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Delve into Westend-Süd
The district Westend-Süd of Frankfurt am Main in Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt (Hesse) is a subburb in Germany about 264 mi south-west of Berlin, the country's capital town.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Offenbach, Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe, Egelsbach, Dietzenbach and Niederdorfelden. 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
Clarion Collection Frankfurt Central Station
25hours by Levi's
Manhattan
Mercure Hotel Frankfurt City Messe
Concorde
Hilton Garden Inn Frankfurt City Centre
Dirazi Guesthouse
Beethoven
Holiday Inn FRANKFURT - ALTE OPER
Palmenhof
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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 Bank
Deutsche Bank AG is a German global banking and financial services company with its headquarters in the Deutsche Bank Twin Towers in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and the emerging markets. In 2009, Deutsche Bank was the largest foreign exchange dealer in the world with a market share of 21 percent.
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.
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.
Alte Oper
The Alte Oper (Old Opera) is a concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was inaugurated in 1880, bombed in 1944, and rebuilt slowly in the 1970s, reopening only in 1981. The city's opera company operates now at a nearby modern building while the Alte Oper serves as home to the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Important works have been premiered at the Alte Oper, including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937.
Silberturm
Silberturm (English: Silver Tower), formerly known as Dresdner-Bank-Hochhaus and Jürgen-Ponto-Hochhaus, is a 32-storey, 166.3 m skyscraper in the Bahnhofsviertel district of Frankfurt, Germany. It had been the tallest building in Germany from 1978 until 1990. Until 2009 it had been part of the headquarters of Dresdner Bank, one of Germany's largest banks until its merger with Commerzbank in 2009. As of 2012 the main tenant is Deutsche Bahn.
Frankfurt Central Station
Frankfurt Central Station (Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof) is the busiest railway station in Frankfurt, Germany. In terms of railway traffic, it is the busiest railway station in Germany. With about 350,000 passengers per day the station is the second most frequented railway station in Germany and one of the most frequented in Europe.
Opernplatz
The Opernplatz (Opera Square) is a central city square in Frankfurt, Germany, located in the district of Innenstadt and within the central business district known as the Bankenviertel. It is named for the Alte Oper (Old Opera) building, which today serves as a concert hall.
IG Farben Building
The IG Farben Building or the Poelzig Building was built from 1928 to 1930 as the corporate headquarters of the IG Farben conglomerate in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is also known as the Poelzig Ensemble or Poelzig Complex, and previously as the IG Farben Complex, and the General Creighton W. Abrams Building. The building's original design was the subject of a competition which was eventually won by the architect Hans Poelzig.
Opernturm
OpernTurm (English: Opera Tower) is a 43-storey 170 m skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. The property is situated opposite Alte Oper on the corner of Bockenheimer Landstraße and Bockenheimer Anlage. The building was designed by Christoph Mäckler. The project developer was Tishman Speyer, a US firm that previously built the Sony Center in Berlin and the Messeturm in Frankfurt.
Inverted Collar and Tie
Inverted Collar and Tie is a sculpture designed in 1994 by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. It is located in Frankfurt's Westend in front of the Westend Tower. The DG Bank ordered the artwork in 1993. It was made in California. Inverted Collar and Tie shows a huge collar of a shirt and a necktie that are mounted top down on a pedestal. The necktie spreads its ends upwards as if it is fluttering lightly in the wind.
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.
Bundesliga scandal (1971)
Bundesliga scandal (Der Bundesligaskandal) refers to the malicious, for-profit manipulation of games in the 1970–71 German football championship season.
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.
Frankfurter Büro Center
Frankfurter Büro Center (English: Frankfurt Office Centre), also known as FBC, is a 40-storey, 142 m skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany.
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.
Japan Center (Frankfurt)
Japan Center is a high-rise building in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. The 115 meter high office tower with 27 floors was completed in 1996. The building was designed by Berlin architect Joachim Ganz and cost approximately 200 million Euros. The strict geometric forms based on the measure of a Japanese tatami mat (0.9 m × 1.8 m) and terra cotta stone cladding correspond to classical Japanese design. Its wide roof reminisces the shape of a Japanese stone lantern.
Garden Tower
Garden Tower is a high-rise building in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It was built between 1973 and 1976 as the headquarters of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen and was one of the first high-rise buildings in Frankfurt's financial district, the Bankenviertel. The building, designed by architecture firm Novotny Mähner Assoziierte, was commonly referred to as Helaba-Hochhaus until Helaba moved to a new location, the 200-metres-high Main Tower, in 1999.
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.
Eurotheum
The Eurotheum is a 31-storey, 110 m skyscraper in the city center of Frankfurt, Germany. The building was constructed in 1999 to coincide with the adjacent Main Tower, and is one of a few such in Frankfurt that offers office and residential space. Each floor of the tower has 17,000 m of office space, which is occupied mostly by the European Central Bank as an extension of their headquarters at Willy-Brandt-Platz. The 22nd floor has a public bar lounge.
Park Tower (Frankfurt)
Park Tower, formerly known as SGZ-Hochhaus, is a high-rise building in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. It was built in 1972 as the administrative headquarters of the Südwestdeutschen Genossenschafts-Zentralbank. The then 96-metre high building with a black and silver facade was briefly the tallest skyscraper in Frankfurt. It is located in Reuterweg near the Opernplatz. Between July 2005 and autumn 2007, the building was gutted completely and radically restructured.
Frankfurt Central Station (underground station)
Frankfurt am Main Central Station underground station (German: Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof Tiefbahnhof) is a four-track S-Bahn station under Frankfurt Central Station. It is the busiest rapid transit station in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The underground station forms together with Hauptwache station and Konstablerwache station the key nodes in the network of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn, a rail network that serves the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region.
Frankfurt Taunusanlage station
Frankfurt am Main Taunusanlage station (German: Bahnhof Frankfurt am Main Taunusanlage) is metro station in the city centre of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is served by eight S-Bahn lines (S1–S6, S8, S9). The station was opened with the first section of the Frankfurt City Tunnel in May 1978. It consists of two tracks, surrounding a central platform.
Frankfurt western stations
The Frankfurt western stations were a group of three stations on the western edge of the former city walls of Frankfurt am Main, Germany between the modern Willy-Brandt-Platz, then the location of Gallustor and Taunustor. They were replaced by Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof in 1888.
Taunusturm
TaunusTurm (originally Kaiserkarree) is the project name for a complex of two buildings, a 170 m skyscraper and a 60 m high-rise residential building, currently under construction in Frankfurt, Germany. The construction site is located in Frankfurt's financial district, the Bankenviertel, at the corner of Neue Mainzer Straße and Taunustor. The site borders a park named Taunusanlage, which gave the tower its name (the Taunus is a low mountain range north of Frankfurt).
Goethestraße
Goethestraße is a luxury shopping street in the city centre of Frankfurt, Germany, located between Opernplatz (in the west) and Börsenstraße (in the east) in the district of Innenstadt and within the central business district known as the Bankenviertel. It is a parallel street of Freßgass. The street is Germany's third busiest luxury shopping street. The street was constructed between 1892 and 1894 and named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.