16.11.2019 | 12:07 Clock | Favourite places
The Skyline Garden, the roof garden of the Skyline Plaza Shopping Centre, transformed into the European Christmas Market for the first time last year. Although this was well received, it also revealed clear potential for improvement. This was used much better in the second edition. With a view of th ...
09.11.2019 | 10:48 Clock | Favourite places
Last week many Frankfurters were surprised by a sad news: The traditional restaurant MUTTER ERNST has to close after 81 years after the expiry of the lease in April 2020. This truly marks the end of an era and Frankfurt loses another piece of its original charm. Whether to hand cheese beef sausage, ...
03.11.2019 | 11:01 Clock | Favourite places
It's official: The Christmas season has opened. Not because, after Lebkuchen and Spekulatius, the first chocolate Santa Clauses and festive decorations are already available in the shops. And not only because the Frankfurt Christmas tree has arrived on the Römer. No, there is another good rea ...
02.11.2019 | 09:38 Clock | Favourite places
The EKINOS are the city's most traditional film playhouse. After all, the family business is one of the five oldest film theatre companies in Germany. Over the decades, the greats of national and international cinema have been guests here and exciting premieres have been celebrated. Since the openin ...
30.10.2019 | 10:36 Clock | Favourite places
Rooftop Locations enjoy great popularity in summer because they give big cities a little bit of holiday feeling even in hectic everyday life. Your most popular of these roof locations in Frankfurt is City Beach on the roof of the Konstablerwache multi-storey car park. But where many people meet for ...
26.10.2019 | 15:39 Clock | Favourite places
On Friday the time had finally come: A little more than two years after the water pavilion had burned down, the Chinese "Garden of Heavenly Ftting" was ceremoniously reopened in Frankfurt's Bethmannpark. On the night of July 2017, the pavilion, which was only renovated in 2007, fell victim to arsoni ...
26.10.2019 | 15:35 Clock | Favourite places
The Palmengarten celebrates a very special anniversary with a big jubilee week from 28 October to 3 November: 150 years ago - more precisely in the early summer of 1869 - the construction of the Palmenhaus began here. The dream of a "crystal palace" with exotic plants in the middle of a botanical ga ...
01.10.2019 | 08:17 Clock | Favourite places
Congratulations! One of Frankfurt's most famous landmarks celebrated its 150th birthday last weekend: The Iron Bridge. Popular motif for photos, postcards, films and TV series. Full of love castles, often populated by tourists, who immortalize themselves at this special place on selfies or classic s ...
13.09.2019 | 09:20 Clock | Favourite places
Jubiläumsfeier am 3. October from 10 to 18 o'clock
In Frankfurt there are numerous beautiful weekly markets. But hardly anyone is as popular as the producer market at the Konstablerwache, which offers fresh produce from the region every Thursday and Saturday. Now the market is celebrating a b ...
12.09.2019 | 12:10 Clock | Favourite places
(ffm) The Frankfurt city forest, the city's most important climatic compensation area, has suffered extremely from heat and drought in recent summers. A large number of trees had to be felled, much more than in previous years. Others are affected by dry damage and have to fight pests such as the bar ...
03.09.2019 | 16:46 Clock | Favourite places
(ffm) In 1997, the Botanical Garden still belonged to the Goethe University, the cash register of the institution was, say, a little clammy. "We have so many plants left in the nursery because they are no longer needed, we could sell them," suggested one of the gardeners. Good idea, his colleagues s ...
01.09.2019 | 12:12 Clock | Favourite places
All Frankfurt spas are closed on Monday
One may not believe it at the temperatures that made us sweat again this weekend: But actually the beginning of the end of this year's outdoor swimming pool season has come. Since night temperatures of less than 15 degrees are expected in the coming week ...
25.08.2019 | 11:40 Clock | Favourite places
It goes ahead. And if everything goes well, Frankfurt will have its beloved landmark again next year. Last week, the city of Frankfurt am Main's magistrate initiated the construction and financing for the reconstruction of the Goetheturm. In September, the city councillors still have to decide. But ...
25.08.2019 | 11:36 Clock | Favourite places
An archaeological crowd-puller in the heart of Frankfurt
(ffm) Since August 2018, an archaeological shop window in the centre of the new Frankfurt Old Town has been attracting visitors to the beginnings of the city of Frankfurt am Main: The newly presented Imperial Palace franconofurd (formerl ...
25.08.2019 | 11:34 Clock | Favourite places
How the nursery in the palm garden 20.000 pansies, forget-me-nots and daisies for the autumn pile, reach into the box with the left hand and gently pluck the seedling so that it detaches from the soil without damaging its roots. Place three seedlings each in a pot and press the soil lightly on with ...
18.08.2019 | 21:10 Clock | Favourite places
For many it is still an absolute secret tip, for others a popular destination during the summer months: the volunteer Kobelt-Zoo in Frankfurt's Schwanheim district. The small zoo we have introduced HERE already more exactly. The extent to which the Kobelt-Zoo is dear to people's hearts and how much ...
18.08.2019 | 21:06 Clock | Favourite places
(ffm) The Dotationskirche St. Leonhard is reopened with a Eucharistic celebration after extensive renovation and restoration measures and can be handed over to the congregation and visited by visitors. Bishop Georg Bätzing will consecrate the altar during the service.
„The church of St. ...
13.08.2019 | 09:01 Clock | Favourite places
Rarely in another part of Frankfurt does the special character of the city become as clear as its biggest problems, like in the smallest part of the city, the Bahnhofviertel. On the one hand, life pulsates here and diversity, art and creativity are celebrated just as much as culinary delights. On th ...
08.08.2019 | 10:43 Clock | Favourite places
Many Frankfurters who are older than 30 certainly still remember the times when the Europaturm, affectionately called "Ginnheimer Spargel", was not only one of the highest telecommunication towers in the world, but also a popular destination for excursions and leisure. There you could eat delicious ...
25.07.2019 | 12:33 Clock | Favourite places
Vier Frankfurter Buchhandlungen are awarded the German Bookstore Award 2019
Books are education, are magic, are emotions - reading a book is and always will be a special experience in our digital world. Even though the online trade has just destroyed many smaller bookstores, for many a visit t ...
