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Palais Zum Römischen Kaiser

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In Mainz stands the Palais Zum Römischen Kaiser, a Renaissance building, erected as the first major structure after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. It served as a model for numerous other buildings of the Electorate of Mainz nobility and now houses the Gutenberg Museum.

History+

In the second half of the 17th century, the merchant and electoral rent master Edmund Rokoch had the building constructed. Initially, the western part of the building was erected in 1653, following the tradition of narrow townhouses. From 1657, this structure was supplemented by another gabled house to the east and finally unified by a connecting central section, the so-called Private Palais Zum Marienberg. Above the passage, there is a portal figure of a Roman emperor, presumably depicting Charles V.

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