Reduit, Mainz-Kastel – Maaraue Bridge loop from Mainz-Kastel
Reduit, Mainz-Kastel – Maaraue Bridge loop from Mainz-Kastel
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Reduit, Mainz-Kastel – Maaraue Bridge loop from Mainz-Kastel
01:25
5.60km
10m
Hiking
Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 18, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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376 m
Kastel Museum Riverbank
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Reduit, Mainz-Kastel
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Bastion of Schönborn (Mainz-Kastel)
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The building was named after the builder of the former Mainz ship bridge built after the Thirty Years' War, Archbishop of Mainz Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1605-1673).
The bastion of Schönborn was built as an outwork at the same time as the reduit erected between 1830 and 1834. It served to provide additional protection for the south-eastern flank of the fortification and ship's bridge. At the same time, from 1861 it was briefly a landing stage for the train boats of the Royal Railway Directorate Frankfurt, which served the traffic between Mainz and the Kasteler station of the Taunus railway before the completion of the Mainz southern bridge for the onward journey to Frankfurt.[
Damaged during World War II, the facility was restored in the 1950s.[3] In 1998 the entire area of the Reduit was acquired by the local history association "Gesellschaft für Heimatgeschichte Kastel e.V. (GHK)" and has been further developed since then. Since 1999, a restaurant with a terrace has been in operation in the Schönborn bastion, as well as the Kasteler beach in the summer months, with a panoramic view of the city of Mainz across the way.
On the first floor of the building is the so-called raftsmen's room, a rafters' museum dedicated to this old profession with numerous exhibits. The profession of raftsman had a tradition in Kastel that went back more than 400 years. Tree trunks brought over the Main from the Bavarian Steigerwald and the Odenwald were rebundled here with regional timber and then carried further down the Rhine.
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View of Mainz from the Hessian side of the Rhine
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Dem Wasser Gewidmet Sculpture, Kasteler Rheinufer
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949 m
Maaraue Bridge
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2.04 km
View of Bootshaus Mainz from the Opposite Bank of the Rhine
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2.21 km
Main River Mouth
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5.60 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
4.31 km
816 m
266 m
203 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
2.46 km
1.68 km
1.47 km
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Past the Church of St. Kilian we went to the Main Bridge in MZ-Kostheim, from there along the Main to the confluence with the Rhine.
Further along the Rhine, past the bastion of Schönborn over …
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