Hidden sights of Frankfurt you may have missed as a tourist
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Many tourists come to Frankfurt to see the skyscrapers, the historic quarter, the museums, the art galleries, the shopping district, and the nightlife. But hidden away in the corners where tourists seldom venture, there are some fascinating sights you might not have the chance to see.
Well, now's your chance.
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Frankfurt
01:12 A mediaeval wall
02:33 A tourist's night out
03:15 This is not an elephant
04:22 Upgrading the defences
04:58 The tower saved by a count
06:36 A tower used for the sewers
Music:
"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com/
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I genuinly love your way of taking the viewer with you on the actual walks and drives instead of simply showing them the locations of interest. Its much more engaging and also gives the viewers the chance to see some genuine german life 🙂
You should check out Frankfurt Höchst old town next time you stop by. It's by far the best preserved part and also houses the oldest building in Frankfurt from 800 ad.
ANd while there take a drive or trip up to the Tanus.
I lived in Frankfurt from 81 to 87. Stationed at 97th General Hospital. Best time of my life.
Frankfurt is hard to appreciate until you get a local resident to show you the real highlights
Houses made under the Fachwerk technique are "common" in Brazil but of course not so old as the German ones, since German settlers started to flock here in 1824. We call such technique in Portuguese "enxaimel" and it can be spotted in cities like Gramado, Feliz, Santa Cruz do Sul, Blumenau, Pomerode and Campos do Jordão, among others.
I'm glad you are travelling again, because I was missing some newer trip footage coming from you. Many thanks, Andrew!
I am currently studying German in the US state of Georgia, and I have enjoyed watching your videos!
Frankfurt has been my new home for 13 years now, but I actually learned something new today. Thanks a lot :)
And the Bockenheimer Warte is a station/intersection I use almost every day, so that was neat ^^
I am part of the initiative to reconstruct the beautiful Schauspielhaus. The city regulators didn’t allow the Volksentscheid to take place for obscure reasons although we collected over 23 000 signments and the idea is very popular. Now this issue will come to court.
Frankfurt is a very beautiful city and it should embrace the path of healing architectural wounds of the war. Still, it should also embrace modernity with its stunning skyline.
Welcome to Frankfurt :)
And YAY, welcome to Bockenheim!
Hindemith!
I love the Eschenheimer Tor. It's beautiful.
I was born in Frankfurt and still live here, very informative and nice video!
I have often driven along the Eschenheimer Anlage. It’s fun, but maddening, because you seem to be driving a long way but not actually getting very far very fast. It’s funny, I lived in Frankfurt for 12 years, and it never occurred to me that the reason for that was an old baroque fortification. You live and learn!!
Thanks, again, for great memories. I wish I had known about the ventilation shaft when I was sitting there drinking coffee!! Glad you are getting out and about again.
Für Leute, die gerne Kirchen sehen, ist Frankfurt geradezu genial. Ich hatte ja immer gedacht, das Dublin massig Kirchen hätte, aber Frankfurt hat möglicherweise mehr Kirchen.
Good to see you travelling again!
Seems I have to go back to Frankfurt as I missed all of these...
We played Hindemith’s 8 little pieces in high school, and I’ve always loved his Metamorphosis!
Today I learned, it takes an Englishman to teach German about some interesting spots in his own town.
Thanks for broadening my knowledge of Frankfurt!
OMG! back in 2014, in January I spent 3 weeks in Frankfurt for a school trip. I was based in Sachsenhausen, and my room was about 20-30 meters from the Cowherder's Tower! I remember sitting in the DJH Jugenherbege Frankfurt (who's windows you can see in the video) across from the Maininsel and thinking about how much I loved the design. I had no idea it had such an important history! Even more reason for me to come back to my favourite city abroad!
I got an uncanny valley feeling while walking though the new old town, there really is something going on there that is unlike any other ,,old" quarter I have been to.
There's so much more to discover in Frankfurt off the beaten tracks. Maybe you will produce another episode of hidden Frankfurt sights featuring, for instance, the Friedberger Warte, Alte Nicolai-Kirche, Palmengarten, remnants of the Roman city of Nida, Höchst castle, and so on.
The map tracking shot was so well done, great work!
After all these years, could you please come to Mecklenbourg Westernpommerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) aswell? We also have looooots of history and stuff, very great, Walls with Gates and everything, castles, little keeps that are sooooo cute and beautiful and stuff. And don't forgett, we also have the Hanse and also even a real Pirate we do celebrate we've decided.
+ 9 in 10 german lakes are in MV
Die Störtebeker Festspiele auf Rügen? Ein absolutes Muss für jeden Rügen-Urlauber :)
I really enjoy history and travel related videos, so this was perfect for me!
I grew up in frankfurt and i know all of these place I just never thought of them as touristy, they're just random old towers that gave their names to U-bahn stops. The Eschenheimer Tor is where the next big Movie Theater is. Also a great weird small purger place. "altsachs" or old Sachsenhausen where the Elefant is is where other people that had friends went on some nights out. Staufenmauer is somewhere you walk past as you go to that one really good japanese place. I never really... thought to think about these places as the historical buildings they are
First, excellent video! Danke. Second, you are an excellent presenter. 👏 👍🏼
Third, the Baroque wall's shape around the Eschenheimer Gate reminds me of Lisa Simpson's hair.
Thank you so much for also including such lovely maps to show where you're going!
That is so cool!
Nice! For obscure and not obviously glamorous history, a relatively central cemetery in Frankfurt has the grave of Alois Alzheimer, discovered Alzheimer’s disease.
I'm reminded of an expression I heard that "100 miles in Europe is far and 100 years in America is old." I have found this to be true traveling in Europe and around America, though there are some genuinely old buildings in the American Southwest.
Is it that true though? At this stage, depending on what part of Europe you’re in, there are whole American towns with older more original buildings than places in Europe. For example, nearly all of Warsaw is a 20th century reconstruction of what was there before. Paris, as we know it with its boulevards, is a late 19th century invention.
@@sammagic1115 There are big European cities that were thoroughly destroyed or rebuilt fairly recently, and of course some newly-founded towns. But it's perfectly common for the buildings in the core of a random German village to be 500+ years old, and way older in places like Italy that have always built with stone. I've personally lived in a house that was older than the USA in a mid-sized German city. My favourite pub in Frankfurt used to be in a building constructed in the mid-1400s. And so on.
So it's not that everything in Europe is uniformly old (I live in a big 1980s apartment block now, and the oldest building on my street is from the 1950s). But you do spend a lot more time around old stuff, and that makes history feel less abstract and distant I think.
@@sammagic1115 It's more about perception than about certain instances. There are castles in Europe that just.. meh. they're there. No one cares, and an American tourist might go "WOW!". My little home town is over 1.000 years old, and there are remnants of Roman border walls around. It's just there. Not a huge fuss. But having to go over 100miles is.. quite a journey. For an American, seeing that Roman walls might just be in the forest, could be a huge thing, whereas driving 500 miles might be a minor inconvenience.
In the city, of course not everything is old, a) ww2 bombings, b) modernization needing space for new stuff, c)various other reasons.. but it's that there are also plenty of just old things around.
Indeed.
As always, a very interesting video! Thank you for sharing!!
I knew Hindemith had lived in a tower for some time - but had no idea it was in Frankfurt.
By the way: a totally underrated composer. Worth listening to !!
Hölderlin lived in a tower as well - in Tübingen. By the way, Hölderlin and Frankfurt, that's another interesting story...
@@Bruno_Haible Indeed.
Very informative! From Someone who lives in the States of America!👍👍
And then there is the Galluswarte. Take the S-Bahn from Central Station (Lines S3, S4, S5, S6 to Schwalbach/Kronberg/Friedrichsdorf/Friedberg) and step out at the next station, which has the same name.
Nice to see the Anglo Irish bar in Sachsenhausen, its where I met my now wife back in the early 90's. Although I think it was called the English Pub back then. Maybe an idea for a future Vid?
I have seen the towers but now you have put things historically its a great bit of knowledge to have. On my trips to Frankfurt I can now wow people with my new found knowledge. Ok SO its kinda cheating. Thanks rewboss.
Danke für den eindrucksvollen Einblick in diesen Teil Deutschlands. enn ich das nächste Mal da bin, werde ich mir alles mit einem deutlich geschärfteren Blick angucken. :)
Sag Bescheid, falls du mal nach Schleswig-Holstein reist.
so useful!! thanks 😄
Most students at the Goethe University Bockenheim Campus (the lib is also there) or people who have been in the Palmengarten, might have seen the Bockenheimer Turm. People shopping at the MyZeil and leaving the building via the Turn & Taxis Palais might habe seen the Eschenheimer Turm. A huge advert for an detective is there at the Oeder Weg. The JW Marriott Hotel and the Moxy are also close by. Plus the MyZeil was the site of the Fernmeldehochhaus Frankfurt, which became obsolete after the Ginnheimer Spargel Fernmeldeturm Frankfurt was build. But the Sachsenhausen Hessenturm is very new to me.
Great video. Frankfurt is only an hour away from me but I haven't been there often enough!
Lovely video! Had no idea about some of the places even though I used to live in Frankfurt for a couple of years.
Thank you very much! :-)
Ich war vor ein paar Jahren beruflich in Frankfurt. Mir ist da noch der erhaltene Torbau des Großen Riederhofs an der Hanauer Landstraße in Erinnerung geblieben. Der sieht im heutigen Kontext irgendwie seltsam deplatziert aus.
Noooooo. I just did a trip to Frankfurt on Saturday. Wish I'd seen video before then. Ah well, the standard tourist experience was nice, too. At least I now have a plan on what to see for my next visit.
I have been to Frankfurt, at least once, but I don't recall why, it might have been an exhibition, or I might have been visiting a supplier. I do recall that there were lots of bright tall towers, so I was probably in the financial district.
Klasse!
There is also Gallus Warte.
I went to Frankfurt recently and I loved it ...yes it has poverty on the streets but they don’t bother you . Fantastic City of Deutchland
No worries. I made a point of visiting the nothern tower, even though it wasn't really that close. :-)
Hey rewboss! Just wanted to say you're turning into one of my fav channels here on youtube. I know I'm not one of your Patreon members, but I was wondering if you've touched on the subject of German separable prefix verbs in your vids before. I've seen almost all your vids and can't remember if you did. If you haven't, I just wanted to let you know I think a video of yours on the subject would be really cool ! :)
It's not exactly what you are looking for, but rewboss' video on "End of sentence verbs" is related. It deals briefly with the verbal bracket, which makes the separable prefixes even more interesting than they would otherwise be: It is the reason why the prefix sometimes appears stranded, far from the rest of the verb, at the end of the sentence.
Worked in Frankfurt about 11 years in the 89-90’s. There is also an additional tower out by the former 97th general hospital. Not sure the name of that one.
Sometime ago, I was in the USAF station in Frankfurt, across the runways and main terminals of the Frankfurt Flughafen. Been to many of those places. If I went to Zeppelinheim I could get the S-Bahn to Sachsenhausen, which if going out with my friends I would do. If I wanted to go to the Mitte, take a bus and or different S-Bahn to a local train to the Frankfurt Hbf. When you were at the Romer, it is a quick tp a bridge to Sachsenhausen. Most of the time went to Waldorf Moerfelden and Zeppelinheim. All walking distance from the base. When you walking about the bombings, if you went out the back gate to path through the forest, you can see old bomb crators.
Rewboss Dokumentarfilm unter 10 Minuten ! wow und wie wäre es, über Kirchenglocken zu sprechen?
Hier, wo ich wohne, gibt es 3 Kirchen, die alle ihre Glocken mit einem Zeitunterschied von 5 Minuten läuten.
Well, at least in Frankfurt you can't miss the red-light-district
come to visit Hamburg!
5:32 this is the Galluswart - Tower
You missed the Gallus Warte!
Cleanliness, one of the things I love about Germany. Even the most unattractive places are clean. Thank you for this.
I spent a couple of months in the Hotel Paradeismuhle near Klingenberg. I would love to see anything near that area.
You missed Gallus Warte and Sachsenhäuser Warte ...
...and Berger Warte.
Can you give us the Link of the historical map, witch you used for Bockenheimer Warte?
7:05 this map is interesting because of the spelling. First thing I noticed is "Saxenhausen" as opposed to the modern spelling "Sachsenhausen". Then I noticed that Frankfurt was spelled with a "ck", but only for the city itelf, as the biggest label on the map, "Frankfurter Gebiet", uses the modern spelling of the city.
Spellings weren't fixed in the modern forms until very recently. Before printing became widespread, they weren't fixed at all.
One little but important thing you missed when you talked about the jews is the jewish cemetary, more precisely the wall surrounding it, with its literally thousands upon thousands of name plates on it's outer side - with names of jews killed by the nazis.
I would have recommended showing the old Jewish cemetery, which is hidden behind a wall, but accessible with a key from the nearby Jewish museum. Also interesting, are the two houses lived in by Anne Frank and her family before moving Amsterdam.
You forgot the Friedberger Warte.
I want to go to Frankfurt am Main (I didn't know exactly which Frankfurt until you said Konstablerwache and walked to a Frankfurt-colored Tram).
Not so much to see this (even though I might) but to travel with the U-bahn that is a bit odd, as it goes in the streets like a tram in some places and not at all underground as you expect a U-bahn to do.
First: If you want to drive Underground, there are other towns with moch more interesting subs, like the London Underground and Hamburg.
The Frankfurt Underground has evolved from the tram. Frankfurt had brougt parts of the tram to the underground. So U1, U2, U3 and U5.
@@karstenmeyer1729 I have already visited London and Hamburg. I find the U-bahn in Frankfurt interesting just because of the tram-u-bahn-hybrid.
@@JBobjork You find this hybrid systems in other German cities as well, like Köln, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and many others. It was a fad in the 70ies to get the tram under ground to make space for more cars. There was not enough money to build a totally new system from scratch, and no real requirement. Frankfurt is one of the biggest German cities, but small in the international comparison.
Something Special: If you are in U4 Höhenstraße and look in the tunnel in direction U4 Bornheim Mitte, you can see light and movement on the other side. I think, you can see the same on U4 Bornheim Mitte looking to U4 Höhrnstraße.
I have never tried, but i think, yousing a Telescope could be interesting!
@@ppd3bw I probably will go to more cities next time I go to Germany.
Don't know about the origins of the name of the Cowherd's Tower named "Elephant" but ain't Elephant another name for the tower in chess?
Sip your "coffee". Yes yes I see what you did there.
Frankfurt - every time I visit, it reminds me that there are uglier places than Cologne.
Makes sense. But unfortunately, there are even uglier places than Frankfurt. Have you been to Gießen?
At least Frankfurt is one of the greenest cities kn Germany. Plenty of parks and trees.
Frankfurt has some very pleasant Gründerzeit quarters, and the centres of the old surrounding villages that have since merged with the city are often quite nice and still have a sort of "village" feel. Not much to do there for a tourist though, unless you're happy just going for a walk and looking at the architecture.
@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs and until quite recently Frankfurt-Fechenheim had Jenny, a horse wandering freely from her stables to her pasture and back. On her own, every day, beloved by all.
And now I am going to have a cry again.
You didn't mention that Schopenhauer lived in Frankfurt for the 27 last years of his life or that his grave is there or that there is a museum with a permanent Schopenhauer theme. Shame on you.
Regarding the "new old town" (yes, they unironically call it "Neue Frankfurter Altstadt"!), the 2012 to 2018 reconstruction of parts of the old town, I never understood the appeal of such a project. I fully understand if you reconstruct a destroyed old town *shortly* after a war, for example as it was done in Warsaw, to repair the city, to heal the wound. But if there were already *new* modern buildings there with their own history, I think it looks rather like an attempt to eradicate that history and like an inauthentic product of misguided nostalgia if you suddenly build, decades later, replicas of half-forgotten buildings that formerly stood in that location. The "new old town" of Frankfurt is not much more than a fake attraction for unsuspecting tourists and a gimmick for the property market, as, of course, the buildings are also not using original building materials and construction techniques, they're just built to *look* old. Well, enough of my rambling, I appreciate the focus on the *really* old parts of Frankfurt in this video!
Probably knocked down some halfway decent midcentury modern stuff to make room for it too?
To be fair, the "halfway decent midcentury modern stuff" was a massive concrete eyesore (Google "Technisches Rathaus Frankfurt").
For the reconstructions they used original techniques, old wood and also some original surviving elements. But only very view buildings are reconstructions. Most buildings are modern designs with a slightly traditional shape. I think a big plus is the reconstructed pre war city layout. The small streets invite to stroll through. I doubt there are many people missing the giant concrete block which occupied this area. In my eyes they really repaired a tiny bit of the city.
@@pumbaacca AFAIK they only used some original techniques, old wood and so on for the exterior appearance, but the *interior structure* of these reconstructed buildings is actually modern, using concrete and modern insulation materials, or am I mistaken? The brutalist style of the "Technisches Rathaus" might not have been everyone's cup of tea, but at least it was honest architecture. You wouldn't tear down the Barbican complex in London now and reconstruct some pseudo-historical small streets there...?
I hope, that in the future removing the oversized concrete blocks (especially the parking decks) from the middle of our old towns again will become the standard for city-planing.
Talking about Frankfurt walls and defences - have you ever been to Kronberg? de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronberg_im_Taunus
In 1389 Frankfurt lost a fehde against - among others - the knights of Kronberg, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronberger_Fehde had to pay enormous sums for ransom and reparations and came into a situation where they decided to build the Frankfurter Landwehr de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Landwehr
Kronberg castle still exists de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Kronberg and is one of many cultural properties of the town. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kulturdenkm%C3%A4ler_in_Kronberg_im_Taunus In 1891 Kaiser Wilhelm II gifted it to his mother, Queen Victoria's oldest daughter, "Kaiserin Friedrich", who spent the last years of her life in a castle build on her behalf de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Friedrichshof in Kronberg
Among the other non-medieval cultural properties is Villa Gans de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Gans_(Kronberg) where Hans Zimmer spent the first 10 years of his life. Also Ricarda Huch died in Kronberg-Schönberg, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricarda_Huch#Jena,_Frankfurt_am_Main_%E2%80%93_Nachkriegszeit_und_Lebensl%C3%A4ufe_von_Widerstandsk%C3%A4mpfern Eisenhower apparently spent some time there etc.
Kronberg is a little gem of a town that can be reached by S4 from Konstablerwache in pretty much 1/2 hour. The view upon Frankfurt is just stunning. Maybe you might make a video about it at some point? I would really like that.
Not to forget the Kronberg apothecary Julius Neubronner and the many things he was up to, including the invention of pigeon-based aerial photography and the purchase of the Streitkirche, the church (later inn) that the local Protestants had been forced to construct for the Catholics. This would be great material for a fake hoax (i.e. pseudo-hoax) on April Fools Day.
@@johaquila See, I didn't even know about Neubronner. There is so much history in this one place!