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From 1356 onwards, kings of the Holy Roman Empire were elected in this church, and from 1562 to 1792, Roman-German emperors were crowned there. Two DAX companies are located in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Fresenius SE & Co. Other major companies are Hewlett-Packard, Bridgestone, Deutsche Leasing and Basler Versicherungen. On 1 February 2012 European Commission blocked the proposed merger of Deutsche Börse and NYSE Euronext.
It promotes Italian culture and is involved in the teaching of the Italian language; there are 83 Italian Cultural Institutes throughout major cities around the world. Die Schmiere – The Grease is a cabaret and Frankfurt's oldest privately owned theater. According to its own advertising, it is the worst theater in the world. Künstlerhaus Mousonturm – House of Artists Mouson Tower has a smaller budget than traditional theaters and uses more unconventional performing methods. The English Theatre – Located on the ground floor of the Gallileo high-rise building, this is the largest English theater in continental Europe.
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The cornerstone for this project was laid in June 2014 and construction was completed in summer 2017. The new tower offers 207 luxury flats and houses the non-rotating restaurant "Franziska". From 1962 to 2008 a famous yearly cycling race was named after the tower, the "Radrennen Rund um den Henninger Turm" . Europaturm — The Europe Tower is a telecommunications tower, also known as the Frankfurt TV Tower, built from 1974 to 1979.
The Saalhof was partly destroyed in World War II and later rebuilt. Some larger housing areas are often falsely called city districts, even by locals, like Nordweststadt , Goldstein , Riedberg (part of Kalbach-Riedberg) and Europaviertel . The Bankenviertel , Frankfurt's financial district, is also not an administrative city district .
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Fraport also operates other airports worldwide, e.g., King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima and Antalya Airport. With over 922 jobs per 1,000 inhabitants, Frankfurt has the highest concentration of jobs in Germany. On work days and Saturdays, one million people commute from all over the Rhein-Main-Area. Frankfurt is one of the world's most important financial hubs and Germany's financial capital, followed by Hamburg and Stuttgart. Because of this the city is often considered to be a multicultural city, and has been compared to New York City, London and Toronto. Winters in Frankfurt are generally mild or at least not freezing with a small possibility of snow, especially in January and February but dark and often overcast.
It was quickly and symbolically rebuilt after the war; today it is used mainly for exhibitions and events. Since the 18th century, St. Bartholomew's has been called Dom, although it was never a bishop's seat. In 1867 it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in its present style. It was again partially destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in the 1950s.
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During the Nazi era, the synagogues of the city were destroyed and the vast majority of the Jewish population fled or was killed. Frankonovurd or Vadum Francorum were the first names mentioned in written records from 794. It transformed to Frankenfort during the Middle Ages and then to Franckfort and Franckfurth in the modern era. 146 AD by its builder, a Frankish king named Zuna, who ruled over the province then known as Sicambri. This is however chronologically incompatible with the archaeologically demonstrated Roman occupation of the area around Nida fortress in modern Heddernheim. The name is derived from the Franconofurd of the Germanic tribe of the Franks; Furt (cf. English ford) where the river was shallow enough to be crossed on foot.
To rent a specific bike, riders either call a service number to get an unlock code or reserve the bike via the smartphone application. To return the bike, the rider locks it within a designated return area . Luminale — The "festival of light" has taken place biannually since 2000, parallel to the Light + building exhibition at the trade fair.
The first building to exceed the 95-meter-high cathedral was not an office building but a grain silo, the 120 m-high Henninger Turm, built from 1959 to 1961. Alte Stadtbibliothek, rebuilt 2003–2005, reconstruction of the old public library house originally built 1820–1825. Wertheim House is the only timbered house in the Altstadt district that survived the heavy bombings of World War II undamaged.
The Eschenheim Tower was erected at the beginning of the 15th century and served as a city gate as part of late-medieval fortifications. It is the oldest and most unaltered building in the Innenstadt district. Frankfurt Cathedral is not a cathedral, but the main Catholic church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew. The Gothic building was constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries on the foundation of an earlier church from the Merovingian time.
After the end of the war, Frankfurt became a part of the newly founded state of Hesse, consisting of the old Hesse- and the Prussian Hesse provinces. The Military Governor for the United States Zone (1945–1949) and the United States High Commissioner for Germany (1949–1952) had their headquarters in the IG Farben Building, intentionally left undamaged by the Allies' wartime bombardment. From 6 April to 17 May 1920, following military intervention to put down the Ruhr uprising, Frankfurt was occupied by French troops. The French claimed that Articles 42 to 44 of the peace treaty of Versailles concerning the demilitarization of the Rhineland had been broken. In 1924, Ludwig Landmann became the first Jewish mayor of the city, and led a significant expansion during the following years.
It was taken over by the city in 1942 and turned into a state art school. The two business schools are Goethe University Frankfurt's Goethe Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Frankfurt is one of two sites of the German National Library , the other being Leipzig. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek is the largest universal library in Germany. Uber ceased operations in Frankfurt on 9 November 2015 after operating in the city for 18 months.
Frankfurt's skyline, especially that of its central business district, is shaped by some of Europe's tallest skyscrapers, which has led to the term Mainhattan. The city has many notable various green areas and parks, including the central Wallanlagen, the City Forest, two major botanical gardens and the Frankfurt Zoo. In sports, the city is known as the home of the top-tier soccer club Eintracht Frankfurt, the Löwen Frankfurt ice hockey team, the basketball club Frankfurt Skyliners, the Frankfurt Marathon and the venue of Ironman Germany. It was also one of the host cities of the 1974 and 2006 FIFA World Cups. "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany.
The city is divided into 46 city districts , which are in turn divided into 121 city boroughs and 448 electoral districts . The 46 city districts combine into 16 area districts , which each have a district committee and chairperson. Postwar reconstruction took place in a sometimes simple modern style, thus changing Frankfurt's architectural face.
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The Grand Duchy remained a short episode lasting from 1810 to 1813 when the military tide turned in favor of the Anglo-Prussian-led allies that overturned the Napoleonic order. Dalberg abdicated in favor of Eugène de Beauharnais, which of course was only a symbolic action, as the latter effectively never ruled after the ruin of the French armies and Frankfurt's takeover by the allies. Among English speakers, the city is commonly known simply as Frankfurt, but Germans occasionally call it by its full name to distinguish it from the other German city of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Land of Brandenburg on the Polish border. As a part of early Franconia, the inhabitants were the early Franks, thus the city's name reveals its legacy as "the ford of the Franks on the Main". Our events feature a wide selection of home improvement professionals in a fun, interactive environment.
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