When Vanessa and I were stationed here in Germany before, we had visited the city of Mainz but I didn't remember too much about it. I did a little research about the city on the internet and picked a handful of sights to check out. Pictured to the left is the Holzturm tower (Wooden tower). I read that this was one of three original towers that survived WWII bombs. It was a five minute walk from the Gutenberg Museum.
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The text is set in a fixture and ink is applied. The
paper is flipped on top and the whole thing is slid
under a manual press to imprint the text on the paper. |
Johannes Gutenberg is the founder of the printing press. He was from this city so he has his own museum. I did the audio tour which was very informative. I even saw a demonstration of how the original printing press worked. The cool thing about the museum is that you can see a couple original Gutenberg bibles. I couldn't read the thing since it is all in Latin.
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| The museum displays a history of printing devices. |
A couple other stops I made were St Stephans Church which has stain glass art by Marc Chagall and an area called the Kirschgarten.
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The Kirschgarten had typical German architecture
cafes and shops. Cool little area. |
It was a nice day trip but I did a lot of walking. There were a few things I didn't get to see because I still had an over 2 hour drive home. I would go again but leave a little earlier so I could spend more time in this pleasant city.
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| These flowers were across from the Gutenberg Museum. |
Until next time...Bis Spater! (see you later)
