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Events in Frankfurt are a varied combination of art, workshops, adventure, and well-renowned museums. Festivals and events in Frankfurt make the city a happening place with the Opera Square Festival, Museum Embankment Festival, Apple Wine Festival, Spring Dippemess, and the gorgeous Christmas Market. Explore the unique events in the city with ...
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Dreikönigskeller FFM, Frankfurt: 29 May 2024: St. Tropez <3...
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Goldbergweg , 60599 Frankfurt, Germany: 04 Jul 2024: CIE...
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Brönnerstr. 11, 60313 Frankfurt, Germany: 15 Jun 2024:...
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Am Weingarten 12, 60478 Frankfurt, Germany: 08 Jun 2024:...
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- Museumsufer
- Städel Museum
- Main Tower
- Goethe House and Museum
- Frankfurt Cathedral
- Römerberg
- Palmengarten
- Eiserner Steg
- Mainkai
- St Paul’s Church
Grouped together on both sides of the River Main is a cluster of 12 museums in an area known as the Museumsufer (Museum Embankment). Most are on the left bank (south side). There are museums for film, art, architecture, communication and ethnography, to name a handful, and we’ll deal with many of them in more detail later. The Museumsufer is a rece...
One of Germany’s top cultural attractions, the Städel Museum has recently been named German Museum of the Year following an extension for contemporary art in 2012. The museum was founded in 1815 when the banker Johann Friedrich Städel donated an invaluable collection of old masters to the city. The current museum building was designed in a palatial...
In Frankfurt’s ever-growing forest of skyscrapers there’s still only one tower with a public viewing platform. The 200-metre Main Tower opened in the year 2000 and is the fourth-tallest building in the city, which also makes it the fourth-tallest in Germany. And being on the east side of the Bankenviertel there’s a clean view from the top over the ...
The German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born at the fine corbelled house on 23 Großer Hirschgraben in 1749. It’s a medieval dwelling that had been updated with a Rococo facade and interior just before Goethe’s parents moved in. Goethe lived here until the age of 16 and returned for long spells in between stints studying in Leipzig and St...
When Germany was united in the 19th century, Frankfurt Cathedral took on special meaning because of its historical importance in the days of the Holy Roman Empire. The cathedral was begun in the 1300s and 1400s in the Gothic style, and has been faithfully rebuilt twice: Once after a fire in 1867 and then in the 1950s after the war. This former coll...
The quaintest square in the city is walled by photogenic medieval houses, a church and historic administrative buildings. The one that will grab your attention is the Römer, the middle of a group of three gabled buildings housing Frankfurt’s city hall since 1405. The neighbouring “Goldener Schwan” building was also annexed, as the council decided t...
Opened in 1871, Frankfurt’s botanical garden sweeps across 22 hectares, where plant species from all parts of the globe are displayed in greenhouses or the open-air. The specimens are organised according to their region: One glass pavilion contains a sub-Arctic landscape, while there’s a tropicarium for rainforest and two separate structures for th...
Spanning the River Main between the centre of the city and the Sachsenhausen area, Frankfurt’s iron footbridge has had an eventful 150 years since it was completed in 1869. It has been rebuilt twice, the first time in 1912 when the Main was made navigable to larger boats, and again after the Nazis blew it up in the last days of the Second World War...
On both banks of the Main there’s a band of parkland at the waterfront, planted with lawns, flowerbeds and pollarded trees. On sunny days in summer you’ll pass families taking picnics, while in the evenings offices there are large crowds relaxing and chatting over beers. The best photographs can be taken from the left bank just east of the Museumuf...
On Paulsplatz, St Paul’s Church is a building of great significance, not just for Frankfurt but Germany as a nation. It began as a Lutheran church in 1789 and was designed with a circular plan according to the protestant principles of the time, ensuring that every member of the congregation could hear the sermon. In 1848 that round format made St P...
May 1, 2024 · An annual celebration on Frankfurt’s Freßgass promenade of wines from Germany’s Rheingau region. Meet the makers and pair your wine of choice with the culinary delicacies on offer. August 28 ...
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2. Main Tower. Get another perspective on the city at the Main Tower, the first high-rise building in Europe with a façade made entirely of glass. At 200 metres tall, it’s also the fourth ...
Mar 18, 2024 · FILE - People hold up their cell phones as they protest the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD party, and right-wing extremism in front of the parliament building in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 21, 2024. Millions of Germans have joined rallies all over the country for weeks in a row, attending events with slogans such as “Never Again is Now.”.
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The ancient center of Frankfurt lies at the central square known as the Römerberg, or “Roman hill.”. The Frankfurt city hall, begun in 1405 and known as the Römer, has been rebuilt and restored over the years after being destroyed by Allied bombs during the war. It is still a functioning city hall today. Der Main.
