Magnificently furnished houses

The brisk building activity in Mainz continued in the first decades of the 14th century. This is evidenced, for example, by the new municipal department store built by the citizens of Mainz. But churches and monasteries, as well as the homes of wealthy patrician families, were also magnificently furnished. Sculptures of Madonnas adorned the facades and were supposed to protect the building, and murals decorate the interiors.