Destination 2017: Mainz

[@Phipston]

Having lived in Mainz my entire life, I want to thank you for choosing your camera angles so carefully. And yes, for everybody else reading this: This really is the prettiest side of the city.

[@Knuddelmuffin]

Happy to see my home town here! But you are absolutely right: It's a chaotic 'Mischmasch' of architecture.

[@charon1701]

I have been waiting for my hometown ever since the first Destination Video.

[@prograMAnimus]

I'm really relieved that there's an english speaking man popping up randomly in my feed telling me about cities that are (in this case at least) 10minutes away with the next S-Bahn. Keep at it!

[@MyAdelaide]

Being born and raised in Mainz I have to thank you from the bottom for my heart for the video. Now I have a nice video which I can share with friend here in Australia where we have migrated to 4 years ago. Thanks Rewbos!!!

[@wesleydossantosgalvao986]

I lived in Mainz during part of my PhD in the Max Planck and I loved everything. I Thanks you to make me feel there one more time

[@yellowbench1158]

Rick Steves said in his book Mainz was no big deal. But after flying into Frankfurt we used Mainz as a place to walk off a day of jet lag and had an absolute great time! We just stumbled upon the Gutenberg Museum. I'd LOVE to go back. Lovely place to walk around! (S & A)

[@rewboss]

What Mainz doesn't have is a consistent style: there's no place where you can stand and be transported to any one particular era (Rothenburg takes you to the Middle Ages, Wiesbaden is early 20th century, Potsdam harks back to the glorious days when Prussia was at the height of its power). Mainz doesn't have that, and neither does it have any immediately recognizable landmark. It has a great deal to see, but you have to hunt for it a bit. If you don't know what you're doing, you could easily get the impression of a post-war city with a few old buildings here and there.

[@yellowbench1158]

Makes sense. We still want to go back and see the ancient boat museum. (if still there.)

[@InsideIsVoid]

Yes, that museum is still there and growing. The Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum, of which the Naval Museum is a segment, is currently constructing a new building right next to it. That building, the Archäologisches Zentrum Mainz is going to host the main exhibition and should open in 2020.

[@yellowbench1158]

Thanks for the info, looking forward to it!

[@KanaiIle]

As someone who lived in Mainz, I can say: Really well done. Quite an entertaining perspective, and I learned a few new things about the city.

[@billkammermeier]

I love the destination videos. Keep up the good work.

[@ulipeterson6112]

Rewboss, you should become a documentary filmmaker. :)

[@jkb2016]

2017 hab ich noch dort gewohnt. Ach Mainz, mit weniger Chaos wärst du weiter vorne...

[@dejabu24]

great video , excellent job

[@xavierob]

Thank you so much for this video and all the other destination videos, I really appreciate and am thankful for all the efforts and time you put into making these interesting videos!

[@shahlabadel8628]

your destination videos are so good!

[@DavidPalmer1]

Chaotic! Interesting...David

[@petrameyer1121]

Danke sehr nettes Video.

[@ReinholdOtto]

Small nitpick: the cathetral wasn't in its current form in 1776. Mainz became French after the French revolution, and was "liberated" by the Prussians, thereby destroying the north tower of the cathedral. It was rebuilt in the early 19th century with an iron top, which proved too heavy (and too modern for the Mainzers), so it was replaced by its historizing current form near the end of the 19th century.

[@downhill240]

It would appear that "alternate facts" is not a new idea, based on the 50th parallel location! Great tour video!!

[@annikastonefieldt7941]

wonderfully done !!

[@etvdzs]

6:00 so basically the archbishop said to himself: "Mainz? No, meins!"

[@Wiederholen]

Very nice, thank you! I once stayed only one night in Mainz (because, flying out of FRA) but toured Wiesbaden instead because it didn't seem Mainz had much to see. Had I seen this video before, I may have done differently. BTW, Andrew, your travel videos are much more interesting than the sterotypical pablum that Rick Steves actually broadcasts on TV here in the US.

[@aaron2709]

Their City Hall looks like a prison. What a strange choice to cover all the windows with bars.

[@Phelie315]

I think it's just that 70s style, that period isn't exactly known for great architectural choices tbh :D

[@thorstenlohmeyer988]

Very good job thank you

[@ericwilhelm2941]

Ich bin in Mainz aufgewachsen . Ich vermisse die Stadt . Besonders die Neustadt

[@paradonym]

Ein Urlaub mit einem solch Umfangreichen Film - fühlt sich dass dann immer noch als Urlaub an?

[@clydesight]

I love your travel videos, Rewboss. Please, in this one -- at about 8:00 -- you play some wonderful classical music. I don't find it listed in the video description. Please, tell me what it is, it's wonderful! Thanks!

[@rewboss]

It's called "Baroque Coffee House", and it's in the KZbin Audio Library.

[@clydesight]

Thanks!

[@downhill240]

Shared on my Google+ page too.

[@legendofJupp]

I think you missed out on the st. Christoph church. It looks so eery at night: a ruin in the midst of a city. It also represents one of the most dramatic points in the history of mainz, and its very telling of the mindset of the people of mainz that the ruin is still standing: a silent reminder of the horrors of ww2, one that must not be forgotten. Sorry for my bad English

[@alistairthompson8311]

Like the Gedaechtniskirche in Berlin or Coventry Cathedral.

[@rewboss]

I did take some video of it (it's right next to the Algesheimer Hof), but had to leave it out of the video. Many large German cities have a church ruin as a memorial to the war -- I have videos about Darmstadt, Berlin and Hanau that all feature such ruins -- and I really didn't want to have a long segment about WW2 in this video.

[@wernermaurer3164]

My birthplace is 12km east of Mainz!

[@Bema1001]

Great Video, thanks for your work, I really like the destination videos. Will you also travel to some of the following cities: Regensburg, Trier, Heidelberg, Speyer, Stuttgart, Bamberg, Dresden? Would be nice to have destination videos of them.

[@markusoberndorfer4634]

The glass dome on top of the opera house was planned as an additional stage room, but later it came clear that it would have been too noisy to have two plays in parallel. So the glass hat is one of the most expensive storage rooms now. The Landtag building is also known as "Deutschhaus" and holded the first democratic parliament in Germany during the period of the Mainz Republic between March and July 1993

[@folnich]

1793

[@markusoberndorfer4634]

Yes, of course

[@TimD.Morand]

Please do "Destination 2017: Düsseldorf" next!!

[@Jebbie92]

A part of me dies whenever I see amazing architecture, mixed right next door to horrible concrete buildings.

[@BarHonigfeld]

As someone who was born Kassel that really hurts. Kassel must have been such a beautiful city pre world war two. Now it's mostly 1960s concrete blocks

[@nur0din]

My home town wants to build a new glass building next to a palace/castle as both become a hospital.

[@talijahtalijah1258]

I thought the whole of u must have left us, bcus, i guess u have seen a lot of that mix....If contemporary infrastructure are not built how would they be appreciated 200 years in the future, what would be there for the future generation to learn about us just as we are learning about our people in the past??????

[@twinmama42]

Dear Andrew, very interesting and informative video. But I think you made a mistake. Mainz never belonged to the Palatinate and most Palatinates think of the people of Rhine-Hesse as "Prussians". YS twinmama

[@FiftQuheill]

Now Mainz is important in the world of vaccines. Being the location of the headquarters of BioNTech who made a COVID-19 vaccine with Pfizer

[@IntyMichael]

Welcome to the left side of the rhine...next stop Koblenz. ;-)

[@Schmidt54]

I like all those old churches so much, sadly most post-reformation catholic churches are so boring and are only a shadow of what once was something overbearing with colors and ornaments from medieval times. Worse, often the fancy ones are baroque, which aestehtics I do not like at all. What a very cool video!

[@Wolfsgeist]

Make Mainz Hessian again!!

[@studiosnch]

the last german division today, or so I heard

[@Phipston]

...arms himself with Weck, Worscht & Woi... No, never!