Hidden sights of Frankfurt you may have missed as a tourist 

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.

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!

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 lived in Frankfurt from 81 to 87. Stationed at 97th General Hospital. Best time of my life.

I am currently studying German in the US state of Georgia, and I have enjoyed watching your videos!

The map tracking shot was so well done, great work!

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.

Hindemith!

Thanks for taking to those many areas I saw during my 11 years stationed in Frankfurt. Thanks for the historic explanations!

Good to see you travelling again!

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.

I really enjoy history and travel related videos, so this was perfect for me!

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!!

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.

Thank you so much for also including such lovely maps to show where you're going!

I love the Eschenheimer Tor. It's beautiful.

I was born in Frankfurt and still live here, very informative and nice video!

Welcome to Frankfurt :) And YAY, welcome to Bockenheim!

We played Hindemith’s 8 little pieces in high school, and I’ve always loved his Metamorphosis!

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!

As always, a very interesting video! Thank you for sharing!!

Frankfurt is hard to appreciate until you get a local resident to show you the real highlights

Seems I have to go back to Frankfurt as I missed all of these...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

Lovely video! Had no idea about some of the places even though I used to live in Frankfurt for a couple of years.

so useful!! thanks 😄

Great video. Frankfurt is only an hour away from me but I haven't been there often enough!

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.

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.

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.

That is so cool!

Very informative! From Someone who lives in the States of America!👍👍

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 !!

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.

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.

Thank you very much! :-)

Nice! For obscure and not obviously glamorous history, a relatively central cemetery in Frankfurt has the grave of Alois Alzheimer, discovered Alzheimer’s disease.

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.

Klasse!

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 ! :)

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.

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.

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.

There is also Gallus Warte.

come to visit Hamburg!

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.

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.

Can you give us the Link of the historical map, witch you used for Bockenheimer Warte?

5:32 this is the Galluswart - Tower

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 the Gallus 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.

Well, at least in Frankfurt you can't miss the red-light-district

You missed Gallus Warte and Sachsenhäuser Warte ...

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.

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.

hanau mentioned

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.

You forgot the Friedberger Warte.

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.

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!

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.

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.