Trade in luxury Goods

Mainz's convenient location makes it a thriving transhipment centre. The goods traded in the department store at Brand are well-known thanks to reports of foreign merchants and the department store regulations of 1437/1444. Thus, there were everyday goods, such as fabrics, cloth, leather, metals, food, paints and colour bases. However, luxury goods, such as North and Baltic Sea fish, exotic spices from grains of paradise to nutmeg, precious silk, pearls and other precious goods were also offered.

Various coins, such as the gold florins, bear witness to this lucrative trade and the wide long-distance relations.