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May 19, 2024 · Mainz, city, capital of Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), west-central Germany. It is a port on the left bank of the Rhine River opposite Wiesbaden and the mouth of the Main River. Mainz, Germany. It was the site of a Celtic settlement where the Romans established (14–9 bce) a military camp known as Mogontiacum (Moguntiacum), after the ...
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Mainz is the city where the first vaccine against covid was developed by biontech. As they collaborated with pfizer for distribution and production, it is commonly known as the Pfizer vaccine in the US so you might actually never have heard of biontech.
Mainz , French Mayence, City (pop., 2002 est.: 185,293), west-central Germany. Situated on the Rhine River opposite the mouth of the Main River, it was established as a Roman military camp c. 14 bc on the site of an earlier Celtic settlement. It became an archbishopric in ad 775, a free city in 1244, and the head of the Rhenish League in 1254.
This is the main theatre in Mainz! The Staatstheater, as it’s called in German, was opened in 1833 and actually houses two theatres that are connected inside. If you want to see a performance, you can check out the official website here. Address: Gutenbergplatz 7, 55116 Mainz.
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Mainz is one of the oldest Jewish communities in Germany. It is presumed that Jews came to the city as merchants in the Roman era and may even have founded a settlement there. The date of the first medieval community is uncertain. A church council in Mainz declared in 906 that a man who killed a Jew out of malice must make amends like any other mur...
Until the second half of the 12th century, the Jews conducted lively mercantile activities and from a very early date attended the *Cologne fairs. Discoveries in the area of the oldest Jewish settlement in Mainz provide evidence of commercial connections with Greece and Italy. From this period onward *moneylending became of increased importance in ...
In the early modern era only a few Jews lived in Mainz. In 1513 the archbishop designated Weisenau, near Mainz, as the seat of the rabbinate for the diocese of Mainz, presumably because few resided in the city itself. These few were expelled in 1579, but a new community was reconstituted in 1583, reinforced by emigration from *Frankfurt (1614), Wor...
On November 9/10, 1938, the main synagogue (including the museum and library) was looted and burnt down. The Orthodox and Polish synagogues suffered similar treatment. On May 17, 1939, only 1,452 Jews remained, 70% of whom were 40 years or over. A steady flow of emigrants was partly balanced by an influx of refugees from the countryside. In March a...
Aronius, Regesten; K.A. Schaab, Diplomatische Geschichte der Juden in Mainz (1855); M. Wiener, Regesten (1862); Germ Jud, 1 (1963), 174–223; 2 (1968), 512–21; Salfeld, Martyrol, index; idem, Bilder aus der Vergangenheit der juedischen Gemeinde in Mainz (1903); idem, in: Festschrift… A. Berliner (1903); idem, in: Festschrift… Hermann Cohen (1912), 3...
Mainz is famous for its university, its Roman heritage, its status as a media hub and state capital, and its three most defining features: the Romanesque cathedral, the Gutenberg printing press and the Rhineland carnival. For more than 1,000 years, the city's skyline has been dominated by one building, Mainz Cathedral, one of the most important ...
Mainz ( Palatine German: Määnz or Meenz, ( Latin: Mogontiacum) is a German city. It is the capital of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . Mainz is on the left side of the river Rhine, on the right side is the city Wiesbaden. Mainz has about 203,000 people. Its main economic product is wine.
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