I walked those streets back around between 1978 to 1981 when I was stationed there and it was pretty much the same ...I really miss Frankfurt I had a lot of fun there
No, it was not and no comparison to the 70's and 80's. Even in my 20's (25 years ago) it wasn't that bad there. Frankfurt and basically whole Germany is full with arabian gangs and syrian and afgahnian criminals. Even the 'drug area' were much more peaceful back in 90's. No knife murderers and no gang rapes.
My wife and I just walked those same streets - AT NIGHT! We stayed at a nice hotel near the river and decided to walk north to dinner before sunset. I told her we needed to find a different street to walk back after dinner and we picked an even worse street! Open drug usage and dealing along each block. At least the people all seemed to be more interested in getting high than bothering us. The next day we waked south, across the river into a really nice area of the city. I would recommend a cab or Uber to anyone who is not comfortable with sharing sidewalks with such conditions.
Exactly this. They mind their business and does not care about passerbys. The author of the video thought he can gather more attention if he depict danger where none is.
I have seen same type of people in my last visit end of July 2023 but not in 2002 in my first visit, but train station is really impressive and tidy except confusing train timetables. Even some locals do not know which is right platform to wait for your train
Anyone in Germany will tell you that Frankfurt/Crackfurt is disgustingly close to the train station, but it's not nearly as fked up as some of the train stations in our friends across the atlantic ^^
Ich bin nach dem Abi regelmäßig nach Frankfurt gefahren, weil ich dort studieren wollte. Es gab natürlich schon immer Drogenabhängige. Das gibt es in jeder Stadt. Come to Hamburg and we'll talk again
@@christinmeyer1095 Hamburg ist da um einiges besser dran. Zum Glück. Das ist wirklich schlimm. Sowas habe ich sonst auch nur in San Francisco wahrgenommen. Skid Row Los Angeles soll auch so sein oder in Philadelphia.
@@chris_kaos Ich weiss das es in Frankfurt ist schlimm i War es damals auch schon. Aber ist es wirklich sooviel schlimmer geworden? Wenn man in Hamburg an der falschen Seite am Hauptbahnhof rauskommt ist es auch schlimm.
@@christinmeyer1095Not in all countries, in Russia I’ve never seen drug addicts nowhere near railway stations and I’ve been to Novosibirsk, Kazan, Rostov, Sochi etc, wish your country all the best though, hope you guys can deal with this problem 🙏🏼
Dude, I was stationed in Frankfurt 1981-1983 when I was in the army. That area is not going downhill. It's been sketchy going back to my time living there.
Thank you for your comment. Some other people stationed around there in the 1980s said something similar. I guess it is like Times Square. It has always been a shady area.
I was there as early as 1986. It was extremely bad then, and it seems to get worse and worse every year since. Drug deals right out in the open. Lots of cash exchanging hands. Prostitution (which is legalized there). There are plenty of people who are high, strung out, and some of them are angry and violent. I've been all over Germany. This is just about as bad as it gets in the whole country. Most all of Germany is beautiful and very safe.
Thank you for describing how it was back in the 1980s. It sounds kind of like Times Square in NYC. In the 1980s it was bad. In the 2000s it was cleaned up, but now is bad again.
Not too far from the train station is a shopping area and also you have the river which is nice. It is not all like this. I did another video of the shopping area.
@@youwanttoknowmyname9258 The shopping Area is called Zeil. You can go there with a train to Konstablerwache or Hauptwache. Near Konstablerwache is also the Dome St. Bartholomäus, a pretty impressive medival church building. Alternatively if you're into dinosaurs there is the senkenberg museum near Hauptbahnhof which can be reached by tram. It has a lot of fossile sceletons and stuffed animals.
Why you would travel to germany, no its not safe for solo females trust me! Expecially if you are traveling alone! There is nothing to see in Europe, it's ugly and sad.Go to USA at least you will be safe and it is really really beautiful.
I was there in Frankfurt 2012 it was still kind of rough, but, compared to tent villages in every city of the US with gangs, psycho meth heads roaming, no comparison.
Walked there a week ago, someone was doing crack in the middle of the day. but no one was bothering me. There was a different story when i took my camera out and took a few shots of a station and some trams. Some guy on a bike started saying something to me in german which i didn't understand, i said that i don't speak german, but he just continued, so i walked away. A girl walking past said that he is saying that i shouldn't shoot people without permission. I think this has nothing to do with what i shoot, but he just saw a camera and saw it as an opportunity to scare me or scam me or whatever. I didn't take my camera out in that area anymore to avoid unnecessary bullshit.
She was right. Nearly no one in Germany likes that. There is a law, that it´s forbidden to shoot photos without permission of the other person. That has nothing to do with that area.
I stayed in a hotel near the Train Station last weekend and it certainly is ropey at best. No one confronted me and as a 40 year old male I felt ok but the video is pretty accurate and there are some worse streets around Hbf. I didn't see any trouble but it is a little intimidating.
honsetly I thought it would have been pretty bad. This is like a better than average walk in Vancouver Canada. Just search Chinatown/east Hastings Vancouver
Was recently there on the platfrom and watched a girl that was around 16 crying in panick while trying to shoot something up. Just a place to avoid. Espacially at night the inside of the trainstation turns into Zombie town. Got robbed there once too while waiting in line for that asian food stand. It pains me that more and more trainstations in germany look like this.
I live in Brazil and I'm afraid to be in a hotel near this train station, lol.. Yes, my country sucks (regarding violence) but I'm afraid. I'm thinking about to visit Hamburg instead.
Hamburg is the same, but both are harmless. I explained above what is the logic why it is pretty secure. I walked Frankfurt almost every night and day (I am what seems to be a sex addict, although I never considered myself to be one) for 15 years and some years Hamburg too. In all this time I had not one problem.
@@MarkyTeriyakiEuropeans will gaslight you into thinking these problems don’t exist. Frankfurt is a mess, but they’ll shift the conversation back to the US ignoring any problem that exists in their “perfect” countries.
And I'm traveling to Frankfurt by myself for the first time. I'm freaking out now. Still trying to find a hotel. Where is the exact location for this again?
Dont. First, you can avoid this area, this is only 4-5 short streets. You can take the Underground directly from the train station and go to other parts of the city. But even if you want to cross this area, you are perfectly safe. Nobody will care about you.
That’s the red light district, pal. A lot of johns and drug addicts hang around over there. It’s not a good place to be but it’s unlikely that someone will jump you during the day unless you interact with the people hanging around there. I wouldn’t walk around at night, though.
@RJSnaiper Your comment is not to the point. The Frankfurt train station is quite tidy. What the video is mostly showing is the situation in the red light district with its junkies and human wrecks. That is basically limited to portions of Elbestraße and Taunusstraße.
For the people that doesn't know. Germany have way more homeless people total and per 1000 than the USA. In fact most European countries homeless problems are worse than in America. The US actually have one of the lowest rates at 16 per 10000. Way lower than Germany's 31.4
@@eddiec5202Not saying that this is necessarily the case but I could see European countries counting people in temporary accommodation (e.g. fully funded hotels due to eligibility for government funded housing in cases of a housing shortage) as homeless and the US either not having programs like this or not counting them as homeless - the numbers might not be comparable.
It’s gotten worse and worse in the past few years and to stay away from trouble I recommend you don’t visit Crackfurt it’s really not worth it. There is so many beautiful places in Germany, you really don’t have to see that area. It’s like telling people to avoid Detroit in the 90s or Memphis or the Hoover street in south central LA. It used to be a very beautiful city but now it’s just ghetto
I just "skimmed" the video, but I saw nothing, only rainy, unpleasant weather, a darker image of the streets, as if they were dirty, but God knows if they were, and frowning people. I miss the danger the author is talking about in this picture. I'm not saying the danger isn't there, but you can't see it in this video. Maybe the author saw it there.
Thank you for posting this! I missed my connecting flight in Frankfurt this past summer and thought it'd be a good idea to walk around the city for a while. I was encountered by endless blocks of what you've shown here. Upon returning home I was having a hard time explaining to my friends how shitty the experience had been without exaggerating, but now I got proof!
This is only around the Central Train Station (Bahnhofsviertel/Red Light District) which is 1 square Kilometer in SIze and the rest of the City is around 240 square Kilometers.
You cannot generalise things about Frankfurt. I would say, the area around the Hauptbahnhof are the only ones that make you feel unsafe. But cops are always around, so I have never felt unsafe as a woman mostly travelling alone. Just 800 meters from here is where I live in a place called Westend Sud in downtown Frankfurt, right next to the Messeturm. It’s like the diplomatic quarters with consulates and other main buildings. You will see that these areas close to the Hauptbahnhof are really beautiful.
I walked through there in 2019, it was the same. I have to say though that I never felt personally threatened by anyone, but I agree it wasn't pleasant to look at. The reality is that no one there's looking to hurt you, they just seem to mind their own business. So unless you're looking to try and steal someone's crack pipe, I think you'll be ok lol. I also have to say that some of the comments people left in this video are ridiculous. It amazed me how many people who watched this automatically assumed that all of Frankfurt was like this, and some were even contemplating canceling their trips over it lmao. I've been all over the world, and Frankfurt is one of the nicest place's I've been to. Of course like anywhere, it's going to have bad areas. That's actually the general rule about areas in the vicinity of major train stations throughout Europe.
Hi! Going to take train from Berlin to Frankfurt next year. We just want to stay one day in Frankfurt to explore. Can you suggest a hotel in Frankfurt close to train station? Is it safe to just take a cab to hotel?
I have been, this place is magical, there's such an incredible chill on these streets and attitude of nit giving fu.. whatever. Crazy city the most atmospheric City I have ever been to
To my knowledge, the reason why is because after Frankfurt was demolished by bombs in World War II, the city chose to redesign itself in the (at the time) new American style instead of recreating the old city. It also permits tall skyscrapers. Other destroyed cities chose to restore themselves back to their original form.
The casinos are dangerous if you are stupid enough to let them lure you in. They will rip you off. But nobody forces you to go in and even then if you are not stupid to get drunk you will be ok. As for the brothels, the services are the cheapest in entire Germany. Once I met a group of 4 young french men and we talked a bit. They counted me that they share the cost for gas and every second weekend come from France to empty their balls. Even with the huge distance it was worth it.
I can assure you it was the same for 30 years. I hated Frankfurt and never ventured out into the city. I also don't understand why this kind of situation is tolerated.
That is the scary part. Some of the side streets look like Kensington with the Tranq zombies. I am not kidding. I did not feel safe videoing them at night in case they saw me.
It's Frankfurt "Ahm Mine". It means [the] Frankfurt (there's are others) on the Main river. Think of Stratford upon Avon. But probably that reference to Shakespeare is elusive to you. The a in "am" is short, and in German, it's the second vowel in a pair that takes the pronunciation, as in, you know, Klein. Here's an idea: If you're going to make a video purporting to tell others what to do in a country, learn the pronunciations. I've walked that street a number of times. You'll be OK if you have your wits about you. Or you can take any number of S or U bahns that include the Hbf on their line.
I lived in Frankfurt for 6 years, and you must be a woozy my army buddies and I would walk from Sachin̈husen. To the Bhanhoff late nite or early morning to go back to esbourn and no one ever messed around. Frankfurt Uber alles.
I call it as I see it. I also did a video on nicer parts of Frankfurt. I don't need to speak German to see what is in front of my eyes. I say the same thing in NYC. Don't shoot the messenger.
What you are seeing is called the "Frankfurter Weg". Frankfurt is one of four cities in Europe that doesn't force addicts to the outskirts and instead leaves them in their quarter. The Frankfurt main station district is completely save and these people just live there. Yes, it is not what you see usually, but it is enough to treat them as human beings, which they are, and nothing will happen. The area is completely safe, so don't get your panties in a bunch.
Ye that town isn't so nice. I was there for the world rally championship and that town made me not want to go to Germany again. At night it's bad people throwing glasses at me and my partner it was a little scary and people shooting up in the street as we walk past like it's the norm.🤷🏻
One of the things of Germany though, you will not get robbed with weapons like in the United States or Latin America. Europe is safe, no matter what you want to say, compared to America it is super safe.
You are so brave...you have saved me a trip to frankfurt i wanted to make...i was going to stay in city centre planning to shop eat out...cant believe this is frankfurt germany... Thank you so much for making this video which helps people to think carefully before visiting here...
Actually most areas are safe here. I am a woman who sometimes have to go to the grocery stores in the Kaiser Strasse. As long as you’re walking in broad daylight and just finish up your tasks and not loitering around, you will be fine. I had to even visit the Vodafone store right there at around 8pm. These creeps were there. But they didn’t even bother us.
I lived in eckenheimer landstrasse in 1990 and even then walking through the park at the top end of eckenheimer at night was dangerous. I remember 2 Turkish guys attacked me walking home from a bar and they took my f k n designer runners 😂😂😂😂😂 and haupbanhoff was also a place you wouldn't want to spend to much time at. Even back then it was seedy and criminal activity going on.
Robbing people for their Adidas and Pumas was big in NYC in the 1980s. Some people got killed for their sneakers. I didn't know that was a problem in Germany too.
@@ToGoIsToKnow Yes I have lived in the US. Dusseldorf is ranked among the most livable cities on Earth. There aren't any American cities in the top 20. Most of America if you dont own a car you are screwed. The subway in NYC is disgusting but at least that is an alternative to driving. You cherry picked a sketchy part of Frankfurt to push baloney on your channel. Frankfurt is actually a nice city but very expensive.
I remember spending about half the year in europe and half the year in america every year,and after seeing the steady decline of western europe,i would only spend time in central and western europe..i live the balkans. It's heartbreaking to see this.i've been to that train station a LOT. granted,there's unbelievable puzza and beer in germany and belgium( mostly belgium) and the schnitzl in germany is amazing,but those things aren't worth going back there for
May be it become disgusting in the last 5-10 years, but not because of this part. (This one was exactly the same in the 80s too.) What makes the city disgusting are the green (no cars, everything for the bikes) and woke policies.
I walked those streets back around between 1978 to 1981 when I was stationed there and it was pretty much the same ...I really miss Frankfurt I had a lot of fun there
Wow, thanks for commenting. I did not know this area has been bad that far back.
That area was even worse back then. „Taunusanlagen“ was an open drug area and needles everywhere.
Did u go to the shweg?
No, it was not and no comparison to the 70's and 80's. Even in my 20's (25 years ago) it wasn't that bad there. Frankfurt and basically whole Germany is full with arabian gangs and syrian and afgahnian criminals. Even the 'drug area' were much more peaceful back in 90's. No knife murderers and no gang rapes.
@@sascha2634 crime rates are actually quite low, knife-crime was higher in the 70s
My wife and I just walked those same streets - AT NIGHT! We stayed at a nice hotel near the river and decided to walk north to dinner before sunset. I told her we needed to find a different street to walk back after dinner and we picked an even worse street! Open drug usage and dealing along each block. At least the people all seemed to be more interested in getting high than bothering us. The next day we waked south, across the river into a really nice area of the city. I would recommend a cab or Uber to anyone who is not comfortable with sharing sidewalks with such conditions.
Yes, it is a shame to see people living like this.
@@ToGoIsToKnow America is worst.
Why would they even be interested in you, maybe if they were gangsters
That’s the designated area.
Exactly this. They mind their business and does not care about passerbys. The author of the video thought he can gather more attention if he depict danger where none is.
I have seen same type of people in my last visit end of July 2023 but not in 2002 in my first visit, but train station is really impressive and tidy except confusing train timetables. Even some locals do not know which is right platform to wait for your train
It is a little confusing. There is an information booth which is helpful.
Anyone in Germany will tell you that Frankfurt/Crackfurt is disgustingly close to the train station, but it's not nearly as fked up as some of the train stations in our friends across the atlantic ^^
Ich bin nach dem Abi regelmäßig nach Frankfurt gefahren, weil ich dort studieren wollte. Es gab natürlich schon immer Drogenabhängige. Das gibt es in jeder Stadt. Come to Hamburg and we'll talk again
@@christinmeyer1095 Hamburg ist da um einiges besser dran. Zum Glück. Das ist wirklich schlimm. Sowas habe ich sonst auch nur in San Francisco wahrgenommen. Skid Row Los Angeles soll auch so sein oder in Philadelphia.
@@chris_kaos Ich weiss das es in Frankfurt ist schlimm i War es damals auch schon. Aber ist es wirklich sooviel schlimmer geworden? Wenn man in Hamburg an der falschen Seite am Hauptbahnhof rauskommt ist es auch schlimm.
@@chris_kaosyes Philadelphia is pretty bad I've been to Pittsburgh believe it or not Pittsburgh is much nicer
@@christinmeyer1095Not in all countries, in Russia I’ve never seen drug addicts nowhere near railway stations and I’ve been to Novosibirsk, Kazan, Rostov, Sochi etc, wish your country all the best though, hope you guys can deal with this problem 🙏🏼
Dude, I was stationed in Frankfurt 1981-1983 when I was in the army. That area is not going downhill. It's been sketchy going back to my time living there.
Thank you for your comment. Some other people stationed around there in the 1980s said something similar. I guess it is like Times Square. It has always been a shady area.
Just exited the train station and walked towards my hotel, I wasn't bothered but this truly caught me off guard
I was there as early as 1986. It was extremely bad then, and it seems to get worse and worse every year since. Drug deals right out in the open. Lots of cash exchanging hands. Prostitution (which is legalized there). There are plenty of people who are high, strung out, and some of them are angry and violent. I've been all over Germany. This is just about as bad as it gets in the whole country. Most all of Germany is beautiful and very safe.
Thank you for describing how it was back in the 1980s. It sounds kind of like Times Square in NYC. In the 1980s it was bad. In the 2000s it was cleaned up, but now is bad again.
We have 7 hours layover in Frankfurt , can some one suggest a better place to vist for couple of hours to feel the Frankfurt
Not too far from the train station is a shopping area and also you have the river which is nice. It is not all like this. I did another video of the shopping area.
@@ToGoIsToKnow thank you
@@youwanttoknowmyname9258 The shopping Area is called Zeil. You can go there with a train to Konstablerwache or Hauptwache.
Near Konstablerwache is also the Dome St. Bartholomäus, a pretty impressive medival church building.
Alternatively if you're into dinosaurs there is the senkenberg museum near Hauptbahnhof which can be reached by tram.
It has a lot of fossile sceletons and stuffed animals.
I pull into the train station tomorrow. Awesome
I'm going to be traveling solo to Frankfurt this summer. Is there a way to see if the area of my hotel is somewhat safe?
If it is near the train station in this video, it is not great. If you are not out late at night, you should be okay.
😂😂😂😂
Why you would travel to germany, no its not safe for solo females trust me! Expecially if you are traveling alone!
There is nothing to see in Europe, it's ugly and sad.Go to USA at least you will be safe and it is really really beautiful.
I was there in Frankfurt 2012 it was still kind of rough, but, compared to tent villages in every city of the US with gangs, psycho meth heads roaming, no comparison.
LA and SF are worse for sure.
Frankfurt is Haevy
@@fatihkoy8095 nah
Walked there a week ago, someone was doing crack in the middle of the day. but no one was bothering me. There was a different story when i took my camera out and took a few shots of a station and some trams. Some guy on a bike started saying something to me in german which i didn't understand, i said that i don't speak german, but he just continued, so i walked away. A girl walking past said that he is saying that i shouldn't shoot people without permission. I think this has nothing to do with what i shoot, but he just saw a camera and saw it as an opportunity to scare me or scam me or whatever. I didn't take my camera out in that area anymore to avoid unnecessary bullshit.
She was right. Nearly no one in Germany likes that. There is a law, that it´s forbidden to shoot photos without permission of the other person. That has nothing to do with that area.
@@hineinindeinsein3362 She was just translating what he said even though i didn't shoot a single person
@@JumisVisuals It was his fear.
Yeah, the drug addicts got angry when they saw I walked past them with my video camera.
I just watched a video about the Prague railway stations. What a difference.
I stayed in a hotel near the Train Station last weekend and it certainly is ropey at best. No one confronted me and as a 40 year old male I felt ok but the video is pretty accurate and there are some worse streets around Hbf. I didn't see any trouble but it is a little intimidating.
Thanks for sharing
Is O'Reilly's Irish Pub still open across from the Main train station?
Yes
Thank you for sharing this information !
It looks pretty normal to me
It is. He's a nervous nelly American.
honsetly I thought it would have been pretty bad. This is like a better than average walk in Vancouver Canada. Just search Chinatown/east Hastings Vancouver
Thank you very much, this video will help me a lot before my flight to Frankfurt.
Glad it was helpful!
How does false information help?
Such as Termini Station in Rome!Oh my God!I remember a completly different situation in Frankfurt,some years ago...
I think FFankfurt is worse than Termini in Rome.
What is this area so we do not stay there and can it be avoided if your taking public transportation to just see frankfurt
Was recently there on the platfrom and watched a girl that was around 16 crying in panick while trying to shoot something up. Just a place to avoid. Espacially at night the inside of the trainstation turns into Zombie town. Got robbed there once too while waiting in line for that asian food stand. It pains me that more and more trainstations in germany look like this.
Thank you! this is so helpful- I am flying to frankfort on saturday for the NFL game
Glad it was helpful!
I live in Brazil and I'm afraid to be in a hotel near this train station, lol.. Yes, my country sucks (regarding violence) but I'm afraid. I'm thinking about to visit Hamburg instead.
Hamburg is exactly the same lol
Hamburg is the same, but both are harmless. I explained above what is the logic why it is pretty secure. I walked Frankfurt almost every night and day (I am what seems to be a sex addict, although I never considered myself to be one) for 15 years and some years Hamburg too. In all this time I had not one problem.
Sorry, what was the issue!? Just a rainy day and few people standing near buildings
Sarcasm I hope
@@MarkyTeriyakiEuropeans will gaslight you into thinking these problems don’t exist. Frankfurt is a mess, but they’ll shift the conversation back to the US ignoring any problem that exists in their “perfect” countries.
I go to Frankfurt HBF every day to travel to Wiesbaden. Homeless people are there but its not a scary situation. They dont bother you at all..
And I'm traveling to Frankfurt by myself for the first time. I'm freaking out now. Still trying to find a hotel. Where is the exact location for this again?
It is not all like this, just around the train station.
Dont. First, you can avoid this area, this is only 4-5 short streets. You can take the Underground directly from the train station and go to other parts of the city. But even if you want to cross this area, you are perfectly safe. Nobody will care about you.
That’s the red light district, pal. A lot of johns and drug addicts hang around over there. It’s not a good place to be but it’s unlikely that someone will jump you during the day unless you interact with the people hanging around there. I wouldn’t walk around at night, though.
And after that somebody says that train station in Kyiv or Odesa are untidy. Aha, double times. 😅
@RJSnaiper Your comment is not to the point. The Frankfurt train station is quite tidy. What the video is mostly showing is the situation in the red light district with its junkies and human wrecks. That is basically limited to portions of Elbestraße and Taunusstraße.
For the people that doesn't know. Germany have way more homeless people total and per 1000 than the USA. In fact most European countries homeless problems are worse than in America. The US actually have one of the lowest rates at 16 per 10000. Way lower than Germany's 31.4
I would not have guessed that.
Where did you get the numbers from?
@@TylerDurden-td2yg From the Global Homeless statistics website. I don't know if I can send you the link this way, I think RUclips doesn't allow that
@@eddiec5202 Interesting. Will check that out, thanks.
@@eddiec5202Not saying that this is necessarily the case but I could see European countries counting people in temporary accommodation (e.g. fully funded hotels due to eligibility for government funded housing in cases of a housing shortage) as homeless and the US either not having programs like this or not counting them as homeless - the numbers might not be comparable.
Take a walk down Hollywood Blvd in Los Angels.. it’s the same.. any major city’s down town will have trash and e street folk
Unfortunately, many big cities have areas like this.
I think Frankfurt is way safer than LA
Lol. Thats nothing compared to most big cities in America.
It’s gotten worse and worse in the past few years and to stay away from trouble I recommend you don’t visit Crackfurt it’s really not worth it. There is so many beautiful places in Germany, you really don’t have to see that area. It’s like telling people to avoid Detroit in the 90s or Memphis or the Hoover street in south central LA. It used to be a very beautiful city but now it’s just ghetto
There are some nice parts of Frankfurt also, just not around the train station.
Looks pretty tame (to me) compared to the streets in Philadelphia, LA, Seattle or Portland.
I just "skimmed" the video, but I saw nothing, only rainy, unpleasant weather, a darker image of the streets, as if they were dirty, but God knows if they were, and frowning people. I miss the danger the author is talking about in this picture. I'm not saying the danger isn't there, but you can't see it in this video. Maybe the author saw it there.
Thank you for posting this! I missed my connecting flight in Frankfurt this past summer and thought it'd be a good idea to walk around the city for a while. I was encountered by endless blocks of what you've shown here. Upon returning home I was having a hard time explaining to my friends how shitty the experience had been without exaggerating, but now I got proof!
This is only around the Central Train Station (Bahnhofsviertel/Red Light District) which is 1 square Kilometer in SIze and the rest of the City is around 240 square Kilometers.
This like when people think Times Square is all of New York City
Yes, it is bad but mostly around the train station. There are a lot of nice areas in Frankfurt.
You cannot generalise things about Frankfurt. I would say, the area around the Hauptbahnhof are the only ones that make you feel unsafe. But cops are always around, so I have never felt unsafe as a woman mostly travelling alone. Just 800 meters from here is where I live in a place called Westend Sud in downtown Frankfurt, right next to the Messeturm. It’s like the diplomatic quarters with consulates and other main buildings. You will see that these areas close to the Hauptbahnhof are really beautiful.
"Endless blocks" means you didn't even walk for like 1 subway station. The station is not the city center.
Id live to visit Frankfurt.
I walked through there in 2019, it was the same. I have to say though that I never felt personally threatened by anyone, but I agree it wasn't pleasant to look at. The reality is that no one there's looking to hurt you, they just seem to mind their own business. So unless you're looking to try and steal someone's crack pipe, I think you'll be ok lol. I also have to say that some of the comments people left in this video are ridiculous. It amazed me how many people who watched this automatically assumed that all of Frankfurt was like this, and some were even contemplating canceling their trips over it lmao. I've been all over the world, and Frankfurt is one of the nicest place's I've been to. Of course like anywhere, it's going to have bad areas. That's actually the general rule about areas in the vicinity of major train stations throughout Europe.
I agree. IMO people are just way too used to cops pushing homeless people and drug addicts out of the public view.
Hi! Going to take train from Berlin to Frankfurt next year. We just want to stay one day in Frankfurt to explore. Can you suggest a hotel in Frankfurt close to train station? Is it safe to just take a cab to hotel?
It is safe to walk from the train station to a hotel close by in the day time.
Try Limehome. It’s a self checkin apartment hotel.
Nothing new, it was like that back in 1985.
I have been, this place is magical, there's such an incredible chill on these streets and attitude of nit giving fu.. whatever.
Crazy city the most atmospheric City I have ever been to
It's chill because many people are on dope or tranq. It is not magical, it is depressing and sad like in many major cities.
Sounds like my kind of place it's only scary if you let it be
Architecturally looks like an American city.
To my knowledge, the reason why is because after Frankfurt was demolished by bombs in World War II, the city chose to redesign itself in the (at the time) new American style instead of recreating the old city. It also permits tall skyscrapers. Other destroyed cities chose to restore themselves back to their original form.
Few years back I've walked this area at late evening. It is Cyberpunk video game in real !
Yes, very sketchy.
I just wanna know are Talahons dangerous? Do you unnecessarily mess with innocents?
What are talahons?
Worst place in Germany - avoid areas around the main trainstation everywhere…
Casinos and brothels … super scary lol.
Yes, a fine episode of Dark Tourism Lite
The casinos are dangerous if you are stupid enough to let them lure you in. They will rip you off. But nobody forces you to go in and even then if you are not stupid to get drunk you will be ok.
As for the brothels, the services are the cheapest in entire Germany. Once I met a group of 4 young french men and we talked a bit. They counted me that they share the cost for gas and every second weekend come from France to empty their balls. Even with the huge distance it was worth it.
I can assure you it was the same for 30 years. I hated Frankfurt and never ventured out into the city. I also don't understand why this kind of situation is tolerated.
I hope it never gets gentrified. You may not like it, your problem, but why should it not be allowed? It is a subculture and it does harm anybody.
Philadelphia... Kensington Avenue... the same 😒
That is the scary part. Some of the side streets look like Kensington with the Tranq zombies. I am not kidding. I did not feel safe videoing them at night in case they saw me.
It's Frankfurt "Ahm Mine". It means [the] Frankfurt (there's are others) on the Main river. Think of Stratford upon Avon. But probably that reference to Shakespeare is elusive to you. The a in "am" is short, and in German, it's the second vowel in a pair that takes the pronunciation, as in, you know, Klein. Here's an idea: If you're going to make a video purporting to tell others what to do in a country, learn the pronunciations. I've walked that street a number of times. You'll be OK if you have your wits about you. Or you can take any number of S or U bahns that include the Hbf on their line.
Looks like a typical US city
I ended up here because I was talking with someone about the similarities is has with Philadelphia. And it definitely looks damn near the same.
@@brixen0623 Philadelphia is worse obviously
I lived in Frankfurt for 6 years, and you must be a woozy my army buddies and I would walk from Sachin̈husen.
To the Bhanhoff late nite or early morning to go back to esbourn and no one ever messed around. Frankfurt Uber alles.
the most US looking city in germany
Is it dangerous would be the better title.
that does not look safe at all
An American looking for confirmation of his prejudices. And certainly not speaking a word of German
I call it as I see it. I also did a video on nicer parts of Frankfurt. I don't need to speak German to see what is in front of my eyes. I say the same thing in NYC. Don't shoot the messenger.
@@ToGoIsToKnowThat guy at 02:17 yelled and insulted you
What you are seeing is called the "Frankfurter Weg". Frankfurt is one of four cities in Europe that doesn't force addicts to the outskirts and instead leaves them in their quarter. The Frankfurt main station district is completely save and these people just live there. Yes, it is not what you see usually, but it is enough to treat them as human beings, which they are, and nothing will happen. The area is completely safe, so don't get your panties in a bunch.
Love Frankfurt. If you want a little adventure, go left from the train station, if you want to stay safe, go right, lol.
Ye that town isn't so nice. I was there for the world rally championship and that town made me not want to go to Germany again. At night it's bad people throwing glasses at me and my partner it was a little scary and people shooting up in the street as we walk past like it's the norm.🤷🏻
Please don't tell non sense things: there aren't scary places in Germany.
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Jesus I thought this was SanFran!😢
No, I didn't see anybody sh*ting on the street.
Sadly you have an answer today. 😢
Poor guys.. its probably difficult to score.. amd or they.get constant droughts. Misery X2 for addicts there
Just book hotel in this area! Mercure.. i will travel with kids and infant! Why i didn’t see your video first.
So scary, omg Just like a scary movie!)
Garbage collectors there actually work under police protection 😂
They must have very valuable garbage in Frankfurt.
One of the things of Germany though, you will not get robbed with weapons like in the United States or Latin America. Europe is safe, no matter what you want to say, compared to America it is super safe.
Not for women lol
So instead of getting shot like in the US, you get stabbed?
@@ToGoIsToKnow the probability of gettin stabbed is much higher in America than any place of europe
@@xeon_girl777 im not sure about that
The difference is getting robbed with a gun to getting robbed with a knife
You are so brave...you have saved me a trip to frankfurt i wanted to make...i was going to stay in city centre planning to shop eat out...cant believe this is frankfurt germany...
Thank you so much for making this video which helps people to think carefully before visiting here...
I would not say you should not visit. Just stay away from the area of the train station. There are some very nice areas of Frankfurt also.
Actually most areas are safe here. I am a woman who sometimes have to go to the grocery stores in the Kaiser Strasse. As long as you’re walking in broad daylight and just finish up your tasks and not loitering around, you will be fine. I had to even visit the Vodafone store right there at around 8pm. These creeps were there. But they didn’t even bother us.
I lived in eckenheimer landstrasse in 1990 and even then walking through the park at the top end of eckenheimer at night was dangerous. I remember 2 Turkish guys attacked me walking home from a bar and they took my f k n designer runners 😂😂😂😂😂 and haupbanhoff was also a place you wouldn't want to spend to much time at. Even back then it was seedy and criminal activity going on.
Robbing people for their Adidas and Pumas was big in NYC in the 1980s. Some people got killed for their sneakers. I didn't know that was a problem in Germany too.
@@ToGoIsToKnow r u in Frankfurt?
"If you know what I'm sayin" hahahaha
Visit Poland. There is very safe and clean!
I did. Poland is very nice.
It looks good
I walked through this shithole with my wife and son not knowing that it was this bad. This is a disgrace for Germany. Get it cleaned up!
It is a shame that some German area are looking like Detroit or Philly.
Why? Just so it does not harm your eye? You dont like it, nobody forces you to go there.
You better have your 3D glasses on in that area
I agree with you ...bad experience in Frankfurt
I actually liked Frankfurt in the other areas and along the river. I just want to warn people about staying around the train station.
What a shit hole.Was planning to start my new European travel from Frankfurt.Not anymore .Cheers from India.
Not all of Frankfurt is like that. There are some nice areas also. Look at the Zeil shopping district:
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No European city is as bad as the average american city.
You are now leaving the train station and entering the Twilight Zone.
Gard du nord station in Paris is worse
I believe you.
I lived in Dusseldorf near the HBF and always felt safe. Would rather live there than around the Maga people in more rednecked parts of America.
Sounds like you have never been to the US.
@@ToGoIsToKnow Yes I have lived in the US. Dusseldorf is ranked among the most livable cities on Earth. There aren't any American cities in the top 20. Most of America if you dont own a car you are screwed. The subway in NYC is disgusting but at least that is an alternative to driving. You cherry picked a sketchy part of Frankfurt to push baloney on your channel. Frankfurt is actually a nice city but very expensive.
It looks normal to me
This is nothin compared to philly
Very true.
I remember spending about half the year in europe and half the year in america every year,and after seeing the steady decline of western europe,i would only spend time in central and western europe..i live the balkans.
It's heartbreaking to see this.i've been to that train station a LOT.
granted,there's unbelievable puzza and beer in germany and belgium( mostly belgium) and the schnitzl in germany is amazing,but those things aren't worth going back there for
Food is much better in balkans especially Serbia
Frankfurt “ahm Mein” … it was seedy before 2015, but definitely now thanks to failed immigration policies.
Disgusting, nothing more to say...
Beautiful Europe is dead 💔
Go for a walk at night😂
It is the culture. It is the color. Im not native german. It makes no sense to lie.
I see talking head . ... dislkike talking heads
98% arabs
Absolutely disgusting city.
Not all of it. There are nice areas too. I did a video of that as well.
May be it become disgusting in the last 5-10 years, but not because of this part. (This one was exactly the same in the 80s too.) What makes the city disgusting are the green (no cars, everything for the bikes) and woke policies.
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Western world is falling quickly
Toronto is worse
The European dusk.
No is not!
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Looked like a pick pocket on the right in the blue.
frankfurt and philladelphia nummer 1
drugepedemie states not normal