Station Quarter

Frankfurt am Main is the heart of the Rhein-Main region, blending a skyline of skyscrapers with an Old Town centered around the Römerberg. Since 1405, the Römer has served as the city hall; nearby, in 1848/49, St. Paul's Church hosted the first German National Assembly. From the 200-meter-high Main Tower, the city's only skyscraper with a public viewing platform, you can take it all in from above.On the south bank of the Main, 13 museums line the Museum Embankment (Museumsufer), including the Städel, showcasing art from seven centuries. Behind it begins Sachsenhausen, where you can drink Ebbelwoi from a Bembel in the apple wine taverns and try Grüne Soße (Green Sauce) with seven herbs.

Frankfurt's Old Town, at around half a square kilometer, is the city's smallest district yet its historic heart. In the air raids of March 1944, it was almost completely destroyed; of approximately 2,000 half-timbered houses, only Haus Wertheim at the Fahrtor remained unscathed. Between the Dom and Römer, the Neue Altstadt emerged from 2012 to 2018 with 35 houses, 15 of them faithfully reconstructed. The Coronation Way, taken by emperors after their coronation in the Dom, once again runs through it.Here, you can stroll across the re-established Hühnermarkt with the Stoltze-Brunnen, visit exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle, the Historisches Museum or the Museum für Moderne Kunst, and view the excavated foundation remains in the Archäologischer Garten in front of the Dom. Take the U4 and U5 subway lines to the Dom/Römer station, directly beneath the historic core. Tram lines 11, 12, and 14 also stop in the Altstadt.

The Westend originated in the mid-19th century as a bourgeois villa district, with Paris serving as a model for the city's boulevards and star-shaped squares. When many Gründerzeit buildings were slated to make way for offices from the 1960s onwards, it led to the Frankfurt Housing Struggle (Frankfurter Häuserkampf), which peaked between 1970 and 1974. Today, the south of the district has merged with the banking district: Here stand, among others, the Opernturm, the twin towers of Deutsche Bank, and the 208-meter-tall skyscraper Westendstraße 1. On its western edge, you'll find the Messeturm, which was Europe's tallest building from 1991 to 1997.Between skyscrapers and villas, you'll discover some of the city's most beautiful green spaces, including the Palmengarten, Grüneburgpark, and Rothschildpark, as well as the Senckenberg Naturmuseum and the Westend Synagogue. Below Bockenheimer Landstraße are the U-Bahn stations Alte Oper, Westend, and Bockenheimer Warte, while the S-Bahn stops at Taunusanlage and Messe.

Sachsenhausen, located on the south side of the Main, was first documented in 1193 and now boasts over 60,000 residents. In Old Sachsenhausen, around Klappergasse, beats the heart of cider culture; at Schellgasse 8 stands the city's oldest preserved half-timbered house, built in 1291/92. Along the Main riverbank, the houses of the Museum Embankment, including the Städel, are lined up, and towering above all is the approximately 80-meter-high spire of the Neo-Gothic Dreikönigskirche.By day, you stroll along Schaumainkai from museum to museum; in the evening, you sit in a cider tavern with a Bembel. You can reach Sachsenhausen on foot from the Old Town via the Eiserner Steg. S-Bahn lines S3, S4, S5, and S6 pass through the district, while U-Bahn lines U1, U2, U3, and U8 connect it to the city center.

Nordend received its name around 1850 when the area north of the old city boundary was designated as a residential district. It is characterized by four-story Gründerzeit buildings with red sandstone bases; further north, the development becomes lower and more villa-like. With a good 54,000 inhabitants, it is Frankfurt's most densely populated district.Green oases lie between the residential streets: Holzhausenpark with its baroque moated castle, Bethmannpark with its Chinese Garden, and Günthersburgpark on the border with Bornheim. Three subway lines – U1, U2, U3 and U8, U4, and U5 – serve the district at ten stations; tram lines 12 and 18 run along Friedberger Landstraße.