Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #10 in Frankfurt, Germany
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11 km
174 m
Explore Frankfurt in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in FrankfurtIndividual Sights in FrankfurtSight 1: Ehem. Comeniusschule
IGS Nordend is an integrated comprehensive school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Sight 2: Günthersburgpark
The Günthersburgpark is a green space in Frankfurt am Main, district Nordend-Ost, which was laid out in 1837 by the banker Carl Mayer von Rothschild and has been open to the public since 1892.
Sight 3: The Sower
The Sower is a sculpture by the Belgian artist Constantin Meunier of which multiple copies were made.
Sight 4: Gethsemanekirche
The Evangelical Gethsemanekirche in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend) is the last large new church building in Frankfurt in the 20th century.
Wikipedia: Gethsemanekirche (Frankfurt am Main) (DE), Website
Sight 5: Bürgerhospital Frankfurt
The Bürgerhospital is a hospital in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Since 1903, it has been located in the densely populated district of Nordend on Nibelungenallee, not far from the German National Library. It was the first hospital in Frankfurt am Main to treat local citizens. The original building complex was built between 1771 and 1779 southeast of the Eschenheimer Tor by the Dr. Senckenbergische Stiftung. Prior to this, there had already been the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, which was first mentioned in a document in 1267 and still exists today, but was only open to the accommodation of strangers, pilgrims, journeymen, servants and the destitute. Sick Frankfurt citizens, on the other hand, had to seek medical care and care at home.
Sight 6: Epiphaniaskirche
The Epiphany Church is the church building of the Protestant St. Peter's parish in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was built from a church ruin between 1954 and 1956 according to plans by the architect Karl Wimmenauer.
Sight 7: Holzhausenschlösschen
The Holzhausenschlösschen is a moated former country house built by the patrician Holzhausen family on their farm, then just north of Frankfurt and now in the city's Nordend. The present building was completed in 1729, built for Johann Hieronymus von Holzhausen on the foundations of a moated castle from the Middle Ages after a design by Louis Remy de la Fosse. Today, it serves as a venue for cultural events.
Sight 8: Adolph-von-Holzhausen-Park
The Holzhausenpark is the 3.5-hectare remnant of the former Holzhausen Oed estate of the patrician Holzhausen family in Frankfurt am Main.
Sight 9: Elisabethenschule
The Elisabethenschule is a grammar school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The school was named after Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731–1808), the mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832).
Sight 10: IG Farben Building
The IG Farben Building – also known as the Poelzig Building and the Abrams Building, formerly informally called The Pentagon of Europe – is a building complex in Frankfurt, Germany, which currently serves as the main structure of the Westend Campus of the University of Frankfurt. Construction began in 1928 and was complete in 1930 as the corporate headquarters of the IG Farben conglomerate, then the world's largest chemical company and the world's fourth-largest company overall.
Sight 11: Grüneburgpark
The Grüneburgpark is a public park in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, located in the Westend quarter. It began as a park for the Grüne Burg, a castle from the 14th century. In 1789, the banker Peter Heinrich von Bethmann Metzler acquired the property, and had the park designed. In 1837, the property was bought by the Rothschild family, who erected a palace-like mansion in the style of a French Loire palace. They commissioned Heinrich Siesmayer to develop an English garden, completed in 1877. Under the Nazi regime, Albert von Goldschmidt-Rothschild had to give up his family home. The palace was destroyed in an air raid in 1944.
Sight 12: Botanischer Garten
The Botanischer Garten Frankfurt am Main is a botanical garden and arboretum formerly maintained by the Goethe University and since 2012 administered by the City of Frankfurt. It is located at Siesmayerstraße 72, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and opens daily in the warmer months.
Sight 13: Sankt Ignatius
St. Ignatius is a Roman Catholic church in Frankfurt am Main. Today's church consecrated in 1964 is a work by the important church builder Gottfried Böhm. Originally parish church of the municipality of St. Ignatius, which has existed since 1930, the Ignatiuskirche has been a Rector Church of the new St. Bartholomäus cathedral parish since 2014 after the merger of the Catholic inner city communities.
Sight 14: Beer, Sondheimer & Co. Gebäude
Bockenheimer Landstraße 25 is a listed commercial building on Bockenheimer Landstraße in the Westend district, Frankfurt am Main. It was built in 1913 to 1916 as an administrative building of the Frankfurter Metallhandels- und Montanunternehmen Beer, Sondheimer & Co. according to a design by Otto Bäppler.
Sight 15: Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage
The Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage is a main street-like square in the western inner city area of Frankfurt am Main, which forms an access unit for traffic coming from the west, together with the Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage, the Platz der Republik and the Düsseldorfer Straße. It was the location of important institutions, including the headquarters of the German Federal Railways. In recent years, it has increasingly developed into an extension area of Frankfurt's banking district.
Sight 16: 13er Husaren-Denkmal
The Hussar Monument is a memorial of the city of Frankfurt am Main.
Sight 17: Chemag-Haus
The Chemag-Haus is an office building on the corner of Senckenberganlage and Westendstraße in the Westend district of Frankfurt am Main. It was built in the early 1950s in the style of post-war modernism and is one of its most important surviving representatives and is a listed building.
Sight 18: Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is a church built in the late 19th century in the style of historicism in the Westend-Süd district of the city of Frankfurt am Main. The church building has been used as an ecumenical centre since 1978. The local Protestant Christ Immanuel congregation, a Serbian Orthodox congregation and the Protestant East African Oromo congregation in Frankfurt are involved. The building is a listed building of the state of Hesse.
Sight 19: Bockenheimer Warte
The Bockenheimer Warte is one of the watchtowers of the Frankfurt Landwehr built in the 15th century.
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