“Aurea Moguntia” – Golden Mainz. Franz Behem, colored woodcut, 1565. Image courtesy Mainz Stadtarchiv
“Archiepiscopalis Moguntia” — Mainz 1633, Mattheus Merien, colored copper engraving. Image courtesy Mainz Stadtarchiv
“Mayntz” from the “Weltchronik” by Hartmann Schedel, printed by Anton Koberer in Nuremberg in 1493. Woodcut with only tenuous connection to reality, used for many other city views in the book. Image courtesy Mainz Stadtarchiv.
St Jakob’s monastery, Mainz. 18th century watercolor.
Image courtesy Mainz Stadtarchiv.
Detail from “Golden Mainz” Unloading of Rhein cargo ships by shoreline crane.
Detail from “Golden Mainz.” Near the Wood Market.
The Mint on the market square. Watercolor rendering of Gothic architecture.
Detail from “Archiepiscopalis Moguntia” — Graupforte on the west side of the Mainz defensive wall.
Rhine “Overlander” cargo ship being hauled on tow path.
Frontispiece to the “Marckschiff oder Marckschiffer Gespräch, von
der Franckfurter Meß” a 1596 poem by Marx Mangold about the Frankfurt Fair.
Google Books/original image in Bayerische Stadtsbibliothek.
Altarpiece painting, St Alban’s 1518, showing Mainz with its distinctive wall in white, blue and red. The Iron Gate is in the foreground. Image courtesy the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Rhineland-Pfalz.
Kaufhaus on the Brand, around 1800. Oil painting by Ludwig Ernst Schulz. Image courtesy © GDKE – Landesmuseum Mainz
Map of the Holy Roman Empire at the end of the medieval period. Mainz is referred to as “Mayence”, as it was known from 1797 to 1814 during the French occupation by Napoleon. Source: Wikipedia Commons
A very early woodcut depiction of Frankfurt-am-Main, seen from Sachsenhausen (on south side of the Main River). Mainz is downriver to the left.
Image courtesy the Historisches Museum Frankfurt.
Frankfurt am Main, Die Steinerne Brücke, 1646, copperplate engraving by Matthäus Merian. Reprinted in “Historische Ortsansichten” 2007, Land Hessen.
Frontispiece engraving for the “True and Actual Showplace of the world-famous Frankfurt Fair,” printed 1696, and depicting the Römerberg. Image courtesy the Historisches Museum Frankfurt
A 16th century woodcut of the ground floor of the Haus zum Römer on Frankfurt’s main square, the Römerberg. Now used as Frankfurt City Hall, its broad arcades were a prime location during the medieval Frankfurt Fairs.
Source: Wikipedia Commons