page_title: Augustinerkirche, Mainz
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Augustinerkirche, Mainz / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Fassade der Augustinerkirche (Mainz). Die aus rotem Sandstein erbaute Fassade zeigt in ihrem Figurenschmuck die Marienkrönung durch die Allerheiligste Dreifaltigkeit, der auch die Kirche geweiht ist, über dem Haupteingang. Flankiert wird die Szene von dem Ordensheiligen Augustinus, der eines seiner Hauptwerke über das Geheimnis der Trinität geschrieben hat, und seiner Mutter Monika. Künstler Nikolaus Binterim
context_page_description: The church of St. Augustin known in German as Augustinerkirche, was the minster of the Augustine friars in the city centre of Mainz. Today it is the seminary church of the Catholic theological seminary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz.
context_section_description: Despite its late origins, the exterior of the church is very much associated with the baroque style. Due to the surrounding property with the convent and seminar buildings and other houses, it is only possible to see the church with its  mighty towerless façade that overlooks the other buildings of the old town. Above the portal rises a group of personalities created for the church by Nikolaus Binterim. It is essentially the coronation of Mary, Queen of Heaven, flanked by Augustine of Hippo, patron saint and ruler of the Augustinian order, and his mother Monica of Hippo. In the south and east of the church are the former convent buildings and rooms of the seminar, which were built between 1737 and 1753. The wing of the monastery complex has a beautiful portal with figures, which also come from Nikolas Binterim, after the façade of the church itself. The interior of the church tends to rococo, which is expressed by a fusion of nave and choir a concept that is increasingly found in the Rococo stylistic.
caption: Figurengruppe über dem Portal. Marienkrönung durch die Allerheiligste Dreifaltigkeit, der auch die Kirche geweiht ist.
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