Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Frankfurt, Germany

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Number of sights 26 sights
Distance 7.8 km
Ascend 137 m
Descend 154 m

Experience Frankfurt in Germany in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in FrankfurtIndividual Sights in Frankfurt

Sight 1: Theater Willy Praml

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Theater Willy Praml

The Willy Praml Theatre was founded in 1991 by Willy Praml and Michael Weber as an independent theatre in Frankfurt am Main. The theatre works with a professional ensemble. Since 2000, the Willy Praml Theatre has been located in the Naxoshalle in Frankfurt's Ostend.

Wikipedia: Theater Willy Praml (DE), Website

275 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Die KäS

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The cabaret alteration tailoring was founded in 1997 as a cabaret stage by "Kabarett Knobi-Bonbon" Şinasi Dikmen and his wife Ayşe Aktay. As the first German-Turkish cabaret in Germany with its own program and fixed venue, the KÄS also offers other cabaret artists a venue. Guests of the KÄS were and are Josef Hader, Dieter Hildebrandt, Gerhard Polt, Urban Priol, Georg Schramm, Emil Steinberger and many others.

Wikipedia: Kabarett Änderungsschneiderei (DE), Website

52 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Mousonturm

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Mousonturm Joachim Hensel-Losch / CC BY-SA 3.0

Künstlerhaus Mousonturm is an independent theatre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The theatre is run by the municipal Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main GmbH.

Wikipedia: Mousonturm (DE), Website

315 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Merianbad

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

Wikipedia: Merianbad (DE)

436 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Garten des himmlischen Friedens

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The Garden of Tiananmen is a Chinese garden in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Bethmannpark in the Nordend, the main entrance is near the entrance to the Bethmannpark at the beginning of Berger Straße.

Wikipedia: Garten des Himmlischen Friedens (DE)

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Bethmannpark

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Bethmannpark unbekannt / PD-alt-100

Der Bethmannpark ist eine 3,1 Hektar große Grünanlage in Frankfurt am Main. Der Park liegt in einem Dreieck zwischen Friedberger Landstraße, Berger Straße und Mauerweg im östlichen Teil des Stadtteils Nordend, außerhalb der Wallanlagen. Der Name des Parks leitet sich von der Frankfurter Familie Bethmann ab.

Wikipedia: Bethmannpark (DE), Website

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Hessendenkmal

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The Hessendenkmal is a monument in Frankfurt's Nordend.

Wikipedia: Hessendenkmal (DE)

501 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: Frankfurter Engel

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Frankfurter Engel Reinhard Dietrich / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Frankfurter Engel (EN)

220 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: 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)

545 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: Philipp-Reis-Denkmal

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The Philipp Reis Monument is a monument created in 1919 in the Eschenheimer Anlage in Frankfurt am Main. It honors the inventor of the telephone, Philipp Reis.

Wikipedia: Philipp-Reis-Denkmal (DE), Website, Heritage Website

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Altes Volksbildungsheim

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Altes Volksbildungsheim

The Volksbildungsheim is a listed building at the Eschenheimer Tor in Frankfurt am Main with the address Eschenheimer Anlage 40. The name is a reminder of its many years of use as an education and event centre of the Frankfurter Bund für Volksbildung. From 1963 to 1995, the Theater am Turm was located here. Today, behind the preserved façade is the CineStar Metropolis, which is used as a multiplex cinema. The cinemas are operated by the CineStar Group.

Wikipedia: Volksbildungsheim Frankfurt am Main (DE)

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Goepfert-Brunnen

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Goepfert-Brunnen

The Goepfert fountain is a decorative fountain in front of the Eschenheim tower in Frankfurt am Main. She is named after her creator, the sculptor Hermann Goeppert.

Wikipedia: Goepfert-Brunnen (DE), Website

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Eschenheimer Turm

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Eschenheimer Turm was a city gate, part of the late-medieval fortifications of Frankfurt am Main, and is a landmark of the city. The tower, which was erected at the beginning of the fifteenth century, is at once the oldest and most unaltered building in the largely reconstructed Frankfurter Neustadt, now better known as the Innenstadt.

Wikipedia: Eschenheimer Turm (EN), Heritage Website

263 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Stock Exchange

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Stock Exchange

The Frankfurt Stock Exchange is the world's 3rd oldest and 12th largest stock exchange by market capitalization. It has operations from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm.

Wikipedia: Frankfurt Stock Exchange (EN), Heritage Website

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Nebbiensches Gartenhaus

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

Wikipedia: Nebbiensches Gartenhaus (DE), Heritage Website

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Bockenheimer Anlage

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The Frankfurt ramparts form a ring-shaped green area around the city centre of Frankfurt am Main. They were built at the beginning of the 19th century on the site of Frankfurt's city fortifications, which were razed between 1804 and 1812. The Frankfurt Anlagenring runs around the ramparts.

Wikipedia: Bockenheimer Anlage (DE)

270 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Alte Oper

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Alte Oper is a concert hall in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. It is located in the inner city, Innenstadt, within the banking district Bankenviertel. Today's Alte Oper was built in 1880 as the city's opera house, which was destroyed by bombs in 1944. It was rebuilt in the 1970s as a concert hall with a large hall and smaller venues, opened in 1981. The square in front of the building is still known as Opernplatz.

Wikipedia: Alte Oper (EN), Website, Heritage Website

404 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Rothschildpark

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Rothschild Park is a public park in Frankfurt, Germany. It is located within the central business district known as the Bankenviertel, to the north of the Opera Tower, adjacent to the Opera Square. The park is named for the Rothschild family, a banking family originating in Frankfurt.

Wikipedia: Rothschild Park (Frankfurt) (EN)

623 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 19: Hölderlin-Denkmal

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The Triton House is an office building complex at Bockenheimer Landstraße 42 and 44 in Frankfurt am Main.

Wikipedia: Triton-Haus (DE), Url

453 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 20: Livingston'sches Stallgebäude

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Livingston'sches Stallgebäude

The Livingston Horse Stable in Frankfurt am Main, on the corner of Ulmenstraße 20 / Kettenhofweg, was built between 1880 and 1882 and is now a listed building.

Wikipedia: Livingstonscher Pferdestall (DE)

387 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 21: Kontinuität

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The sculpture Continuity by Max Bill is a major work of the Zurich School of Concrete Art and was commissioned by Deutsche Bank for the forecourt in front of the twin towers of its headquarters on the Taunusanlage in Frankfurt am Main.

Wikipedia: Kontinuität (Skulptur) (DE), Url

616 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 22: Sankt Antonius

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St. Antonius is a Roman Catholic church in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was built in 1899/1900 in the neo-Gothic style in the Westend district. After its destruction in the Second World War and reconstruction, it served as the parish church of the parish of St. Antonius. From 1 September 2007 to 31 December 2013 it was a branch church of the parish of St. Ignatius and St. Antonius, and since 1 January 2014 it has been a church of the cathedral parish of St. Bartholomew. It is not to be confused with the Antoniuskirche in the Frankfurt district of Rödelheim.

Wikipedia: St. Antonius (Frankfurt-Westend) (DE)

364 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Goethe-Gymnasium

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Goethe-Gymnasium

The list of cultural monuments in Frankfurt-Westend lists all cultural monuments within the meaning of the Hessian Monument Protection Act in Frankfurt-Westend, a district of Frankfurt am Main. Due to its size, the list is divided into two partial lists.

Wikipedia: Liste_der_Kulturdenkmäler_in_Frankfurt-Westend_(A–K) (DE)

168 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 24: Matthäuskirche

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St. Matthew's Church is a Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is located in the Gallus district between the exhibition grounds and the main train station on the west side of the Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage.

Wikipedia: Matthäuskirche (Frankfurt am Main) (DE)

426 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 25: Hammering Man

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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).

Wikipedia: Hammering Man (EN), Url

386 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: 13er Husaren-Denkmal

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13er Husaren-Denkmal

The Hussar Monument is a memorial of the city of Frankfurt am Main.

Wikipedia: Husarendenkmal (Frankfurt am Main) (DE)

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