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Discover Bockenheim
The district Bockenheim of Frankfurt am Main in Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt (Hesse) is a subburb in Germany about 264 mi south-west of Berlin, the country's capital city.
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While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe, Offenbach, Egelsbach, Niederdorfelden and Erzhausen. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 10°C / 51 °F
Morning Temperature | 10°C / 49 °F |
Evening Temperature | 5°C / 41 °F |
Night Temperature | 4°C / 40 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 17% |
Air Humidity | 84% |
Air Pressure | 997 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (9 mph) from North-East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Heavy intensity rain |
Wednesday, 20th of November 2024
4°C (40 °F)
1°C (34 °F)
Rain and snow, moderate breeze, scattered clouds.
Thursday, 21st of November 2024
3°C (37 °F)
1°C (33 °F)
Snow, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
4°C (39 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Light snow, moderate breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Grandhotel Hessischer Hof
Frankfurt Messe
Novum Imperial Messe
Moevenpick
SAKS Urban Design Hotel Frankfurt
Beethoven
Palmenhof
Maritim
An der Messe
Frankfurt Marriott Hotel
Videos from this area
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Sprengung 116 Meter Hochhaus (AfE-Turm) in Frankfurt am 02.02.2014 - Full HD, Zeitlupe & Opferkamera
Am 02.02.2014 wurde um 10:04 Uhr der AfE-Turm in Frankfurt gesprengt. 950 kg Sprengstoff waren nötig, um das 1972 erbaute Gebäude zum Einsturz zu bringen. Es war mit 116 Metern das höchste...
U-Bahn Frankfurt (Main) - Bockenheimer Warte D-Ebene (U4) (2015)
Die U-Bahn / Stadtbahn Station Bockenheimer Warte, D-Ebene der VGF in Frankfurt am Main wurde am 10.02.2001 eröffnet. Sie ist die vorläufige Endstation der Linie U4 in nordwestlicher Richtung...
[Massiver Horneinsatz/Rettungsgasse] BF + RTW JUH im Verkehrschaos Frankfurt/Main (HD)
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 - Parragon Books
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Linkin Park - One Step Closer Live 2007 at Rock Am Ring (HQ)
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Palmen-Express in the Palmengarten (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
This video was taken in the Palmengarten, a botanical garden in the German city Frankfurt am Main. It shows the "Palmen-Express" (some kind of a tram) going through the area.
IAA 2013 VW PK Deutsch
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Deutsche Bundesbank
The Deutsche Bundesbank (German for German Federal Bank) is the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany and as such part of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). Due to its strength and former size, the Bundesbank is the most influential member of the ESCB. Both the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank (ECB) are located in Frankfurt, Germany. It is sometimes referred to as "Buba" for Bundesbank.
Europaturm
The Europaturm ("Tower of Europe") is a 337.5 metre (1,107.3 ft) high telecommunications tower in Frankfurt, Germany.
Goethe University Frankfurt
The Goethe University Frankfurt is a university which was founded in 1914 as a Citizens' University, which means that, while it was a State university of Prussia, it had been founded and financed by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt am Main, a unique feature in German university history. It was named in 1932 after one of the most famous natives of Frankfurt, the poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Today, the university has 38,000 students, on 4 major campuses.
Goethe-Gymnasium, Frankfurt
Goethe-Gymnasium is a secondary school in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. It is situated near the Hauptbahnhof. It is currently the only state funded school in Germany that offers students the option of taking International Baccalaureate examination. However, contrary to the IBO's IB programme, the final exam is offered in year 13, not year 12. The Goethe-Gymnasium offers Japanese as a third foreign language, which is rare in Germany.
Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented, as well as the number of visitors. It is held annually in mid-October at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The first three days are restricted exclusively to trade visitors; the general public can attend on the last two.
Hammering Man
Hammering Man is a series of monumental kinetic sculptures designed by Jonathan Borofsky which have been installed in various cities around the world.
Palmengarten
The Palmengarten (22 hectares) is one of two botanical gardens in Frankfurt am Main and the largest garden of its kind in Germany. It is located in the Westend-Süd district. Like many public sites in Frankfurt, it was privately financed and implemented by the architect Heinrich Siesmayer. Work was completed in 1871 and opened to the public. One colorful visit was from the American entertainer Buffalo Bill who brought his Western show in 1890.
Naturmuseum Senckenberg
The Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main is the second largest museum of natural history in Germany. It is particularly popular with children, who enjoy the extensive collection of dinosaur skeletons: Senckenberg boasts the largest exhibition of large dinosaurs in Europe. One particular treasure is a dinosaur fossil with unique, preserved scaled skin. The museum contains the world's largest and most diverse collection of stuffed birds with about 2000 specimens.
Messe Frankfurt
Messe Frankfurt GmbH (literally "Frankfurt Trade Fair") is one of the world's largest trade fair companies with 538,000,000 Euros in sales and 1,891 active employees. The group has a global network of 28 subsidiaries, five branch offices, and 52 international sales partners. Thus, Messe Frankfurt is present in over 150 countries to their customers. At more than 30 locations in the world events "made by Messe Frankfurt" take place.
Messe Torhaus
Messe Torhaus is a high rise building in the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt, Germany. It was designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers. Built by Hochtief, 400 workers constructed the 60,000 ton building in a record time of 13 months from 1983 to 1984. Its unusual shape and use of materials resembles a guillotine. The building houses the administration of Messe Frankfurt as well as services like a kindergarten and the press centre.
Grüneburgpark
The Grüneburgpark is a park in the Westend district of Frankfurt, whose name derives from the "Green castle", which stood on the site in the 14th century. In 1789 the banker Peter Heinrich von Bethmann Metzler acquired the property and designed the park. In the following years the great thinkers of the day met here, among them Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Bettina von Arnim.
Festhalle Frankfurt
The Festhalle Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, built from 1907 to 1909, is a multi-purpose hall at the Frankfurter Messegelände. The interior of about 40 metres high dome provides an area of 5,646 square metres up to 4,880 seats. Together with the two tiers up to 9,843 people will in the banquet hall space, unseated at the interior than 13,500.
Frauenfriedenskirche
The Frauenfriedenskirche (German for Our Lady's Peace Church) is a Roman Catholic church in Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main). It was built by Hans Herkommer from 1927 to 1929, on a rise then known as Ginnheimer Höhe. The church is an unusual example of interwar modernist church architecture, combining elements of expressionism with the "New Objectivity" of Bauhaus architecture, and using monumental mosaics for external and internal decoration.
Westend Gate
Westend Gate, formerly known as Plaza Büro Center and commonly referred to as The Marriott, is a 47-storey, 159 m skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. It had been the tallest building in Germany from 1976 until 1978 when it was surpassed by the Silberturm, which is also located in Frankfurt.
Bettinaschule
The Bettinaschule (English: Bettina School) is a Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The eponym is Bettina von Arnim (1785–1859). The school has approximately 71 teachers and 1,028 students.
Botanischer Garten der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
The Botanischer Garten der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (7 hectares), also known as the Botanischer Garten Frankfurt am Main, is a botanical garden and arboretum maintained by the Goethe University. It is located at Siesmayerstraße 72, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and opens daily in the warmer months. First Garden: near the Eschenheimer Tor (1767-1907).
Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management
The Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management (GSEFM), based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, offers quantitative and research-oriented graduate-level education programs.
Tower 185
Tower 185 is a 55-storey, 200 m skyscraper in the Gallus district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is the 4th tallest building in Frankfurt and the 4th tallest in Germany, tied with Main Tower. The anchor tenant of the tower is the German branch office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has leased 60,000 m . The tower was initially planned to be 185 m with 50 stories, however, when plans changed to increase the height by an additional five floors, its name was not changed.
AfE-Turm
AfE Turm (English: AfE Tower) is a 32-storey, 116 m skyscraper in the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt, Germany. The building belongs to the Bockenheim campus of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and houses the offices and seminar rooms of the departments of Social Sciences and Education. AfE is an acronym for Abteilung für Erziehungswissenschaft (English: Department of Pedagogy); however, this department never moved into the tower because it was closed before the construction was finished.
Kastor und Pollux
Kastor & Pollux buildings]] Kastor und Pollux, also known as Forum Frankfurt, are two high rise buildings in the Gallus district of Frankfurt, Germany. The unequal twin towers were named after the Dioscuri in Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux. The towers are located at Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage next to the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds, between the Messeturm and the Tower 185. The towers were constructed between 1994 and 1997. Before that the site had been the headquarters of Deutsche Bahn.
IBC Tower
IBC Tower is a skyscraper in the IBC building complex in Bockenheim district of Frankfurt, Germany. At 30-storeys and 112 m, it is considerably the taller than the other two buildings named IBC Tower A, and IBC Tower B, which are both ten storeys. The IBC was built by Deutsche Bank on a design by architect Kohler and was completed in 2003. It is situated at Theodor-Heuss-Allee close to the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds.
Frankfurt Messe station
Frankfurt am Main Messe station (German: Bahnhof Frankfurt am Main Messe) is an S-Bahn station in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in the district of Bockenheim in the middle of the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds. The station was opened in 1999 to improve the fair’s public transport connections. It consists of two platform tracks facing a central platform. Constructing the platform was a complex procedure as the space between the tracks had to be enlarged.
Frankfurt West station
Frankfurt am Main West station (German: Bahnhof Frankfurt am Main West or Frankfurt Westbahnhof) is a railway station for regional and S-Bahn services in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on the Main-Weser Railway, in the district of Bockenheim, near the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds and the Bockenheim campus of the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Europaviertel (Frankfurt am Main)
The Europaviertel (European quarter) is a housing and business quarter development in the Gallus district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Development work began in 2005, and the development is slated for completion by 2019. The area will have offices, hotels, apartments, parks, shopping, and leisure facilities. After its completion, Europaviertel will approximately have a population of 30,000 workers and 10,000 residents.
Frankfurt University Library
The Frankfurt University Library is the library for the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.