Album about Frankfurt am Main, Hessen and Taunus

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Album about Frankfurt am Main, Hessen and Taunus

• (Germany)

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Frankfurt am Main
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The skyline of Downtown Frankfurt and the Main
River
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The Helmet Plate of Frankfurt
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Frankfurt Airport

• Frankfurt Airport also known in Germany as
  Rhein-Main-Flughafen, is located near Frankfurt
  am Main. It is the largest airport in Germany and
  the third largest in Europe. In former times it
  was an airlift base for the United States.
  Frankfurt is a hub of Lufthansa, the German
  national carrier.

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Pictures of the Airport
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Frankfurt am Main Central Station

• Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (usually
  translated from German as Frankfurt (Main)
  Central Station, short form Frankfurt (Main)
  Hbf) is the most important Station for Frankfurt
  am Main and is one of the largest terminal
  stations in Europe. On August 18, 1888, after
  five years of construction, the Central-Bahnhof
  Frankfurt was finally opened. Right on the
  evening of the opening day, a train ran over the
  buffer stop and the locomotive was damaged.

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Pictures of Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof
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Römer

• The Römer (German for "Roman") is medieval
  building in Frankfurt am Main, one of the city's
  most important landsmarks. It has been the city
  hall or Rathaus for 600 years. The Haus Römer is
  actually the middle building of a set of three
  located in the Römerberg plaza. The Römer
  merchant family sold it together with a second
  building, the Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan), to
  the city council on March 11, 1405 and it was
  converted for use as the city hall.

• The Römer is not a museum and is actually used
  by the city for various purposes, for example as
  a Standesamt or civil registration office for
  example, the wedding rooms are located in the
  first and second floor of the Haus Löwenstein.

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Old Opera House

• The famous old opera house (Alte Oper) was
  built in 1880 by the architect Richard Lucae. It
  was one of the major opera houses in Germany,
  until it was heavily damaged in World War II.
  Until the late 1970ies it was a ruin, nicknamed
  "Germany's Most Beautiful Ruin". There were even
  efforts to just blow it up former Frankfurt Lord
  Mayor Rudi Arndt called for blowing it up in the
  1960ies, which made him get nicknamed
  "Dynamit-Rudi" by the locals.
• Fortunately, due to citizen's pressure it
  was finally fully reconstructed and reopened in
  1981. The old opera house is now a concert hall.

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Saint Paul's Church

• St. Paul's Church (Paulskirche) is a
  national historic monument in Germany with great
  political symbolism, because it was the seat of
  the first democratically elected Parliament in
  1848. It was established in 1789 as a Protestant
  church but wasnt completed until 1833. The
  church has its importance in the roots of the
  Frankfurt Parliament, which met in St. Pauls
  during the revolutionary years of 1848/49 in
  order to write a constitution for a united
  Germany. The attempt failed because the monarchs
  of Russia and Austria did not want to lose power,
  and in 1849 Russian troops ended the democratic
  experiment by force of arms and the parliament
  was dissolved. Afterwards, the building was used
  for church services again.
• St. Paul's was partially destroyed in World
  War II, particularly the interior of the
  building, which now has a modern
• appearance. It would quickly and
  symbolically
• rebuilt after the war. Today it is not used
  for
• religious services, but mainly for
  exhibitions
• and events.

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Saint Bartholomeus' Cathedral

• Saint Bartholomeus Cathedral (Dom
  Sankt Bartholomäus) is a Gothic building located
  in Frankfurt.
• Frankfurt Cathedral is the main church of
  Frankfurt and was constructed in the 14th and
  15th centuries on the foundation of an earlier
  church from the Merovingian time. From 1356
  onwards, kings of the Holy Roman Empire were
  elected in this church, and from 1562 to 1792,
  emperors were crowned here. It has been
  recognized as symbol for the national unity of
  Germany, especially during the 19th century.
  Although it has never been a bishop's seat, its
  role in imperial politics made the church to one
  of the most important buildings of Imperial
  history and justified the use of the term
  (imperial) cathedral by the people of Frankfurt
  for the church since the 18th century.

• In 1867, the cathedral was destroyed by
  a fire and rebuilt in its present style.
• Between October 1943 and March 1944 the old
  town of Frankfurt, the biggest old Gothic town of
  Central Europe had been destroyed by six
  bombardments of the Allied Forces. The physical
  devastation of the old imperial town should break
  the will to war in the population. The greatest
  losses occurred on the 22nd of March 1944. Over
  one thousand buildings of the old town, the most
  of them being half-timbered houses were
  destroyed. The cathedral suffered from severe
  damage and the interior burned out completely.
  The cathedral had been reconstructed in the
  1950s. The height of the cathedral is 95 m.

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Pictures from the Bartholomeus Cathedral
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Zeil

• The Zeil is the most famous road in
  Frankfurt and Germanys most frequented shopping
  street. The main part of the road is a pedestrian
  area and is bordered by two large places
  Hauptwache in the West and Konstablerwache in
  the East.

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Pictures of Hauptwache
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Commerzbank Tower

• Commerzbank Tower is a skyscraper located
  in Frankfurt. After it was completed in 1997, it
  was the tallest construction in Europe until
  2003. With a height of 259 m, 56 stories, it
  provides 121,000 m² of office space for the
  Commerzbank Headquarters, including winter
  gardens and natural lighting and air circulation.
  The signal light on top of the tower gives the
  tower a total height of 300.1 metres. It was
  designed by Foster Partners. Construction of
  the building began in 1994 and took three years
  to complete.
• Before the Commerzbank Tower, the MesseTurm
  was the tallest building in Europe.
• The building is illuminated at night by a
  yellow light scheme which was designed by Thomas
  Ende.

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The Commerzbank Tower
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Europaturm

• The Europaturm ("Tower of Europe") is a
  337.5 meter
• (1,107.3 ft) high telecommunications tower
  in
• Frankfurt am Main. Inhabitants call it
• the Ginnheimer Spargel (Ginnheimer
  Asparagus) it's
• located at Bockenheim, a district of the
  City (Ginnheim
• also a district, is a few meters away), or
  simply "Fernsehturm
• ("Television Tower"). This Tower was the
  first broadcast tower
• in Frankfurt.

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Messeturm

• Messeturm is a skyscraper located in
  Frankfurt, nearby Central station and directly
  located in the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds.
• Its name is translated "Fair Tower". It is
  the second tallest building in Germany and the
  European Union. Used as an office building, it is
  257 meters tall and has 63 floors.
• The construction of the building's
  foundation set a world record for the longest
  continuous concrete pour. Ninety trucks poured
  concrete for 78 hours into the 6 meters deep
  foundation.
• The pyramid on the top of the Tower is most
  remarkable among other usual skyscrapers. It is
  36.3 meters high.
• Habitants of Frankfurt often call it "The
  Pencil.

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Picture of the Messeturm
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Maintower

• Maintower is a skyscraper in Frankfurt. The
  building is 200 metres tall and has 5 underground
  floors and 56 above-ground stories. It also has
  two public viewing platforms.
• The Maintower was built between 1996 and
  1999. It contains the Landesbank of Hessen and
  Thüringen (Helaba) and a television studio of
  "Hessischer Rundfunk, among other enterprises.
  During weather reports by the television station,
  the weather reporter stands on the top-platform
  of the building.

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Pictures of Maintower
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Stock Exchange
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Commerzbank-Arena

• Commerzbank-Arena (is known as Waldstadion) is
  a 52,300 seat football stadium in Frankfurt. The
  home of the footballclub Eintracht Frankfurt.
  The Waldstadion was first opened in 1925 and
  during World War II it was used for political
  events of the National Socialists.
• In 2003 the Waldstadium was pulled down and
  a new stadium was built. Since July 2005 we
  called it Commerzbank-Arena. Now it is one of
  Germany's biggest stadiums and there have already
  been some important events in the last years,
  such as the FIFA World Cup and the Confederations
  Cup.

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Pictures of Commerzbank-Arena
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Goethe House

• The Goethe House in the old town of
  Frankfurt am Main was the family residence of the
  Goethe family.

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Hessen

• Hessen is one of sixteen states in Germany.
  Its area is about 21,110 km². Over six million
  inhabitants live in Hessen. The state capital is
  Wiesbaden. Frankfurt am Main is the largest city
  in Hessen, with about 650.000 Inhabitants.

The sign shows the heraldic animal of Hessen
the lion
The sig shows the heraldic animal of Hesen.
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Pictures of Hessen
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Taunus

• Taunus is a mountain range in Hessen. It is
  bounded by the river valleys of Rheine, Main and
  Lahn. On the opposite side of the Rhein, the
  mountains are continued by the Hunsrück. The
  mountains themselves span the districts of
  Hochtaunuskreis, Main-Taunus, Rheingau-Taunus,
  and Rhein-Lahn.
• Not to be confused with more famous and
  higher Feldberg in Black Forest, the highest peak
  is Großer Feldberg (878 m, which was also used
  for Feldbergrennen hillclimbing contest and
  rallying stages. It is followed by Kleiner
  Feldberg and Altkönig (798 m) with the remains of
  a late Iron Age hill fort (La-Tène A, ca. 400 BC)
  near the summit.
• The Roman Limes was built across the
  Taunus. The Saalburg, a restored Roman castellum,
  now houses a museum. After the fall of the Limes
  (in 259/260 AD), the Alamanni settled here. For
  this reason there are some Alemannic cemeteries
  in the southern foothills of the Taunus
  (Eschborn). This area became Frankish after the
  Battle of Tolbiac.

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Pictures of Taunus
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