Research in the archive
Here you will find the online databases of the city archives and useful external databases and websites. If you have any questions or would like to pre-order archival materials, please send us an email at stadtarchivstadt.mainzde.
Online database of the Mainz City Archive
In the database you will find around 120,000 title records from the city archive. Some holdings are blocked or not yet prepared for the internet.
Catalog of the service library (reference library on the history of Mainz)
The service library catalog can be searched in the Rheinhessen local system of the HeBIS library network. If there is a book in the city archive that the city library does not own, it can be used in the archive reading room.
Digital house book
If you would like to know what Mainz looked like in the 15th century, at the beginning of the 17th century and in the second half of the 19th century and who lived where in the city, you can find out with the Digital House Book of the Mainz City Archive.
Tutorial on reading old fonts
Link collection of the Mainz City Archive
A collection of useful and interesting internet links for successful research.