St. Quintin Church

The current building was erected around 1300 in the Gothic style. It consists of an almost square three-aisled hall nave (see also hall church) with three bays. The southwesternmost bay carries the massive bell tower of the church, which served as the city's fire station until the 20th century, which is why it contains a tower keeper's apartment, built in 1489 under Elector Berthold von Henneberg. From the tower keeper's apartment, practically the entire city area of old "wooden" Mainz could be overlooked. The windows of the tower keeper's apartment are fitted with green shutters. The oldest part of the building is the single-aisled choir, on whose south side the sacristy is located. On the north side, a two-bay Holy Cross Chapel adjoins. Also on the south side is the portal; the eastern and northern parts of the church are completely built-in. The exterior is held in brick red with painted joints.

The original interior furnishings of the church were largely lost during the Second World War. Two original stone reliefs of a Way of the Cross created around 1500 and the baptismal font from 1713 are still preserved. Noteworthy is the high altar with a column canopy from 1739, which was made according to designs by the architect Maximilian von Welsch.

Due to the rapid reusability after the Second World War, the interior also contains many furnishings from other churches in the city, such as the large painting by Franz Anton Maulbertsch on the west wall of the northern side aisle, which depicts the Assumption of Mary and was originally located in Altmünster Abbey. Also noteworthy is the baroque pulpit by Johannes Förster from the church of St. Emmeran, almost completely destroyed at the end of the war, which was donated by Countess Ostein in 1761, as well as a Pietà from St. Christoph (today a war memorial). The baroque side altars come from the parish church of Mainz-Bretzenheim.

Bells

St. Quintin has four bells. The most significant bell of the carillon is the beehive-shaped "Lumpenglöckchen" (rag bell), which dates from around 1250. Since the restoration of the bell in 1997, it rings daily for the Angelus. In 1908, the then Gothic carillon (without the Lumpenglöckchen) including the bell frame was removed and replaced by a new carillon with a steel bell frame. The two world wars spared only the Quintin bell of that carillon; today it forms the second smallest bell. Two larger cast steel bells from the 1920s were added.