Frankfurt - Sights - Frankfurt Bike Tour

Sights you will see on our Frankfurt city tour:

Städel Museum

One of the most important museums in Germany: 700 years of European art can be seen here.

Holbeinsteg

The Holbeinsteg is a pedestrian bridge, opened in 1990, connecting the station quarter and Sachsenhausen. The suspension bridge was developed by the architect and city planner Albrecht Speer (Jr.) in the course of the design of the museum embankment (Museumsufer).

Skyline

Frankfurt is the only German city that has a city-like skyline. It is considered one of the city’s landmarks.

Eiserner Steg
(“iron brigde”)

The iron construction – a pedestrian bridge and one of the city’s landmarks – was built in 1868/69 by the Frankfurt iron foundry J. S. Fries. It was intended to demonstrate to the inhabitants of Frankfurter the beginning of the technical age.

Römer

The beautiful half-timbered house has been the town hall since 1405. Located at the “Römerberg” which is called after the building.

Paulskirche
(St. Paul’s church)

Built till 1833, the German National Assembly met here in 1848. Therefor the church is called the “cradle of German democracy”. It was destroyed in 1944, rebuilt in 1948, but without a church blessing.

Cathedral

An undeserved name, for Frankfurt was never a bishop’s seat. But the former imperial church was from 1356 electoral, and later also coronation church of the roman emperors.

Goethe House

In 1733 the Goethe family acquired two half-timbered houses in the Hirschgraben, which were combined by rebuilding. Here, the young Goethe, worked on classics such as “Götz von Berlichingen”, the Urfaust, and summed up his love affair in “The Sorrows of Young Werther”. The Goethemuseum with important paintings and handwriting collections is located in the adjoining house.

stock exchange

The so called “Capitalist Cathedral” is built between 1874 and 1879 in the style of the italian Renaissance. In front of the exchange “Bull and Bear” can be found.

Old Opera House

The reconstructed late-classicist building is location for gala-festivities as well as high-caliber concerts with classical music, pop and jazz.

former ramparts

This green area was built at the beginning of the 19th century in place of the dismanteled city fortifications of Frankfurt. Today, it is a popular recreation area for both Frankfurt inhabitants and visitors.

ECB – European Central Bank

2014 completed new building on the site of the former big market hall. The ECB is the central bank of the Member States of the EU that have adopted the euro as a currency.

Gerbermühle

The Gerbermühle is today a popular excursion location right on the Main River. Already Goethe was often here with the friends of the family Willemers who had the old mill building converted to their summer residence.