Arsenal, Mainz

[3] The arsenal was constructed as a three winged building opened to the east, where the city wall alongside the rhine river was located.

The building was constructed in rubble work, window and door jambs are executed in cut stone of Buntsandstein.

At the open court side the new arsenal was erected in baroque architecture since 1738 by Johann Maximilian von Welsch.

The building had been heavily damaged during the bombing of Mainz in World War II and totally worn out.

After the reconstruction in 1951–52 initiated by the administration of the French allied forces the building was used by the Südwestfunk Mainz, a predecessor of the Südwestrundfunk, which provided regional public broadcasting.