mask fountain with Boniface monument, in front of the cathedral. The copy of a keystone designed as a mask of the former Neutor from 1699 serves as a gargoyle. Popular name: "Holy Saint Spit". Established in 1975 for the cathedral anniversary.
• Cherry orchard fountain in the cherry orchard with the Harxheim Madonna
• Schützenbrunnen, city ​​park
• Elector Fountain on the banks of the Rhine (Hilton)
• Fish Gate Fountain ( Rudolf Schreiner )
• New fountain , Neubrunnenplatz
• Five characters from the history of Mainz, Leichhof (Heinz Müller-Olm)
• Duck catcher, flax market ( Jakob Schmitt )
• Glockenbaum , in front of the Ministry of Culture. Popularly known as the "official alarm clock". ( Gernot Rumpf , 1976)
• Fischweiberbrunnen by Elsa Montag in Gaustraße at Osteiner Hof
• Triton fountain at the Little House
• Ignatzbrunnen in front of St. Ignaz
• Jubilee fountain for the presumed 2000 year celebration on Ernst-Ludwig-Platz
• Höfchenbrunnen
• Mauritzenbrunnen on Mauritzenplatz
• Schloßhofbrunnen in the Electoral Palace
• Schwengelpumpe, Hänleingasse and Bischofsplatz

Upper Town

• Well on the Kartaus

Districts

Fraa Bohnebeitel

• Fraa Bohnebeitel, in front of the Mombach local administration
• Faatzerbrünnchen, Mombach
• Brünnchen, Mombach
• Brunnen, Mainzer Straße (in front of the Gonsenheim town hall)
• Roman fountain, Finthen community center
• Fountain in Finther Poststrasse by Reinhold Petermann (1992)
• Brunnenstube, Zahlbacher Steig
• Marian column and wedding fountain, between St. Georg and Bretzenheim town hall
• Marienbrunnen (wall fountain), Marienborn, Im Borner Grund
• Kugelbrunnen, administration building of the South German Iron and Steel Employer's Liability Insurance Association Weisenau
• Tubular fountain, Laubenheim, Am Marktplatz
• Fountain, schoolyard of the Laubenheim elementary school
• Weinbrunnen, Ebersheim

Sculptures

The Mainz "Schoppenstecher" - monument to the Mainz wine culture

Man from the castrum

• Antimensch, Am alten Kaufhaus ( Zbigniew Fraczkiewicz 1990)
• Rising head / balanced head / threatening head, in front of the employment office (three steel sculptures by Franz Bernhard )
• Antiphonic suffering, Bretzenheim
• Bajazz with lantern, Schillerplatz ( Inge Blum )
• Bust of Gustav Stresemann's Domus Universitatis (Heinz Müller-Olm)
• The couple, Deutschhausplatz / midnight, (oak wood sculpture by Erwin Wortelkamp 1990)
• The flight, on the roof of the small house ( Rainer Fetting )
• The boy with the lark, Drais village square
• The key of the hour strike, Jockel-Fuchs-Platz (greatly enlarged copy of a small sculpture by Hans Arp 1974)
• Dromedary, gallery of LRP Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz (Philipp Harth 1927)
• Firebird, Stresemann-Ufer, by Karl-Heinz Krause
• Family, Bauhofstrasse 9 (Ernst Simon)
• Guard drummers Schillerplatz / Ludwigstrasse (bronze sculpture of the symbolic figure of the Prinzengarde, Wolfgang Oester 1994)
• Goldenes Roß, second version, on the central projection of the Golden-Roß-Kaserne (Heinz Müller-Olm)
• Johannes Gutenberg , university campus
• Herkules, Stadtpark , probably from the workshop of Franz Matthias Hiernle .
• Homage to the square, Weisenau, Friedrich-Ebert School
• Cranes, university campuses, ReWi
• KCK monument, city park
• Labyrinth, primary school Mainz-Bretzenheim-Süd ( Heiner Thiel 2000)
• Vitality, Jockel-Fuchs-Platz ( Andreu Alfaro 1982)
• Man with horse, university campus, Philosophicum
• Mann vom Castrum ( Eberhard Linke ), Breidenbacherstraße 12
• Phoenix, university campus, house of the Art History Institute
• Herons in the Ludwig Schwamb School ( Philipp Harth )
• Equestrian statue at the Generalfeldzeugmeister barracks - popularly known as the "Contergangaul". ( Heinz Hemrich 1961)
• Rhine boatmen, Weisenau, dance floor
• Column of the Risen, St. George
• Schoppenstecher statue , Schillerstrasse
• Skipping rope girl, in the playground of the Zahlbach daycare center
• Tiger (bronze) on the banks of the Rhine ( Philipp Harth 1936–37)
• Gates at the Gutenberg Museum ( Karl-Heinz Krause )
• Torso of the river god Rhenus, city park
• Mourners, Memorial Hall, Main Cemetery
• Triton
• Expulsion from Paradise, Bretzenheim, St. Georg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Answer to question no. 1660/2011 of the ödp local advisory council group Mainz-Altstadt regarding fountains in the old town (ödp). (PDF) State capital Mainz, accessed on March 15, 2020 . 

literature

• Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate:
  • Volume 2.1, City of Mainz. City extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries (1986)
  • Volume 2.2, City of Mainz. Old Town (1988)
  • Volume 2.3, City of Mainz. Suburbs (1997)

Web links

Commons : Sculptures and other monuments in Mainz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Mainz , publisher: Rhineland-Palatinate General Directorate for Cultural Heritage, PDF file 1.2 MB