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Wheel Of Mainz
The Wheel of Mainz or , in German language, German, was the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Mainz and thus also of the Electorate of Mainz (Kurmainz), in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It consists of a silver wheel with six spokes on a red background. The wheel can also be found in stonemasons' carvings (e.g. landmarks) and similar objects. Currently, the City of Mainz uses a double wheel connected by a silver cross. Origin The origins of the wheel are not known. One theory traces it back to Bishop Willigis, who was elected Archbishop of Mainz in 975. According to a tale delivered by the Brothers Grimm, his ancestors had been wheelwrights and his adversaries sneered at him for his mean birth. They drew wheels on the walls and doors of his residence, Willigis though made it his personal ensign with the motto "Willigis, remember where you came from". However, this is not proven, and in any case Coat of arms, coats of arms only appeared in the 12th century. Most of the archb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainz Cathedral
Mainz Cathedral or St. Martin's Cathedral ( or, officially, ') is located near the historical center and pedestrianized market square of the city of Mainz, Germany. This 1000-year-old Roman Catholic cathedral is the site of the episcopal see of the Bishop of Mainz. Mainz Cathedral is predominantly Romanesque architecture, Romanesque in style, but later exterior additions over many centuries have resulted in the appearance of various architectural influences seen today. It comprises three aisles and stands under the patronage of Martin of Tours, Saint Martin of Tours. The eastern Choir (architecture), quire is dedicated to Saint Stephen. The interior of the cathedral houses tombs and funerary monuments of former powerful Prince Elector, Electoral-Prince-Bishop, prince-archbishops, or , of the diocese and contains religious works of art spanning a millennium. The cathedral also has a central courtyard and statues of Saint Boniface and The Madonna on its grounds. During the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainz-Weisenau
Mainz (; see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in the Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region—Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after Rhine-Ruhr—which also encompasses the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Offenbach am Main, and Hanau. Mainz is located at the northern end of the Upper Rhine Plain, on the left bank of the Rhine. It is the largest city of Rhenish Hesse, a region of Rhineland-Palatinate that was historically part of Hesse, and is one of Germany's most important wine regions because of its mild climate. Mainz is connected to Frankfurt am Main by the Rhine-Main S-Bahn rapid transit system. Before 1945, Mainz had six boroughs on the other side of the Rhine (see: :de:Rechtsrheinische Stadtteile von Mainz). Three have been incorporated into Wiesbaden (see: :de:AKK-Konflikt), and three are now independent. Mainz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainz-Laubenheim
Mainz-Laubenheim is a southern quarter of Mainz and is located south of the A60 autobahn and west of the B9 highway on the banks of the Rhine. History The first documented mention of Mainz-Laubenheim was in 773 AD, under the name ''Nubenheim''. In 1801, Laubenheim came under French possession, and in 1816 was taken over by the Grand Duchy of Hessen. On 8 June 1969, Laubenheim became part of the city of Mainz. Traffic Mainz-Laubenheim is connected to the local railway network by its Mainz-Laubenheim stop, which is part of the Mainz-Mannheim railway line. S-Bahn line S6 of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar stop here every half hour. Laubenheim is also well connected to the rest of the state capital by several bus lines of the Mainzer Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG). Depending on the line, the city centre of Mainz can be reached in 15 to 30 minutes. Furthermore, Mainz-Laubenheim has a connection to the Bundesstraße 9 and, through a connection to the Bundesautobahn 60 is an autobahn i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainz-Hechtsheim
Hechtsheim is a borough of the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz, Germany. With an area of 1,404 hectares, it is the largest district in the city. History On 17 May 808, ''Hehhidesheim'' was first mentioned in writing by the Princely Abbey of Fulda. However, like other "-heim" places in Rheinhessen, it was probably founded much earlier. On the ''Hechtsheimer Höhe'', since then called ''Frankenhöhe'', around 300 graves from the period around 500 AD to the second half of the 7th century AD were excavated between 1980 and 1983 by the Mainz State Archaeology Department under the direction of Dr. Gerd Rupprecht. In the beginning of the 20th Century, several graveyards, containing weapons, arrowheads and broken ceramic vessels from the Frankish period were also found inside the village. On 20 December 1943, Hechtsheim was bombed for the first time and the town was badly damaged. On 19 October and 28 December 1944, the town was bombed again. The American Army occupied the Hech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000. It lies in the wide valley of the Gera (river), River Gera, in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest, and in the middle of a line of the six largest Thuringian cities ('':de:Thüringer Städtekette, Thüringer Städtekette''), stretching from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena, to Gera in the east. Together with Kassel and Göttingen, it is one of the cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants lying closest to the geographic centre of Germany. Erfurt is south-west of Leipzig, north-east of Frankfurt, south-west of Berlin and north of Munich. Erfurt's old town is one of the best preserved medieval city centres in Germany. The Gera (river), Gera is spanned by the Krämerbrücke, Merchants' Bridge (''Krämerbrücke''), one of the rare bridges with ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blason Ville Fr Mayence-Empire (Orn Ext)
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is , and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. This form of poetry was used extensively by Elizabethan-era poets. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, ironically rejecting each propo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithras
Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman Empire, Roman mystery religion focused on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian peoples, Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity (''yazata'') Mithra, the Roman Mithras was linked to a new and distinctive imagery, and the degree of continuity between Persian and Greco-Roman practice remains debatable. The mysteries were popular among the Imperial Roman army from the 1st to the 4th century AD. Worshippers of Mithras had a complex system of seven grades of initiation and communal ritual meals. Initiates called themselves ''syndexioi'', those "united by the handshake". They met in dedicated ''mithraeum, mithraea'' (singular ''mithraeum''), underground Roman temple, temples that survive in large numbers. The cult (religious practice), cult appears to have had its centre in ancient Rome, Rome, and was popular throughout the Western Roman Empire, western half of the empire, as far so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogons
Mogons or Moguns was a Celtic god worshiped in Roman Britain and Gaul. The main evidence is from altars dedicated to the god by Roman soldiers. Etymology According to J.T. Koch at the University of Wales, the various alternations of the name ''Moguns'' derive from the Romano-Celtic dialectal reflexes of Proto-Celtic *''mogont-s'' (a derivative of the Proto-Indo-European root ''*megH2-'' "to be great, mighty"), an Indo-European *''-nt-'' -stem cognate with Sanskrit ''mahānt'' and Avestan ''mazant'' ‘great’. Centres of worship Altar-stones raised to Mogon, with varied spellings, have been recovered in the United Kingdom, such as the stones found at the following locations. The number is the catalog number of the artifact and the name in parentheses is the word as it appears on the stone, not necessarily (and probably not) in the nominative case. Most are datives, to be translated as "to the god": * Voreda (Old Penrith): 921 (Mogti), 922 (Mounti) *Castra Exploratorum (Nether ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
