Frankfurt Essentials: History, Finance & Soul

We're standing before one of the most beautiful Renaissance palaces north of the Alps – or at least that's what it looks like. The Alte Oper, opened in 1880, was Frankfurt's answer to the great opera houses of Europe. But here's what makes it special: this magnificent building wasn't constructed by princes, but by Fran…

Alte Oper Frankfurt 2019 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main 2012 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

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Before you stand two bronze giants: a bull, powerfully rearing up, muscles tensed, ready to charge – and a bear, crouching low, paws firmly planted on the ground. Sculptor Reinhard Dachlauer created them in 1985, and since October 6, 1988, they've stood guard over the Börsenplatz. But why these two animals in particula…

Bulle und Bär Frankfurt | 🔗 wikipedia.org

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On August 28, 1749, a child was born in this house who would change the German language forever. Johann Wolfgang Goethe came into the world here, in his parents' house on Großen Hirschgraben. What you see before you is an almost perfect reconstruction – the original was destroyed by bombs in 1944, but the people of Fra…

Frankfurt Am Main-Goethe-Haus-Ansicht am Grossen Hirschgraben | 🔗 wikipedia.org

File:Giebel des Goethe-Hauses in Frankfurt am Main | 🔗 wikimedia.org

File:Goethe-Haus in Frankfurt am Main | 🔗 wikimedia.org

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Before us stands a round, neoclassical building made of red sandstone – simple, almost austere. The Paulskirche doesn't look like a place of revolution, but that's exactly what it was. On May 18, 1848, 585 delegates assembled here for the first freely elected German National Assembly. For the first time in German histo…

Frankfurt Paulskirche außen 2011a | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Die Gartenlaube (1898) b 0301 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Frankfurt Am Main-Paulskirche-Ansicht vom Maintower | 🔗 wikipedia.org

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Here we stand in the heart of Frankfurt – not in the geographical sense, but in the emotional one. The Römerberg has been Frankfurt's parlor for over 600 years, and that building with the three gables over there, the Römer, has been our city hall since 1405. Six centuries of continuous use – there's nothing else like i…

Heiligenstein Sankt Sigismund 20110320 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Roemerberg Panorama Juni 2009 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Datei:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F003822-0008, Frankfurt-Main, Evangelischer Kirchentag | 🔗 wikipedia.org

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Before us stands the Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus, and its reddish sandstone facade alone tells of centuries past. The Gothic tower rises ninety-five meters into the sky – begun in the fifteenth century, completed in the nineteenth. But what truly makes this cathedral special isn't its architecture, but rather what happe…

Frankfurt Am Main-St Bartholomaeus-Ansicht vom Nextower-20110812 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Frankfurt Am Main-Altstadt-Zerstoerung-Luftbild 1944 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Frankfurt Am Main-H Worms-Stadtansicht vom Muehlberg | 🔗 wikipedia.org

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Between 2012 and 2018, something happened here that is unique in Germany: Frankfurt reconstructed its medieval center on 7,000 square meters – not restored, but actually built anew. 35 buildings were created, 15 of them based on historical models that disappeared in a single night in March 1944. Take a look at the Haus…

DomRömerAreal Frankfurt Domblick 04-18 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Blick vom Domturm Dom Roemer Projekt April 2017 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Dom-Roemer-Stadthaus-am-Markt-Projekt-06-2014-Ffm-214 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

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Here we stand on Frankfurt's oldest pedestrian bridge, the Eiserner Steg from 1868. The narrow iron construction you feel beneath your feet was reinforced in 1912 and faithfully reconstructed after its destruction in 1945. Since 1993, there are even elevators leading up – Frankfurt thinks practically, even with its ico…

Frankfurt Am Main-Eiserner Steg-Ansicht vom Domturm-20101024 | 🔗 wikipedia.org

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We're standing before the Städel Museum, an elegant neoclassical building on Schaumainkai, which was inaugurated in 1878. The white façade with its tall windows and column-supported entrance portal appears deliberately understated – as if the building doesn't want to distract from the art it houses. Yet behind this mod…

Claude Monet - The Luncheon - Google Art Project | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Das Städel Museum mit Städel Garten | 🔗 wikipedia.org

Edgar Degas - Orchestra Musicians - Google Art Project | 🔗 wikipedia.org

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