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"Mainz [Maghānja] is a very large city, partly inhabited and partly cultivated fields. It is in the land of the Franks, on a river called the Rhine [Rīn]. Wheat, barley, rye, grapevines and fruit are plentiful." [38] In 1244, Archbishop Siegfried III granted Mainz a city charter, allowing the citizens to establish and elect a city council. [39]
The Sawley map in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Sawley map, formerly known as the ' Henry of Mainz ' map, is the earliest surviving mappa mundi (world map) made in England. [1] It was made between about 1180 and the early 13th century. [2] The map is the frontispiece of a copy of the Imago mundi of Honorius of Autun.
During the early modern age, the archdiocese of Mainz (see map below) was the largest ecclesiastical province of Germany, covering Mainz and 10 suffragant dioceses. [3] In 1802, Mainz lost its archiepiscopal character.
After the Second World War and the new reorganisation of the region, Hechtsheim became a municipality in the district of Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate). In the 1950s, it benefited from the development of its commercial area. In 1969, Hechtsheim was incorporated into the city of Mainz as a district (Ortsbezirk) called Mainz-Hechtsheim. [5]
Mainz-Kastel is a district of the city Wiesbaden, which is the capital of the German state Hesse in western Germany. Kastel is the historical bridgehead of Mainz , the capital of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate and is located on the right side of the Rhine river.
Deutsch: Topographischer Netzplan des Straßenbahnnetzes in Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz English: Tramway network of Mainz, Germany This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community.
The remainings of the abbots and guest house had been used only for military purposes since then. In the south of the courtyard a Baroque garden existed, which can be seen on a map dated 1804. After the Napoleonic Wars Mainz became in 1816 a fortress of the German Confederation. Prussians and Austrians settled in the citadel and used it as ...
Mainz-Laubenheim is a southern quarter of Mainz and is located south of the A60 autobahn and west of the B9 highway on the banks of the Rhine. History