I have no idea but they’re cute….witches hats!

Same rice, different languages.

Mr Quick by Ottmar Horl 1999

Main train station Frankfurt

A coin operated  model train set

I remembered the name Willy Brandt but didn’t remember that he’d won the Novel Peace Prize in 1971    

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1971/brandt-facts.html

“The Altstadt (old town) is a city district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Innenstadt I.

     The Altstadt is located on the northern Main river bank. It is completely surrounded by the Innenstadt district, Frankfurt’s present-day city centre. On the opposite side of the Main is the district of Sachsenhausen.

     As the historical center of Frankfurt, the Altstadt has existed from Frankfurt’s beginnings, dating back to 794 (first mentioning of Frankfurt). It used to be part of the original Innenstadt area, which lay inside of the city walls, the Staufenmauer. Only very small sections of the Altstadt were rebuilt after World War II and so only a few old buildings are actually preserved. The Altstadt contains many of Frankfurt’s most important sights, including the Römerberg plaza with the famed Römer city hall and many other middle-age style buildings which are mostly actually reconstructions.  Nearby is the St. Bartholomäus Cathedral and the Paulskirche, the short-lived seat of the German National Assembly in 1848-49.

     The Dom-Römer Project is a current reconstruction project for the old town quarter between the Römer square and the Frankfurt Cathedral. “

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altstadt_(Frankfurt_am_Main)

I was really disappointed to find it mostly a reconstruction and am not sure how I feel about that.  I think I’d rather just see images in a museum than walk through what seems more like an “amusement park.”

The present-day Frankfurt Cathedral was originally a Carolingian chapel. Although called a cathedral since the 18th century, it never was an episcopal church in the true sense.

With the relocation of the coronation ceremonies for Holy Roman kings from Aachen to Frankfurt in 1562, the monastery received the honorary title of "cathedral", which has remained to this day.

On 14 August 1867 a fire ravaged much of the cathedral. Soon thereafter, the cathedral was comprehensively reconstructed in neo-Gothic style under the supervision of Franz Josef Denzinger.

Air raids at the end of Second World War once again badly damaged the cathedral. Reconstruction work lasted from 1950 to 1953.

http://www.frankfurt-tourismus.de/cms/tourismussuite/en/

Mary lighting a candle

The organ seemed quite amazing

An example of the art work

This was a fun shop of 20^th century “stuff.”

Interesting gallery window display.  I liked the “man woman” painting.  It’s a man with a beard and mustache facing forward / a woman in profile also sharing the eye on the right.

The bridges weren’t bike or baby carriage friendly but the walking/biking paths were lovely

A landmark just near the marina reminded me of the Gherkin in London.