Mainz

Places researched in this city

A selection of the 41 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.

• Romanesque cathedral
• Medieval towers
• Renaissance fountains
• Gothic churches
• Roman archaeology
• Riverside promenade

• Mainz Cathedral

  Its consecration day in 1009 also turned out to be the day it burned to the ground, yet Mainz Cathedral was rebuilt and went on to host seven imperial coronations. The 116-metre red sandstone basilica blends Romanesque, Gothic, and Baroque layers accumulated over a thousand years of continuous use.

• Gutenberg Museum

  Two original Gutenberg Bibles, produced in the 1450s, are kept here under careful preservation, and a reconstructed workshop lets you see exactly how the press that changed the world actually worked. Founded in 1900 on the 500th anniversary of Gutenberg's birth, the museum draws around 160,000 visitors a year.

• St. Stephen's Church

  Marc Chagall designed nine stained-glass windows for this Gothic hall church between 1978 and 1985, specifically as a gesture of Jewish-German reconciliation after the war. The church itself dates to 990 and holds the distinction of being the oldest Gothic hall church in the Upper Rhine region.

• Roman Theater

  When it was built around 310 AD, this was the largest Roman stage theater north of the Alps, with a diameter of 116 metres and seats for roughly 10,000 spectators. Mogontiacum, as Mainz was then called, was one of Rome's most important legionary bases, and the scale of this theater reflects exactly that status.

• Electoral Palace

  Construction began in 1627 during the Thirty Years' War and took over a century to finish, producing one of Germany's finest examples of late Renaissance architecture in red sandstone. In 1792 it hosted the first Jacobin club on German soil, a small detail that marks a hinge point in European political history.

• Kupferberg Sparkling Wine Cellar

  The vaulted cellars beneath this 1850 sparkling wine house go down 50 metres and contain archaeological finds including 2,000-year-old Roman wine amphorae, because the hill was a Roman garrison long before anyone thought to store Sekt there. The house also holds what is claimed to be the world's largest collection of Sekt and Champagne glasses, plus an Art Nouveau tasting hall originally designed for the 1900 Paris World Exhibition.

• Old Jewish Cemetery "Judensand"

  The oldest surviving gravestone here dates to 1049, making this one of the most ancient Jewish cemeteries in Europe and a place of continuous memory across nearly a millennium. In 2021 it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the SchUM communities of Mainz, Worms, and Speyer.