Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Frankfurt, Germany

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)

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

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)

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: Obermainanlage (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Memorial Neuer Börneplatz (EN)

The Church of the Holy Spirit is a Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was inaugurated on the second Sunday of Advent in 1961 as a reconstruction of the late Gothic hall church of the Dominican monastery, which had been destroyed in an air raid in 1944. The Dominican monastery is the seat of the Protestant city deanery of Frankfurt am Main and the Protestant Regional Association, an association of all Protestant congregations in Frankfurt.

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

The Caricatura Museum Frankfurt – Museum of Comic Art in Frankfurt am Main exhibits works of comic art. The permanent exhibition shows texts, drawings and sculptures by artists of the New Frankfurt School. These are supplemented by temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists from the field of comic art.

Wikipedia: Museum für Komische Kunst (DE), Website

The Leinwandhaus is a historic building in Frankfurt's Old Town, located south of Frankfurt Cathedral on the Weckmarkt. Together with the Steinernes Haus and the Haus Fürsteneck, it was and is one of the few secular Gothic buildings in Frankfurt.

Wikipedia: Leinwandhaus (Frankfurt) (DE)

Frankfurt Cathedral, officially Imperial Dome of Saint Bartholomew, is a Roman Catholic Gothic church located in the heart of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew.

Wikipedia: Frankfurt Cathedral (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Frankfurt Cathedral Museum shows ecclesiastical treasure art, a rich collection of medieval and baroque chasubles and important exhibits on the Frankfurt Imperial Cathedral, from early medieval excavation finds to evidence of its historicist redesign in the 19th century. The Cathedral Museum in the historic cloister of the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew in Frankfurt am Main has been in existence since 1987. The regular exhibition contains some highlights of sacred art. In addition, the museum presents contemporary art or cultural-historical topics in changing exhibitions. Since 2007, a second exhibition space has been the so-called Sacristeum in the neighbouring Haus am Dom.

Wikipedia: Dommuseum Frankfurt (DE), Website

The former Archaeological Garden in Frankfurt am Main was built in 1972/73 during the construction of the Dom/Römer underground station. As part of the Dom-Römer project, the Archaeological Garden was built over with the Stadthaus am Markt from 2013 to 2016 in order to protect the excavations from the weather and to keep them permanently accessible. In August 2018, the exhibition was reopened in the basement of the Stadthaus as a branch of the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt under the new name Kaiserpfalz Franconofurd. It presents in a new architectural and museum design the remains of the Roman settlement on the Frankfurt Cathedral Hill, of a Merovingian royal court, of the Carolingian-Ottonian royal palace of Frankfurt, as well as late medieval cellar.

Wikipedia: Kaiserpfalz Franconofurd (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Frankfurter Kunstverein (EN), Website

The Salzhaus is a historic building in the German city Frankfurt am Main. It forms the northeastern part of the Frankfurt City Hall complex (Römer), on the Römerberg square in the centre of the Altstadt.

Wikipedia: Salzhaus (EN)

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) of the Löwenstein House and on the right (north) of the Salzhaus. The house address is "Römerberg 25".

Wikipedia: Haus Frauenstein (DE)

The Fountain of Justice is a fountain on the Römerberg in Frankfurt am Main and one of the city's landmarks. It goes back to a predecessor building from 1543 on the same site and was built in its present form in 1611. During the time of the Holy Roman Empire, it played a special, albeit short-lived, role during the coronation ceremony as a wine fountain for the emperor and then also for the people. The fountain that can be seen today is a largely detailed copy from 1887, which was financed by the Frankfurt wine merchant Gustav D. Manskopf. It is a listed building.

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

The Haus zum Römer, also known as Römer, is the eponymous middle house of the three-gable façade of the Frankfurt City Hall complex. It was first mentioned in 1322 and was bought by the city in 1405. Probably built in the early 14th century, it is architecturally still a representative of classical Gothic patrician architecture, despite massive exterior and interior alterations in the more than 700 years after its construction.

Wikipedia: Haus zum Römer (DE)

The House of the Golden Swan, also known as the Golden Swan, is a building in the Frankfurt City Hall complex. It borders to the northwest of the eponymous Haus zum Römer and has always been structurally and historically connected to it. First mentioned in 1322, the building was bought by the city in 1405. Architecturally, despite the structural changes of several centuries, it is still a typical representative of Gothic patrician architecture.

Wikipedia: Haus zum Goldenen Schwan (DE)

The Wertheim House, also known as Wertheym, is a half-timbered house built around 1600 at the Fahrtor in Frankfurt am Main. It is the only house with exposed half-timbering in Frankfurt's old town that has survived the air raids on Frankfurt am Main almost unscathed. The house is a listed building. Until the destruction of the old town, it received little attention. 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 the Frankfurt 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 have contributed to promoting the desire for comprehensive reconstructions of representative old town houses among Frankfurt's citizens.

Wikipedia: Haus Wertheim (Frankfurt am Main) (DE), Url, Heritage Website

The Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was founded in 1878, and includes cultural and historical objects relating to the history of Frankfurt and Germany. It moved into the Saalhof in 1955, and a new extension was opened in 1972.

Wikipedia: Historical Museum, Frankfurt (EN), Website

The Saalhof – with the Rententurm, the former customs office, on its west side – is the oldest surviving building in the old town of Frankfurt am Main. The beginnings date back to the end of the 12th century, when a residential tower with a two-storey residential building adjoining it to the north was built in connection with the neighbouring older royal palace of Frankfurt. From 1200 onwards, the residential tower was extended to the east by a chapel extension.

Wikipedia: Saalhof (DE)

The Bernusbau is a baroque city palace in Frankfurt am Main and part of the Saalhof. The wealthy Bernus merchant family, who immigrated from Hanau, had the building built between 1715 and 1717 on the Mainkai on the site of older, dilapidated remains of the medieval Saalhof.

Wikipedia: Bernusbau (DE)

The Rententurm is a late Gothic gate tower of the former city fortifications of Frankfurt am Main and part of the Saalhof. The tower secured the gate, which, as Frankfurt's most important city gate on the Main side, connected the centre of the historic city centre, the Römerberg, with the harbour on the banks of the Main outside the city wall. Opposite the Rententurm on the Mainkai has been the northern bridgehead of the Eiserner Steg since 1869.

Wikipedia: Rententurm (DE), Heritage Website

The Eiserner Steg is a footbridge spanning the river Main in the city of Frankfurt, Germany, which connects the centre of Frankfurt with the district of Sachsenhausen.

Wikipedia: Eiserner Steg (EN)

St. Leonhard is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Its historic church dates to 1219, when it was erected in the centre of the town close to the river Main, as a Romanesque-style basilica. From 1425, it was remodeled to a hall church in late Gothic style. St. Leonhard was the only one of nine churches in the Old Town that survived World War II almost undamaged. Today, the parish is part of the Domgemeinde and serves as the parish church of English-speaking Catholics. It is a monument of Frankfurt's history as well as church history and medieval crafts.

Wikipedia: St. Leonhard, Frankfurt (EN)

The cabaret Die Schmiere was founded in 1950 by Rudolf Rolfs and is one of the oldest private theatres in Frankfurt am Main. The theatre describes itself as "The worst theatre in the world"; the name "Schmiere" is also a pejorative term for bad theatre, a so-called smear theatre.

Wikipedia: Die Schmiere (DE)

The Euro-Skulptur by Ottmar Hörl set up at Willy-Brandt-Platz in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is one of two copies of the work that have been put on public display. It is a 14-metre (46 ft) tall electronic sign that shows a Euro sign and twelve stars around, weighing 50 tonnes.

Wikipedia: Euro-Skulptur (EN), Website, Url

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: Gallusanlage (DE)

The Schiller Monument in Frankfurt am Main is a bronze statue depicting the German poet Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805). It has been located in the Taunusanlage in Frankfurt's banking district since 1955. Since 2009, there have been plans to return it to its original location An der Hauptwache.

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

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 the real estate investor Jürgen Schneider, is leased to Commerzbank on a long-term basis. From 1994, Dresdner Bank, which was merged with Commerzbank in May 2009, had used it as the parent company for its private customer business.

Wikipedia: Fürstenhof (Frankfurt am Main) (DE)

The Märchenbrunnen or Schauspielhausbrunnen in Frankfurt am Main is located on the Untermainanlage next to the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt. It is an Art Nouveau fountain that was completed in 1910.

Wikipedia: Frankfurter Märchenbrunnen (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Oper Frankfurt is a German opera company based in Frankfurt.

Wikipedia: Oper Frankfurt (EN)

The Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main is the oldest independent Jewish Museum in Germany. It was opened by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on 9 November 1988, the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

Wikipedia: Jewish Museum Frankfurt (EN), Website

The Trade Union House in Frankfurt am Main is a listed office building that was inaugurated in 1931. Today, the high-rise building in the Gutleutviertel is the headquarters of the German Trade Union Confederation, the district of Hesse-Thuringia and the Frankfurt-Rhine-Main region and the trade union ver.di in the Frankfurt am Main district and region.

Wikipedia: Gewerkschaftshaus (Frankfurt am Main) (DE)