The Flemings Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City sits at the Eschenheimer Tor, easily identified by the mid-century office aesthetic of its facade. The building previously served as the offices for the chemical company Bayer in the nineteen…
Postwar and Modernist Frankfurt
This walk guides you through Frankfurt's bold postwar reconstruction, highlighting the striking modernist churches, functionalist halls, and mid-century facades of the city center.
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1. Flemings Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City
2. Kleinmarkthalle frankfurt
The Kleinmarkthalle is a clinker brick building that stands as a plain, mid-century structure amidst the city center. It houses an indoor food market where over sixty traders operate stalls selling regional specialties like green sauce,…
3. Berliner Str. 51
Berliner Straße fifty-one is a prominent office building in the center of Frankfurt’s Altstadt. You can identify the structure by its role as a modern hub for flexible workspaces, situated directly along a major city artery that was carved…
4. Juniorhaus
The Juniorhaus on Kaiserplatz is defined by its rounded, glass-enclosed external staircase that rises between two symmetrical office wings. Completed in nineteen fifty-one, the building occupies a triangular corner lot where a…
5. Schauspiel Frankfurt
The Schauspiel Frankfurt on Willy-Brandt-Platz operates as the city's primary venue for spoken drama. While the company traces its roots back to the late eighteenth century, the current structure houses both play and opera performances…
6. Weißfrauenkirche
The Weißfrauenkirche on Gutleutstraße is a mid-twentieth-century building with a tower that rises above the surrounding neighborhood. It exists today because the original medieval church, located in Frankfurt’s old town, was destroyed…