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floor displays works by Old Built in stages in the 13th and
Masters such as Botticelli, van 15th centuries, the church
Eyck, Vermeer, and Rembrandt. contains many treasures,
Another interesting museum including a copy of Leonardo
in the Schaumainkai complex da Vinci’s Last Supper by Hans
is the Deutsches Architektur- Holbein the Elder, from 1501.
museum, which concentrates The Historisches Museum
mainly on developments in has an interesting display of
20th-century architecture. items relating to Frankfurt’s
Nearby is the Deutsches history, including a fascinating
Filmmuseum, which holds model of the medieval town, a
documents and objects relating collection of local prehistoric
to the art of film-making and the finds, and several decorative
development of film technology. fragments from buildings
The museum has its own destroyed during World War II.
cinema, which shows old and The twin-naved Alte
often long-forgotten films. Nikolaikirche, or Church of St.
The great German poet, Nicholas, is popular for its fine
Frankfurt’s skyscraper district, novelist, and dramatist Johann statues of St. Nicholas and the
nicknamed “Mainhattan” Wolfgang von Goethe was born 40-bell carillon, which plays
at the Goethehaus in 1749. The German folk songs twice a day.
d Frankfurt am house was totally destroyed in The Kaiserdom, an imperial
Main World War II, but later lovingly cathedral, was built between
restored, its interior the 13th and 15th
Hesse. * 685,000. k £ @ 4 reconstructed in centuries. It has
n Hauptbahnhof (069-21 23 88 00). typical 18th-century several priceless
∑ frankfurt-tourismus.de style. The desk at masterpieces of
which Goethe wrote Gothic artwork,
Frankfurt am Main is one of the his early works, such including the
main economic and cultural as The Sorrows of 15th-century
centers of Europe. The Young Werther Maria-Schlaf-Altar.
headquarters of many major (1774), remains. The collection at
banks and newspaper publishers Located in the the Museum für
are based here, and the city’s center of the old Moderne Kunst
International Book Fair is the town, the Römer (Museum of Modern
world’s largest event of its kind. is a collection of Portrait of a Woman (c.1480) Art) represents all
Since 1878, the Städelsches 15th- to 18th- by Botticelli, Städelsches the major artistic
Kunstinstitut has occupied a century houses, Kunstinstitut trends from the
Neo-Renaissance building on including the Altes 1960s until the
Schaumainkai, the picturesque Rathaus (Old Town Hall), rebuilt present day, with works by Roy
“museum embankment.” after World War II. Opposite is a Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
The ground floor houses a group of half-timbered houses, The Liebieghaus, a museum of
collection of Dutch and known as the Ostzeile. sculpture, has works ranging from
German prints and drawings, On the banks of the Main antiquity through to Mannerism
the first floor is devoted to stands St. Leonhardkirche, a and Rococo. There are some
19th- and 20th-century fine example of Gothic and superb examples of ancient
art, and the second Romanesque architecture. Egyptian and Far Eastern art, as
well as splendid works from the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
E Städelsches Kunstinstitut
Schaumainkai 63. Tel 069-605 09 80.
Open Tue–Sun. & 8
E Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstraße 10. Tel 069-21 23 04 47.
Open Tue–Sun. &
Environs
Hanau, 30 km (19 miles) east of
Frankfurt, is the birthplace of
the brothers Wilhelm and Jakob
Grimm. There is an exhibition
devoted to their lives and work
The Ostzeile on the Römerberg, one of the symbols of Frankfurt at the local historical museum.
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