Frankfurt

Frankfurt

*Frangford am Maa* (
Main River
Alte Oper
Höchst
Frankfurt Frangford am Maa ( Main River Alte Oper Höchst
	Flag Coat of arms
Location of Frankfurt within Hesse Lord Mayor	Mike Josef (SPD)
• Governing parties	Greens / SPD / FDP / Volt
Area
• City	248.31 km2 (95.87 sq mi)
Elevation	112 m (367 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• City	773,068
• Density	3,100/km2 (8,100/sq mi)
• Urban	2,319,029
• Metro	5,604,523
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	60306–60599, 65929–65936
Dialling codes	069, 06101, 06109
Vehicle registration	F
Website	frankfurt.de

Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (German:

Rhenish Franconian

dialect area.

Frankfurt was a

13th-wealthiest city in the world and the second-wealthiest city in Europe (after London).^[7]

Frankfurt is a global hub for commerce, culture, education, tourism and transportation, and is the site of many global and European corporate headquarters. Due to its central location in the former

trade fairs. Major fairs include the Music Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest book fair. With 108 consulates, among which the largest is the US Consulate General, Frankfurt is second to New York City

among non-capital cities in regards to consulate seats.

Frankfurt is home to influential

Frankfurt Zoo. Frankfurt is the seat of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund – DFB), is home to the first division association football club Eintracht Frankfurt, the Löwen Frankfurt ice hockey team, and the basketball club Frankfurt Skyliners, and is the venue of the Frankfurt Marathon and the Ironman Germany

.

Distinctions

Frankfurt is the largest financial hub in continental Europe. It is home to the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt Stock Exchange and several large commercial banks.

The Frankfurt Stock Exchange is one of the world's largest stock exchanges by market capitalization and accounts for more than 90 percent of the turnover in the German market.

In 2010, 63 national and 152 international banks had their registered offices in Frankfurt, including Germany's major banks, notably

Deka Bank and Commerzbank, as well as 41 representative offices of international banks.^[8]

Frankfurt is considered a global city (alpha world city) as listed by the GaWC group's 2012 inventory.^[9] Among global cities it was ranked tenth by the Global Power City Index 2011 and 11th by the Global City Competitiveness Index 2012. Among financial hubs, the city was ranked eighth by the International Financial Centers Development Index 2013 and ninth in the 2013 Global Financial Centres Index.

Its central location in Germany and Europe makes Frankfurt a major air, rail, and road

rail stations in Europe and the busiest junction operated by Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway company, with 342 trains a day to domestic and European destinations.^[10] Frankfurter Kreuz, also known as the Autobahn interchange and located close to the airport, is the most-heavily used interchange in the EU, used by 320,000 cars daily.^[11] In 2011 human-resource-consulting firm Mercer ranked Frankfurt as seventh in its annual 'Quality of Living' survey of cities around the world.^[12] According to The Economist cost-of-living survey, Frankfurt is Germany's most expensive city and the world's tenth most expensive.^[13]

Frankfurt has many downtown

Dom-Römer Project

from 2012 to 2018.

Etymology

Frankonovurd (in

ford

) where the river was shallow enough to be crossed on foot.

By the 19th century, the name Frankfurt had been established as the official spelling. The older English spelling of Frankfort is now rarely seen in reference to Frankfurt am Main, although more than a dozen other towns and cities, mainly in the United States, use this spelling, including

Frankfort, New York, and Frankfort, Illinois

. The New York Times first used the Frankfurt spelling for Frankfurt am Main on 24 October 1953 and last used the Frankfort spelling on 10 June 1954.

The suffix am Main has been used regularly since the 14th century. In English, the city's full name of Frankfurt am Main means "Frankfurt on the Main" (pronounced like English mine or German mein). Frankfurt is located on an ancient ford (German: Furt) on the river Main. As a part of early Franconia, the inhabitants were the early Franks, thus the city's name reveals its legacy as "the ford of the Franks on the Main".^[15]

Among English speakers, the city is commonly known simply as Frankfurt, but Germans occasionally call it by its full name to distinguish it from the other (significantly smaller) German city of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Land of Brandenburg on the Polish border.

The city district Bonames has a name probably dating back to Roman times, thought to be derived from bona me(n)sa (good table).

The common abbreviations for the city, primarily used in railway services and on road signs, are Frankfurt (Main), Frankfurt (M), Frankfurt a. M., Frankfurt/Main or Frankfurt/M. The common

IATA code

for Frankfurt Airport.

History

Timeline of Frankfurt am Main
historical affiliations

Roman Empire, pre 475
Francia, ca. 475–843
East Francia, 843–962
Holy Roman Empire, 962–1806
Free City of Frankfurt, 1372–1806
Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, 1806–1813
Free City of Frankfurt, 1813–1866
Kingdom of Prussia, 1866–1871
German Empire, 1871–1918
Weimar Republic, 1918–1933
German Reich, 1933–1945
American occupation zone, 1945–1949
West Germany, 1949–1990
Germany, 1990–present

Early history and Holy Roman Empire

At the western borders of Frankfurt lies the

river Nidda date to the reign of Emperor Vespasian in the years 69 to 79 AD. Nida (modern Heddernheim, Praunheim) was a Roman civitas

capital (Civitas Taunensium).

Alemanni and Franks lived there, and by 794, Charlemagne presided over an imperial assembly and church synod, at which Franconofurd (alternative spellings end with -furt and -vurd) was first mentioned. It was one of the two capitals of Charlemagne's grandson Louis the German, together with Regensburg. Louis founded the collegiate church, rededicated in 1239 to Bartholomew the Apostle and now Frankfurt Cathedral.^[17]

Frankfurt was one of the most important cities in the

German kings were elected and crowned in Aachen. From 1562, the kings and emperors were crowned and elected in Frankfurt, initiated for Maximilian II. This tradition ended in 1792, when Francis II was elected. His coronation was deliberately held on Bastille Day, 14 July, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. The elections and coronations took place in St. Bartholomäus Cathedral

, known as the Kaiserdom (Emperor's Cathedral), or its predecessors.

The

Emperor Frederick II granted an imperial privilege to its visitors, meaning they would be protected by the empire. The fair became particularly important when similar fairs in French Beaucaire lost attraction around 1380. Book trade fairs

began in 1478.
In 1372, Frankfurt became a Reichsstadt (
Imperial Free City), i.e., directly subordinate to the Holy Roman Emperor
and not to a regional ruler or a local nobleman.
In 1585, Frankfurt traders established a system of exchange rates for the various currencies that were circulating to prevent cheating and extortion. Therein lay the early roots for the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Frankfurt managed to remain neutral during the Thirty Years' War, but suffered from the bubonic plague that refugees brought to the city. After the war, Frankfurt regained its wealth. In the late 1770s the theater principal Abel Seyler was based in Frankfurt, and established the city's theatrical life.^[18]

Frankfurt in 1612

Frankfurt in 1872

Kaiserplatz, c. 1880

Impact of French revolution and the Napoleonic Wars

Following the
prince of Venice
", a newly established primogeniture in Italy), Grand Duke of Frankfurt after Dalberg's death (since the latter as a Catholic bishop had no legitimate heirs). The Grand Duchy remained a short episode lasting from 1810 to 1813 when the military tide turned in favor of the Anglo-Prussian-led allies that overturned the Napoleonic order. Dalberg abdicated in favor of Eugène de Beauharnais, which of course was only a symbolic action, as the latter effectively never ruled after the ruin of the French armies and Frankfurt's takeover by the allies.

Frankfurt as a fully sovereign state

After Napoleon's final defeat and abdication, the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815) dissolved the grand-duchy and Frankfurt became a fully sovereign city-state with a republican form of government. Frankfurt entered the newly founded German Confederation (till 1866) as a free city, becoming the seat of its Bundestag, the confederal parliament where the nominally presiding Habsburg Emperor of Austria was represented by an Austrian "presidential envoy".
After the ill-fated

Frankfurter Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church) and was opened on 18 May 1848. In the year of its existence, the assembly developed a common constitution for a unified Germany, with the Prussian king as its monarch. The institution failed in 1849 when the Prussian king, Frederick William IV

, declared that he would not accept "a crown from the gutter".

Frankfurt after the loss of sovereignty

Frankfurt lost its independence after the

Hesse-Nassau. The Prussian occupation and annexation were perceived as a great injustice in Frankfurt, which retained its distinct western European, urban and cosmopolitan character. The formerly independent towns of Bornheim and Bockenheim

were incorporated in 1890.

In 1914, the citizens founded the University of Frankfurt, later named Goethe University Frankfurt. This marked the only civic foundation of a university in Germany; today it is one of Germany's largest.

From 6 April to 17 May 1920, following military intervention to put down the

peace treaty of Versailles concerning the demilitarization of the Rhineland had been broken.^[20] In 1924, Ludwig Landmann became the first Jewish mayor of the city, and led a significant expansion during the following years. During the Nazi era, the synagogues of the city were destroyed and the vast majority of the Jewish population fled or was killed.^[21]

During World War II, Frankfurt was the location of a Nazi prison for underage girls with several forced labour camps,^[22] a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see Romani Holocaust),^[23] the Dulag Luft West transit camp for Allied prisoners of war,^[24] and a subcamp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.^[25]

Frankfurt was severely bombed in World War II (1939–1945). About 5,500 residents were killed during the raids, and the once-famous medieval city center, by that time the largest in Germany, was almost completely destroyed. It became a ground battlefield on 26 March 1945, when the Allied advance into Germany was forced to take the city in contested urban combat that included a river assault. The 5th Infantry Division and the 6th Armored Division of the United States Army captured Frankfurt after several days of intense fighting, and it was declared largely secure on 29 March 1945.^[26]

After the end of the war, Frankfurt became a part of the newly founded state of Hesse, consisting of the old

American Zone of Occupation of Germany. The Military Governor for the United States Zone (1945–1949) and the United States High Commissioner for Germany (HICOG) (1949–1952) had their headquarters in the IG Farben Building

, intentionally left undamaged by the Allies' wartime bombardment.

Frankfurt was the original choice for the provisional capital city of the newly founded state of

Chancellor, preferred the town of Bonn, for the most part because it was close to his hometown, but also because many other prominent politicians opposed the choice of Frankfurt out of concern that Frankfurt would be accepted as the permanent capital, thereby weakening the West German population's support for a reunification with East Germany and the eventual return of the capital to Berlin

.

Postwar reconstruction took place in a sometimes simple modern style, thus changing Frankfurt's architectural face. A few landmark buildings were reconstructed historically, albeit in a simplified manner (e.g.,

S.D. Goitein, "not even handlists indicating its contents have survived."^[27]

The Frankfurt Parliament at St. Paul's Church in 1848

Aerial view of the cathedral in May 1945

Reconstruction (1981–1984) of six houses at the east side of the Römerberg which were destroyed in World War II

The end of the war marked Frankfurt's comeback as Germany's leading financial hub, mainly because Berlin, now a city divided into four sectors, could no longer rival it. In 1948, the Allies founded the Bank deutscher Länder, the forerunner of Deutsche Bundesbank. Following this decision, more financial institutions were re-established, e.g. Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank. In the 1950s, Frankfurt Stock Exchange regained its position as the country's leading stock exchange.

Frankfurt also reemerged as Germany's transportation hub and

London Heathrow Airport

in 1961.

During the 1970s, the city created one of Europe's most efficient underground transportation systems.

S-Bahn) linking outlying communities with the city center, and a deep underground light rail system with smaller coaches (U-Bahn

) also capable of travelling above ground on rails.

In 1998, the European Central Bank was founded in Frankfurt, followed by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and European Systemic Risk Board in 2011.

Geography

Rhineland-Palatine capital of Mainz and the Hessian (historically Nassauian) capital of Wiesbaden. Also visible the Taunus suburbs of the districts of High Taunus and Main-Taunus

, two of the wealthiest districts in Germany.

Frankfurt is the largest city in the state of Hesse in the western part of Germany.

Site

Frankfurt is located on both sides of the river Main, south-east of the Taunus mountain range. The southern part of the city contains the Frankfurt City Forest, Germany's largest city forest. The city area is 248.31 km² (95.87 sq mi) and extends over 23.4 km (14.54 mi) east to west and 23.3 km (14.48 mi) north to south. Its downtown is north of the river Main in Altstadt district (the historical center) and the surrounding Innenstadt district. The geographical center is in Bockenheim district near Frankfurt West station.

Frankfurt at the heart of the densely populated

Rüsselsheim, Wetzlar and Marburg

.

Districts

The city is divided into 46 city districts (Stadtteile), which are in turn divided into 121 city boroughs (Stadtbezirke) and 448 electoral districts (Wahlbezirke). The 46 city districts combine into 16 area districts (

Ortsbezirke

), which each have a district committee and chairperson.

The largest city district by population and area is Sachsenhausen, while the smallest is Altstadt, Frankfurt's historical center. Three larger city districts (Sachsenhausen, Westend and Nordend) are divided for administrative purposes into a northern (-Nord) and a southern (-Süd) part, respectively a western (-West) and an eastern (-Ost) part, but are generally considered as one city district (which is why often only 43 city districts are mentioned, even on the city's official website).^[29]

Some larger housing areas are often falsely called city districts, even by locals, like Nordweststadt (part of

Bahnhofsviertel

district).

Many city districts are incorporated suburbs (

Riederwald

.

History of incorporations

Until the year 1877 the city's territory consisted of the present-day inner-city districts of
Gutleutviertel, Gallus, Westend, Nordend, Ostend and Sachsenhausen
.
Riederwald
, was created on territory that had formerly belonged to Seckbach and Ostend.
On 1 April 1928 the City of
Sossenheim) or joining the newly established Landkreis of Main-Taunus-Kreis
.
Dornbusch became a city district in 1946. It was created on territory that had formerly belonged to Eckenheim and Ginnheim.
On 1 August 1972, Hesse's smaller suburbs of
Kreis Groß-Gerau, the Hochtaunuskreis, the Main-Kinzig-Kreis or the Wetteraukreis
.
Bergen-Enkheim
was the last suburb to become part of Frankfurt on 1 January 1977.
Flughafen became an official city district in 1979. It covers the area of Frankfurt Airport that had belonged to Sachsenhausen and the neighboring city of Mörfelden-Walldorf
.
Frankfurt's youngest city district is Frankfurter Berg. It was part of Bonames until 1996.
Kalbach was officially renamed Kalbach-Riedberg in 2006 because of the large residential housing development in the area known as Riedberg.

Neighboring districts and cities

Frankfurt urban area within Hesse

To the west Frankfurt borders the
Rüsselsheim and Kelsterbach
.
Together with these towns (and some larger nearby towns, e.g., Hanau, Rodgau, Dreieich, Langen) Frankfurt forms a contiguous built-up urban area called Stadtregion Frankfurt which is not an official administrative district. The urban area had an estimated population of 2.3 million in 2010, and is the 13th-largest urban area in the EU.

Climate

Frankfurt has a
temperate-oceanic climate (Köppen
: Cfb). Its climate features cool winters with frequent rain showers and overcast skies, and warm to hot summers. The average annual temperature is 11.4 °C (52.5 °F), with monthly mean temperatures ranging from 2.7 °C (36.9 °F) in January to 20.7 °C (69.3 °F) in July. The descriptions below are based off climate data between 1991 and 2020.
Due to its location at the northern tip of the Upper Rhine Valley in the Southwest of Germany, Frankfurt is one of the warmest and driest major German cities along with Darmstadt, Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Freiburg im Breisgau. Summers in Frankfurt can get quite hot when compared to the rest of the country. On average, it sees 62 days with a daily high temperature above 25 °C and 18 days with a high above 30 °C per year.
Climate change is elevating the number of hot days. In the year of 2018, Frankfurt recorded 108 days with a maximum over 25 °C and 43 days with a high above 30 °C. This is compared to 52 and 13 days on average per year between 1981 and 2010. The overall tendency for higher temperatures can also be seen when comparing the climate data from 1981 to 2010 with the data from 2010 to 2020. Being an urban heat island, Frankfurt sometimes experiences tropical nights, where the temperature does not fall below 20 °C between May and September. This is exacerbated and made more frequent as the density of the city stores daytime heat overnight.
The growing season is longer when compared to the rest of Germany, thus resulting in an early arrival of springtime in the region, with trees typically leafing out already toward the end of March.
Winters in Frankfurt are generally mild or at least not freezing with a small possibility of snow, especially in January and February but dark and often overcast. Frankfurt is, on average, covered with snow only for around 10 to 20 days per year.^[30] The temperature falls below 0 °C on about 64 days and the daily maximum stays below freezing for about 10 days on average per year. Some days with lows under −10 °C can occur more often here than at the coasts of Northern Germany, but not as frequently as in Bavaria or the eastern parts of Germany.
Because of the mild climate in the region, there are some well-known wine regions in the vicinity such as
lemon trees and southern European plants to grow in that area. The area is called the "Nizza" (the German word for the southern French town Nice) and is one of the biggest parks with Mediterranean vegetation north of the Alps.^[31]

Climate data for Frankfurt Airport 1991–2020, extremes 1949–present

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

Record high °C (°F) 15.9
(60.6) 19.1
(66.4) 24.7
(76.5) 30.3
(86.5) 33.2
(91.8) 39.3
(102.7) 40.2
(104.4) 38.7
(101.7) 32.8
(91.0) 28.0
(82.4) 19.1
(66.4) 16.3
(61.3) 40.2
(104.4)

Mean maximum °C (°F) 12.1
(53.8) 13.8
(56.8) 19.0
(66.2) 24.8
(76.6) 28.9
(84.0) 32.5
(90.5) 34.1
(93.4) 33.5
(92.3) 27.8
(82.0) 22.0
(71.6) 16.6
(61.9) 12.5
(54.5) 35.6
(96.1)

Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 4.9
(40.8) 6.6
(43.9) 11.4
(52.5) 16.5
(61.7) 20.4
(68.7) 23.9
(75.0) 26.1
(79.0) 25.7
(78.3) 20.8
(69.4) 14.8
(58.6) 8.9
(48.0) 5.5
(41.9) 15.5
(59.8)

Daily mean °C (°F) 2.7
(36.9) 3.5
(38.3) 7.2
(45.0) 11.5
(52.7) 15.5
(59.9) 18.9
(66.0) 20.7
(69.3) 20.1
(68.2) 15.7
(60.3) 10.8
(51.4) 6.5
(43.7) 3.4
(38.1) 11.4
(52.5)

Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −0.5
(31.1) −0.4
(31.3) 2.2
(36.0) 5.4
(41.7) 9.3
(48.7) 12.8
(55.0) 14.8
(58.6) 14.4
(57.9) 10.6
(51.1) 6.7
(44.1) 3.2
(37.8) 0.4
(32.7) 7.0
(44.6)

Mean minimum °C (°F) −9.1
(15.6) −7.2
(19.0) −4.2
(24.4) −1.4
(29.5) 2.2
(36.0) 7.0
(44.6) 9.5
(49.1) 8.7
(47.7) 5.1
(41.2) −0.1
(31.8) −3.2
(26.2) −7.7
(18.1) −11.2
(11.8)

Record low °C (°F) −21.6
(−6.9) −19.6
(−3.3) −13.0
(8.6) −7.1
(19.2) −2.8
(27.0) 0.1
(32.2) 2.8
(37.0) 2.5
(36.5) −0.3
(31.5) −6.3
(20.7) −11.5
(11.3) −17.0
(1.4) −21.6
(−6.9)

Average precipitation mm (inches) 44.0
(1.73) 38.6
(1.52) 38.7
(1.52) 36.6
(1.44) 60.4
(2.38) 55.4
(2.18) 63.5
(2.50) 61.4
(2.42) 47.7
(1.88) 50.4
(1.98) 47.3
(1.86) 54.5
(2.15) 598.5
(23.56)

Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 15.2 13.5 13.5 12.3 13.5 12.3 13.9 12.8 11.6 14.2 15 16.4 164.2

Average snowy days (≥ 1.0 cm) 4.9 3.3 1 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 3.3 13.2

Mean monthly sunshine hours 52 79 136 192 219 227 235 225 165 104 51 40 1,725

Source 1: Deutscher Wetterdienst^[32]

Source 2:
NCEI (daily max and min, precipitation days and snow days)^[33], Infoclimat^[34]

Climate data for Frankfurt

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

Mean No. of days with Maximum temperature => 30.0 °C (86.0 °F) 0 0 0 0 0.5 3.3 6.5 5.4 0.7 0 0 0 16.4

Mean No. of days with Minimum temperature <= 0.0 °C (32.0 °F) 15.8 15 8.8 2.9 0.1 0 0 0 0 1.7 6.2 13.6 64.1

Mean No. of days with Maximum temperature <= 0.0 °C (32.0 °F) 4.6 2.2 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 3 10.3

Mean No. of days with snow depth => 1 cm (0.39 in) 4.9 3.3 1.1 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 3.3 13.3

Mean number of days with thunder 0.2 0.4 0.7 2.1 4.5 5.3 6.2 5.5 1.6 0.6 0.3 0.1 27.5

Mean number of days with hail 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0 0 0 0 0.8

Mean number of days with fog 3 2.5 1.1 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.5 1.1 4.4 4.2 3.9 32.2

Number of days with no sunshine 19.9 15.4 14.1 9.9 11 8.8 9.3 7.7 11.1 15 19.2 21.7 163.1

Mean daily daylight hours 9.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 15.0 16.0 16.0 14.0 13.0 11.0 9.0 8.0 12.3

Average Ultraviolet index 1 1 3 4 6 7 7 6 5 3 1 1 3.5

Source 1:
NOAA^[33]

Source 2: Weather Atlas^[35]

Demographics

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±%
1387 9,600 —
1520 10,000 +4.2%
1750 32,000 +220.0%
1871 91,040 +184.5%
1895 229,279 +151.8%
1905 334,978 +46.1%
1925 467,520 +39.6%
1933 555,857 +18.9%
1939 553,464 −0.4%
1945 357,737 −35.4%
1950 532,037 +48.7%
1961 685,682 +28.9%
1970 669,635 −2.3%
1980 629,375 −6.0%
1985 595,348 −5.4%
1990 644,865 +8.3%
1995 650,055 +0.8%
2000 646,550 −0.5%
2005 651,899 +0.8%
2010 679,664 +4.3%
2015 732,688 +7.8%
2018 753,056 +2.8%
2020 764,104 +1.5%
Population size may be affected by changes in administrative divisions.

Largest groups of foreign residents^[36]
Nationality Population (30 June 2022)

Turkey 25,294

Croatia 16,751

Italy 15,120

Poland 12,174

Romania 10,451

Ukraine 9,748

Serbia 9,404

Bulgaria 8,509

India 7,612

Morocco 7,364

Spain 7,133

Greece 6,581

Bosnia and Herzegovina 6,342

Afghanistan 5,114

France 4,719

China 4,632

Algeria 4,087

Portugal 3,991

Japan 3,653

Eritrea 3,374

With a population of 763,380 (2019) within its administrative boundaries

Großstadt (a city with at least 100,000 residents by definition) since 1875. With 414,576 residents in 1910, it was the ninth largest city in Germany and the number of inhabitants grew to 553,464 before World War II. After the war, at the end of the year 1945, the number had dropped to 358,000. In the following years, the population grew again and reached an all-time-high of 691,257 in 1963. It dropped again to 592,411 in 1986 but has increased since then. According to the demographic forecasts for central Frankfurt, the city will have a population up to 813,000 within its administrative boundaries in 2035^[39]

and more than 2.5 million inhabitants in its urban area.

As of 2015, Frankfurt had 1909

14th-richest city by total wealth, as of 2017.^[41]

During the 1970s, the state government of Hesse wanted to expand the city's administrative boundaries to include the entire urban area. This would have made Frankfurt officially the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin with up to 3 million inhabitants.^[42] However, because local authorities did not agree, the administrative territory is still much smaller than its actual urban area.

Moroccan community

Frankfurt has the largest Moroccan community in Germany, numbering about 8,000 people, and the Rhine-Main area has about 20,000. Many Moroccans came as guest workers in the 1970s. Today Frankfurt has many Moroccan restaurants, companies, shops, mosques and hamams. Due to the popularity of Moroccan culture in Frankfurt, it also led many people from the Maghreb and other African countries to move to Frankfurt. Famous singer Namika was born in Frankfurt to Moroccan parents.

Population of the 46 city districts on 31 December 2009
No.	City district (Stadtteil)	Area in km²^[43]	Population^[44]	Foreign nationals^[44]	Foreign nationals in %^[44]	Area district (Ortsbezirk)
01	Altstadt	0.51	3.475	1.122	32.3	01 – Innenstadt I
02	Innenstadt	1.52	6.577	2.529	38.5	01 – Innenstadt I
03	Bahnhofsviertel	0.53	2.125	810	38.1	01 – Innenstadt I
04	Westend-Süd	2.47	17.288	3.445	19.9	02 – Innenstadt II
05	Westend-Nord	1.67	8.854	2.184	24.7	02 – Innenstadt II
06	Nordend-West	3.07	28.808	5.162	17.9	03 – Innenstadt III
07	Nordend-Ost	1.69	26.619	5.580	21.0	03 – Innenstadt III
08	Ostend	5.40	26.955	7.213	26.8	04 – Bornheim/Ostend
09	Bornheim	2.66	27.184	6.240	23.0	04 – Bornheim/Ostend
10	Gutleutviertel	2.20	5.843	1.953	33.4	01 – Innenstadt I
11	Gallus	4.22	26.716	11.012	41.2	01 – Innenstadt I
12	Bockenheim	8.04	34.740	9.034	26.0	02 – Innenstadt II
13	Sachsenhausen-Nord	4.24	30.374	6.507	21.4	05 – Süd
14	Sachsenhausen-Süd	34.91	26.114	4.847	18.6	05 – Süd
15	Flughafen	20.00	211	14	6.6	05 – Süd
16	Oberrad	2.74	12.828	3.113	24.3	05 – Süd
17	Niederrad	2.93	22.954	6.569	28.6	05 – Süd
18	Schwanheim	17.73	20.162	3.532	17.5	06 – West
19	Griesheim	4.90	22.648	8.029	35.5	06 – West
20	Rödelheim	5.15	17.841	4.863	27.3	07 – Mitte-West
21	Hausen	1.26	7.178	2.135	29.7	07 – Mitte-West
22/23	Praunheim	4.55	15.761	3.197	20.3	07 – Mitte-West
24	Heddernheim	2.49	16.443	3.194	19.4	08 – Nord-West
25	Niederursel	7.22	16.394	3.671	22.4	08 – Nord-West
26	Ginnheim	2.73	16.444	4.024	24.5	09 – Mitte-Nord
27	Dornbusch	2.38	18.511	3.482	18.8	09 – Mitte-Nord
28	Eschersheim	3.34	14.808	2.657	17.9	09 – Mitte-Nord
29	Eckenheim	2.23	14.277	3.674	25.7	10 – Nord-Ost
30	Preungesheim	3.74	13.568	3.442	25.4	10 – Nord-Ost
31	Bonames	1.24	6.362	1.288	20.2	10 – Nord-Ost
32	Berkersheim	3.18	3.400	592	17.4	10 – Nord-Ost
33	Riederwald	1.04	4.911	1.142	23.3	11 – Ost
34	Seckbach	8.04	10.194	1.969	19.3	11 – Ost
35	Fechenheim	7.18	16.061	5.635	35.1	11 – Ost
36	Höchst	4.73	13.888	5.279	38.0	06 – West
37	Nied	3.82	17.829	5.224	29.3	06 – West
38	Sindlingen	3.98	9.032	2.076	23.0	06 – West
39	Zeilsheim	5.47	11.984	2.555	21.3	06 – West
40	Unterliederbach	5.85	14.350	3.511	24.5	06 – West
41	Sossenheim	5.97	15.853	4.235	26.7	06 – West
42	Nieder-Erlenbach	8.34	4.629	496	10.7	13 – Nieder-Erlenbach
43	Kalbach-Riedberg	6.90	8.482	1.279	15.1	12 – Kalbach-Riedberg
44	Harheim	5.02	4.294	446	10.4	14 – Harheim
45	Nieder-Eschbach	6.35	11.499	1.978	17.2	15 – Nieder-Eschbach
46	Bergen-Enkheim	12.54	17.954	2.764	15.4	16 – Bergen-Enkheim
47	Frankfurter Berg	2.16	7.149	1.715	24.0	10 – Nord-Ost
	Frankfurt am Main	248.33	679.571	165.418	24.3

Immigration and foreign nationals

According to data from the city register of residents, 51.2% of the population had a migration background as of 2015, which means that a person or at least one or both of their parents was born with foreign citizenship. For the first time, a majority of the city residents had an at least part non-German background.^[45] Moreover, three of four children in the city under the age of six had full or partial immigrant backgrounds,^[46] and 27.7% of residents had a foreign citizenship.^[47]

According to statistics, 46.7% of immigrants in Frankfurt come from other countries in the EU; 24.5% come from European countries that are not part of the EU; 15.7% come from Asia (including Western Asia and South Asia); 7.3% come from Africa; 3.4% come from North America (including the Caribbean and Central America); 0.2% come from Australia and New Zealand; 2.3% come from South America; and 1.1% come from Pacific island nations. Because of this the city is often considered to be a multicultural city, and has been compared to New York City, London, and Toronto.^{[citation needed]}

Religion

Frankfurt was historically a

Catholics moved to Frankfurt. As of 2013, the largest Christian denominations were Catholicism (22.7% of the population) and Protestantism, especially Lutheranism (19.4%).^[48]

The Jewish community has a history dating back to medieval times and has always ranked among the largest in Germany. Over 7,200 inhabitants are affiliated with the Jewish community, making it the second largest in Germany after Berlin.^[21] Frankfurt has four active synagogues.^[49]

Due to the growing immigration of people from Muslim countries beginning in the 1960s, Frankfurt has a large Muslim community, estimated at 12% in 2006.^[50] According to calculations based on census data for 21 countries of origin, the number of Muslim migrants in Frankfurt amounted to about 84,000 in 2011, making up 12.6% of the population.^[51] The most prevalent countries of origin were Turkey and Morocco.

Government and politics

Mayor

The current Mayor is Mike Josef of the Social Democratic Party, who took the office on 11 May 2023.

The most recent mayoral election was held on 5 March 2023, with a runoff held on 26 March, and the results were as follows:


Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Uwe Becker	Christian Democratic Union	70,411	34.5	86,307	48.3
	Mike Josef	Social Democratic Party	49,033	24.0	92,371	51.7
	Manuela Rottmann	Alliance 90/The Greens	43,502	21.3
	Peter Wirth	Independent	10,397	5.1
	Daniela Mehler-Würzbach	The Left	7,356	3.6
	Maja Wolff	Independent	6,014	2.9
	Yanki Pürsün	Free Democratic Party	5,768	2.8
	Andreas Lobenstein	Alternative for Germany	4,628	2.3
	Mathias Pfeiffer	Citizens for Frankfurt	1,565	0.8
	Katharina Tanczos	Die PARTEI	1,176	0.6
	Khurrem Akhtar	Team Todenhöfer	858	0.4
	Frank Großenbach	dieBasis	744	0.4
	Tilo Schwichtenberg	Garden Party Frankfurt am Main	661	0.3
	Sven Junghans	Independent	574	0.3
	Yamòs Camara	Free Party Frankfurt	487	0.2
	Niklas Pauli	Independent	340	0.2
	Peter Pawelski	Independent	325	0.2
	Feng Xu	Independent	199	0.1
	Karl-Maria Schulte	Independent	158	0.1
	Markus Eulig	Independent	102	0.0
Valid votes			204,298	99.6	178,678	99.0
Invalid votes			921	0.4	1,754	1.0
Total			205,219	100.0	180,432	100.0
Electorate/voter turnout			508,510	40.4	510,336	35.4
Source: City of Frankfurt am Main

City council

The Frankfurt am Main city council (Stadtverordnetenversammlung) governs the city alongside the mayor. It is located in the city's medieval town hall, Römer, which is also used for representative and official purposes. The most recent city council election was held on 14 March 2021, and the results were as follows:


Party		Lead candidate	Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
	Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)	Martina Feldmayer	4,894,339	24.6	9.3	23	9
	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)	Nils Kößler	4,361,942	21.9	2.2	20	2
	Social Democratic Party (SPD)	Mike Josef	3,385,017	17.0	6.8	16	6
	The Left (Die Linke)	Dominike Pauli	1,572,333	7.9	0.1	7	1
	Free Democratic Party (FDP)	Annette Rinn	1,515,646	7.6	0.1	7	±0
	Alternative for Germany (AfD)	Patrick Schenk	902,412	4.5	4.4	4	4
	Volt Germany (Volt)	Eileen O'Sullivan	745,418	3.7	New	4	New
	Citizens for Frankfurt (BFF)	Mathias Mund	395,905	2.0	0.7	2	1
	Ecological Left – Anti-Racist List (ÖkoLinX-ARL)	Jutta Ditfurth	359,304	1.8	0.3	2	±0
	Die PARTEI (PARTEI)	Nico Wehnemann	361,932	1.8	0.4	2	1
	Europe List for Frankfurt (ELF)	Luigi Brillante	265,914	1.3	0.1	1	±0
	Free Voters (FW)	Eric Pärisch	162,122	0.8	0.2	1	±0
	I am a Frankfurter (IBF)	Jumas Medoff	166,573	0.8	0.4	1	1
	Alliance for Innovation and Justice (BIG)	Haluk Yıldız	128,846	0.6	New	1	New
	Garden Party Frankfurt am Main (Gartenpartei)	Tilo Schwichtenberg	126,991	0.6	New	1	New
	Pirate Party Germany (Piraten)	Herbert Förster	123,772	0.6	0.2	1	±0

	Polish Dialogue Initiative for Frankfurt	Barbara Lange	88,771	0.4	New	0	New
	The Frankfurters (dFfm)	Bernhard Ochs	73,026	0.4	0.4	0	1
	International Vote Frankfurt (ISF)	Kerry Reddington	61,772	0.3	New	0	New
	Climate List Frankfurt (Klimaliste)	Beate Balzert	61,526	0.3	New	0	New
	Free Party Frankfurt (FPF)	Benjamin Klinger	40,621	0.2	New	0	New
	United Democrats (VD)	André Leitzbach	30,691	0.2	New	0	New
	The Social Liberals (SL)	Christian Bethke	18,563	0.1	New	0	New
	Frankfurt Free Voter Group (FFWG)	Thomas Schmitt	16,587	0.1	New	0	New
	Romanians for Frankfurt (RF)	Ionut-Vlad Plenz	15,884	0.1	New	0	New
	Party of Humanists (Die Humanisten)	Rüdiger Gottschalk	11,680	0.1	New	0	New
	Bulgarian Association of Frankfurt (BGF)	Daniela Spasova-Mischke	11,488	0.1	New	0	New
	Sven Junghans, We Frankfurters (WF)	Sven Junghans	9,627	0.0	New	0	New
Valid votes			221,487	96.0
Invalid votes			9,196	4.0
Total			230,683	100.0		93	±0
Electorate/voter turnout			512,034	45.1	6.1
Source: Statistics Hesse

Landtag election

For elections to the Hesse State Parliament, Frankfurt am Main is split up into six constituencies. In total 15 delegates represent the city in the Landtag in Wiesbaden. The last election took place in October 2018. Six members of parliament were directly elected in their respective constituencies: Uwe Serke (CDU, Frankfurt am Main I), Miriam Dahlke (Greens, Frankfurt am Main II), Ralf-Norbert Bartel (CDU, Frankfurt am Main III), Michael Boddenberg (CDU, Frankfurt am Main IV), Markus Bocklet (Greens, Frankfurt am Main V) and Boris Rhein (CDU, Frankfurt am Main VI).

Delegates from Frankfurt often serve high-ranking positions in Hessian politics, e.g. Michael Boddenberg is Hessian Minister of Finance and Boris Rhein was elected President of the Landtag of Hesse in 2019.

German federal election

For federal elections which are held every four years, Frankfurt is split up into two constituencies. In the German federal election 2017, Matthias Zimmer (CDU) and Bettina Wiesmann were elected to the Bundestag by directe mandate in Frankfurt am Main I and Frankfurt am Main II respectively. Nicola Beer (FDP), Achim Kessler (Linke), Ulli Nissen (SPD) and Omid Nouripour (Greens) were elected as well.

Nicola Beer resigned as a member of parliament in 2019 following her election to the European Parliament where she now serves as vice president.

Economy and business

Deutsche Börse trading floor in Frankfurt

Frankfurt is one of the world's most important financial hubs and Germany's financial capital, followed by

Worldwide Centres of Commerce Index (2008), ninth at the Global Financial Centres Index (September 2013),^[52] tenth at the Global Power City Index (2011), 11th at the Global City Competitiveness Index (2012), 12th at the Innovation Cities Index (2011),^[53] 14th at the World City Survey (2011) and 23rd at the Global Cities Index (2012).^[54]

The city's importance as a financial hub has risen since the

European System of Financial Supervisors (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and European Systemic Risk Board) in 2011, and the entry into force in 2014 of European Banking Supervision

, by which the European Central Bank has become the central supervisory authority for the euro area banking sector.

According to an annual study by Cushman & Wakefield, the European Cities Monitor (2010), Frankfurt has been one of the top three cities for international companies in Europe, after London and Paris, since the survey started in 1990.^[55] It is the only German city considered to be an alpha world city (category 3) as listed by the Loughborough University group's 2010 inventory,^[56] which was a promotion from the group's 2008 inventory when it was ranked as an alpha minus world city (category 4).^[57]

With over 922 jobs per 1,000 inhabitants, Frankfurt has the highest concentration of jobs in Germany. On work days and Saturdays, one million people commute from all over the

Rhein-Main-Area. The GRP per capita was €96,670 in 2019.^[58]

The city is expected to benefit from international banks relocating jobs from London to Frankfurt as a result of Brexit to retain access to the EU market.[59]^[60] Thus far, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Inc., Standard Chartered Plc and Nomura Holdings Inc. announced they would move their EU headquarters to Frankfurt.^[60]

Central banks

Frankfurt is home to two important central banks: the German Bundesbank and the European Central Bank (ECB).^[61]

European Central Bank

The European Central Bank (Europäische Zentralbank) is one of the world's most important central banks. The ECB sets monetary policy for the Eurozone, consisting of 19

Eurotower at Willy-Brandt-Platz and in two other nearby high-rises. The new Seat of the European Central Bank in the Ostend district, consisting of the former wholesale market hall (Großmarkthalle

) and a newly built 185-meter skyscraper, was completed in late 2014. The new building complex was designed to accommodate up to 2,300 ECB personnel. The location is a few kilometers away from downtown and borders an industrial area as well as the Osthafen (East Harbor), It was primarily chosen because of its large premises which allows the ECB to install security arrangements without high fences.

The city honors the importance of the ECB by officially using the slogan "The City of the Euro" since 1998.

Deutsche Bundesbank

The Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank), located in Ginnheim, was established in 1957 as the central bank for the Federal Republic of Germany. Until the euro (€) was introduced in 1999, the Deutsche Bundesbank was responsible for the monetary policy of Germany and for the German currency, the Deutsche Mark (DM). The Bundesbank was greatly respected for its control of inflation through the second half of the 20th century. Today the Bundesbank is an integral part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) which is formed by all 27 EU member states.

Commercial banks

Westend Tower

, also known as Westendstraße 1 or Crown Tower, headquarters of DZ Bank

Opernturm, headquarters of UBS Germany, at the Opernplatz

In 2010, 63 national and 152 international banks had a registered office, including the headquarters of the major German banks, as well as 41 offices of international banks.

portmanteau of the local Main river and Manhattan

in New York City) or "Bankfurt". 73,200 people were employed at banks in 2010.

Deutsche Bank — Germany's largest commercial bank. It had 15% share of private customers and total assets of €1,900 billion in 2010. Deutsche Bank ranks among the 30 largest banks in the world and the ten largest banks in Europe.^[62] Deutsche Bank is listed on the DAX, the stock market index of the 30 largest German business companies at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. In November 2010 Deutsche Bank bought the majority of shares of competitor Postbank. Its headquarters are located at Taunusanlage in the financial district.
Westend Tower and the City-Haus at Platz der Republik. The DZ Bank Group includes Union Investment, DVB Bank and Reisebank
, which are also headquartered in Frankfurt.

KfW Bankengruppe — Government-owned development bank formed in 1948 as part of the Marshall Plan. KfW provides loans for approved purposes at lower rates than commercial banks, especially to medium-sized businesses. With total assets of €507 billion (2017), it is Germany's third-largest bank. The KfW headquarters are located in the Westend district at Bockenheimer Landstraße and Senckenberganlage.

Commerzbank — Germany's fourth-largest bank by total assets (2017). In 2009, Commerzbank merged with competitor Dresdner Bank, then the third-largest German bank. Due to the merger and the higher credit risks, Commerzbank was 25% nationalized during the Great Recession. It is listed in the DAX. Its headquarters are at Commerzbank Tower (259 meters), the second-tallest building in the EU, at Kaiserplatz.

Sparkassen. Helaba is one of nine Landesbanken and is the fifth-largest in Germany. It is located in the 200-meter-tall Main Tower
in the financial district, the only skyscraper in Frankfurt with an observation desk open to the public.

DekaBank – DekaBank is the central asset manager of the Sparkassen in Germany. The headquarters of DekaBank are located at the Trianon skyscraper at Mainzer Landstraße.

ING Diba Germany – Germany's largest direct bank, headquartered in Bockenheim

Other major German banks include
Delbrück Bethmann Maffei
.
Many international banks have a registered or a representative office, e.g.,
SEB, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays
.

Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Main article: Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Bull and bear in front of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse) began in the ninth century. By the 16th century Frankfurt had developed into an important European hub for trade fairs and financial services. Today the Frankfurt Stock Exchange is by far the largest in Germany, with a turnover of more than 90 percent of the German
Eurex and clearing company Clearstream. Trading takes place exclusively via the Xetra trading system
, with redundant floor brokers taking on the role of market-makers on the new platform.
On 1 February 2012 European Commission blocked the proposed merger of Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext. "The merger between Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext would have led to a near-monopoly in European financial derivatives worldwide. These markets are at the heart of the financial system and it is crucial for the whole European economy that they remain competitive. We tried to find a solution, but the remedies offered fell far short of resolving the concerns."^[63] European competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia said.
It is located downtown at the Börsenplatz. Deutsche Börse's headquarters are formally registered in Frankfurt, but it moved most of its employees to a high-rise called "The Cube" in Eschborn in 2010, primarily due to significantly lower local corporate taxes.

Frankfurt Trade Fair

Main article:
Frankfurt Trade Fair

Messeturm seen from the trade fair premises

Frankfurt Trade Fair (Messe Frankfurt) has the third-largest exhibition site in the world with a total of 578,000 m² (6,220,000 sq ft) . The trade fair premises are located in the western part between Bockenheim, the Westend and the Gallus district. It houses ten exhibition halls with a total of 321,754 m² (3,463,330 sq ft) of space and 96,078 m² (1,034,170 sq ft) of outdoor space.
Hosted in Frankfurt are the
Frankfurt Motor Show (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung – IAA), the world's largest auto show, the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse), the world's largest book fair, the Ambiente Frankfurt, the world's largest consumer goods
fair, the Achema, the world's largest plant engineering fair, and many more like Paperworld, Christmasworld, Beautyworld, Tendence Lifestyle or Light+Building.
Messe Frankfurt GmbH, the owner and operator company, organized 87 exhibitions in 2010, 51 thereof in foreign countries.^[citation needed] It is one of the largest trade fair companies with commercial activities in over 150 countries.

Aviation

Two Lufthansa Airbus A380s at Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world and is also the single largest place of work in Germany with over 500 companies which employ 71,500 people (2010).^[64]
Fraport is the owner and operator of Frankfurt Airport. It is the airport's second-largest employer (19,800 workers in 2010).^[65] Fraport also operates other airports worldwide, e.g., King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima and Antalya Airport.
The largest company at Frankfurt Airport is Lufthansa, Germany's
Lufthansa Flight Training
is also based here.
Condor
is a German airline based at Frankfurt Airport.

Other industries

Accountancy and professional services

Three of the four largest international
Big Four
) are present.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu are present, while Ernst & Young is located in Eschborn
.

Credit rating agencies

The three major international
Fitch Ratings
– have their German headquarters in Frankfurt.

Investment trust companies

DWS Investments is one of the largest
Allianz SE, and a top-five global active investment manager), Union Investment
and Deka Investmentfonds.

Management consultancies

Many of the largest international
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
.

Real estate services companies

Located in Frankfurt are the German headquarters of
Jones Lang LaSalle and BNP Paribas Real Estate
.

Law firms

Frankfurt has the highest concentration of lawyers in Germany, with one lawyer per 97 inhabitants (followed by Düsseldorf with a ratio of 1/117 and Munich with 1/124) in 2005.^[70]
Most of the large international
Norton Rose, Shearman & Sterling, Sidley Austin, SJ Berwin, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Sullivan & Cromwell, K&L Gates, Taylor Wessing and White & Case
.

Advertising agencies

Although it is best known for its banks and financial institutions, Frankfurt is also a media hub. Around 570 companies of the advertising industry and 270 public relations companies are there.
According to a ranking of German
McCann-Erickson, Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, and Publicis.^[71]

Food

Frankfurt is home to the German headquarters of
Niederrad. Other important food companies are Ferrero SpA
(German headquarters) and Radeberger Gruppe KG, the largest private brewery group in Germany.

Automotive

The South-Korean
Kia Motors moved its European headquarters to Frankfurt in 2007. In the same year, Italian manufacturer Fiat opened its new German headquarters. The automotive supplier Continental AG
has the headquarters and a major manufacturing plant of its Chassis & Safety division (formerly ITT Automotive) located in Frankfurt Rödelheim.

Construction

Some of the largest German construction companies have offices, e.g.,
Bilfinger Berger, Hochtief
, Züblin and BAM Deutschland.

Property and real estate

Frankfurt has Germany's highest concentration of homeowners. This is partly attributed to the financial sector, but also to its cosmopolitan nature, with expatriates and immigrants representing one-fourth of its population. For this reason, Frankfurt's property market often operates differently than the rest of the country where the prices are generally flatter.

Tourism

Frankfurt is one of Germany's leading tourist destinations. In addition to its infrastructure and economy, its diversity supports a vibrant cultural scene. This blend of attractions led 4.3 million tourists (2012) to visit Frankfurt.[72] The Hotels in central Frankfurt offer 34,000 beds in 228 hotels, of which 13 are luxury hotels and 46 are first-class hotels.^[73]

Other

Nintendo of Europe
in the Lyoner Quartier

Industriepark Höchst

Mainova heating plant

Frankfurt is home to companies from the chemical, transportation, telecommunication and energy industries. Some of the larger companies are:

Industriepark Höchst — An
Ticona now part of Celanese, an international manufacturer of engineering polymers
, moved to Industriepark Höchst.

Deutsche Bahn – Deutsche Bahn subsidiaries
DB Stadtverkehr, DB Netz, DB Schenker
and the corporate development department of Deutsche Bahn are Frankfurt-based.

Deutsche Telekom – Deutsche Telekom's subsidiary T-Systems is Frankfurt-based.

COLT
– telecommunications company with Frankfurt-based German headquarters

Nintendo of Europe moved its headquarters from Großostheim to Frankfurt.^[74]

CenturyLink — internet service provider
with German headquarters in Frankfurt

electronic communication, especially the Internet. It is home to DE-CIX, the world's largest internet exchange point
.

Mainova – The largest regional energy supplier in Germany with about one million customers in Hesse. It provides electricity, gas, heat and water. Its headquarters are Frankfurt-based.

In addition, several
fintech startups have their headquarters in Frankfurt.^[75]

Urban area (suburban) businesses

Within Frankfurt's urban area are several important companies.
The business hub of Eschborn is located right at Frankfurt's city limits in the west and attracts businesses with significantly lower
Randstad Holding and VR Leasing. Deutsche Börse
moved most of its employees to Eschborn in 2010.
Rüsselsheim is internationally known for its automobile manufacturer Opel, one of the biggest automobile manufacturers in Germany. With 20,000 employees in 2003, Opel was one of the five largest employers in Hesse
.
Offenbach am Main is home to the European headquarters of automobile manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company, to the German headquarters of automobile manufacturer Honda, to Honeywell Germany and to Deutscher Wetterdienst, the central scientific agency that monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany.
Two
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA and Fresenius Medical Care. Other major companies are Hewlett-Packard, Bridgestone
, Deutsche Leasing and Basler Versicherungen.
Kronberg im Taunus is home of the German headquarters of automobile manufacturer Jaguar Cars as well as the German headquarters of Accenture.
Lufthansa Systems, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is located in Kelsterbach.
LSG Sky Chefs, another subsidiary of Lufthansa, is located in Neu-Isenburg
.
The German headquarters of Thomas Cook Group are based in Oberursel.
Langen is home to Deutsche Flugsicherung, the German air traffic control.

International relations

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Frankfurt is twinned with:^[76]

Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom (1966)

Budapest, Hungary (1990)

Val d'Oise, France (1967); formerly twinned with Nieder-Eschbach, incorporated into Frankfurt in 1972)^[77]

Dubai, Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2005)

Eskişehir, Eskişehir Province, Turkey (2013)

Granada, Granada Department, Nicaragua (1991)

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (1988)

Kraków, Poland (1991)

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany (1990)

Lyon, France (1960)

Milan, Lombardy, Italy (1970)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (2015)

Prague, Czech Republic (1990)

Tel Aviv, Gush Dan, Israel (1980)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1989)

Friendly cities

Frankfurt has friendly relations with:^[76]

Cairo, Egypt (1979)

Kanagawa
, Japan (2011)

Cityscape

Landmarks

Römer

Römer, the city hall

city hall
(Rathaus). The houses were acquired by the city council in 1405 from a wealthy merchant family. The middle house became the city hall and was later connected with its neighbors. The Kaisersaal ("Emperor's Hall") is located on the upper floor and is where the newly crowned emperors held their banquets. The Römer was partially destroyed in World War II and later rebuilt. The surrounding square, the Römerberg, is named after the city hall.

New Frankfurt Old Town
was completed in 2018, including 15 reconstructed historical buildings.

The former
Dom-Römer Quarter from 2012 to 2018, including 15 reconstructions
of historical buildings that were destroyed during World War II.
Frankfurt Cathedral
Merovingian time. From 1356 onwards, kings of the Holy Roman Empire were elected in this church, and from 1562 to 1792, Roman-German
emperors were crowned there.
Since the 18th century, St. Bartholomew's has been called Dom, although it was never a bishop's seat. In 1867 it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in its present style. It was again partially destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in the 1950s. Its height is 95 meters. The cathedral tower has a viewing platform open to the public at a height of 66 meters, accessed through a narrow spiral staircase with 386 steps.

St. Paul's Church

St. Paul's Church
Protestant church, but was not completed until 1833. Its importance has its roots in the Frankfurt Parliament, which met in the church during the revolutionary years of 1848/49 in order to write a constitution for a united Germany. The attempt failed because the monarchs of Prussia
and Austria did not want to lose power. In 1849, Prussian troops ended the democratic experiment by force and the parliament dissolved; the building was once more used for religious services.
St. Paul's was partially destroyed in World War II, particularly its interior, which now has a modern appearance. It was quickly and symbolically rebuilt after the war; today it is used mainly for exhibitions and events.
Archäologischer Garten Frankfurt
The Archaeological Garden contains small parts of the oldest recovered buildings: an ancient Roman settlement and the Frankfurt Royal Palace (Kaiserpfalz Frankfurt) from the sixth century. The garden is located between the Römerberg and the cathedral. It was discovered after World War II when the area was heavily bombed and later partly rebuilt. The remains were preserved and are now open to the public. From 2013 until 2015 an event building, the Stadthaus ("City house"), has been built on top of the garden, but it remains open to the public free of charge.
Haus Wertheim
Wertheim House is the only timbered house in the Altstadt district that survived the heavy bombings of World War II undamaged. It is located on the Römerberg next to the Historical Museum.
Saalhof
The
Historical Museum
.
Eiserner Steg
The Eiserner Steg (Iron Bridge) is a pedestrian-only bridge across the Main that connects Römerberg and Sachsenhausen. It was built in 1868 and was the second bridge to cross the river. After World War II, when it was blown up by the Wehrmacht, it was quickly rebuilt in 1946. Today some 10,000 people cross the bridge on a daily basis.
Alte Oper

Alte Oper, now a concert hall, at Opernplatz

The
Lord Mayor
Rudi Arndt called for blowing it up in the 1960s, which earned him the nickname "Dynamite-Rudi". (Later on, Arndt said he never had meant his suggestion seriously.)
Public pressure led to its refurbishment and reopening in 1981. Today, it functions as a famous concert hall, while operas are performed at the "new" Frankfurt Opera. The inscription on the frieze of the Alte Oper says: "Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten" ("To the true, the beautiful, the good").
Eschenheimer Turm
The Eschenheim Tower (Eschenheimer Turm) was erected at the beginning of the 15th century and served as a city gate as part of late-medieval fortifications. It is the oldest and most unaltered building in the Innenstadt district.
St. Catherine's Church
St. Catherine's Church (Katharinenkirche) is the largest Protestant church, dedicated to Catherine of Alexandria, a martyred early Christian saint. It is located downtown at the entrance to the Zeil, the central pedestrian shopping street.
Hauptwache
Although today
of the same name, the name originates from a baroque
building on the square above the station. The Hauptwache building was constructed in 1730 and was used as a prison, therefore the name that translates as "main guard-house". Today the square surrounding the building is also called "Hauptwache" (formal: An der Hauptwache). It is situated downtown opposite to St. Catherine's Church and houses a famous café.

Frankfurt Central Station

Central Station
terminus station and was the largest train station in Europe by floor area until 1915 when Leipzig Central Station was opened. Its three main halls were constructed in a neorenaissance-style, while the later enlargement with two outer halls in 1924 was constructed in neoclassic
-style.
Frankfurter Hof
The Frankfurter Hof is a landmark downtown hotel at Kaiserplatz, built from 1872 to 1876. It is part of
Steigenberger Hotels
group and is considered the city's most prestigious.
St. Leonhard
St. Leonhard, on the Main close to the bridge Eiserner Steg, is a Catholic late Gothic hall church, derived from a Romanesque style basilica beginning in 1425. It is the only one of nine churches in the Old Town that survived World War II almost undamaged. The parish serves the English-speaking community. The church has been under restoration from 2011 until 2019.^[78]
Gründerzeit quarters
Around the city centre there are wide spread quarters full of Gründerzeit architecture. Buildings of that typ often sport richly-decorated façades in the form of Historicism such as Gothic Revival, Renaissance Revival, German Renaissance and Baroque Revival.

Sachsenhausen

Westend

Nordend

Bornheim

Timber framed
old towns
Around the city center of Frankfurt are several former independent villages, now part of the city, with
timber framed houses.^[80]

Höchst old town

Seckbach

Niederursel

Bergen-Enkheim

20th-century architecture

Frauenfriedenskirche and Holy Cross Church), both consecrated in 1929, are examples of early modernist church buildings during the time of the New Frankfurt.

Großmarkthalle, built 1926–1928 as a part of the New Frankfurt-project, the former wholesale market hall was repaired after the second world war and integrated into the new seat of the European Central Bank between 2010 and 2014.

Goethe House, rebuilt 1947. The birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from 1749 was destroyed in World War II and then rebuilt true to the original.

Junior-Haus, built 1951, an example of early post-World War II architecture located at Kaiserplatz.

Bayer-Haus, built 1952, another example of early post-World War II architecture.

Museum für angewandte Kunst, built 1985, designed by Richard Meier
.

US Army's V Corps and the Northern Area Command (NACOM) until 1995 when the US Army returned control of the IG Farben Building to the German government. It was purchased on behalf of the Goethe University Frankfurt by the state of Hesse
. In October 2001 it became part of the Westend Campus of Goethe University.

IG Farben Building, now the central lecture building of the Westend Campus of the Goethe University

21st-century architecture

The Squaire in 2017

Die Welle (The Wave), built 1998–2003, a complex of three wavelike-formed office buildings next to the Opernplatz.

Alte Stadtbibliothek, rebuilt 2003–2005, reconstruction of the old public library house originally built 1820–1825.

Palais Thurn und Taxis, rebuilt 2004–2009, reconstruction of a palace originally built 1731–1739.

MyZeil, built 2004–2009, shopping mall at the Zeil with an imposing vaulted glass-structure.

portmanteau of square and air), also known as Airrail Center Frankfurt, is a 660 m (2,165.35 ft) long and 45 m (147.64 ft) tall office building located at Frankfurt Airport. It was built from 2006 to 2011 on top of an existing railway station (Frankfurt Airport long distance Station
) and has a connecting bridge to Terminal 1 for pedestrians. Its total of 140,000 m² (1,506,947 sq ft) rentable floor space makes it Germany's largest office building.

Skyscrapers

See also: List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt

View of Frankfurt from the Taunus

Frankfurt is one of the few European cities with a significant number of skyscrapers, (buildings at least 150 m (492.13 ft) tall). It hosts 18 out of Germany's 19
Europaviertel) and at Mainzer Landstraße
between Opernplatz and Platz der Republik, which connects the two areas.
The 18 skyscrapers are:

Commerzbank Tower, 259.0 m (849.74 ft) – The EU's second-tallest building, the tallest building in Europe 1997–2003; Commerzbank headquarters.

Messeturm, 256.5 m (841.54 ft) – The EU's third-tallest building, the tallest building in Europe 1990–1997; main tenant is Goldman Sachs (Germany).

Westend Tower, 208.0 m (682.41 ft) – DZ Bank
headquarters

Standard & Poor's
(Germany) headquarters

PricewaterhouseCoopers
(Germany) headquarters

ONE , 191 m (626.64 ft)
Omniturm, 190.0 m (623.36 ft)

Trianon, 186.0 m (610.24 ft) – DekaBank headquarters

Seat of the European Central Bank, 185.0 m (606.96 ft) – European Central Bank headquarters

Grand Tower, 179.9 m (590.22 ft) – Residential tower

Opernturm, 170.0 m (557.74 ft) – UBS (Germany) headquarters

Taunusturm, 170.0 m (557.74 ft)

Silberturm, 166.3 m (545.60 ft) – Germany's tallest building 1978–1990, Main tenant is Deutsche Bahn.

Westend Gate, 159.3 m (522.64 ft) – Germany's tallest building 1976–1978, Main tenant is Marriott Frankfurt Hotel.

Deutsche Bank I, 155.0 m (508.53 ft) – Deutsche Bank headquarters

Deutsche Bank II, 155.0 m (508.53 ft)

Marienturm, 155.0 m (508.53 ft)

Skyper, 153.8 m (504.59 ft) – Main tenant is DekaBank.

Other high-rise buildings include:

Eurotower, 148.0 m (485.56 ft) – Former European Central Bank headquarters

Frankfurter Büro Center, 142.4 m (467.19 ft) – Main tenant is Clifford Chance (Germany).

City-Haus, 142.1 m (466.21 ft) – Main tenant is DZ Bank.

Gallileo, 136.0 m (446.19 ft) – Main tenant is Commerzbank.

Frankfurt skyline in June 2013, view from south-west

History of high-rise buildings

See also: List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt

Skyline at dusk, seen from Deutschherrnbrücke (2014)

For centuries,
grain silo, the 120 m-high (390 ft) Henninger Turm
, built from 1959 to 1961.
The first high-rise building boom came in the 1970s when
Eurotower (148.0 meters) and Garden Tower
(127.0 meters; then called Helaba-Hochhaus) were constructed in the financial district.
None of the buildings constructed during the 1980s surpassed Silberturm. The most famous buildings from this decade are the Deutsche Bank Twin Towers at Taunusanlage, both 155.0 meters tall.
The 1990s featured a second wave. Messeturm, built on the trade fair site, reached a height of 256.5 meters (842 ft) and became the tallest building in Europe by 1991. It was overtaken by the 259 m-high (850 ft) Commerzbank Tower in 1997. Other tall buildings from this decade are Westendstrasse 1 (208 meters (682 ft)), Main Tower (200 meters (660 ft)) and Trianon (186 meters (610 ft)).
In 21st-century Frankfurt, more high-rise buildings and skyscrapers (e.g., Skyper, Opernturm, Tower 185, Seat of the European Central Bank, Taunusturm) emerged, but none have surpassed Commerzbank Tower.

Other tall structures

Top of the Europaturm, a 337 m (1,106 ft) communications tower

Europaturm — The Europe Tower is a telecommunications tower, also known as the Frankfurt TV Tower, built from 1974 to 1979. With a height of 337.5 meters it is the tallest tower and the second tallest structure in Germany after the Fernsehturm Berlin. It was open to the public until 1999, with an entertainment establishment in the revolving top. It is normally referred to by locals as the "Ginnheimer Spargel" (Ginnheim Asparagus), but stands a few meters within Bockenheim district.

grain silo built from 1959 to 1961 and owned by Henninger Brewery. It was the highest structure until 1974. The Henninger Tower had two rotating restaurants at the height of 101 and 106 meters and an open-air observation deck at the height of 110 meters. The tower closed to the public in October 2002 and was demolished in 2013 to be replaced by a 140 m (459 ft) tall residential tower, which is externally inspired by the old Henninger Turm. The cornerstone for this project was laid in June 2014 and construction was completed in summer 2017. The new tower offers 207 luxury flats^[83] and houses the non-rotating restaurant "Franziska". From 1962 to 2008 a famous yearly cycling race
was named after the tower, the "Radrennen Rund um den Henninger Turm" (Cycling race around Henninger Tower). The now-renamed race is still a yearly event.

Goetheturm – The Goethe Tower was a 43 m-high (141 ft) tower on the northern edge of the Frankfurt City Forest in Sachsenhausen. It was the fifth tallest wood construction structure in Germany. It was built in 1931 and was a popular place for day-trippers until it burned down in 2017. A faithful reconstruction has been opened to the public on 12 October 2020, exactly three years after the original's destruction.^[84]

Shopping streets

Zeil, Frankfurt's central shopping street

NewYorker. In 2009 a new shopping mall named MyZeil opened there with nearly 100 stores and chains like Hollister. Three more shopping malls occupy the Zeil: UpperZeil (replacing the Zeilgalerie, which was demolished in 2016), Galeria Kaufhof and Karstadt, as well as large fashion retail clothing stores from Peek & Cloppenburg and C&A. During the month before Christmas, the extended pedestrian-only zone is host to Frankfurt Christmas Market
, one of the largest and oldest Christmas markets in Germany.

Cartier, Burberry, Vertu and Bulgari
. It is located between the financial district and downtown, running from Goetheplatz to Opernplatz.

Porsche Design) have moved here due to the lack of space in the neighboring Goethestraße
, displacing old, established restaurants, butchers and delicatessens.

Berger Straße – Frankfurt's longest shopping street. It starts in the city center, runs through
Bornheim and ends in Seckbach
. The street is less crowded than the Zeil and offers a greater variety of smaller shops, restaurants and cafés.

Leipziger Straße – Central shopping street in the Bockenheim district starting at Bockenheimer Warte going towards West. High density of shops for daily needs.

Braubachstraße – In the Altstadt district, close to the historic sites of the city, offers a large variety of art galleries, second-hand bookshops and antique shops.

Münchener Straße – In the
Bahnhofsviertel
district, located between the central station and Willy-Brandt-Platz, is the most multicultural shopping street with many shops selling imported products mainly from Turkey, the Middle East and Asia.

Kaiserstraße – One of the best-known streets and considered one of the most beautiful because of its amount of Gründerzeit-style buildings. It runs parallel to Münchener Straße from the central station to the financial district. Kaiserstraße is still a synonym for Frankfurt's Red-light district although sex-oriented businesses moved to neighboring streets such as Taunusstrasse [de] in the 1990s. Today Kaiserstraße houses many small shops, restaurants and cafés.

Kleinmarkthalle – (literally: Small Market Hall) is a market hall close to Konstablerwache square offering fresh food and flowers. In addition to regional delicacies like green sauce imported goods are offered. The Kleinmarkthalle is the largest public marketplace in Frankfurt.

Sidewalk cafés at Fressgass
Shopping mall MyZeil
Luxury shopping at Goethestraße

Green city

Frankfurt City Forest

With a large forest, many parks, the Main riverbanks and the two botanical gardens, Frankfurt is considered a "green city": More than 50 percent of the area within the city limits are protected green areas.^[85]

Frankfurter Grüngürtel – The Green Belt is a ring-shaped public green space around the city. With 8,000
Fechenheim). The Green Belt is a protected area
which means that housing is not allowed. The Green Belt was formally created in 1991 with its own constitution.

Mainuferpark – The Mainuferpark (Main Riverbanks Park) is the common term to describe the inner-city Main riverbanks. It is an auto-free zone with large green areas that is popular with strollers and tourists, especially in the summertime, when it can become crowded. The southern riverbank, which continues further to Offenbach am Main and Hanau, offers the best skyline views. The northern riverbank ends in the west at the former Westhafen (West Harbor, a residential housing area) and is growing to the east: A former industrial-used area between the new Seat of the European Central Bank and the Osthafen (East Harbor) has become a park named Hafenpark (Harbor Park), which offers outdoor courts for basketball, soccer and a skatepark.

Wallanlagen – The Wallanlagen (former ramparts) relate to the former ring-shaped city wall fortifications around the Altstadt and the Innenstadt district (abolished 1804–1812), now a series of parks. Building is not allowed, with a few exceptions, the most famous being the Alte Oper (built 1880) at the Opernplatz. The part between the northern Main riverbank and the Opernplatz, referred to officially as Taunusanlage and Gallusanlage, is locally known as "Central Park" (a reference to the famous park in Manhattan), because of the skyscrapers which stand on both sides.

Nizza Park – At the juncture of the northern Main riverbank and the Wallanlagen is a famous small park called Nizza. The name of the park recalls
Mediterranean flora
grow there and can survive outside during the winter.

Garten des Himmlischen Friedens – "Garden of Heavenly Peace", named after the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, is a Chinese-styled park in the Nordend district and part of the larger Bethmannpark. It contains Chinese buildings, with building materials imported from China and built by Chinese workers in the 1980s. Hosts traditional Chinese plants and herbs.

Other parks – The largest parks are the Niddapark (168 ha), the Ostpark (32 ha) and the Grüneburgpark (29 ha).

Culture

Museums

Main article: Museumsufer

The Städel

Senckenberg Natural History Museum

With more than 30 museums, Frankfurt has one of the largest variety of museums in Europe. Most museums are part of the Museumsufer, located on the front row of both sides of the Main riverbank or nearby, which was created on an initiative by cultural politician Hilmar Hoffmann.^[86]
Ten museums are located on the southern riverbank in Sachsenhausen between the Eiserner Steg and the Friedensbrücke. The street itself, Schaumainkai, is partially closed to traffic on Saturdays for Frankfurt's largest flea market.

Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum)

Deutsches Filmmuseum (German Film Museum)

Deutsches Romantik-Museum

Frankfurter Ikonenmuseum (Icon Museum Frankfurt)

Liebieghaus (Museum of sculptures)

Museum Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts)

Museum Giersch (Museum for Regional Art)

Museum für Kommunikation (Museum of Communications)

Museum der Weltkulturen (Museum of World Cultures)

Städel, one of the most famous art museums in Germany

Museum für elektronische Musik (Museum of Modern Electronic Music)

Bibelhaus Erlebnis Museum (Bible House Experience Museum)

Two museums are located on the northern riverbank:

Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt (Jewish Museum Frankfurt)

Historisches Museum Frankfurt
(Historical Museum Frankfurt)

Not directly located on the northern riverbank in the Altstadt district are:

Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art)

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Schirn Art Gallery Frankfurt)

Frankfurter Kunstverein (Art Association Frankfurt)

Museum Judengasse (Jews' Alley Museum)

Goethe-Haus (Goethe House)

Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt (Archaeological Museum Frankfurt)

Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst (Caricatura Museum of Comic Art)

Dommuseum Frankfurt (Frankfurt Cathedral Museum)

Another important museum is located in the Westend district:

Naturmuseum Senckenberg (Senckenberg Natural History Museum), the second-largest natural history museum in Germany

Other museums are the Dialogmuseum (Dialogue Museum) in the
Ginnheim
district. The Explora Museum+Wissenschaft+Technik (Explora Museum of Science and Engineering) in the Nordend district was closed in 2016. Most museums open around 10:00 am local time, and it is possible to comfortably visit four museums in one day, a fact many tourists take advantage of.

Performing arts

Music

Jam and Spoon, Magic Affair, Culture Beat, Snap!, Dance 2 Trance, Oliver Lieb and Hardfloor, and record labels such as Harthouse and Eye Q
, were based in the city in the early 1990s.

Venues

Festhalle Frankfurt

The English Theatre

Opera house of the year (of Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland) by German magazine Opernwelt in 1995, 1996 and 2003. It was also elected Best opera house in Germany in 2010 and 2011. Its orchestra was voted Orchestra of the year in 2009, 2010 and 2011.^[88]

Schauspiel Frankfurt – Theater at Willy-Brandt-Platz
in the financial district, next to the Frankfurt Opera.

hr-Sinfonieorchester
in German) – one of the top symphony orchestras in the world

Frankfurt Trade Fair
. It is mostly used for concerts, exhibitions or sport events and can accommodate up to 13,500.
Deutsche Bank Park – Frankfurt's largest sports stadium and the seventh largest in Germany. It is located in the Frankfurt City Forest near Niederrad. It is primarily used for soccer and concerts with a capacity up to 58,000. It opened in 1925 and underwent several major reconstructions. Locals still prefer to call the stadium by its traditional name, Waldstadion (Forest Stadium). Home to Eintracht Frankfurt.

Alte Oper – A major concert hall.

Jahrhunderthalle – Century Hall is a large concert and exhibition hall in
Unterliederbach district. Sometimes referred to as "Jahrhunderthalle Höchst", because it was built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the chemical company Hoechst AG
in 1963.

The English Theatre – Located on the ground floor of the Gallileo high-rise building, this is the largest English theater in continental Europe. It was established in 1979.

Tigerpalast – Tiger Palace is a
varieté near the Zeil. It was established in 1988 and houses the famous Tiger-Restaurant which was awarded a Michelin star
.

Künstlerhaus Mousonturm – House of Artists Mouson Tower has a smaller budget than traditional theaters and uses more unconventional performing methods. It is located in an old factory in the Ostend district.

Die Schmiere – The Grease is a cabaret and Frankfurt's oldest privately owned theater. It is located in the Karmeliterkloster in the Altstadt district. According to its own advertising, it is the worst theater in the world.

Die Komödie – The Comedy is a boulevard theater near downtown Frankfurt's Willy-Brandt-Platz.

Botanical gardens

Palmengarten

Frankfurt is home to two major botanical gardens:

Palmengarten – Located in the Westend district, it is Hesse's largest botanical garden, covering 22 ha (54 acres). It opened to the public in 1871. The botanical exhibits are organized according to their origin in free-air or in greenhouses that host tropical and subtropical plants, hence the name "Palm Garden".

Mediterranean, and North America and the systematic and ecological collection includes crop plants, endangered species, ornamental plants, roses, and the Neuer Senckenbergischer Arzneipflanzengarten (New Senckenberg Medicinal Plant Garden), which measures 1,200 m² (13,000 sq ft). The Botanical Garden, Palmengarten, Grüneburgpark
collectively form the largest inner-city green area.

Foreign culture

Letizia, Princess of Asturias
. It is located in the so-called Amerika-Haus.
Institut Français – A French public industrial and commercial organization (EPIC), started in 1907 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for promoting French, francophone as well as local cultures around the world. The French Institute works closely with the French cultural network abroad consisting of more than 150 branches and nearly 1,000 branches of the Alliance française around the world.

Istituto Italiano di Cultura – A worldwide non-profit organization created by the Italian government. It promotes Italian culture and is involved in the teaching of the Italian language; there are 83 Italian Cultural Institutes throughout major cities around the world.

Confucius Institute – A non-profit public educational organization affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, whose aim is to promote Chinese language and culture, support local Chinese teaching internationally, and facilitate cultural exchanges. There are over 480 Confucius Institutes worldwide.

Central and Eastern European Online Library – CEEOL is an online archive providing access to full-text articles from humanities and social science scholarly journals on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. Subject areas include anthropology, culture and society, economy, gender studies, history, Judaic studies, fine arts, literature, linguistics, political sciences and social sciences, philosophy and religion. CEEOL is operated by Questa.Soft GmbH.

Festivals

The Museumsuferfest in 2005

Museumsuferfest – Museums Riverbank Festival is one of Germany's biggest cultural festivals, attracting more than 3 million visitors over three days at the end of August along the Main riverbank downtown. The 20 museums there open far into the night. It offers live music, dance shows, booths for crafts, jewelry, clothes and food stands from around the world.

Dippemess – Frankfurt's oldest folk festival is the Festival of Stoneware, which takes place semi-annually around Easter and the end of September in the eastern area. "Dippe" is a regional Hessian dialect word meaning "pot" or "jar" which would not be understood in most other German regions. Mentioned for the first time in the 14th century as an annual marketplace it is now more of an amusement park. The name of the festival derives from its original purpose when it was a fair where traditionally crafted jars, pots and other stoneware were on offer.

"OVO" at Luminale 2012

Luminale — The "festival of light" has taken place biannually since 2000, parallel to the Light + building exhibition at the trade fair. Many buildings are specially lit for the event. In 2008, more than 220 light installations could be seen, attracting 100,000 visitors.

Wäldchestag – Day of the forest is known as a regional holiday because until the 1990s it was common that Frankfurt's shops were closed on this day. The festival takes place over four days after Pentecost with the formal Wäldchestag on Tuesday. Its unique location is in the Frankfurt City Forest, south-west of downtown in Niederrad. "Wäldches" is a regional dialect of the German word "Wäldchen", meaning "small forest".

Nacht der Museen – Night of the museums takes place every year in April or May. 50 museums in Frankfurt and in the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main are open until 2:00 am surrounded by special music events, dance performances, readings and guided tours. A free shuttle operates between the museums. In 2010, approximately 40,000 visitors attended.

Nacht der Clubs – Night of the clubs is an event similar to Nacht der Museen: On one night as many as 20 clubs can be visited with a single ticket for €12. Usually, club-door policies are loosened to attract new customers. A free shuttle runs between the clubs. 15,000 people participated in 2008.

Wolkenkratzer Festival — The Skyscraper Festival is unique in Germany. It takes place irregularly, lately in May 2013, and attracted around 1.2 million visitors. For two days most skyscrapers are open to the public. Sky-divers, base jumpers, fireworks and laser shows are extra attractions.

Nightlife

Frankfurt offers a variety of restaurants, bars, pubs and clubs. Clubs concentrate in and around downtownand in the Ostend district, mainly close to Hanauer Landstraße. Restaurants, bars and pubs concentrate in Sachsenhausen, Nordend, Bornheim and Bockenheim.
In
Fechenheim (2004–2012). Notable live music venues of the past include the Sinkkasten Arts Club (1971–2011) and the King Kamehameha Club
(1999–2013).
Among the most popular active rock and pop concert venues is the Batschkapp in Seckbach, which opened in 1976 as a center for autonomous and left-wing counterculture. Further popular active clubs and music venues include the Velvet Club, The Cave, Cooky's, Nachtleben, Silbergold, Zoom, Tanzhaus West and the Yachtclub.

Domestic culture

A Frankfurt kitchen in the version of 1926 in an Austrian museum

Frankfurt kitchen – Designed originally in 1926 for the New Frankfurt-project and built in some 10,000 units, the kitchen became a milestone in domestic architecture, considered the forerunner of modern fitted kitchens.

Frankfurt cupboard – The Baroque Frankfurt-style cupboards were used to store the family linen, one of them by Goethe's father, who took one cupboard to Rome. The most luxurious versions have wave-shaped parts, some are made of solid cherry wood inlaid with plumwood.

Culinary specialties

See also: Hessian cuisine

"Bembel" (jug) and "Geripptes" (glass)

Apfelwein – Apple wine or hard cider is regionally known as "Ebbelwoi", "Äppler" or "Stöffsche". It has an alcohol content of 5.5%–7% and a tart, sour taste. It is traditionally served in a glass, typically decorated with lozenges, called "Geripptes", a full glass is then called "Schoppen". Apfelwein is also available in a stoneware jar locally known as "Bembel". A group normally orders a "Bembel" and shares the contents. Apfelwein can be ordered as "sauergespritzer", which is apfelwein blended with 30% mineral water or as "süssgespritzer", which is Apfelwein blended with lemon soda, orange soda or fresh-pressed apple juice (lemon soda being the most common). Most of the pubs which serve Apfelwein are located in Sachsenhausen, which is therefore known as "Ebbelwoi district". Due to its national drink Frankfurt is sometimes called "Big Ebbel" (pronunciation with Hessian dialect), an homage to Big Apple, the famous nickname of New York City.

Grüne Soße – Green sauce is a sauce made with hard-boiled eggs, oil, vinegar, salt and a generous amount of seven fresh herbs, namely borage, sorrel, garden cress, chervil, chives, parsley and salad burnet. Variants, often due to seasonal availability include dill, lovage, lemon balm and spinach. Original green sauce Frankfurt-style is made of herbs that were gathered only on fields within the city limits.

Frankfurter Würstchen – "short Frankfurter" is a small sausage made of smoked pork. They are similar to hot dogs. The name Frankfurter Würstchen has been trademarked since 1860.

Frankfurter Rindswurst – Sausage made of pure beef.

Frankfurter Rippchen – Also known as Rippchen mit Kraut, this is a traditional dish which consists of cured pork cutlets, slowly heated in sauerkraut or meat broth, and usually served with sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and yellow mustard.

sour milk cheese (similar to Harzer) and a culinary specialty in the Rhine Main Region
. The traditional way of producing it is by hand. When it is topped with chopped onions it becomes "Handkäs mit Musik" (with music) because the onions are supposed to stimulate flatulence.

Frankfurter Kranz – Cake speciality believed to originate from Frankfurt.

Bethmännchen – "A little Bethmann" is a pastry made from marzipan with almond, powdered sugar, rosewater, flour, and egg. It is usually baked for Christmas.

Quality of life

In a 2001 ranking by the
GDP per capita, followed by Karlsruhe, Paris and Munich.^[89]

Frankfurt was voted the seventh in the
Mercer Quality of Living Survey by the Mercer Quality of Living Survey (2012),^[90] seventh in the Mercer Quality of Living Survey (2010) and 18th at the Economist's World's Most Liveable Cities Survey (2011).^[91] According to an annual citizen survey (2010), arranged by the city council, 66 percent inhabitants are satisfied or highly satisfied with the city, while only 6 percent said that they are dissatisfied. Compared to the 1993's survey the number of satisfied inhabitants has grown about 22 percent while the number of dissatisfied inhabitants was reduced by 8 percent. 84 percent of the inhabitants like to live in Frankfurt, 13 percent would rather choose to live somewhere else. 37 percent are satisfied with the public safety (1993: only 9 percent), 22 percent are dissatisfied (1993: 64 percent).^[92]

Frankfurt consistently has the highest levels of crime per 100,000 inhabitants in Germany (15.976 crimes per annum in 2008) and is therefore dubbed the German "crime capital".[93] However, this statistic is often criticized^{[citation needed]} because it ignores major factors: It is calculated based on the administrative 680,000-inhabitant figure while the urban area has 2.5 M inhabitants and on weekdays adds another million people^{[citation needed]} (not counting the 53 million passengers passing through the airport each year). The rate for personal safety-relevant crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape or bodily harm, is 3.4 percent, placing Frankfurt twelfth in the ranking (related to the official 680,000-inhabitant figure) or number 21 (related to the one-million-figure).^[94] In 2018, the state of Hesse, where Frankfurt is located, was ranked the third-safest state in Germany.^[95]

Transport

Airports

Frankfurt Airport

Main article: Frankfurt Airport

Frankfurt Airport (with the fourth runway under construction in 2010) and the Frankfurter Kreuz (lower right corner)

The city can be accessed from around the world via
London Heathrow Airport, Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
. Passenger traffic at Frankfurt Airport in 2018 was 69,510,269 passengers.
A third terminal is being constructed (planned to open in 2026). The third terminal will increase the capacity of the airport to over 90 million passengers per year.[96]
The airport can be reached by car or bus and has two railway stations, one for regional and one for long-distance traffic. The
ICE trains departing at the long-distance station
take 10 minutes to Frankfurt Central Station.

Frankfurt Hahn Airport

Despite the name,
Frankfurt Central Station, taking just over 2 hours.^[97]
Passenger traffic at Hahn Airport in 2010 was 3.5 million.

Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport

Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport (Flugplatz Frankfurt-Egelsbach) is a busy general aviation airport located south-east of Frankfurt Airport, near Egelsbach.

Roads

Frankfurter Kreuz

Frankfurt is a traffic hub for the German motorway (
Frankfurt Trade Fair. The A5 in the west, the A3 in the south and the A661 in the northeast form a ring road around the inner city districts and define a Low-emission zone
(Umweltzone; established in 2008), meaning that vehicles have to meet certain emission criteria to enter the zone.
The streets of central Frankfurt are usually congested with cars during rush hour. Some areas, especially around the shopping streets Zeil, Goethestraße and Freßgass, are pedestrian-only streets.

Railway stations

Frankfurt Central Station

Frankfurt Central Station

Central Station (underground)

(Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, often abbreviated as Frankfurt (Main) Hbf or F-Hbf) is the largest railway station in Germany by railway traffic. By daily passenger volume, it ranks second together with
ICE) and regional trains as well as for Frankfurt's public transport system. It is a stop for most of ICE high-speed lines, making it Germany's most important ICE station. ICE Trains to London via the Channel Tunnel were planned for 2013.^[98] All Rhine-Main S-Bahn lines, two U-Bahn lines (U4, U5), several tram and bus lines stop there. Regional and local trains are integrated in the Public transport system Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV), the second-largest integrated public transport systems in the world, after Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg
.

Frankfurt Airport stations

ICE 3 departing westward from Frankfurt Airport long-distance station underneath The Squaire

Frankfurt Airport can be accessed by two railway stations:
Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line. The long-distance station is located outside the actual airport ground but has a connecting bridge for pedestrians to Terminal 1, concourse B. Frankfurt Airport regional station (Frankfurt Flughafen Regionalbahnhof) is for local S-Bahn
trains (lines S8, S9) and regional trains. The regional station is located within Terminal 1, concourse B.

Frankfurt South station

Frankfurt's third long-distance station is
Frankfurt South station (Frankfurt Südbahnhof, often abbreviated as Frankfurt (Main) Süd or F-Süd), located in Sachsenhausen
. It is an important destination for local trains and trams (lines 15, 16 and 18) and the terminal stop for four U-Bahn lines (U1, U2, U3, U8) as well as two S-Bahn lines (S5, S6). Two other S-Bahn lines (S3, S4) also serve the station.

Messe stations

The
Frankfurt Trade Fair offers two railway stations: Messe station is for local S-Bahn
trains (lines S3-S6) and is centrally located amid trade fair premises, while Festhalle/Messe station is served by U-Bahn line U4 and is located at the north-east corner of the premises.

Konstablerwache station and Hauptwache station

Two other major downtown railway stations are Konstablerwache and Hauptwache, located on each end of the Zeil. They are the main stations to change from east-to-west-bound S-Bahn trains to north-to-south-bound U-Bahn trains. Konstablerwache station is the second-busiest railway station regarding daily passenger volume (191,000) after the central station. The third-busiest railway station is Hauptwache station (181,000).[99]^[100]

Frankfurt West Station

DBAG Class 423 approaching the elevated section of Frankfurt West station

This Station, located in Bockenheim, is served by north-heading Long-Distance ICE trains, multiple regional trains, and four commuter S-Bahn lines (S3, S4, S5, S6). Additionally, it is an important terminal stop for three "Metrobus" lines (M32, M36, M73).

Coach stations

There are three stations for intercity bus services in Frankfurt: one at the south side of the Central Station, one at the Terminal 2 of the airport and another one at Stephanstraße.^[101]

Public transport

Main article: Public transport in Frankfurt am Main

Public transport network

The city has two rapid transit systems: the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, as well as an above-ground tram system. Information about the U- and S-Bahn can be found on the website of the RMV.^[102]

S-Bahn

Main article: Rhine-Main S-Bahn

Nine
Kronberg, Friedberg
and smaller towns that are on the way. The S8/S9 runs 24/7.

U-Bahn

Underground line U7 running as a Stadtbahn amidst Ludwig-Landmann-Straße in Frankfurt-Rödelheim

Main article: Frankfurt U-Bahn

The
U-Bahn has nine lines (U1 to U9) serving Frankfurt and the larger suburbs of Bad Homburg and Oberursel in the north. The trains that run on the U-Bahn are in fact light rail (Stadtbahn
) as many lines travel along a track in the middle of the street instead of underground. The minimum service interval is 2.5 minutes, although the usual pattern is that each line runs at 7.5- to 10-minute intervals, which produce between 3- and 5-minute intervals on downtown tracks shared by more than one line.

Tram

Main article: Trams in Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt has ten tram lines (11, 12, 14 to 21), with trams arriving usually every 10 minutes. Many sections are served by two lines, combining to run at 5-minute intervals during rush-hour. Trams only run above ground and serve more stops than the U-Bahn or the S-Bahn.

Bus

Main article: Public transport in Frankfurt am Main § Bus

A number of bus lines complete the Frankfurt public transport system. Night buses replace U-Bahn and tram services between 1:30 am and 3:30 am.^[103] The central junction for the night bus service is at the downtown square of Konstablerwache, where all night bus lines start and end.

Taxis

Taxicabs
can usually be found outside the major S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations, at the central station, the south station, the airport, the trade fair and in the crowded inner-city shopping streets. The common way to obtain a taxi is to either call a taxi operator or to go to a taxi rank. However, although not the norm, one can hail a passing taxi on the street.
UberX and local cabs are available through the Uber app.^[105]

Bicycles

Velotaxi at the Zeil

Deutsche Bahn makes bicycles available for hire through their Call a Bike service. The bicycles are stationed all over the city, including at selected railway stations. They can easily be spotted because of their eye-catching silver-red color. To rent a specific bike, riders either call a service number to get an unlock code or reserve the bike via the smartphone application. To return the bike, the rider locks it within a designated return area (and calls the service number, if not booked via the app).^[106]
Nextbike also makes bicycles available for hire in Frankfurt. They are stationed all over the city. These can be spotted with their blue color scheme.
Cycle rickshaws (velotaxis), a type of tricycle designed to carry passengers in addition to the driver, are also available. These are allowed to operate in pedestrian-only areas and are therefore practical for sightseeing.
Frankfurt has a network of cycle routes. Many long-distance bike routes into the city have cycle tracks that are separate from motor vehicle traffic. A number of downtown roads are "bicycle streets" where the cyclist has the right of way and where motorized vehicles are only allowed access if they do not disrupt the cycle users. In addition, cyclists are allowed to ride many cramped one-way streets in both directions. As of 2015^[update], 15 percent of citizens used bicycles.^[107]

E-Scooters

Since 15 June 2019, the use of
Bird, voi., Dott or Bolt are offering their electric micro mobility vehicles for lease. However, their use is being regarded with increasing weariness due to frequent abuse (parking, speeding, vandalism, accidents) and has sparked a public debate about the need of further regulation of the e-scooter market.^[108]

Public institutions

Westhafen Tower, home to the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)

European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority

The
financial crisis of 2007–2008
. It was established on 1 January 2011.

Federal Financial Supervisory Authority

Frankfurt is one of two locations of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, short: BaFin). The BaFin is an independent federal institution and acts as Germany's financial regulatory authority.

International Finance Corporation

Frankfurt is home to the German office of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is part of the World Bank Group. The IFC promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries.

German National Library

Frankfurt is one of two sites of the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek), the other being Leipzig. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek is the largest universal library in Germany.^{[citation needed]} Its task, unique in Germany, is to collect, permanently archive, comprehensively document and record bibliographically all German and German-language publications from 1913 on, foreign publications about Germany, translations of German works and the works of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945, and to make them available to the public.^[109]

Consulates

Greek consulate

As a profoundly international city, Frankfurt hosts 92 diplomatic missions (consulates and
Eckenheim is the largest American consulate in the world.^[110]

Courts

Several courts are located in Frankfurt, including:

Hessisches Landesarbeitsgericht (Hessian State Employment Court)[111]

Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt (Higher Regional Court Frankfurt)^[112]

Landgericht Frankfurt (Regional Court Frankfurt)^[113]

Amtsgericht Frankfurt (Local Court Frankfurt)^[114]

Sozialgericht Frankfurt (Social Court Frankfurt)^[115]

Arbeitsgericht Frankfurt (Employment Court Frankfurt)^[116]

Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt (Administration Court Frankfurt)^[117]

Education and research

Universities and schools

Frankfurt hosts two universities and several specialist schools. The two business schools are Goethe University Frankfurt's Goethe Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University

The oldest and best-known university is the
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, with locations in Bockenheim, Westend, and Riedberg, and the university hospital in Niederrad. Goethe Business School is part of the university's House of Finance
at Campus Westend. The Business School's Full-Time MBA program has over 70% international students.

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

The
photovoltaic
modules (to name only a few).

Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

The city is also home to a business school, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, formerly known as the Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft (Institution of Higher Learning for Banking Economics), with its new campus near Deutsche Nationalbibliothek U-Bahn stop (recently moving from its previous location in the Ostend (Eastend) neighborhood). In 2001, it became a specialist institution for Economics and Management, or FOM. Frankfurt School is consistently ranked among the best business schools in the world, attributed to its high research output and quality of undergraduate and graduate training.^[118]

Städelschule

Frankfurt has the State Institution of Higher Learning for Artistic Education known as the Städelschule, founded in 1817 by Johann Friedrich Städel. It was taken over by the city in 1942 and turned into a state art school.

Music schools and conservatory

Music institutions are the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and the Hoch Conservatory (Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium) which was founded in 1878. The International Ensemble Modern Academy is a significant institution for the study of contemporary music.^[119]

Other notable schools

The Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology (German:Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen), a private institution with membership in the German Jesuit Association, has been located in Sachsenhausen since 1950.

Education and media

Frankfurt schools rank among the best-equipped schools nationwide for the availability of PCs and other media facilities.^[
Fraline – IT-Schul-Service, an initiative employing students to provide basic school IT-support.^{[citation needed}
]

Research institutes

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

The city is home to three
Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, and the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
.
The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, sponsored by several institutional and private sources, is involved in theoretical research in physics, chemistry, neuroscience, and computer science.
Frankfurt is host to the Römisch-Germanische-Kommission (RGK), the German Archaeological Institute branch for prehistoric archeology in Germany and Europe. The RGK is involved in a variety of research projects. Its library, with over 130,000 volumes, is one of the largest archeological libraries in the world.^{[citation needed]}
Goethe University and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences are involved in the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence ("hessian.AI").

Trade unions and associations

Main Forum, home to IG Metall

Frankfurt is home to multiple trade unions and associations, including:

Gutleutviertel
district

IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt, a union for construction and engineering workers,

Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft, a union for teachers

train drivers

Trade associations include:

Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik
(Electrotechnical, Electronic and Information Technology Association)

DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie (Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology Association)

Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, which organizes the Frankfurt Book Fair

Bundesverband des Deutschen Versandhandels (German Mail Order Industry Association)

Verband der Chemischen Industrie (Chemical Industry Association)

Verband der Photoindustrie (Photography Industry Association)

Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (German Machine and Equipment Building Association)

Verband der Köche Deutschlands (German Cooks Association)

Media

Newspapers

Editorial department building of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Two important daily newspapers are published. The conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, also known as FAZ, was founded in 1949 and is the German newspaper with the widest circulation outside of Germany, with its editors claiming to deliver the newspaper to 148 countries every day. The FAZ has a circulation of over 380,000 copies daily. The other important newspaper, the Frankfurter Rundschau, was first published in 1945 and has a daily circulation of over 181,000.

Magazines

Several magazines also originate from Frankfurt. The local Journal Frankfurt is the best-known magazine for events, parties, and "insider tips". Öko-Test is a consumer-oriented magazine that focuses on ecological topics. Titanic is a well-known and often criticized satirical magazine with a circulation of approximately 100,000.

Radio and TV

Frankfurt's first radio station was the Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (Southwest German Broadcast Service), founded in 1924. Its successor service is the public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcast Service). It is located at the "Funkhaus am Dornbusch" in the Dornbusch district and is one of the most important radio and television broadcasters in Hesse, with additional studios in Kassel, Darmstadt and Fulda.
RTL Television
have regional studios.
Other radio broadcasters include Main FM and Radio X.
From August 1945 to October 2004, the American Forces Network (AFN) had broadcast from Frankfurt (AFN Frankfurt). Due to troop reductions the AFN's location has been closed with AFN now broadcasting from Mannheim.

News agency

Frankfurt is home to the German office of Reuters, a global news agency. Associated Press and US-based international news agency Feature Story News have bureaux in Frankfurt.

Sports

The Waldstadion (As of 2023^[update] known as the Deutsche Bank Park), home of the football club Eintracht Frankfurt

Frankfurt is home to several professional sports teams. Some of them have won German Championships. E.g. the
Europa League
in 2022. Frankfurt hosts the following sports teams or clubs:

Skyliners Frankfurt, Basketball

Frankfurt Galaxy, American football

Frankfurt Universe, American football

Frankfurt Pirates, American football

Frankfurt Sarsfields GAA, Gaelic football

Frankfurt Lions (until 2010), Ice hockey

Löwen Frankfurt (since 2010), Ice hockey

SC 1880 Frankfurt, Rugby union

Eintracht Frankfurt, Football (women)

Eintracht Frankfurt, Football (men)

FSV Frankfurt, Football (men)

Rot-Weiss Frankfurt, Football

Frankfurter FC Germania 1894
, Football

Frankfurt is host to the
Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop (known as Rund um den Henninger-Turm from 1961 to 2008). The city hosts also the annual Frankfurt Marathon and the Ironman Germany. In addition to the former, it is one of 13 global host locations to the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge, Germany's biggest corporate sports event. Rhein-Main Eissport Club forms the base of the German bandy
community.

Sights in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main area

Wiesbaden Kurhaus with the Casino

Roman Empire army camp Saalburg

The real Frankenstein Castle

Waldspirale

Besides the tourist attractions in central Frankfurt many internationally famous sites are within 80 km (50 mi) of the city, such as:

North

Taunus mountain range

Roman Empire Army Camp Saalburg

Limes (former northern border of the Roman Empire)

Bad Homburg vor der Höhe with its famous casino

Bad Nauheim Elvis Presley memorial

Hessenpark

West

State Theater, Neroberg and Casino

Rüdesheim

Rheingau

Eberbach Monastery (the original movie set of the film The Name of the Rose
)

Rhine Valley

River Rhine

Rheinhessen wine region

East

Leather Museum Offenbach

Grimm Brothers
Summer Festival

German Fairy Tale Route

Spessart

South

Darmstadt with the Art Nouveau Mathildenhöhe

Waldspirale

The former private chapel of the last Tsar of Russia

Vortex Garden

Odenwald

Bergstrasse

Vineyards at Heppenheim

Frankenstein Castle

Heidelberg

See also

Germany portal
Europe portal
Geography portal

Frankfurt School

List of people from Frankfurt

Mayor of Frankfurt-am-Main

List of cities in Hesse by population

List of cities in Germany by population

Notes

^ an dem → am

^ after Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne

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Further reading

History

Kramer, Waldemar (Hrsg.): Frankfurt Chronik. Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1987 (3. Auflage),
ISBN 3-7829-0321-8
.

ISBN 3-7995-1203-9
(Katalog zur 1200-Jahrfeier 1994 mit wiss. Aufsätzen).

Mack, Ernst: Von der Steinzeit zur Stauferstadt. Die frühe Geschichte von Frankfurt am Main. Verlag Josef Knecht, Frankfurt am Main 1994,
ISBN 3-7820-0685-2
.

Architecture

Schohmann, Heinz: Frankfurt am Main und Umgebung. Von der Pfalzsiedlung zum Bankenzentrum. Dumont Kunstreiseführer. Dumont, Köln 2003,
ISBN 3-7701-6305-2
. (mit Schwerpunkt Architektur).

Bodenbach, Christoph (Hrsg.): Neue Architektur in Frankfurt am Main. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008,
ISBN 978-3-88506-583-8
.

Sturm, Philipp, Schmal, Peter Cachola: Hochhausstadt Frankfurt. Bauten und Visionen seit 1945. Prestel, München 2014,
ISBN 978-3-7913-5363-0
.

Others

Setzepfandt, Christian: Geheimnisvolles Frankfurt am Main. Wartberg, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2003,
ISBN 3-8313-1347-4
.

Mosebach, Martin: Mein Frankfurt. Mit Photographien von Barbara Klemm. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2002,
ISBN 3-458-34571-X
. (Insel-Taschenbuch. Bd 2871)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frankfurt am Main.

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Frankfurt.

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Frankfort-on-Main".

Official website. Archived 16 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German).

SKYLINE ATLAS – information portal about the Frankfurt skyline having more than 500 pages

Frankfurt prepares for Brexit bankers: 'Maybe our city will change them'

Architecture of Frankfurt

Frankfurt Zoo (in English)

Frankfurt before and after World War II Archived 14 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine

Frankfurt panoramas: 360°city panoramas; Panorama Frankfurt; frankfurt360.de; panorama-frankfurt.de

"Frankfort-on-the-Main" . The American Cyclopædia
. 1879.

"Frankfort-on-the-Main" . Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.

Tourismus+Congress GmbH Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt am Main at
Curlie

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There is literature about Frankfurt in the Hessian Bibliography

Geschichte der Juden in Frankfurt a. M. (1150–1824) (in German) by Isidor Kracauer, 2 volumes, free download

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