frankfurt is probably a town i'll never get warm with. it's too big for me, to busy, too overwhelming. i said it a lot of times before, even though we will never be friends, the city's still got a few nice places to offer and even shows a friendly face to solitude-loving people as me. because my parent's were visiting me again i decided to show them this city - they have never really been there. our visit was brief, we only visited the cathedral, the church st. paul's ( for a short history kick ), the römer and then mainly sat by the river main to enjoy the skyline of frankfurt. which is monstrous to me, but still has something about it that you can't ignore. obviously. but there is some kind of aesthetics, you have to admit that.
st. paul's church is a church that is really important for germany's political history. it's not used as a church anymore, more like an information center about the importance of this church in terms of germany's democratic uprising. the german's first constitution was formed here and famous people have visited to give speeches, such as john f. kennedy. architecturally the church isn't that outstanding to me, at least the interior is quite spartanic.
st. paul's has got 2 floors and this one is used for various displays and events throughout the year now. the floor under this hall is used as the information center.
the römer - city hall of frankfurt. frankfurt's inhabitants are most proud of this building and the surrounding square with the old medieval houses.
i will never get to photograph the cathedral in all it's glory. simply because it is to big and there is practically no point around it where it's possible to shoot it entirely.
right next to the church is a huge building lot. the city wants to rebuild an old city quarter - and it will be a recreation of old medieval houses and streets that were bombed out in world war II. of course left wing activists need to place their paroles onto everything they can find.
and then we went inside.
i really like the triptych of giovanni manfredini which is currently on exhibition in the cathedral. it's really eerie compared to the other interior elements inside the church and also quite macabre with real skulls attached to the paintings.
after our dose of church architecture we finally made it down to the river main.
in the far distance you can see the main plaza and the flößerbrücke ( rafter bridge ).
i kind of shot this in a way that the tower of main plaza looks really lopsided, haha. it reminds me of the tower of babel.
the bridge has this kind of art nouveau influence, but it's actually been built in the 1980ies. i really like the golden embellishments.
an old loading crane.
buildings in the ostend district. the building in the back is the new seat of the european central bank, which recently opened with big riots.
modern opulence.
lookback onto the financial district.
i have simply forgotten what kind of world clock / nautical device / sun clock this is.
the western old city.
and the view onto sachsenhausen and the ecb.
i met a beautiful dove on the iron bridge.
the eiserne steg / iron bridge is the most famous bridge in frankfurt and especially loved by couples.
frankfurt skyline.
i really like the contrast of skyscrapers versus church towers.
there is a fountain in the city which depicts figures of a famous german children's book: struwwelpeter. the cats minz and maunz are crying over a little girl who played with fire and died in the flames.
the rabbit that triumphed over the hunter.
the burning girl. yes, the struwwelpeter is a pretty ruthless children's book. i think it may have horrified a lot of kids, but also teached them to be more cautious and well-behaved. at least back when the book was released in 1845.
roof statues.
to the true, the beautiful, the good.
and a picture that almost seems like a painting. some of the towers of the financial district.
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