Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Frankfurt, Germany

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 9.5 km
Ascend 135 m
Descend 116 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 Frankfurt

Sight 1: Christuskirche

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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.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Frankfurt-Westend) (DE)

1348 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 2: Sankt Ignatius

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Sankt Ignatius Elke Wetzig (Elya) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Ignatiuskirche (Frankfurt am Main) (DE)

465 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Nebbiensches Gartenhaus

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The Nebbiensche Gartenhaus is a neoclassical pavilion in the Bockenheimer Anlage in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is a cultural monument.

Wikipedia: Nebbiensches Gartenhaus (DE)

313 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Philipp-Reis-Denkmal

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The Philipp Reisen monument is a monument created in 1919 in the Eschenheim facility in Frankfurt am Main. It honors the inventor of the phone Philipp Reis.

Wikipedia: Philipp-Reis-Denkmal (DE)

545 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Peterskirche

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The Church of St Peter is a former evangelical church located in the Innenstadt area of Frankfurt, Germany. It has been known as jugend-kultur-kirche sankt peter since 2007, when it became a youth centre.

Wikipedia: Church of St Peter, Frankfurt (EN)

714 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 6: Hessendenkmal

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The Hesse Monument is a monument in Frankfurt's Nordend district, Germany.

Wikipedia: Hessendenkmal (DE)

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Bethmannpark

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Bethmannpark unbekannt / PD-alt-100

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.

Wikipedia: Bethmannpark (DE), Website

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Garten des himmlischen Friedens

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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.

Wikipedia: Garten des Himmlischen Friedens (DE)

436 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Merianbad

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The Merianbad was a municipal bathhouse, a so-called "Volksbrausebad", in the Nordend district of Frankfurt. The octagonal building on Merianplatz on Berger Strasse is now home to a café.

Wikipedia: Merianbad (DE)

704 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 10: Philanthropin

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The Philanthropin is a Jewish elementary school and gymnasium in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded in 1804 by Mayer Amschel Rothschild.

Wikipedia: Philanthropin (EN)

1375 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 11: Elisabethenschule

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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).

Wikipedia: Elisabethenschule (Frankfurt am Main) (DE)

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Adolph-von-Holzhausen-Park

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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.

Wikipedia: Holzhausenpark (DE)

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Holzhausenschlösschen

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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.

Wikipedia: Holzhausenschlösschen (EN)

640 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 14: Gethsemanekirche

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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

1011 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 15: Adolf Simon

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The list of stumbling blocks in Frankfurt am Main lists the stumbling blocks in Frankfurt am Main laid by the artist Gunter Demnig. The initiative stumbling blocks in Frankfurt am Main e. V. has caused around 2000 stumbling blocks, min. A cobblestone and min. A stumbling block since November 2003. The initiative is supported by the city of Frankfurt and numerous institutions, including the Jewish Museum and the Institute for City History.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Frankfurt am Main (DE)

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: The Sower

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The SowerTim Dobbelaere from Ieper, Belgium / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Sower is a sculpture by the Belgian artist Constantin Meunier of which multiple copies were made.

Wikipedia: The Sower (Meunier) (EN)

200 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Günthersburgpark

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GünthersburgparkDerHexer, Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Wikipedia: Günthersburgpark (DE)

403 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Ehem. Comeniusschule

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Ehem. Comeniusschule

IGS Nordend is an integrated comprehensive school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Wikipedia: IGS Nordend (DE), Heritage Website

401 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 19: Uhrtürmchen

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The list of cultural monuments in Frankfurt-Bornheim lists all architectural monuments within the meaning of the Hessian Monument Protection Act in Frankfurt-Bornheim, a district of Frankfurt am Main.

Wikipedia: Liste der Kulturdenkmäler in Frankfurt-Bornheim (DE)

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