Mainz

Mainz has several train stations, the biggest and the only one in which Intercity trains do stop is Mainz Hauptbahnhof. It is directly in the center of the city.

By car

By bus

There are buses from throughout Europe which call in Mainz, mainly leaving from the Hauptbahnhof.

By boat

Get around

There is also a good local bus service, concentrated round the Hauptbahnhof / Hoefchen areas. Many local lines terminate in Wiesbaden and Bingen.

Mainz is part of the RMV (Rhein-Main Verkehrsbund) so a local day ticket (Tageskarte) will operate on the buses in most local cities.

See

Romanesque cathedral (one of Germany's oldest; others are in: Worms, Speyer)
"Stephanskirche", world-famous Chagall windows (blue)
River Banks with lots of restaurants and (night) clubs.

The 'Theodor-Heuss-Bridge' in the centre of Mainz.

The Theodor Heuss Rhine Bridge between Mainz and Mainz-Kastel is one of three Rhine bridges that connect Mainz with Wiesbaden and the state of Hesse. Like almost all other German Rhine bridges, the former bridge had been destroyed in World War II. The bridge was rebuilt in the early 1950s and named after the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss. Kastel, a former Mainz suburb and several other villages on the right side of the Rhine, has been separated from the city after the war, as the Rhine was the border between the French and American occupation sectors. Even today, Kastel, Kostheim, Amoeneburg, Ginsheim, Gustavsburg and the other former suburbs consider themselves part of Mainz, although they are administered by Wiesbaden and Hesse.

Mainz City Hall.

The City Hall was built in the early 1970s by Danish architects, who used many tons Swedish marble for the facade. Considered modern at the time it was built, the city hall is not very popular today, many consider it too monumental, some even ugly. From the extensive city hall platform there is a beautiful view on the Rhine promenade and the river.

Schillerplatz. Beautiful, leafy square in central Mainz with the fountain said to represent the jesters and fun of Mainz's fastnacht celebration.