found at this weekend's annual research camp held in Wispertal. About 20 Höfos of the National Association for Cave and Karst Research Hesse, supported by friends from the Bat Conservation searched for mining tunnels, which according to old documents in certain valleys the Wispertal still should be present. If the tunnels were actually found, the coordinates were calculated by means of GPS, a bio-speleologic sampling, photo documentation and possibly a quick survey. In the evening of course was not the social part too short and there was a lively exchange between some who traveled from Hamburg and Regensburg researchers.
estate thunder mill in Mainz-home food (Prague Wiesbaden) in Hessen. Here once lived the revolutionary Adam Lux (1765-1793).
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Adam Lux (1765-1793) was a poor but unusually intelligent Farmer's son from the upper castle. His parents allowed him to study at the University of Mainz, where he - not yet 20 years old, Phil with a dissertation in Latin on the enthusiasm of Dr.. PhD. The poor academics worked as a tutor in the family of the Mainz merchant Dumont. His wife was a daughter of the short-mainz Hofgerichtsrats Reuter's and had a sister named Sabine, who married Lux. His wife had purchased the home in food "Lammerzsche house." Thanks to the substantial dowry, which had brought his wife into the marriage, Lux could buy the "thunder mill" in home cooking. On 16 October 1786 wore Lux Kostheim citizens into a log. In the following years he worked as a farmer and philosopher and father of three daughters, one of which soon died. In the "thunder mill", he led economic experiments in the spirit of the French author and cultural philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) by. Early on, he devoted himself to the ideas of the "French Revolution" (1789-1799) and for a brotherhood and the connection to France. He invited the residents of a home food on three successive days for information. On the fourth day, 24 November 1792, was documented by signing the consent to the brotherhood in a red book. In Kostheim time were 223 men from 21 Age of voting, of which 213 for brotherhood and connection, and two voted against and eight men were on business trips. They were celebrating the successful coordination of music and Lux had a tree in his yard and dig up in a public place as the tree of liberty. Each Kostheim citizen received at the expense of the municipal treasury "a bottle of wine and 14 cruisers with a note written on the was:" This gift will make you the nation as a memento of the day of freedom ... "Adam Lux and his family moved to Mainz, lived in the house of a veterinarian, and the deputies were of the "Rhenish-German National Convention" is selected. On 21 March 1793 joined the National Convention together in Mainz and discussed about having the little "Mainz Republic" on the left of the Rhine in the large country of all Republicans, so in France, rise. In return, Lux also in his speech. He was sent with the merchant Potocki and the naturalist and writer George Forster (1754-1794) as deputy of the "Republic of Mainz and enthusiastic supporter of the" French Revolution "in Paris. But there he was on the bloody degeneration of the revolution soon very disappointed. On 17 July 1793 he witnessed the execution of Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (1768-1793), the murderer of the President of the Jacobin Club, Jean-Paul Marat (1744-1793), which had greatly impressed him. In the following years, he led by publishing provocative pamphlets aware of his death on 4 November 1793 brought to the scaffold. What prompted him to do is not precisely known. His family was thrown into the battle for home cooking in great need
Barbarossa pillar on the island Maaraue in Mainz-home food (Prague Wiesbaden, Germany) in Hessen.
The Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick I (1122-1190), because of his reddish beard as Barbarossa (Redbeard) was called, at Pentecost in 1184 from the Rhine to the island at Maaraue Kostheim an unusually splendid kingdom feast. With equestrian sports, and about 40,000 visitors this was the largest festival, which was until then ever celebrated in Germany. The occasion was the "knighting" (knighthood), the Emperor Heinrich and Friedrich. Because of the empire was built on the festival Maaraue an imperial palace with a church and Hostels solid wood and hit a bridge to the ship located on the left bank of fish gate in Mainz. On the first day of Pentecost, found the Celebrations take place in Mainz Cathedral. The next day was made on the Maaraue the accolade of the two sons of the Emperor, to which Ritter joined parades and games, in which also participated in the Kaiser. To celebrate the day were all the guests, the people and the traveling people precious memories gifts. On the third day a storm was raging, broke out at the fires, wooden buildings collapsed and even people were killed. In the Saxon Chronicle of the World says about the kingdom of hard, "Dat was de grote en titer, the country was in the em dudischeme" ("That was the biggest party that ever in a German country (celebrated) was). To the Reich Festival of 1184 recalls the so-called Barbarossa stone pillar which was built in 1986 on the Maaraue. on
11th October 1891 in Mainz, Silversmiths Jakob Schmitt was formed shortly before the First World War on to the Mainz art school and was faced with a master certificate. But he was drafted into the army and got on Christmas Eve 1914 in France by a gunshot both eyes. From 1915 to 1922 he attended the only blind man, the Frankfurt School of Applied Arts and dealt primarily with the large sculpture. Between 1919 and 1921 he created the plastic decoy, which is considered his most popular work. In 1934, the decoy was set up during the 80-year anniversary of the Mainz Improvement Society for a fountain in the flat market, but disappeared during the Second World War. Jacob Schmitt lived from 1923 to 1934 in Mainz-fare home in the Schiersteiner road 17 with in his own home studio. His stone sculpture created in 1929 Baby Jesus with the lamb, which was established in May 1932 on the playground at the Mary Help of church in Mainz-home food is lost. In 1935 he moved to Mainz-Kastel, where he worked in the redoubt in a large studio. Works by blind artists were shown at exhibitions in Berlin, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Würzburg and Mainz. Jacob Schmidt died on 13 December 1955. In the spring of 2001 was the home club e. V. fare home from the pool of Mainz some sculptures by James Schmitt permanent loan.
found at this weekend's annual research camp held in Wispertal. About 20 Höfos of the National Association for Cave and Karst Research Hesse, supported by friends from the Bat Conservation searched for mining tunnels, which according to old documents in certain valleys the Wispertal still should be present. If the tunnels were actually found, the coordinates were calculated by means of GPS, a bio-speleologic sampling, photo documentation and possibly a quick survey. In the evening of course was not the social part too short and there was a lively exchange between some who traveled from Hamburg and Regensburg researchers. 
