Mainz, Germany Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

"The capital of our dear Fatherland" was how Goethe styled MAINZ . However, this is a position this 2000-year-old city, situated by the confluence of the Rhine and Main, has never officially held, though its influential role throughout German history certainly gave it a far stronger claim for nomination as the postwar seat of government of the Federal Republic than Bonn. Mainz's importance developed in the mid-eighth century, thanks to the Englishman St Boniface, who raised it to the main centre of the Church north of the Alps. Later, the local archbishop came to be one of the most powerful princes … more »