FKK The Palace Frankfurt (D)

Frankfurt

Name origin

Franconofurd (Germanic/Latin, = settlement at the ford of the Franks) --> Frankfurt

First documented mention

794 AD

Population

764,000

Area

248.31 km²

Federal state

Hesse

Administrative region

Darmstadt

District

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Vehicle registration

F

River

Nidda-->Main

The club FKK The Palace is located in Frankfurt-Bockenheim/Hausen.

Frankfurt am Main:

It's 420 km to Berlin, 390 km to Hamburg, 150 km to Cologne and 200 km to Munich (each as the crow flies): Frankfurt am Main is an ancient trading city in the heart of Germany, with around 750,000 inhabitants smaller than the four German metropolises of over a million, yet in many respects a city of superlatives that by far outshines all other German cities in importance.

This holds true even in the literal sense: the impressive skyline of Frankfurt's skyscrapers is unique in Germany. The ten tallest buildings in Germany are all located in Frankfurt without exception, including the Commerzbank Tower, the Messeturm, the Main Tower and the ECB building.

But Frankfurt is also one of the most important business centres in the entire world, many German or former German major corporations have or had their headquarters there, including the once world's largest chemical corporation Hoechst, Metallgesellschaft, VDM, Cassella, Hartmann & Braun, Degussa, VDO or Deutsche Bahn as well as of course numerous banks and financial institutions, first and foremost Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and Deutsche Börse AG. Frankfurt is home to the largest German stock exchange, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank. In keeping with the significance of the old trade routes, the Frankfurter Kreuz is the most frequented traffic junction in Europe, Frankfurt Airport is one of the world's most important aviation hubs, and of course you'll also find one of the most important trade fair venues in Germany here.

According to surveys, the lively trading metropolis also ranks among the big cities with the highest quality of life on an international scale, even if negative aspects such as a relatively high crime rate and rental prices slightly dampen the overall impression. Frankfurt is in any case not only a must for business travellers, but also attracts visitors for tourism thanks to its many attractions. This starts with the historic old town backdrop near the banks of the Main with the Kaiserdom, Römerberg, Goethe-Haus and Paulskirche, all the more so since the city has now had an ensemble of a total of 15 houses around the historic Krönungsweg reconstructed and a further 20 built in historic style in a 200-million-euro project covering an area of seven hectares. From 1562 onwards - after the change of the election and coronation site from Aachen to Frankfurt - the Roman-German emperors took this route to the Kaiserdom until the end of the Holy Roman Empire. Frankfurt Cathedral - built between 1250 and 1514 - is thus one of the most important buildings in German imperial history. In the not far distant Paulskirche, on the other hand, the German National Assembly convened from May 1848 to May 1849, attempting for the first time on German soil to establish a democratic-parliamentary German nation state.

A hundred years later, the once Free Imperial City, first documented in 794 AD, nearly became the capital of the young Federal Republic of Germany. Even though that never came to pass - the city has grown at a rapid pace in recent decades and brought great prosperity to its citizens. In the city centre, the above-average purchasing power of the public is reflected in the temples of consumption on one of Germany's largest shopping streets: the Frankfurter Zeil with the adjoining Goethestraße. Meanwhile, those who can afford it and want to escape the big-city hustle seek their residence in the idyllically situated spa towns of the neighbouring Hochtaunus: Königstein, Bad Homburg or Kronberg are home to numerous high-earning Frankfurt residents and are among the wealthiest municipalities in Germany.

Those who prefer to stay in the city are offered quite a lot in terms of culture and leisure activities: for instance the Oper Frankfurt, the Theater am Turm or the long-established Gallus Theater, the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen side of the Main with houses such as the Städel, the Liebighaus or the Museum der Weltkulturen, as well as a pulsating nightlife away from all that. Frankfurt is not only home to the storied football club Eintracht Frankfurt, but also the seat of the most important German sports associations such as the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB), Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB), Deutscher Turner-Bund (DTB) or Deutscher Motor Sport Bund (DMSB).

Among the well-known sons and daughters of Frankfurt are numerous members of the banking dynasties Rothschild and Oppenheim(er), Caspar & Maria Sibylla Merian as well as Theodor W. Adorno, Bettina von Arnim, Heinrich Hoffmann, Friedrich Wöhler, Otto Emil Hahn, Arthur Schopenhauer and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Hoffmann, Erich Fromm, Anne Frank, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Albert Mangelsdorff, Dieter Wedel, Wolfgang Spier, Marika Kilius, Jean Frankfurter, Michael Groß, Thor Kunkel, Hans Zimmer, Peter Kloeppel, Hannes Jaenicke, Birgit Prinz, Jessica Wahls, Namika, Sonya Kraus, Moses Pelham and Sabrina Setlur.