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Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt

The most international city in Germany, the largest financial centre on the continent, the historical city of coronations, the city of Goethe. In brief, to the smallest metropolis in the world, in which there is a lot to discover.

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Frankfurt am Main, the dynamic and international financial and trade fair city with the most imposing skyline in Germany. This is the image that many visitors associate with the Main metropolis. But the city in the heart of Germany and Europe can offer many other facets and contrasting variety. Near to the skyscrapers you can find cosy Ebbelwei pubs and at the heart of the bustling city centre you can find historical sights again and again. Frankfurt is not just proud of its most famous son, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Kaiserdom (Cathedral) and the Paulskirche, the cradle of German democracy, are also to be found here. Interesting destinations for excursions in and around Frankfurt turn your stay into a great experience and you will love to come back.

Frankfurt – the financial centre, the European city, the traffic hub, the smallest metropolis in the world. When you think of the city on the Main, you think of the airport, the Paulskirche and Goethe, the Stock Exchange, the Book Fair and the skyline. No doubt about it: Frankfurt brings opposites together in the most fruitful way. And in a most enjoyable manner, the advantages of a global city with tranquillity. A city with a savoir-vivre, in whose streets multilingualism is an accepted way of life. Yet often only a few steps separate global city flair and homey cosiness in Frankfurt. Part of the unmistakable style of the city on the river are the renowned museums on the Main banks, the bold high-rise architecture, the thinkers of the Frankfurt School as well as the Grüne Soße, Ebbelwei and Frankfurter sausages. And last but not least, and indeed difficult to believe, the financial metropolis is not a stone juggernaut, but rather a very green city!

When the weather is nice, this place is swarming with people. The walkers and the roller-skaters have discovered it; and now the cyclists and skaters have too. And on Saturdays when the flea market traders set up their stalls, there is just as much going on again. ‘Back to the river’ has been the magic phrase in the Main city for quite a long time. With its cocktail bars and garden restaurants, the riverside has become a pleasant promenade. At the centre is the ‘Nizza’ or ‘Nice’ Garden – with palms, banana trees, stone pines, cypresses, cork trees and other southern plants, one of the most diverse southern gardens north of the Alps.

Das Musem für Moderne Kunst - auch
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And on both sides of the Main, there is a unique cultural mile with the Museumsufer. Internationally renowned architects such as Oswald Mathias Ungers and the New Yorker Richard Meier have planned and built here. Between the Eiserner Steg and Friedensbrücke, thirteen museums, sometimes in restored bourgeois villas, sometimes in sophisticated, architectural new developments have been newly created or extended, including a film museum, an architecture museum, the Museum for Applied Art and the Jewish Museum. The new development of the Museum for Modern Art, situated in the vicinity of the Cathedral and is called the ‘Piece of Cake’ because of its distinctive triangular form, was the last one to be added.

Main-Plaza mit Flößer-Brücke, © PIA Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Rainer Rüffer
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The Frankfurt town planners have also put ‘life on the river’ on their agenda. The first step was taken with the newly developed Deutschherrnufer quarter in the east, with its riverside houses reminiscent of the Bauhaus architecture and a high-rise building with golden pinnacles at the piazza of the quarter. On the other side of the Main, an extravagant residential quarter has also been developed. A lonely crane at the so-called Weseler shipyard is reminiscent of earlier harbour activity, next to it an open-air pub offers the best view on Frankfurt’s skyline.

Westhafen-Tower, © PIA Stadt Frankfurt am Main
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The Großmarkthalle crouches low behind it. From 2009, this will be the new home of the European Central Bank. From the Eastern harbour to the Western harbour: the Westhafen Tower has the appearance of a large ‘Geripptes’, the typical Frankfurt cider glass with the diamond pattern. The view of the luxuriously constructed pier is particularly fine in the evening from the other side, the Sachsenhäuser side. When the lights go on in the cubically constructed buildings and are reflected in the dark water like small cubes.

Sightseeing:

Those who set out on a discovery tour of Frankfurt can easily reach many of the sites on foot or by bus and train. Many attractions are not very far from one another in the city centre, as our virtual city tour shows. And with public transport, you can quickly reach further sights such as the Palm Garden and the Zoo. A city tour with the nostalgic tram, the ‘Ebbelwei Express’ is particularly popular. And culture lovers will find an impressive selection of renowned museums on both banks of the Main.

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