Arens, Fritz:
The Mainz Cathedral. Audiobook version of the book *The Mainz Cathedral* by Fritz Arens.
Revised by Günther Binding. Narrator: Martin Falk.
Darmstadt: Auditorium Maximum, 2011. – 74 min.
ISBN 978-3-654-60219-6
12.90 euros
Call number at the City Library: CD 1721

Arens, Fritz:
The Mainz Cathedral. Revised and expanded by Günther Binding.
3rd ed., unchanged from the 2nd ed. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchges., 2007. – XII, 159 pp., ill., graf. ill.
ISBN 978-3-534-20192-1
19.90 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2215

Balzer, Wolfgang:
Mainz. Notable Figures in the City’s History.
Ingelheim: Kügler, 19XX.

Vol. 1: Honorary Citizens of Mainz, Prelates of Mainz, Military Figures, Mayors of Mainz. – 1985. – 384 pp., numerous ill.
ISBN 978-3-924124-01-4
25.46 euros
Call number at the City Library: 90/1091, 1

2. Figures in Religious Life, Figures in Political Life, Figures in General Cultural Life, Scholars, Writers, Artists, Musicians. – 1989. – 384 pp., numerous illustrations.
ISBN 978-3-924124-03-8
28.02 euros
Call number at the City Library: 90/1091, 2

3. Businesspeople, trailblazers of their era, architects, carnival enthusiasts, eccentrics, and mavericks. – 1993. – 416 pp., numerous ill.
ISBN 978-3-924124-05-2
29 euros
Call number at the City Library: 90/1091, 3

Balzer, Wolfgang; Benz, Klaus (photographer):
Mainz’s Underground Worlds. Discoveries Beneath the Surface. Edited by Rupert Krömer.
2nd, expanded ed. Mainz: Vitruv-Verl., 2008. – 227 pp., numerous ill.
ISBN 978-3-937562-04-4
28.50 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4º /1336

Basilica Nova Moguntina. 1,000 Years of St. Martin’s Cathedral (Willigis Cathedral) in Mainz. Essays on the 2009 Cathedral Anniversary. Edited by Felicitas Janson and Barbara Nichtweis.
Mainz: Episcopal Ordinariate of Mainz, 2010. 304 pp., numerous ill.
(New Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz 2009/10)
ISBN 978-3-934450-43-1
5 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2475

Baumgarten, Peter:
Baedeker’s Mainz. City Guide.
[7th ed.] Ostfildern-Kemnat [et al.]: Baedeker, 1998. – 149 pp., ill., graphic illustrations, maps.
ISBN 3-87954-074-8
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1904

Chagall, Marc; Mayer, Klaus:
The Chagall Windows at St. Stephen’s in Mainz.
Würzburg: Echter-Verl., 19XX.
ISBN 978-3-429-01059-1
4 volumes 99.90 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4°/1109

1. The Central Window. The God of the Fathers.
12th ed. 1999. – 53 pp., numerous ill.
ISBN 978-3-429-00573-3
24.50 euros

2. The Flanking Central Windows. I Set My Bow in the Clouds.
9th ed. 1994. – 81 pp., numerous ill.
ISBN 978-3-429-00616-7
24.50 euros

3. The Side Windows. Lord, my God, how great you are!
7th ed. 2000. – 73 pp., numerous illustrations.
ISBN 978-3-429-00739-3
24.50 euros

4. The Transverse Aisle Windows. The heavens of the heavens cannot contain you. A Letter to My Friend.
4th ed., 2001. – 61 pp., ill.
ISBN 978-3-429-01001-0
24.50 euros

National Socialism in Mainz, 1933–45. Terror and Everyday Life. Catalog accompanying the exhibition by the Mainz City Archives at Mainz City Hall, March 6 through April 26, 2008. Published by the City of Mainz. Edited by Wolfgang Dobras.
Mainz: City of Mainz, 2008. – 152 pp., ill.
(Contributions to the History of the City of Mainz 36)
ISBN 978-3-924708-27-6
12.50 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2260

The Vanished Cathedral. Perceptions and Changes of the Mainz Cathedral Over the Centuries. Catalog accompanying the exhibition at the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum in Mainz from April 15 to October 16, 2011. Edited by Hans-Jürgen Kotzur. Edited by Karin Kreuzpaintner.
Mainz: Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, 2011. – 584 pp., numerous illustrations.
ISBN 978-3-935647-54-0
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4º /1427

The Synagogues of Mainz. An overview of Mainz’s synagogue buildings with supplementary articles on notable Mainz rabbis, the old Jewish quarter, and the libraries of the Jewish communities. Edited by Hedwig Brüchert.
Mainz: Association for Social History, 2008. – 185 pp., ill.
(Mainzer Geschichtsblätter; special issue)
ISSN 1435-8026
12 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2278

The Writings of the Mainz Jacobins and Their Opponents (1792–1802). Revolutionary and counterrevolutionary proclamations and decrees, speeches, pamphlets, treatises, plays, poems, and songs, travelogues, newspapers, and periodicals from the era of the Mainz Republic (1792/93) and the revolutionary movement on the left bank of the Rhine up to the early French period in Rheinhessen and the Palatinate (1792–1802). Edited by the Mainz City Library.
Munich [et al.]: Saur, 19XX.

1st microfiche edition.
1993. – 357 microfiches
ISBN 978-3-598-33034-6
1,896 euros
Call number at the Mainz City Library: MF 24

2. Bibliography and companion volume to the microfiche edition
, 1994. – XI, 111 pp.
(Publications of the Mainz City Library and the Public Library – Anna Seghers 49)
ISBN 978-3-598-33035-3
89.95 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1701

The SchUM Communities of Speyer – Worms – Mainz. On the Path to World Heritage Status. Edited by the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage of Rhineland-Palatinate. Editors: Pia Heberer and Ursula Reuter.
Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2013. – 480 pp., numerous ill., maps.
ISBN 978-3-7954-2594-4
49.95 euros
Call number at the City Library: 2013/31

Düsterwald, Erich:
A Brief History of the Archbishops and Electors of Mainz. 747–1802.
Sankt Augustin: Richarz, 1980. – 121 pp.
(Düsterwald Series: Historical Essays 8)
Call number at the City Library: 42/4645, 8

Falck, Ludwig:
Mainz in the Past, Yesterday, and Today. A City in Transition Over the Last 60 Years.
Stuttgart: Steinkopf, 1984. – 128 pp., mostly illustrated.
ISBN 3-7984-0599-9
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4°/985

Funke, Bernd:
Great Names in Mainz. Who Lived Where.
Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei, 2011. – 98 pp., ill., paperback.
ISBN 978-3-7973-1257-0
12.80 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2540

Glatz, Ulrike; Glatz, Joachim:
Mainz Cathedral. The Archbishops’ Cathedral. An Art-Historical Audio Guide.
Bad Homburg: Kunst + Reise Publishers, 2008. – 68 min.
(An Art-Historical Audio Guide 6)
ISBN 978-3-940825-06-3
Call number at the City Library: CD 1081

Gutenberg – Adventure and Art. From a Secret Enterprise to the First Media Revolution.
Catalog for the exhibition organized by the City of Mainz on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Johannes Gutenberg’s birth, April 14–October 3, 2000. Published by the City of Mainz. Catalog coordination and editing: Wolfgang Dobras.
Mainz: Schmidt, 2000. – 716 pp., numerous ill.
ISBN 3-87439-507-3
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4°/1186

Handbook of Mainz Church History. Edited by Friedhelm Jürgensmeier.
Würzburg: Echter-Verl., 19XX.
(Contributions to Mainz Church History 6)

1. Christian Antiquity and the Middle Ages. (2 volumes)
2000. – 1,200 pp.
ISBN 978-3-429-02258-7
90 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1867, 1

2. The Archbishopric and Archdiocese of Mainz: Territorial and Ecclesiastical Structures
, 1997. – 645 pp.
ISBN 978-3-429-01877-1
49.90 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1867, 2

3. The Early Modern and Modern Periods. (2 volumes)
2002. – 1,792 pp.
ISBN 978-3-429-02425-3
128 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1867, 3

Hartmann, Peter Claus:
A Brief History of Mainz.
2nd, revised and updated ed. Regensburg: Pustet, 2011. – 168 pp. Ill., graf. ill., maps.
ISBN 978-3-7917-2310-5
12.95 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2569

Hüsch, Hanns Dieter; Pierre Ferrenbach (photographer):
Mainz: Faces of a City. Edited by Bertram Schmidt-Friderichs.
Mainz: Schmidt, 1993. – 192 pp., mostly ill. + supplement (6 pp.)
ISBN 3-87439-253-8
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4°/1061

Imhof, Michael; Kestin, Simone:
Mainz. Cathedral and City Guide.
3rd ed. Petersberg: Imhof, 2010. 64 pp., numerous illustrations, graphic representations, maps.
ISBN 978-3-937251-31-8
4.95 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog m 6341

Kornfeld, Heike:
The Development of the Printing Industry in Mainz from the Early 19th Century to the Outbreak of World War I (1816–1914).
Mainz: City Archives, 1999. – IX, 410 pp., ill.
(Contributions to the History of the City of Mainz 31). Also published as: Mainz, Univ., Diss., 1996.
ISBN 978-3-924708-22-1
32 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4°/1178, 31

Cultural Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. 2, City of Mainz. Published on behalf of the Ministry of Culture by the State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments.
Düsseldorf: Schwann, 19XX.
(Topography of Historical Monuments in the Federal Republic of Germany)
ISBN 3-590-31033-2

1. Urban Expansion in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries. Edited by Angela Schumacher and Ewald Wegner.
2nd ed. 1997. – 260 pp., mostly ill., graph. dep., maps + 1 map supplement.
ISBN 978-3-88462-138-7
39 euros
Call number at the City Library: 54 A:4° /950, 2,1

2. Old Town. Edited by Ewald Wegner.
3rd ed. 1997. – 347 pp., mostly illustrations, graphic representations, maps + map supplement
ISBN 978-3-88462-139-4
44 euros
Call number at the City Library: 54 A:4° /950, 2,2

3. Suburbs. Edited by Dieter Krienke.
1997. – 191 pp., illustrations and maps
ISBN 978-3-88462-140-0
30 euros
Call number at the City Library: 54 A:4° /950, 2,3

[Kungstein, Johannes:]
Mainz Chronicle. 1346 to 1406. Festschrift for Anton Issel = Chronicon Moguntinum. Translated and with an introduction by Kurt Flasch.
Mainz: Schmidt, [2009]. – 111 pp., ill., map
(Lebendiges Rheinland-Pfalz)
ISBN 978-3-935647-43-4
49.80 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4º /1344

Lautzas, Peter:
Historic Mainz.
Schwalbach/Ts.: bd ed., 2012. – 46 pp., numerous ill.
(City Walks series)
ISBN 978-3-941264-11-3
6.80 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog m 6524

Life Amid the Ruins. Mainz 1945–1948. Edited on behalf of the City of Mainz by Anton Maria Keim and Alexander Link.
Mainz: Krach, 1985. – 196 pp., ill.
(Mainz Edition 2)
ISBN 3-87439-113-2
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1505

Lehr, Helmut:
What the Cathedral Spire Hears... For locals, residents of Mainz, newcomers, and visitors to the city—a reference and discovery guide.
Alzey: Published by Rheinhessen Druckwerkstätte, 2012. – 111 pp., ill.
ISBN 978-3-86232-028-8
19.50 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2646

Lehr, Helmut; Schmelz, Reinhold (current photographs):
Mainz Yesterday and Today.
Gudensberg-Gleichen: Wartberg-Verl., 2012. – 70 pp., mostly ill.
ISBN: 978-3-8313-2251-0
16.90 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2632

Leiwig, Heinz:
Mainz 1933–1948. From the Seizure of Power to the Currency Reform.
2nd, expanded ed. Mainz: Schmidt, 1987. – 176 pp., illustrated.
ISBN 3-87439-132-9
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4°/994

Mainz – People, Buildings, Events. A City History. Edited by Franz Dumont and Ferdinand Scherf.
Mainz: von Zabern, 2010. – 392 pp., numerous ill., graphs, maps.
ISBN 978-3-8053-4247-6
39.90 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4º/1413

Mainz in the Middle Ages. Edited by Mechthild Dreyer and Jörg Rogge.
Mainz: von Zabern, 2009. – 256 pp., ill.
ISBN 978-3-8053-3786-1
39.90 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2334

Mainz, February 27, 1945. Eyewitness Accounts. Documentation accompanying the exhibition at the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum in Mainz from March 3, 1995, to September 2, 1995. Edited by Hans-Jürgen Kotzur on behalf of the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum. Compiled by Winfried Wilhelmy and Mechthild Reinelt.
Mainz: Schmidt, 1995. – 120 pp., numerous illustrations.
ISBN 3-87439-344-5
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1757

Mainz: Exterior Views – Interior Views. Paintings and Prints from 500 Years of City History. Companion volume to the exhibition at the Mainz City History Museum, December 5, 2010 – April 25, 2011. Edited by Melanie Ehler and Hedwig Brüchert.
Mainz: Friends of the Mainz City History Museum, 2010. – 103 pp., numerous ill.
(Publications Series of the Mainz City History Museum 4)
ISSN 1868-3177
10 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2520

Mainz: The History of the City. Edited on behalf of the City of Mainz by Franz Dumont.
Mainz: von Zabern, 1998. – XVI, 1,333 pp., numerous illustrations, graphic representations, maps.
ISBN 3-8053-2000-0
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1921

Mainz. Photographic Memories 1845–1945. Published by the City of Mainz. Edited by Hartmut Fischer et al.
Mainz: Der Verleger, 19XX
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4°/964

1st 4th ed. 1993. – 205 pp., mostly ill.
ISBN 3-88193-010-8

2. 1993. – 228 pp., mostly illustrated, paperback.
ISBN 3-88193-017-5

Mainz: Paintings of a Beautiful City. Views of Mainz—Yesterday and Today, 1850–1950. Edited by the Kunstverein Eisenturm Mainz e. V., General Concept: Otto Martin.
Mainz: von Zabern, 2009. – 100 pp., numerous illustrations.
ISBN 978-3-8053-4084-7
19.90 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2333

Pfotenhauer, Angela; Lixenfeld, Elmar:
Mainz.
Bonn: German Foundation for Monument Protection, Monuments Series, 2012. – 144 pp., numerous illustrations, map
(Monuments Edition)
ISBN 978-3-86795-055-8
19.80 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog:4º /1443

Preßler, Karsten:
Mainz in the Age of Gutenberg. A Walk Through the Late-Medieval City.
Alzey: Published by the Rheinhessen Druckwerkstätte, 2000. – 56 pp., illustrations + city map, titled: Mainz 500 Years Ago and Today
ISBN 978-3-87854-151-6
5.01 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog m 5238

Rödel, Walter G.:
Mainz and Its Population in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Demographic Development, Living Conditions, and Social Structures in an Ecclesiastical Capital.
Stuttgart: Steiner, 1985. – XV, 410 pp., illustrations + 11 supplements
(Geschichtliche Landeskunde 28). Also published as: Mainz, Univ., habilitation thesis, 1983/84.
ISBN 978-3-515-04419-6
75 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1920

Sachs, Birgit:
Memories of Mainz. Women and Children in the Postwar Period.
Mainz: Society for Folklore in Rhineland-Palatinate, 1994. – 107 pp., ill.
(Mainz Minor Writings on Folk Culture 6). Also: Mainz University, Master’s thesis
. ISBN 3-926052-94-5
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1755

Siste viator et lege – Stop, Traveler, and Read. The Latin Inscriptions of the City of Mainz from Antiquity to Modern Times. Texts with translations and brief explanations, edited by Jürgen Blänsdorf.
Mainz: Blänsdorf, 2008. – 262 pp., numerous ill., maps.
ISBN 978-3-00-025913-5
14.80 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2305

Stumme, Wolfgang:
The Mainz Main Cemetery. People and Their Final Resting Places.
Ingelheim: Leinpfad-Verl., 2010. – 103 pp., numerous illustrations.
ISBN: 978-3-942291-14-9
12 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2474

Hidden – Lost – Rediscovered. Places of Remembrance in Mainz from Antiquity to the 20th Century. Edited by Joachim Schneider and Matthias Schnettger.
Darmstadt: von Zabern, 2012. – 160 pp., 50 ill.
ISBN 978-3-8053-4527-9
24.99 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 2643

From Blue-White-Red to Black-Red-Gold. Mainz from the Beginning of Napoleonic Rule in 1798 to the Revolution of 1848. An exhibition by the City of Mainz Department of Culture and City Archives, City Hall Foyer, September 6 through October 18, 1998. Edited by Friedrich Schütz.
Mainz, 1998. – 400 pp., ill., maps
(Contributions to the History of the City of Mainz 32)
ISBN 978-3-924708-23-8
14 euros
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1922

If Stones Could Speak: Mainz Buildings and Their Stories. Guided Tours Through an Urban Landscape. Edited by Günther Gillessen.
2nd, corrected ed. Mainz: von Zabern, 1992. – 205 pp., ill., map.
ISBN 3-8053-1206-7
Call number at the City Library: Mog 1614 a

Mainz. Quarterly journal for culture, politics, economics, history. Published by the City of Mainz.
Mainz: Krach, 1981–1985; Mainz: Schmidt, 1986–2003; Bodenheim: Bonewitz Communication GmbH, 2004–2009, Bodenheim: Agentur & Verl. Bonewitz, 2010–
ISSN 0720-5945
Call number in the city library: Z mog 10

Mainzer Geschichtsblätter. Publications of the Mainz Social History Association
Mainz: Verein für Sozialgeschichte, 1984–
ISSN 0178-5761
Call number in the City Library: Z mog 26

Mainzer Zeitschrift. Middle Rhine Yearbook for Archaeology, Art, and History. Published by the Antiquarian Society, the State Museum, the Archaeological Monument Preservation Society, the City Archives, and the City Library of Mainz.
Mainz: von Zabern 1906–
ISSN 0076-2792
Call number in the City Library: Mog:4°/86

Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography. Published by the Rheinische Landesbibliothek Koblenz, the Mainz City Library, the Pfälzische Landesbibliothek Speyer, and the Trier City Library. Trier: Spee, 1991(1992)–
Preceded by: Middle Rhine-Moselle Bibliography
Preceded by: Palatinate Bibliography
ISSN 0943-4623
Call number in the City Library: Z 25/434

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