Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Frankfurt, Germany
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7.7 km
140 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: die katakombe
The Katakombe is a small theatre in the city centre of Frankfurt am Main. It is located on the extension of the pedestrian zone near Frankfurt Zoo.
Sight 2: Garten des himmlischen Friedens
The Garden of Tiananmen is a Chinese garden in Frankfurt am Main, China. It is a part of the Bethmannpark in Nordend, the main entrance is near the entrance to Bethmannpark at the beginning of Berger Straße.
Sight 3: Bethmann Landhaus
Bethmannpark is a 3.1-hectare green space in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The park is located in a triangle between Friedberger Landstraße, Berger Straße and Mauerweg in the eastern part of the Nordend district, outside the ramparts. The name of the park is derived from the Bethmann family from Frankfurt.
Sight 4: Frankfurter Engel
The Frankfurter Engel is a memorial in the city of Frankfurt am Main in southwestern Germany; it is dedicated to homosexual people who were persecuted under Nazi rule, and as well as under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code during the 1950s and 1960s.
Sight 5: Deutsches Museum für Kochkunst und Tafelkultur
The German Museum of Culinary Arts and Table Culture was opened on 25 November 2015 in Frankfurt am Main. It sees itself in the tradition of the Culinary Art Museum of the International Federation of Chefs, which existed from 1909 to 1937 and whose stored collection was completely destroyed in the Second World War. However, the holdings of today's museum include objects from the collection of the German Restaurant Museum, which existed in Frankfurt am Main from 1941 to 1944.
Wikipedia: Deutsches Museum für Kochkunst und Tafelkultur (DE), Website
Sight 6: Heiliggeistkirche
Book Ticket*The Dominican monastery in Frankfurt am Main is the seat of the Evangelical City Dean of Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach and the Evangelical Regional Association, an amalgamation of the Frankfurt and Offenbach Evangelical communities. In the Dominican monastery, the synod of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau also meets twice a year.
Sight 7: Gedenkstätte Neuer Börneplatz
The Neuer Börneplatz Memorial Site, also called Börneplatz Memorial Site, in Frankfurt am Main commemorates the Jewish community of Frankfurt that was destroyed in the Holocaust. It was opened to the public on 16 June 1996.
Sight 8: Dommuseum
The Cathedral Museum in the historic cloister of the Emperor's Cathedral of St. Bartholomew in Frankfurt am Main has been established since 1987. The regulatory exhibition contains some highlights of sacred art. In addition, the museum presents contemporary art or cultural-historical themes in changing exhibitions. A second exhibition room has been the so-called sacristeum in the neighbouring house am Cathedral since 2007.
Sight 9: Frankfurter Kunstverein
The Frankfurter Kunstverein e. V. in Frankfurt am Main is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art and culture. It is one of the oldest German art associations.
Sight 10: Haus Wertheym
Haus Wertheim, also known as Wertheym, is a half-timbered house built around 1600 at the Fahrtor in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the only house in its original state with exposed half-timbering in Frankfurt's old town, which survived the air raids on Frankfurt am Main almost unscathed. The house is a listed building. Until the destruction of the old town, little attention was paid to it. Today, with its massive ground floor with sandstone arcades, the two cantilevered half-timbered upper floors and the slate attic, it is considered typical of Frankfurt's architectural style. Since the 1970s, its appearance and its status as the last of what used to be more than 1200 half-timbered houses in the old town has helped to promote the desire for comprehensive reconstructions of representative old town houses in the Frankfurt citizenry.
Sight 11: Bernusbau
The Bernusbau is a baroque city palace in Frankfurt am Main and part of the Saalhof. Between 1715 and 1717, the wealthy merchant family Bernus, who had immigrated from Hanau, had the building erected on the Mainkai on the site of older, dilapidated remains of the medieval Saalhof.
Sight 12: Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen
The Justice Fountain is a fountain on the Römerberg in Frankfurt am Main and one of the city's landmarks. It dates back to a previous building from 1543 on the same site and was built in its present form in 1611. At the time of the Holy Roman Empire, during the coronation ceremony, it played a special, albeit short-lived, role as a fountain of wine for the emperor and then also for the people. The fountain currently on display is a largely detailed copy from 1887, which was financed by the Frankfurt wine merchant Gustav D. Manskopf. It is a listed building.
Sight 13: Haus Frauenstein
Haus Frauenstein is a historic building in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Römerzeile, Frankfurt's town hall complex. As the fourth building in the row, it borders on the left (south) on the Löwenstein House and on the right (north) on the Salt House. The house address is "Römerberg 25".
Sight 14: St. Paul's Church
St Paul's Church is a former Protestant church in Frankfurt, Germany, used as a national assembly hall. Its important political symbolism dates back to 1848 when the Frankfurt Parliament convened there, the first publicly and freely-elected German legislative body.
Wikipedia: St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main (EN), Website
Sight 15: Goethe House
The Goethe House is a writer's house museum located in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is the birthplace and childhood home of German poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is also the place where Goethe wrote his famous works Götz von Berlichingen, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and the first drafts of Urfaust. The house has mostly been operated as a museum since its 1863 purchase by the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, displaying period furniture and paintings from Goethe's time in the house.
Sight 16: Gutenberg
The Johannes Gutenberg Monument is a monument and fountain on the Roßmarkt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It commemorates the inventor of printing with movable metal type, Johannes Gensfleisch, known as Gutenberg, as well as the printers and publishers Johannes Fust and Peter Schöffer, who worked with him in Frankfurt.
Sight 17: Fürstenhof
The Fürstenhof, formerly Hotel Fürstenhof-Esplanade, is a neo-baroque building built in 1902 in Frankfurt am Main. It has a usable area of around 18,450 square metres and is located in the station district between Münchener Straße, Gallusanlage and Kaiserstraße. The building, which was renovated in 1992 by real estate investor Jürgen Schneider, is leased to Commerzbank on a long-term basis. From 1994 onwards, Dresdner Bank, which was merged into Commerzbank in May 2009, used it as the parent company for its private customer business.
Sight 18: Gewerkschaftshaus Frankfurt
The Trade Union House in Frankfurt am Main is a listed office building that was inaugurated in 1931. The high-rise building in the Gutleutviertel district is now the headquarters of the German Trade Union Confederation, Hesse-Thuringia district and Frankfurt-Rhine-Main region and the trade union ver.di Frankfurt am Main district and region.
Sight 19: 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 20: Hammering Man
Hammering Man is a series of monumental kinetic sculptures by Jonathan Borofsky. The two-dimensional painted steel sculptures were designed at different scales, were painted black, and depict a man with a motorized arm and hammer movement to symbolize workers throughout the world. They were structurally engineered by Leslie E. Robertson Associates (LERA).
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