Approximately 9,300 documents dating from 1106 onwards, arranged chronologically. These include a special series of around 2,000 birth certificates, craftsmen's certificates, apprenticeship certificates, and letters of freedom.

Printed and typewritten regesta transferred to the FAUST database in 2010-2012 as part of the retroconversion project financed by the German Research Foundation; the oldest documents dating back to 1371 were digitized in 2011 by the "Virtual German Document Network" project funded by the German Research Foundation.

Literature: Richard Dertsch, Die Urkunden des Stadtarchivs Mainz. Regesten, 4 parts (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Stadt Mainz, vol. 20, 1-4), Mainz 1962-1967; Ludwig Falck, Mainz Regesta 1200-1250 on the History of the City, its Ecclesiastical and Secular Institutions and Residents (Contributions to the History of the City of Mainz 35 / 1 and 2), Mainz 2007; Ludwig Falck, Mainz Regesten 1251-1260 on the History of the City, its Ecclesiastical and Secular Institutions and Inhabitants (Contributions to the History of the City of Mainz 38 = Works of the Hessian Historical Commission New Series Vol. 36), Mainz 2014.

The archival materials from the electoral period in the Mainz City Archives are largely of municipal origin. The written records of the Electoral State of Mainz are mainly located in the Würzburg State Archives, while the Mainz Imperial Archchancellor's Archives are located in the House, Court, and State Archives in Vienna.

Ref. 1: Minutes, council records (from 1510, initially incomplete)
Ref. 2: Foreign and territorial relations
Ref. 3: Administration, civil servants, city council, town hall
Ref. 4: Police and judicial system
Ref. 5: Mainz court records, wills
Ref. 6: Accounting
Ref. 7: War accounting
Ref. 8: (unoccupied)
Ref. 9: Accounting in the countryside
Ref. 10: Warfare, military
matters Ref. 11: Municipal archives (club era, Mainz Republic 1792/93)
Ref. 12: Church matters
Ref. 13: Remnants of the monastery and convent archives
(further parts in the state archives in Darmstadt and Würzburg)
Ref. 14: Archive of the Mainz Jesuits (college, novitiate)
Ref. 15: Archive of the Upper Rhine Jesuit Province
Ref. 16: Former Jesuit fonds
Ref. 17: School system
Ref. 18: University archives (further parts in the Darmstadt State Archives)
Ref. 19: School accounting
Ref. 20: Church records (1582-1798)
Ref. 21: Civil affairs, guilds (also files on the Mainz Jewish community)
Ref. 22: Construction
Ref. 23: Trade and transport
Ref. 24: Archive of pensions and department stores
Ref. 25: Agriculture, food and fuel supply
Ref. 26: Luxury, entertainment, money, inheritance and other private matters
Ref. 27: Poverty, illness, death
Ref. 28: Domestic and foreign affairs
Ref. 29: (unoccupied)

The holdings can be searched in the online database.

Ref. 30: Hospices and poor relief in general
Ref. 31: St. Alexius and St. Barbara
Ref. 32: Holy Spirit Hospital
Ref. 34: Josephine Hospital, St. Catherine's Hospital, Mainz Priests' House and Marienborn Priests'
House Ref. 35: St. Rochus
Ref. 36: Military Widows' Institute (Altweibergraben), Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, and Orphanage
Ref. 37: Penitentiary and Pawnshop
Ref. 38: Hospice Fund (19th century ff.)
Ref. 39: Central Poor Relief Fund (19th century ff.)
Ref. 40: Plans of hospice properties

The titles of these holdings can be searched in the online database.

Birth, marriage, and death registers for the city of Mainz and its suburbs, 1798 ff.

The following applies to all locations: birth registers older than 110 years, marriage registers older than 80 years, death registers older than 30 years

Suburbs
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Bretzenheim, 1798 ff.
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Drais, 1836 ff. (formerly Finthen)
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Ebersheim, 1798 ff.
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Finthen, 1798 ff.
(some severely damaged)
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Gonsenheim, 1798 ff.
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Hechtsheim, 1798 ff.
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Laubenheim, 1798 ff. (until 1818, see Weisenau)
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Marienborn, 1798 ff.
(partly Bretzenheim)
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Marienborn, 1871 ff. (Marienborn death register 1856-1875 missing)
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Mombach, 1798 ff.
Birth, marriage, and death registers for Weisenau, 1798 ff.

Family registers of the city of Mainz
from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century.

Family registers of Mombach
from the beginning of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.

Please also see Family Research (opens in a new tab)

Ref. 60: Archive of the municipal administration and town hall of Mainz (printed finding aid (opens in a new tab) available, searchable in online database).

Ref. 61: Archival materials of foreign origin (including État des services des fonctionnaires/collection of questionnaires on the origin and education of senior administrative officials in the four Rhineland departments of Donnersberg, Roer, Rhine, and Moselle, as well as Saar, from 1800) (searchable in online database)

Ref. 62: Archive of the Lycée and Académie Mainz (catalogued, searchable in the online database)

Ref. 63: Collection of printed matter from the French period (searchable in the online database)

Best. 70: Files from the Mainz mayor's office and other municipal departments, organized on the basis of the Grand Ducal Hessian municipal registry plan of 1908. Recorded in the city archive's online database, a total of 22,200 archival records.

Includes, among other things, citizen registrations (indexed via card index) and building files.

Subject files from the Third Reich period were completely destroyed in the registry of the town hall during bombing raids on Mainz in World War II.

Ref. 71: Dept. XXIX of the Hessian Archives: French occupation period 1918-1930 (partially searchable in the online database)

Personnel files of the city administration, including the mayors since 1885, total period: 1870–2020. Note on use: Personnel files are only released for use 10 years after the death of the person concerned or, if the year of death is unknown, 100 years after their birth. Total length approx. 300 linear meters.
Finding aid: internal FAUST database

A total of 340 estates, partial estates, or estate fragments belonging to Mainz personalities, associations, and companies. The estates can be verified via the Internet database. (opens in a new tab)

Approximately 850 letters from prominent figures in politics, art, and literature, including Georg Forster and Carl Zuckmayer (searchable in the online database (opens in a new tab)).

Collection of Mainz electoral decrees relating to the administration and judiciary of the entire electorate from the 15th to 18th centuries in printed and transcribed form (finding aid available, also searchable in online database (opens in a new tab)).

Films and audio recordings from a wide variety of sources, some of which have been digitized, including recordings of Mainz before it was destroyed in the war, tape recordings of city council meetings from 1956 onwards (use must be requested), and video interviews conducted by the Shoah Foundation with Holocaust survivors from Mainz.

Database containing summaries of articles from Mainz daily newspapers from 1952 to 1993, sorted by topic. The database can be viewed in the user room of the city archives.

Contains over 200 seals from Mainz archbishops, ecclesiastical and municipal institutions, guilds, and citizens from the 12th to 20th centuries.

The seals can be searched in the online database.

The reference library of the city archives is a reference library on the history of Mainz with approximately 15,000 volumes. The books cannot be borrowed. If a book is available in the City Archives but not in the Mainz City Library, it can be viewed in the City Archives' reading room. The service library's catalog can be searched in the Rheinhessen local system of the HeBIS library network (opens in a new tab).