Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Frankfurt, Germany

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Number of sights 35 sights
Distance 10.8 km
Ascend 161 m
Descend 141 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: 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

736 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 2: Schwarzer Violinschlüssel

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The Black Treble Clef is a sculpture in Frankfurt am Main by the German-Japanese artist Hans-Peter Taro Miyabe (1960–1997) from 1982. The artwork is located in downtown Frankfurt on Horst-Lippmann-Platz on the corner of Goethestraße and Kleine Bockenheimer Straße in front of the Jazzkeller Frankfurt.

Wikipedia: Schwarzer Violinschlüssel (DE), Website

329 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Goethedenkmal

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Goethedenkmal

The Goethe monument on Goetheplatz in Frankfurt am Main is the work of the sculptor Ludwig Schwanthaler. It was ceremoniously inaugurated on October 22, 1844. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in Frankfurt in 1749, is considered the most important son of the city. Even during his lifetime, he was glorified as the German national poet. It was considered a symbol of German unification. Frankfurt was the first city in which a public Goethe monument was erected in his honor. There had been several monument projects in Frankfurt since 1819.

Wikipedia: Goethedenkmal (Frankfurt am Main) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Gutenberg-Denkmal

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The Johannes Gutenberg Monument is a monument and fountain on the Roßmarkt in Frankfurt am Main. It commemorates the inventor of printing with movable metal letters, Johannes Gensfleisch, known as Gutenberg, as well as the printers and publishers Johannes Fust and Peter Schöffer, who worked with him in Frankfurt.

Wikipedia: Gutenberg-Denkmal (Frankfurt am Main) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Hauptwache

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The Hauptwache is a central point of Frankfurt am Main and is one of the most famous plazas in the city. The original name Schillerplatz was superseded in the early 1900s. It lies to the west of Konstablerwache with both squares linked by the Zeil, the central shopping area of the city.

Wikipedia: Hauptwache (Frankfurt am Main) (EN), Heritage Website

133 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: St. Catherine's Church

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St. Catherine's Church is the largest Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is a parish church in the old city centre near one of the most famous city squares, the Hauptwache. The church is dedicated to the martyred early Christian saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Wikipedia: St. Catherine's Church, Frankfurt (EN), Url, Heritage Website

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Deutsches Museum für Kochkunst und Tafelkultur

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The German Museum of Culinary Arts and Dining 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, whose stored collection was completely destroyed in the Second World War. However, the collection of today's museum includes collection objects from the German Restaurant Museum, which existed in Frankfurt am Main from 1941 to 1944.

Wikipedia: Deutsches Museum für Kochkunst und Tafelkultur (DE), Website

344 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Staufenmauer

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The Staufenmauer was an old city wall of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Wikipedia: Staufenmauer (EN)

248 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Museum für Moderne Kunst

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The Museum für Moderne Kunst, or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. It is part of Frankfurt's Museumsufer . Because of its triangular shape, the MMK is popularly called the Tortenstück. Since 2018, Susanne Pfeffer has been director of the MMK.

Wikipedia: Museum für Moderne Kunst (EN)

281 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Kleinmarkthalle

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Kleinmarkthalle

Die Kleinmarkthalle ist eine 1954 erbaute Markthalle in der Altstadt von Frankfurt am Main. An Werktagen werden von 63 Händlern in 156 Marktständen auf ungefähr 1.500 Quadratmetern Fläche etwa 5000 Produkte, hauptsächlich frische Lebensmittel, aber auch Non-Food-Artikel angeboten. Neben regionalen Spezialitäten, wie zum Beispiel Frankfurter Grüne Soße, gehören heute auch importierte Lebensmittel zum Sortiment. Ebenso betreiben einige Händler Imbiss-Stände in und vor der Halle. Die Kleinmarkthalle zieht vor allem am Samstag Besucher aus dem ganzen Rhein-Main-Gebiet an. Sie wird zudem touristisch vermarktet, beispielsweise im Rahmen von Stadtführungen.

Wikipedia: Kleinmarkthalle Frankfurt (DE), Website

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Liebfrauenkirche

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Liebfrauenkirche is a Gothic-style Catholic parish church, located in the centre of Frankfurt, Germany. It was built in several phases from the 14th to the 16th century and serves today as a monastery church. Close to the shopping district, it serves as a place of rest even to visitors who are not religious. With an organ completed in 2008, it is a major venue for church music events.

Wikipedia: Liebfrauen, Frankfurt (EN), Website

513 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: 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

292 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: 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)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: 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

290 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: 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)

153 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: 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

123 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: 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 18: 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

402 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 19: 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)

220 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: 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)

423 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 21: Bethmann Landhaus

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Bethmann Landhaus 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)

196 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 22: Hessendenkmal

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The Hessendenkmal is a monument in Frankfurt's Nordend.

Wikipedia: Hessendenkmal (DE)

290 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: 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)

570 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 24: Tigerpalast

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The Tigerpalast is a variety theatre in Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1988 by Johnny Klinke, Margareta Dillinger and Matthias Beltz. As a venue, it uses a former meeting hall of the Salvation Army in Heiligkreuzgasse, a small street parallel to the Zeil in the northeastern city center.

Wikipedia: Tigerpalast (DE), Website

337 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: Friedberger 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: Friedberger Anlage (DE)

74 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 26: Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal

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Heinrich-Heine-DenkmalVolkes Stimme 01:08, 26. Jun. 2008 (CEST) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Heinrich Heine Monument in the ramparts of Frankfurt am Main from 1913 is the first and only representative monument in Germany to the poet Heinrich Heine, who died in 1856, which was erected with the help of the public sector and survived both the terror of the Nazi era and the Second World War largely unscathed.

Wikipedia: Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal (Frankfurt am Main) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

119 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 27: die katakombe

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die katakombeGleiten 17:33, 25. Sep. 2012 (CEST) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Die Katakombe Frankfurt (DE)

682 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 28: Zoo Frankfurt

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Zoo Frankfurt me --Peng 30 June 2005 13:03 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Frankfurt Zoological Garden is the zoo of Frankfurt, Germany. It features over 4,500 animals of over 510 species on more than 11 hectares. The zoo was founded in 1858 and is the second oldest zoo in Germany, after Berlin Zoological Garden. It lies in the eastern part of the Innenstadt. Bernhard Grzimek was director of the zoo after World War II from 1945 until 1974.

Wikipedia: Frankfurt Zoological Garden (EN), Website

737 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 29: Allerheiligenkirche

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Allerheiligenkirche

The All Saints' Church is a Catholic church in the Ostend district of Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2014, the All Saints' parish has been a church of the cathedral parish of St. Bartholomew and is known in particular as the KunstKulturKirche of Frankfurt's city centre.

Wikipedia: Allerheiligenkirche (Frankfurt am Main) (DE)

415 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 30: 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 31: 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 32: 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 33: 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)

813 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 34: St. Josefskirche

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St. Josef in Frankfurt-Bornheim is one of three churches in Frankfurt that are dedicated to the patron saint Joseph of Nazareth. It is the parish church of the new type of Catholic parish of St. Josef Frankfurt am Main, to which three other churches belong as church places and in which there are also two profile churches of the Diocese of Limburg, which are also branch churches of the parish. Like the other two Josefskirchen in Frankfurt am Main, the sacred building is located in the Diocese of Limburg.

Wikipedia: St. Josef (Frankfurt-Bornheim) (DE)

289 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 35: 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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