Frankfurt Card
by antistar
Another option to a metro ticket is the Frankfurt Card, a special ticket that covers you for all local transport for a day, or two days. It allows you to travel to and from the airport, and also gives you free access to pretty much every museum in Frankfurt. In addition you get discounts on the Palmengarten, guided city tours, and trips on the Main.
This can be bought from the tourist offices of Frankfurt for 8 euros (12 euros for 2 days):
1. Tourist Information Office Hauptbahnhof.
2. Tourist Information Römer.
3. Frankfurt Airport, Fraport AG, Hotel Reservation (Terminal 1: Arrival Hall B, Terminal 2).
4. Mobility Information Centre, An der Hauptwache.
It's a great option if you plan to pack in lots of museum visits in a day or two.
Schirn Kunsthalle
by chicabonita
The Schirn is just a few meters away from Roemer
The museum shows changing exhibitions. Check out the web pages to learn what you can see at the moment. I have already seen several great exhibitions in the Schirn. www.schirn-kunsthalle.de
The side is also available in Englisch
GOETHE´s writing desk.
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by joh28
GOETHE´s writing desk.
In 1795, the house passed from the ownership of the Goethe family and went through several owners and alterations until it was purchased in 1863 by Otto Volger and meticulously restored to the same condition left by Goethe's father. It remained, as it does today after its destruction by war in 1944 and rebuilding in 1949, a prime example of the comfortable, relatively simple middle class home of the mid 18th Century. http://www.altfrankfurt.com/Goethehaus1.htm
Good view
by World-travel
Go up to the Zeilgalerie at Hauptwache pass the sports bar and get up the stairs to the viewing point. From there you can see the whole city and you don´t have to pay an entrance fee. There is also a map where you can see the names of the old buildings and skyscrapers
University -- Bockenheim Campus
by Nemorino
The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University was founded in 1914 and has traditionally been located for the most part here in the Frankfurt district of Bockenheim, which is just west of the Westend and north of the fairgrounds.
They call it a campus, but it is more like just a part of the city that has a lot of buildings belonging to the university. You won't find much in the way of parks and greenery here.
Lots of distinguished people have studied here, including yours truly. (You'd think they'd at least put up a plaque or something, but no . . .)
Now that the new Westend Campus has been inaugurated, they are planning to move more and more departments up there over the next ten or fifteen years, and at some point perhaps phase out the Bockenheim Campus entirely. There are already fewer students here than there used to be, which has an adverse effect on local businesses and also on the general mood and atmosphere of this part of the city.
To get here, take the subway U4, U6 or U7 to Bockenheimer Warte.
Apfelwein!
Another view of the Campanile
Romer
Look for this sign
