List of monuments, fountains and sculptures in Mainz
The following list contains sights of the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz .
Monuments
- 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
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, 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
- 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
- ↑ 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
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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