Explore the City of Mainz

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.

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.

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.

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.

These flowers were across from the Gutenberg Museum.

Until next time...Bis Spater! (see you later)