Altstadt made new: The heart of the city is an exciting ensemble of new buildings and faithful reconstructions.
Planning and building a new city district is a mammoth project. If it also involves an ensemble of modern new buildings and historical reconstructions, this is the highest level of difficulty in terms of urban planning. Frankfurt has successfully mastered the challenge. Since 2018, the New Old Town has been the new vibrant centre of the city. 35 new buildings have been constructed between the cathedral and Römerberg, 15 of which are faithful historical reconstructions. Where the medieval old town once stood, there was only concrete and wasteland after the bombing raids of the Second World War.
Today, smaller cultural centres have also moved into prime locations here. The Struwwelpeter Museum in Hinter dem Lämmchen street, for example, commemorates the Frankfurt doctor Heinrich Hoffmann, who wrote the world-famous children's book for his three-year-old son in 1844. The poet Friedrich Stoltze is also honoured as a strong voice for democracy with a museum in Haus Weißer Bock, which is open to the public free of charge. And for the wit of his poems in dialect. He wrote the Frankfurt classic: "Es is kaa Stadt uff der weite Welt, die so merr wie mei Frankfort gefällt, un es will merr net in mein Kopp enei: Wie kann nor e Mensch net von Frankfort sei!?"
Planning and building a new city district is a mammoth project. If it also involves an ensemble of modern new buildings and historical reconstructions, this is the highest level of difficulty in terms of urban planning. Frankfurt has successfully mastered the challenge. Since 2018, the New Old Town has been the new vibrant centre of the city. 35 new buildings have been constructed between the cathedral and Römerberg, 15 of which are faithful historical reconstructions. Where the medieval old town once stood, there was only concrete and wasteland after the bombing raids of the Second World War.
Today, smaller cultural centres have also moved into prime locations here. The Struwwelpeter Museum in Hinter dem Lämmchen street, for example, commemorates the Frankfurt doctor Heinrich Hoffmann, who wrote the world-famous children's book for his three-year-old son in 1844. The poet Friedrich Stoltze is also honoured as a strong voice for democracy with a museum in Haus Weißer Bock, which is open to the public free of charge. And for the wit of his poems in dialect. He wrote the Frankfurt classic: "Es is kaa Stadt uff der weite Welt, die so merr wie mei Frankfort gefällt, un es will merr net in mein Kopp enei: Wie kann nor e Mensch net von Frankfort sei!?"
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