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1. Goethe House and Museum
2. Signs near the Goethe House showing the beginnings of the Hölderlin Path (22 km) and the Goethe Trail (11 km). I have described the Hölderlin Path in some detail on my Bad Homburg page.
The great German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe, or von Goethe as he was known in his later years after being elevated to the aristocracy, was born here in Frankfurt am Main on August 28, 1749. The house where he was born and grew up has been reconstructed (after having been destroyed by bombs in the Second World War) and a small museum and lecture hall have been added.
Opening hours of the Goethe House and Museum are Monday-Friday 10 am – 5.30 pm; Sunday and public holidays 10 am – 5.30 pm; Saturday 10 am - 6 pm; last Saturday in the month 10 am - 8 pm. Admission is EUR 5.00 for adults, EUR 2.50 for students.
For those who don't speak German, I suppose I should point out that the name "Goethe" is pronounced with two syllables, sort of like a cross between "Ger-te" and "Gur-ta" but without really pronouncing the R. The main thing is to give it two syllables and put the stress on the first, otherwise people won't have a clue who you are talking about. Leave a Comment Address: Großer Hirschgraben 23-25, Frankfurt am MainPhone: +49 (0)69 / 1 38 80 - 0Directions: GPS 50° 6'40.89" North; 8°40'39.83" EastWebsite: http://www.goethehaus-frankfurt.de
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From 1922 to 1938 there was a museum in Frankfurt called the Museum of Jewish Antiquity. It was destroyed by the Nazis during their infamous nationwide pogrom night in November 1938.
Exactly fifty years later, on November 9, 1988, this new Jewish museum was opened in the Rothschild Palace on the right bank of the Main River.
There are permanent exhibits on "Jews in Frankfurt from 1100 to 1800", "Jewish Life and Jewish Festivals", "Jews in Frankfurt from 1800 to 1950" and "Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his sons" -- about the Jewish banking family whose Frankfurt branch lived in this very house in the 19th century.
On the ground floor there are also temporary exhibits, for instance on the work of the Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944) or on the deportation of the Jews from Frankfurt by the Nazis between 1941 and 1945.
The first photo shows visitors in the exhibit on the development of Jewish rights in Frankfurt during the nineteenth century.
Second photo: A visitor in the exhibit on Jewish life and festivals.
Third photo: A painting in the Jewish Museum
Fourth photo: View from the back window of the Jewish Museum. For information on these skyscrapers, see the Frankfurt Skyline Countdown on my Land Hessen page.
Fifth photo: The Jewish Museum Stand at the Museum River Bank Festival in August 2005
The Jewish Museum is open Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Wednesday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. It is closed on Mondays.
Admission is EUR 2.60 for adults and EUR 1.30 for children, students and the disabled. Leave a Comment Address: Untermainkai 14/15, 60311 FrankfurtDirections: Subway lines U1-U5 and tram lines 11 and 12. Get off at Willy-Brandt-Platz and walk down towards the river.Website: http://www.juedischesmuseum.de/
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 Maahh by christine.j
In the Museum fuer Kommunikation they made good use of these old phones: They turned them into a very special flock of sheep.
You can see them on the ground floor, opposite of the café in the museum.
Apart from the sheep, the museum has an interesting display of old and new methods of communication. There are also special exhibitions, but as far as I know,explanations are given in German only. Leave a Comment
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The Städel museum is an amazing collection of artwork housed in a magnificent piece of architecture. Just looking at a list of names included in the collection is enough to make your jaw drop, with the likes of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso and Bacon all making an appearance. The enormous halls are filled with work from the Medieval to the Modern and you could easily spend an entire day just gawping in wonder. I could only afford a single afternoon of 3-4 hours, and despite missing a few galleries and only spending a few unreasonably short moments with each painting, I barely got around the museum before it closed.
Closed Mondays, and entrance is 6 euros for adults. Leave a Comment Address: Schaumainkai 63Directions: Walk along the Sachsenhausen side of the river, towards the modern looking Holbeinsteg pedestrian bridge and it is right there. You can also take Bus 46 directly to the museum.Website: http://www.staedelmuseum.de/index.php?id=312
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 In the Goethe House by Nemorino
Goethe's monumental dramatic poem Faust is much too long for an opera, but several composers have made operas out of parts of it:
--Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) used it as the basis of his opera Mefistofele, which has been performed recently (in the original Italian) both in Frankfurt and in Karlsruhe.
--Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) wrote an opera called Doktor Faust, which I recently saw in Stuttgart. Busoni based his opera on the medieval Faust legend, which was also Goethe's source.
--Charles Gounod (1818-1893) wrote a Faust opera which is being performed this season in Frankfurt (in the original French) with Andrew Richards as Faust and Mark S. Doss as Méphistophélès. Leave a Comment
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Frankfurt has some two dozen museums, most of which are located on or near the Main River on the Museumsufer or Museum River Bank. An elegant suspension bridge, the Holbeinsteg, leads directly to the outstanding Städel art museum. This bridge is for pedestrians and cyclists only.
If you want to go to several museums you can get Museumsufer Ticket, which costs EUR 12.00 and gets you into all Frankfurt museums on two consecutive days, or a Museumsufer Card, which is what I have. This costs EUR 65.00 for all Frankfurt museums for the entire year.
Second photo: The Städel from the Holbeinsteg during the Museum River Bank Festival 2005.
Third photo: The German Museum of Architecture, Schaumainkai 43, Tel. (069) 212-38844, http://www.dam-online.de.
Fourth photo: The German Film Museum, Schaumainkai 41, Tel. (069) 212-38830, http://www.deutsches-filmmuseum.de.
Fifth photo: The Museum of Applied Art (Museum für Angewandte Kunst), Schaumainkai 17, Tel. (069) 212-34037. I took this photo from across the river during the Museum River Bank Festival 2005. Leave a Comment
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Just a short ways downstream from the Städel is the Liebieghaus, a small but exquisite museum of sculpture not only from ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman times, but also from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The newest piece is I believe from the beginning of the 19th century, unless I have overlooked something newer.
The items on display are mostly rather small, so you can expect to be impressed and intrigued rather than overwhelmed.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00, Wednesdays till 20.00. Closed on Mondays. Admission for adults is EUR 4.00, unless you have a Museumsufer Ticket or Card.
Second photo: The Gelehrter, a medieval sculpture from Nürnberg.
Third photo: There is a pleasant little café on the ground floor, with shady outdoor seating in the summer. In August 2006 we went there in the afternoon for part of a VT-meeting. From left to right: Holger (HORSCHECK), Christine (tini58de), Bernd (Bernd_L) and Andrea (Jadefrau).
Fourth photo: Upstairs in the Liebieghaus you can see this bust of Susette Gontard (1769-1802) by Landolin Ohmacht (1760-1834). Susette Gontard was the wife of a wealthy Frankfurt merchant named Jakob Friedrich Gontard, but she is famous because of her love affair with the poet Friedrich Hölderlin -- as I have described in some detail on my Bad Homburg page. Leave a Comment Address: Schaumainkai 71Phone: (069) 212-38615Directions: GPS 50° 6'6.88" North; 8°40'18.03" EastWebsite: http://www.liebieghaus.de
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For many centuries Frankfurt was the place where the German kings/emperors were elected, later - from 1562 on - also crowned. Before this date the electors and the new kings had to travel to Aachen and the crowning took place there.
The constitutional contract which put down the details of the election was written in the year
1356. It was called the "Goldene Bulle", nothing to do with a bull at all. The case in which the seal was kept was kept was called a "Bulle", and since this was a royal seal it was made of gold.
Because of the 650th anniversary this year four museums in Frankfurt have put together a special exhibition.
The city archives - Institut für Stadtgeschichte- shows the original Goldene Bulle. For me, it was something really special to see this very old book. I was surprised how thin it was. Somehow I'm absolutely sure if a contract of this importance would be put together today, we'd be talking about 1000 pages at least, with paragraphes and sub-paragraphes and sub-sub-paragraphes.
The Jewish Museum dedicates its exhibition to the special relationship between the Frankfurt Jews and the emperor. As Frankfurt was a Free Imperial City there was no hereditary nobilty ruling the city, but an elected council. The next higher authority was the emperor.
The Dommuseum shows the religious part of the election. It was in the cathedral where the electors met and voted for the new king/emperor.
The History Museum shows the logistic problems of the election. I will write about this in the next tip, since otherwise it will be too long.
Sorry no pictures, I would have loved to take some, but it's not allowed in any of the museums.
Update January 30,2007:
The special exhibition is over and the "Goldene Bulle" can no longer be seen. But the museums are showing their regular exhibiton items and they are all worth a visit. Leave a Comment
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 by christine.j
In addition, there are stages where all kinds of music are played, the museums give guided tours, boat races are held on the river, rides for the kids are put up etc.
You can also try lots of different food. Frankfurt is most international city in Germany with the highest percentage of non-Germans living there and it seems as if every country has a food stall selling their national specialties.
So you can eat your way around the world.
The name means "Museums bank festival", because most of the museums are situated at the bank of the river Main. But when you split it up, it means "muse around the bank festival". Leave a Comment
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For about 550 years there was a Carmelite monastery right in the city of Frankfurt. The building is now used by the city archives, but can be visited. In the 16th century the painter Joerg Ratgeb painted murals on the walls of the cloister. Most of them have disappeared , but on one wall you can still see some. They must have been simply beautiful.
In this cloister you also can see some statues, parts of the old city wall around Frankfurt and old urns. I especially liked this lion: It's a carving out of stone and was put on a grave in second century . Since the lion is devouring other animals, this statue was supposed to sybolize the perishing of all worldly things.
The cloister is just a few meters away from the noise of the modern city, but it feels like you're in a different world. Leave a Comment
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