(ffm) Head of the Department of Culture Ina Hartwig and the director of the Archaeological Museum, Wolfgang David, welcomed the 300,000 visitor to the Imperial Palace franconofurd on Thursday, December 13. By the end of the year, 350,000 visitors are expected.
Where a sweat bath of the ancient Romans and remains of a Carolingian royal court meet, visitors to the Imperial Palace franconofurd experience the origins of the city of Frankfurt. Since August of this year, the former "Archaeological Garden" under the Town Hall on the Markt has appeared in new splendour. Since then, the Archaeological Museum has recorded steadily growing visitor numbers.
"The great interest in the origins of our city is remarkable. Visitor numbers are far exceeding our expectations. The Archaeological Museum has done an excellent job in vividly presenting the historical remains. The visit to the imperial palace franconofurd has become a crowd puller and a fixed component of a visit to the old town," says head of culture Hartwig.
Museum director David adds, "The attractive thing for visitors is the authenticity of the building remains, which are up to 2,000 years old and can be conveniently accessed and experienced and grasped under today's modern buildings: from the remains of a Roman heating building to the cellars of late medieval houses that were destroyed in 1944 and that older Frankfurt residents can definitely still remember."
The imperial palace franconofurd, sheltered and integrated into the architecture of the Stadthaus, offers a showcase into the origins of the city of Frankfurt: walls of a Roman bath stand next to the foundations of the Carolingian palace and remains of late medieval cellars - traces from some 2000 years of the city's history. Selected finds from old and new excavations in Frankfurt's old town are presented in an exhibition room in Bendergasse.
The opening hours in winter (until the end of March) are daily from 10 am to 6 pm. The exhibition is free to visitors. Free public tours will take place again from February 2019. Group tours are also currently available by appointment. Registrations are available by phone Tuesdays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 069/212-39344 or by email at fuehrungen.archaeologie@stadt-frankfurt.de. For more info, visit https://www.archaeologisches-museum-frankfurt.en/exhibitions/kaiserpfalz-franconofurdon the internet.
