Frankfurt Am Main - tourist attractions
Messeturm | The Messeturm (English: Trade Fair Tower) is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is the second tallest building in Frankfurt and also the second tallest building in Germany. The Messeturm's ground floor area is just 1,681 m (18,090 sq ft). The Messeturm is directly located near the Fran... | ||
Mainhattan | Mainhattan is a business and financial district in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Its name comes from the city river which crosses the district, the river Main and is a clear allusion to Manhattan, a business center full of skyscrapers in New York. Nowadays Mainhattan is one of the most important fin... | ||
Opernturm | The Opernturm (English: Opera Tower) is a skyscraper in the Westend of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. he property is situated opposite Alte Oper on the corner of Bockenheimer Landstraße and Bockenheimer Anlage. The building was designed by Christoph Mäckler. The project developer was Tishman Speyer, a... | ||
Palmengarten | The Palmengarten is one of two botanical gardens in Frankfurt am Main and the largest garden of its kind in Germany. It is located in the Westend-Süd district. Like many public sites in Frankfurt, it was privately financed and implemented by the architect Heinrich Siesmayer. Work was completed in 1... | ||
Europaturm | The Europaturm (Tower of Europe) is a 337.5 metre (1,107.3 ft) high telecommunications tower in Frankfurt, Germany. Designed by architect Erwin Heinle, the tower's construction began in 1974. At its completion five years later, it became the tallest free-standing structure in the Federal Republic o... | ||
Eschenheimer Turm | Eschenheimer Turm (Eschenheim Tower) was a city gate part of the late-medieval fortifications of Frankfurt am Main and is a landmark of the city. The tower, which was erected at the beginning of the fifteenth century, is at once the oldest and most unaltered building in the largely reconstructed Fra... | ||
Alte Oper | The Alte Oper (Old Opera) is a concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was inaugurated in 1880, bombed in 1944, and rebuilt slowly in the 1970s, reopening only in 1981. The city's opera company operates now at a nearby modern building while the Alte Oper serves as home ... | ||
Frankfurt Cathedral | Frankfurt Cathedral (German: Frankfurter Dom, officially Kaiserdom Sankt Bartholomäus) is a Gothic church located in the centre of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Bartholomew. Frankfurt Cathedral was an imperial collegiate church, termed Dom in German - a synecdoche for all col... | ||
St. Catherine's Church in Frankfurt | St. Catherine's Church (German: Katharinenkirche) is the largest Lutheran church in Frankfurt am Main, dedicated to the martyred early Christian saint, Catherine of Alexandria. It is located in the old city centre near one of the most famous plazas in the city, the Hauptwache (Main Guard). The curr... | ||
Goethe Tower | The Goethe Tower (German: Goetheturm) is a 43-metre high tower built entirely out of wood on the northern edge of the woods of Sachsenhausen near Frankfurt am Main. After the Jahrtausendturm, the two towers of the Brück aerial testing facility, the Blumenthal Observation Tower, and the Linsen Tower.... |
Relevant data
Geographical coordinates:
50.1167, 8.6833
Approximate population: 671,927
Approximate population: 671,927
The oldest constructions
- Eschenheimer Turm (1400 - 1428, ?)
- St. Catherine's Church in Frankfurt (1678 - 1681, ?)
- Palais Thurn und Taxis (1731 - 1739, ?)
- St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt (1789 - ?, ?)
- Grüneburgpark (1789 - ?, ?)
The highest points
- Europaturm (337 m.)
- Commerzbank Tower (259 m.)
- Tower 185 (200 m.)
- Main Tower (200 m.)
- Opernturm (170 m.)
The longest objects
- Messeturm (1,681 m.)
- Holy Cross Church in Frankfurt (53.2 m.)
Objects with the biggest surface
- Tower 185 (1 ha.)
Most active architects
- Madern Gerthener (2)
- Christoph Mäckler (2)
- Richard Lucae (1)
- Norman Foster (1)
- Helmut Jahn (1)
Famous architects born in the city
- Christoph Mäckler (2)
- Madern Gerthener (2)
- Friedrich Mettegang (1)
Famous architects who died in the city
- Joseph Stübben (1)