Alt-Sachsenhausen: Apple Wine, Medieval Towers & Cobblestone Lanes

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Welcome to our walk through Alt-Sachsenhausen – the district that has preserved the pulse of old Frankfurt south of the Main! Here, where cobblestones crunch beneath your feet and medieval towers emerge between half-timbered houses, you'll experience a Frankfurt that defiantly presents its centuries-old soul to the gle…

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Here we stand now in the heart of Alt-Sachsenhausen, surrounded by half-timbered houses and cobblestones beneath our feet that are centuries old. The Klappergasse before us is narrow, winding – and this is exactly how it has been preserved since the Middle Ages. While skyscrapers grow into the sky north of the Main, he…

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This round stone tower before you is no relic that's been prettily restored for tourists to photograph – the Cowherd Tower has stood here since the 14th century, when Sachsenhausen was its own fortified town. While merchants conducted their business on the other side of the Main, the southern bank needed its own defens…

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Before us stands the Dreikönigskirche with its 81-meter-high tower of red sandstone—consecrated in 1881, it was then Frankfurt's second-tallest building. The neo-Gothic façade with its stepped buttresses and pointed gables recalls South German city churches of the 15th century, yet behind it lies a much older story. As…

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We're standing on the Old Bridge, and right here the history of Sachsenhausen becomes tangible. This stone bridge, first documented in 1222, was until the mid-19th century the only fixed Main crossing on the lower river course. Thirteen stone arches connected the Fahrgasse in the old town with the Brückenstraße in Sach…

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We stand before a neoclassical temple in the middle of the Main Island – a building that literally carries its history with it. The portico you see here wasn't originally located here at all. In 1825, this columned structure was built as an entrance hall to the city library on the north side of the Main. When the libra…

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Before you stand two neoclassical gatehouses with columned porticos, built in 1810 and 1811 by Johann Friedrich Christian Hess—and they mark a place that since the Middle Ages was the boundary between two worlds. Until 1809, the Affentor stood here, the southernmost of Frankfurt's medieval city gates, part of those for…

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From the silent stones of the Affentor houses to the living voices of the theater – this is how history remains relevant. We stand before the Theater Alte Brücke, which calls itself the "smallest off-Broadway theater in the world." This space holds fifty seats, opened here in the Brückenviertel by Alexander Beck in 201…