Mainz Cathedral's red sandstone towers rising over pink and slate rooftops, the Rhine and green hills beyond, in a soft hand-coloured old photograph.
Antique hand-coloured panorama of Mainz along the Rhine, church spires crowding the skyline above the river and a small boat on the water.
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Mainz Cathedral over the Rooftops

Pictures by Photoglob Co. and Braun & Hogenberg

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Mainz Cathedral rises in red sandstone above a sea of pink and slate roofs, with the Rhine beyond, in a hand-coloured photochrom from about 1895, and Braun and Hogenberg's old river panorama of the city inside. Mainz is where Johannes Gutenberg was born and where he printed his famous Bible in the 1450s. For a traveler or anyone with a soft spot for old German towns.

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Mainz · Photochrom / Mainz Cathedral over the Rooftops / The red sandstone cathedral with its six towers rises over a sea of pink and slate roofs, with the Rhine bridge behind. Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz and printed his famous Bible here in the 1450s.

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