En un regard
Le château en bref
The Erthaler Hof is a large Baroque townhouse in Mainz, built for Philipp Christoph von und zu Erthal, bailiff of the Electorate of Mainz at Lohr am Main. Trained under the French architect Germain Boffrand and shaped by study trips to France, he brought a French-style classicism to the building. The family moved in at the end of 1739. After the end of the Electorate it housed the prefecture of the French département of Mont-Tonnerre and, from 1816 to 1945, the provincial directorate of Rhenish Hesse. Its fire-resistant ceilings preserved the stucco decoration, at the transition between Bandelwerk and rocaille, during the Second World War bombings. Today it is home to the state monument conservation office of Rhineland-Palatinate.