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Hanau. / 50.13278°N 8.91694°E / 50.13278; 8.91694. Hanau ( German pronunciation: [ˈhaːnaʊ̯]) is a city in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt am Main and is part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Its station is a major railway junction and it has a port on the river Main ...
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- Main-Kinzig-Kreis
Hanau, city, Hessen Land (state), central Germany.It is a port on the right bank of the canalized Main River at the mouth of the Kinzig, east of Frankfurt am Main.The old town grew up around the castle of the lords of Hanau (counts from 1429) and was chartered in 1303; the new town was founded in 1597 for Protestant Dutch and Walloon refugees.
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Visit Hanau, the legendary hometown of the Brothers Grimm . A charming fairy-tale castle with the newly opened children’s museum ‘GrimmsMärchenReich’, Hesse’s most beautiful farmers’ market, 12 museums, picturesque half-timbered houses, entertaining costume tours, as well as various festivals and cultural events, make a visit to Hanau unforgettable.
Hanau is famous for being the birthplace of the Grimm brothers, the publishers of the well-loved fairy tales. The city is also the start of the Deutsche Märchenstraße (German fairy-tale road), a scenic route that leads a few hundred km across Germany to Bremen in the north. Hanau's location on the junction of the rivers Main and Kinzig ...
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- Brüder-Grimm-Nationaldenkmal. Standing before the Neustädter Rathaus is a bronze statue for the Brothers Grimm, placed here in 1896. When the monument was finally unveiled it was the culmination of a 40-year struggle to erect a memorial to Hanau’s most famous sons.
- Wilhelmsbad. Two women discovered a spring with supposed curative properties to the northwest of Hanau in 1709. Later that century William I, Elector of Hesse established a stately park and spa complex on the site.
- Historisches Karussell Wilhelmsbad. When Wilhelmsbad was being landscaped William I tasked his architect Franz Ludwig von Cancrin to come up with something unprecedented: A revolving carousel at the summit of an artificial hill.
- Schloss Philippsruhe. This princely Baroque palace on the Main was commissioned by Philipp Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg at the start of the 18th century.
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Get around. Map of Hanau. The Hanauer Straßenbahn operates a well developed system of public buses. Freiheitsplatz is the central bus station, right in the city centre. There is a direct S-Bahn connection from the main station to Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Via Frankfurt, many other nearby cities and towns can be reached by train.
