Line showing 50° north latitude on the Gutenbergplatz Mainz can easily be reached from Frankfurt International Airport in 25 minutes by commuter railway Line S8. The city is part of the Rhein Metro area of 5.8 million people. A further 18,619 people live mainly elsewhere but have a second home in Mainz. The population in early 2012 was 200,957.
The east of the city is opposite where the Main falls into it. Mainz is on the 50th latitude north, on the left bank of the Rhine. One of the ShUM-cities, Mainz and its Jewish cemetery is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mainz is notable as a transport hub, for wine production, and for its many rebuilt historic buildings. Mainz was heavily damaged in World War II more than 30 air raids destroyed most of the historic buildings. Mainz is famous as the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of a movable-type printing press, who in the early 1450s manufactured his first books in the city, including the Gutenberg Bible. Mainz became an important city in the 8th century AD as part of the Holy Roman Empire, capital of the Electorate of Mainz and seat of the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz, the Primate of Germany. Mainz was founded by the Romans in the 1st century BC as a military fortress on the northernmost frontier of the empire and provincial capital of Germania Superior. Mainz is an independent city with a population of 218,578 (as of 2019) and forms part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Downstream of this confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Mainz on the left-bank, and Wiesbaden, the capital of the neighbouring state Hesse, on the right-bank. Mainz is located on the left-bank of the Rhine, opposite where the Main joins the Rhine. Mainz ( / m aɪ n t s/ German: ( listen)) is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate (German: Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany. Satellite view of Mainz (south of the Rhine) and Wiesbaden
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