sightseeing & excursions in frankfurt

Sightseeing Tour

I. Frankfurt: the Finance, Business and Euro Metropolis

Duration:about 2 Hrs

From medieval trade fair city to modern finance metropolis, present-day Frankfurt has gained wide renown as the seat of Germany’s most active stock market and the European Central Bank.

Tour introduction highlights the Römerberg as birthplace of Frankfurt’s trade show and finance history, followed by motorised city tour.

Sights: Bethmannstraße (Bethmann-Bank), Hauptwache/Zeil (Germany’s most profitable shopping promenade), Börsenstraße (Frankfurt Stock Market), Willy-Brandt-Platz (European Central Bank), Neue Mainzer Straße (banking district - visit of the Main Tower’s observation platform upon request), Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage, Theodor-Heuss-Allee (Messe fairgrounds), Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße (German Federal Bank).

II - Frankfurt´s Architecture

Duration: about 2-3 Hrs

This city tour hightlights Frankfurt’s urban development from the Middle Age to the present, the combination of old and modern Frankfurt, high-rise construction and future architectural projects.

Tour introducing highlights the Römerberg, Schirn Art Hall, Saalgasse townhouses an the Museum of Modern Art, followed by motorised city tour.

Sights: Municipal Works Building (built on the foundations of the former Judengasse in eastern Frankfurt), Main River embankment, skyscrapers of the banking district (visit of the Main Tower’s observation platform upon request), Alte Oper, former IG-Farben-Haus (Poelzig), Frankfurt Universität and the Messe fairgrounds.

III- Jewish City Tour

Duration: about 2 hrs

Until 1933, Frankfurt had Germany’s second-largest Jewish community, following Berlin. Experience the contribution of Frankfurt’s Jewish community to Frankfurt’s history and cultural life.

Tour introducing highlights the Historical Museum (short summaries of the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish population based on the Merian Plan and the model of the old town centre), followed by motorised city tour.

Sights: Battonnstraße (old jewish cemetery, Museum Judengasse, memorial), Friedberger Anlage (memorial plaque commemorating the destroyed synagogue), Eckenheimer Landstraße (Muster school), Richard-Wagner-Straße, Rat-Beil-Str. (old Jewish cemetary), Eckenheimer Landstraße (new Jewish cemetary), Opernplatz (Rothschild Park), Savignystraße (Jewish community centre), Westendstraße (Jewish community centre), Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße (synagogue), Untermainkai (Jewish Museum).

The Old Jewish Cemetery

The oldest Jewish burial place, (1462–1828) is unique in terms of unity and historical

continuity. Five and a half thousand gravestones, both above and below ground (some dating back as far as 1272) have been counted. Börneplatz was also the site of the Judengasse and no. 10 Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse houses a museum

of archaeological finds.

IV. City Tour

Duration: about 2 hrs

Tour features: This motorised city tour offers you a closer look at the Main metropolis Frankfurt, taking in the city's main places of interest (Museum Embankment, Stock Exchange, Applewine District Old Sachsenhausen, Banking District, Main Train Station, Old Opera House, Fairground). Included in the tour is a 20-minute stroll across the Römerberg in the old town centre (St. Paul's Church, Cathedral, Römer City Hall). The tour presents Frankfurt as a city where modern architecture and historic sights stand side by side in harmonic juxtaposition.

Paulskirche

Is a circular building in the classical style and shaped like an ellipse. Meetings of the German Vorparlament and the German National Assembly were held here in 1848/49. fire destroyed the interior of the building in 1944 but the church was reopened following restoration work on 18 May 1948. Nowadays the Paulskirche, which is seen as a symbol of freedom and democracy, is no longer used as a church. Leaving the Paulskirche and

Römer building complex behind us, we pass the Bethmannhof (left) and the former site of the Federal Audit Office

The Cathedral

Built on the cathedral hill, has been a residential district since the Bronze Age. The former collegiate and parish church has been called cathedral since the Middle Ages. As of 1356 the Cathedral was the place where German kings were elected and where the German emperors were crowned from 1562 to 1792.