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Mainz Citadel (Zitadelle Mainz)

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Mainz Citadel (Zitadelle Mainz)

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Mainz Citadel (Zitadelle Mainz)

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Location: Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Mainz Altstadt – Fastnachtsbrunnen Mainz loop from Mainz Hauptbahnhof

10.7km

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2. Kastel Rhine Promenade – Caponniere at Feldbergplatz loop from Mainz Römisches Theater

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03:53

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3. Mainz Market Square and Cathedral – Fastnachtsbrunnen Mainz loop from Mainz Nord

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Veronika 2020

October 6, 2020

The Mainz Citadel is located on the Jakobsberg on the edge of today's old town and in the immediate vicinity of the Roman Theater train station. The fortress was built in its current form around 1660 and was part of the Mainz fortress. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitadelle_Mainz
zitadelle-mainz.de

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Dirk Rüger

July 26, 2022

In the 1960s, the citadel housed the commercial vocational school of the city of Mainz until it moved to the new building on the Hartenberg. Today the citadel belongs to the city of Mainz and houses numerous municipal offices.

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Anne

August 29, 2022

Definition citadel ("small town"): A citadel is a small self-contained fortress that either lies within a larger fortress or forms part of the enceinte (i.e. the main line of fortifications) of the larger fortress. When the city was stormed by enemy troops, it served as a retreat for the garrison and the city's last core of resistance.

The citadel and its surroundings document the history of Mainz in a small space: starting with the Roman Drususstein memorial and the barracks built during the federal fortifications in the 19th century to the air raid shelters of the Second World War.
In October 2015, the Mainz citadel received the Hague Plaque from UNESCO, which marks the building as protected.

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Location: Rhenish Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Mainz Citadel (Zitadelle Mainz)

1. Mainz Altstadt – Fastnachtsbrunnen Mainz loop from Mainz Hauptbahnhof

2. Kastel Rhine Promenade – Caponniere at Feldbergplatz loop from Mainz Römisches Theater

3. Mainz Market Square and Cathedral – Fastnachtsbrunnen Mainz loop from Mainz Nord

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