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Frankfurt am Main is the largest city of Hesse and the fifth largest in Germany, with 778,589 people in 2025. It lies on the River Main at the heart of the Rhine-Main region of 5.5 million people, and its skyline holds 20 of Germany's 21 skyscrapers, among them the seat of the European Central Bank.
First mentioned in 794, when Charlemagne held an imperial assembly here, Frankfurt became an imperial free city in 1372. German kings were elected in its main church from 1356 and emperors crowned there from 1562, and in 1848 the first democratically elected German parliament met in St. Paul's Church.
Visitors start on the Römerberg and in the rebuilt Dom-Römer Quarter, climb the cathedral tower, cross the Eiserner Steg to the museums of Sachsenhausen and ride up the Main Tower. Goethe's birthplace, the Alte Oper and the Palmengarten complete a visit.
The Römer is a complex of nine houses that forms the Frankfurt city hall; the council bought its core, the Römer and Golden Swan houses, from a merchant family in 1405. Newly crowned emperors held their banquets in its Kaisersaal, and the square in front, the Römerberg, is named after it.
Frankfurt Cathedral, the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew, is a Gothic church of the 14th and 15th centuries that was never a bishop's seat. Kings of the Holy Roman Empire were elected here from 1356 and emperors crowned from 1562 to 1792, and its 95-metre tower has a platform at 66 metres.
The Paulskirche, or St. Paul's Church, was begun in 1789 and finished in 1833 and is a national monument because the Frankfurt Parliament, the first democratically elected German parliament, met here in 1848 and 1849. Rebuilt soon after the war, it now hosts exhibitions and events.
The Dom-Römer Quarter is the old town area between the Römer and the cathedral, redeveloped from 2012 to 2018 with 15 reconstructions of historic buildings destroyed in the Second World War. Beside it the Archaeological Garden shows remains of a Roman settlement and the royal palace.
The Main Tower is a skyscraper of 56 storeys and 200 metres, or 240 metres with its antenna, built from 1996 to 1999 as the headquarters of the Helaba bank. It is the only skyscraper in Frankfurt with a public viewing platform, and its foyer holds a video work by Bill Viola.
The Commerzbank Tower, designed by Foster and Partners and finished in 1997, is 259 metres tall, or 300.1 metres with its antenna, making it the tallest building in Germany. Planned as the world's first ecological skyscraper, it uses sky gardens, natural light and natural air flow.
The Alte Oper is a former opera house built in 1880 by Richard Lucae and left in ruins after the Second World War, when it was called Germany's most beautiful ruin. Public pressure saved it, and since 1981 it has been a concert hall whose frieze reads To the true, the beautiful, the good.
The Eiserner Steg is a pedestrian bridge over the Main between the Römerberg and Sachsenhausen, built in 1868 as the second bridge across the river. Blown up by the Wehrmacht at the end of the Second World War, it was rebuilt in 1946, and about 10,000 people cross it every day.
The Goethe House is the birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born here on 28 August 1749, and the house where he wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther. A museum since 1863, it was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War and rebuilt, and it stands beside the Deutsches Romantik-Museum.
The Städel is an art museum on the Museumsufer in Sachsenhausen, founded in 1817 from the bequest of the banker Johann Friedrich Städel. It owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures and more than 100,000 drawings and prints, and German art critics named it Museum of the Year in 2012.
The Naturmuseum Senckenberg is the second largest natural history museum in Germany, founded in 1821 and in its building on Senckenberganlage since 1907. It shows 18 reconstructed dinosaurs, and in 1896 a mummified Egyptian child from its collection was the first mummy to be X-rayed.
The Palmengarten is a botanical garden of 22 hectares in the Westend, laid out by the architect Heinrich Siesmayer and opened in 1871; Buffalo Bill brought his Western show here in 1890. It is the largest botanical garden in Hesse, with greenhouses of tropical and subtropical plants.
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