🇩🇪 Visiting FRANKFURT, GERMANY Old Town | American's REACT
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
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Today we react to and visit the Old Town in Frankfurt, Germany. We are two American's who are now living in Germany - and LOVING EVERY SECOND of it! As always, thank you to all of the amazing comments, recommendations, and for making us feel truly welcomed here. We are excited to take you along on our afternoon trip, and would love to know what favorites of yours in Frankfurt we might have missed so we can check them out in the future!
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00:00 Intro
00:49 St. Paul's Church
03:30 The hunt for Apple Wine
06:02 Kleinmarkthalle
10:32 Archäologisches Museum
13:54 Kaisersaal (Emperors' Hall)
15:09 Römer-Bembel (FOOD!)
19:25 Old Town Frankfurt (Altstadt)
20:23 St. Bartholamew's Cathedral (Dom)
22:04 Eiserner Steg (Iron Bridge)
23:38 Final Thoughts
What favorite spots of yours in Frankfurt did we miss on our day trip that you'd like to see us check out next time? ⬇⬇⬇
As I do not have a lot time right now, just a little remark: which Rhine? 😂
It is the river Main. Hence why it is called Frankfurt am Main
More about Frankfurt in a later comment
@@ileana8360 That`s true 😉
Even though Frankfurt is in general a touristic place, it's a place of standards similar to places like Milan. So, the first thing is to adapt to the city and it's aesthetics. You should never do it on a rush, but in a way to actually learn the city. Going out, meeting people and be part of it. What you shouldn't do is watching a cheap Hollywood show placed in NY beforehand and think people are that way there. So, you should concentrate on the city area, e.g. Sachsenhausen, Innenstadt or Bornheim, and then do the real cultural things. It is not made for simple consumerism, but to reach a high quality of life.
Paulskirche (where the national convention was after the Revolution of 1848)... Zeil (shopping mile), Bankenviertel (with all the scyscrapers - that's why Frankfurt is also called Mainhattan), Römer, Frankfurter Börse (stock exchange), Sachsenhausen with it's Wochenmarkt,...
I like your videos a lot because I see that you are exploring your new home with open eyes and great interest.
Since you asked us to correct you if you said something wrong: The river in Frankfurt is called Main and flows into the Rhine about 15 km west of Frankfurt in Mainz. That's why it's often called Frankfurt am Main or Frankfurt/Main, also to distinguish it from Frankfurt/Oder, another German city east of Berlin on the Polish border. This should be taken into account, for example, when using a navigation device.
Thank you so much! That means a lot to us and we truly do want to learn and have so appreciated all the wonderful info from everyone!
Totally makes sense about the Main, both with the the “Frankfurt am main” and because we thought we had heard the “Mainhatten” nickname. That’ll be a helpful and easy one to remember now! 🤗
@@CompassChronicleTravelsAbout "Mainhatten", that is not only because of that biggest concentration of skyscrapers in Germany that you find there. Frankfurt had long been the hub of German banking, commerce and trade fairs, even before the 1871 unification. It was the place where the emperor of the "Holy Roman Empire" was officially elected (it was an acclamation more than an election) and crowned from the Middle Ages on. Seven, later up to nine, German dukes, earls and prince-bishops, the "Kurfürsten" or "electors" formed the political body that performed that task. The "Holy Roman Empire" was wiped off the map by Napoleon in 1806. After the Vienna Congress in 1815 it was not in the interest of the European powers and the German princes, among them the emperor of Austria, to have Germany united on more than a very weak basis. What they created was a Confederation of come 35 states plus the cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck, plus Frankfurt. In the old "Holy Roman Empire" there had been around 100 cites that governed themselves and did not belong to any of the surrounding dukedoms. Frankfurt became the seat of that German Confederation. Unlike the American Senate the members of that body had a broad variety of votes when it came to make decisions, based on their size and number of citizens. When revolutions swept through Europe in 1848 the ruling heads of the members of that confederation feared for their lives and agreed to a profound political change. Frankfurt became the seat of a preliminary parliament and then a democratically elected one. But the problems that had to be solved were too many and too hard to overcome: Austria was a leading power in Europe. Its German speaking part (today's Austria) would have to be torn out of that vast empire if it stayed a member of a unified Germany. No wonder that the Austrian emperor objected that idea. With a bleeding heart the National Assembly voted to exclude all of Austria and Bohemia with its Czech population. And then there was a conflict with Denmark because the border region of the German Confederation to Denmark was neither fully Danish nor German and neither side wanted to give in. Only the German-minded people there had revolted against their king and duke in Copenhagen, the Danish-minded people in the northern part of that region had not and they had no interest at all in becoming Germans. France and Russia (an ally to the Austrians in those days) rattled with their sabres and when the king of Prussia was offered the crown to become a democratically supported emperor of Germany with a constitution to legitimize him and not the "Grace of God" he refused that offer. Nobody can say for sure what would have happened if he had accepted that honour. Either Europe had got a black-red-golden German parliamentarian monarchy in its centre and everything would have been fine, or Russia, Austria and France would have intervened and something like WW I would have broken out in 1849. The course of history took a differend route, we know that. And in 1949 the question whether Frankfurt should become the seat of the West-German parliament and government was voted down in favour of Bonn with a 1-vote-majority for Bonn.
Mainz-Kostheim belongs to Wiesbaden, not Mainz, despite the name.
Frankfurt am Main is also called "Mainhattan" because of its skyscrapers and because it is located on the Main river in derivation of "Manhattan" in New York City - Manhattan > Mainhattan...😉 Both have skyscrapers and both are on rivers: Manhattan between the Hudson River and East River - Mainhattan on the Main River.
The sauce with the Schnitzel most likely wasn't the Griesoß "green sauce". This very special local delicacy consists of seven herbs and is traditionally enjoyed during the Easter season. Griesoß is commonly served with potatoes and hardboiled eggs. I think the sauce was actually called "Remoulade" which basically is an unhealthy herbal mayonnaise. BTW, the wine stalls near the Kleinmarkthalle weren't a wine festival - they belonged to the wine vendors of the Kleinmarkthalle. On Saturday afternoons during the Summer, this entire surrounding area reguarly gets fully packed and crowded with fun-loving locals! Gotta love this..... 😍
I'm pretty sure it was green sauce, or at least marketed as such. Where would you get a Schnitzel with Remoulade? That's usually only served with fish. In Frankfurt, Schnitzel is often served with green sauce, so it is perfectly sensible to assume that it was here, too.
There was Grüne Soße written on the menue..🤔
I don't know where you live in Germany, but for such city trips, you should prefer long weekends. For example over Easter, or the long weekends in May/June. 2 public holidays always fall on a Thursday (Ascension Day and Corpus Christi). If you take Friday off, then you have 4 days in a row and that's worth going away for. Pentecost lies between these two public holidays, which also means a 3-day weekend. You could also say that spring is the time for long weekends in Germany. If May 1st (which is our Labor Day and also in much of Europe) still falls favourably, there will be quite a few long weekends. And next time you're in the area and you're really interested in old stuff... A little north of Frankfurt is the Saalburg. This is a reconstructed Roman border fortress, on the heights of the Taunus. The entrance fee is affordable and you get a real impression of the life of a Roman legionnaire. As already mentioned, late spring is perfect for such excursions. And there's something else there that you won't find anywhere else in Germany... A bratwurst, Roman style. You will love it...!
Grüne Soße is a frankfurt traditional speciality and is a mix of seven different herbs. Museums in Frankfurt are quite a big part and have several events like the Museumsuferfest or the Nacht der Museen (night of museums) where you can basically tour around the museums at night (did it with my mom before and it's super fun). The Zeil is kinda new-style but if you go further towards the opera the street leading up to it has more old buildings (and expensive brands). Also, that's the Main, not the Rhein :) and there's also Alt-Sachsenhausen on the other side of the river, which is also with a lot of old buildings and is basically the bar and party street of that district
Very interesting to see people discovering things that are familiar to us. Entertaining video. As a matter of fact the old town in Frankfurt was totally rebuilt a couple of years ago, so it is only a few years old, because it was totally destroyed during the war. I think they did a good job rebuilding it.
On the other side of the bridge you will find the "Museumsufer". There are a lot of museums you can go to and they are kind of next to each other.
During the "Museumsuferfest" you can buy a ticket that gives you access to all the museums there, if I remember correctly.
That sounds perfect! We knew there were tons of museums but had no idea there was a section with a bunch of them all together. We will definitely have to go to the Museumsuferfest because we really want to check out the local museums there!
@@CompassChronicleTravels If you go on a Saturday morning, you might catch the very nice flea market on the Museumsufer.
16:57 You couldn’t get more lokal with that dish. „Grüne Soße“ (lit. green sauce) is a uniquely Frankfurt side. If you don’t like pork order „Ei mit grün‘ soß‘!“ usually it’s just two boiled eggs in a sea of green sauce.
I really love eggs with Grü Soß. It is traditionally made with green herbs and eaten with potatoes and eggs. My Granny worked in Frankfurt at the beginning of the 1930s as a maid in a rich house in the center of Frankfurt and our traditional meal at Good Friday was that. (It still is in my house). Another real traditional Frankfurt meal is Handkäse with music - it is a special cheese with a marinade of oil/vinegar/onions. Might not be everybodys taste but I somehow like it. The most museums you will find on the other side of the "Eiserner Steg" - the riverbank/street there is called Museumsufer and place for a couple of museums. Behind it is Sachsenhausen where you can find all the traditional restaurants/pubs. I live around 30 km from Frankfurt and worked there ten years of my life. When we (my parents/I/others) have visits from abroad or other parts of Germany who want to get to know something typically Hessian we go to Sachsenhausen for an evening in one of this typical hessian restaurants - drink Appelwoi (it is great when it is warm or mixed down with water or white lemonade), and eat Handkäs or Grü Soß...
Schnitzel is nothing typical for the region but maybe for Germany.
The Kleinmarkthalle is - like you already found out - a market hall that is opened daily. You can get fresh produce, specialities, bakery items, meat - and takeaway warm food. But there is some other farmer markets on different places in Frankfurt once or twice a week, too.
Perfect!! We are so glad one of us was able to try the famous green sauce! Didn’t know about having them with eggs though so we will have to revisit that!
Those are some other great spots we will have to check out as well. We will certainly head over and try to do a museum hop one day! Maybe we can find the Handkäse when we go! 😍
The Kleinmarkthalle is famous in Frankfurt. When I worked there, I often went there.
Just wanna leave a short comment. Really enjoy your videos and it is nice to see how you approach things and your new home :)
And your german that you spoke wasnt much, but it sounded really good! Keep practicing :)
Welcome to the town I've been calling my home since 1985 (only interrupted by a four-year stint in Munich)!!! You'ved missed out on so many things, however.... Please revisit this awesome place during spring and summer, this city offers VIBES unlike many other GER cities. Frankfurt still happens to be one of the most underrated places in this country, and I quite don't understand the reason why..... As a local, I'd be so happy to guide you around on your next outing to FRA! I LOVE this city, catch the spring- and summer-vibes..... 🥰🥰
19:33 youre standing in front of the "römer" on that balcony is the spot where every national team of germany celebrates their triump after a word cup. the woman soccer team was standing up there with 100000 people down on the streets cheering up to them. its a common tradition.
Oh wow!! How cool is that! Thank you for letting us know…we hadn’t heard that yet! Sounds like an amazing experience as well!
@@CompassChronicleTravels yea after a team arrives back in Germany on Frankfurt airport they go there to celebrate with the fans. This year is another woman soccer world cup and if we reach top 3 they definitely show up there again I believe. Such events are livestreamed on the TV or Web aswell. :)
Thank you for sharing your experiences!
So nice to watch from your point of view, and you are so open and interested.
Good to have you here! ❤️
Being born and raised in the region I recommend to drink AppleWoi only sweetened as a mix. It's best at Christmas markets as a replacement for Glühwein.
Dont be disappointed from the Apfelwein. A lot of germans dont like it.
I am living not so far away from Frankfurt, worked there for some years, and never visited the Pauls Church.
Seeds you also can get at a Baumarkt (OBI, Toom,...) and also at some supermarkets. And of course in Gärtnereien... So no Top Secret..😂😂
🤣🤣🤣. Love it!! Casey is VERY familiar with OBI after getting ready with a garden this year. Haven’t checked out Toom yet though so will look that up! Currently we have pumpkins taking over the yard lol
Love your videos ❤ its like rediscovering Germany for me as well
Awe thank you so much! We love sharing and hearing that it’s well received 🤗🤗
About locks on a bridge: it also adds weight. I'm pretty sure new bridges incorporate that in the design, since I think there was one with problems due to the locks. Don't ask me the details.
24:35 And especially the southern Germans, ja.
Frankfurt has the most and biggest Skyscrapers in Europe.
Next time go to the Maintower Skyscraper, that is for public.
Thanks for your fantasic videos.
20:43 That would be the *Holy Roman Empire* (962 - 1806) with the medieval Kingdom of Germany (formerly known as East Francia) as its core, not the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar. The *Roman Empire* of the Classical Era centered on the eponymous city of Rome existed as a unified realm from 27 BC until 395 AD, after which it split into a short-lived Latin western half (395 - 476/480) eventually conquered by Germanic tribes and a more enduring Greek eastern half (395 - 1453) later called the *Byzantine Empire* centered on the city of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) which was eventually fully conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Turks with the Fall of Constantinople (thenceforth also known as Istanbul). The Holy Roman Empire was seen as a successor and continuation of the (Western) Roman Empire, especially in the eyes of the Pope and his Roman Catholic Church.
Frankfurt is also called "Mainhattan", as it's the only City in Germany that has a Skyline.
The "Lockbridge" is called Eiserner Steg, build by the Frankfurt citizens as a pedestrians bridge.
From Wiesbaden it's just 45 minutes with S-Bahn. The other Side of the Main is the "Museums-Ufer" with a lot of Museums and Old-Sachsenhausen, Frankfurts Party-District, where you can get real applewine and find some real authentic food, like Rippchen with Kraut or, for the brave ones😅, Handkäs mit Musik - only recommended for Casey 😉
Frankfurt am Main is also called "Mainhattan" because of its skyscrapers and because it is located on the Main river in derivation of "Manhattan" in New York City - Manhattan > Mainhattan...😉 Both have skyscrapers and both are on rivers: Manhattan between the Hudson River and East River - Mainhattan on the Main River.
You should try Apfelwein with a third of white lemonade.
There is something in South Germany near to Äppelwoi. It is called Moscht or Most.. I prefer Birramoscht (Birnenmost), because it sweeter than the regular Apfelmost... By the way Bembel is the jug you get your wine from... The Römer (translated Roman) is the City Hall of Frankfurt from the 15th century...
Awesome! Thanks for the helpful info! 🙏🏼💕Will have to try Birramoscht. I think we would prefer it a bit sweeter so we may really love that!
I like your videos a lot, especially when you show and talk about historical stuff! And i like the content about food. Keep on going this way. 👍And like other already mentioned, it is the Main River 🙂Nothing historical now, but i enjoy the Palmengarten, which is a botanical house with plants from around the globe. The Tropenhaus is maybe muggy. Maybe you enjoy the Maintower. You can go up by Elevator and have an overview of Frankfurt am Main. If you are into Dinosaurs and Minerals and stuffed animals, i recommend the Senckenberg Museum. Some of the Dinosaur bones are copies and no originals. One favorit of the Museum is the stuffed animal Anakonda eats a waterpig. The work is about 100 years old. It is currently under restauration and can be seen again end of April 2023 in the Senckenberg Museum. But USA got lost of great museums for Nature. So i dont know if this is something you want see and better check those History of Nature Museums in the US when you have more time?
Frankfurter Rinds-Bratwurst is also very good. Fun fact: Saiten ( as called in Swabia) are called Frankfurter in Vienna and called Wiener in Frankfurt am Main... 😂😂😂
Yes! We have heard that many things can be named differently by region! So interesting! Casey will be all over that Rinds-brat! I bet he’d love it! He will have to try it next time we are out and about 🤗
If you are interested in cars, you should go to a NLS race to the Nordschleife. Around the track watching is free, if you want to go to the pit lane and the grandstand it costs about 20 euros.
In the margin: your German is pretty good! Your apology was actually quite accent free.
I love the Römerberg! Many, many moons ago two friends and I wrote a poem in Latin for one of our professors, and in it I described the Römerberg in Latin hexametres... if someone's interested, I could find the book somewhere in my stashes.
That sounds absolutely lovely! I can’t speak for Casey but I actually love poetry! 💕. And thank you so much! I am really trying to learn and say things as correctly as I can. 🤗
You look sooooooooo good in the ORIGINALLY RUSSAIN HATT. Just souit you the colour and stiyle somehow.
The center of Frankfurt isnt well preserved. It was destroyed during the war. What you see now was all newly build afterwards, depending on old plans and pictures and films.
i really love your vlogs
most of apple wine apples comes from my region: lake constance
Bild dir mal bloß keine Schwachheiten ein! Du hast keine Vorstellung davon, wie viele Leute im Frankfurter Umland, von Rheinland- Pfalz im Westen, bis zum bayerischen Unterfranken, von ihren privaten Gärten, ihren Apfelwein selbst keltern. Und das der natürlich viel besser ist, als der Industriestoff, kannst du dir an einer Hand abfingern. Dazu kommt noch, dass hier besondere Kelteräpfel kultiviert werden. Halb so groß wie eine Faust, aber mit enormen Aroma...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 ich sehe die LKWS fast täglich, viele mit hessischen Kennzeichen. Klar kleine Keltereien sind immer besser.
While it looks nice, and is cute tradition the locks on bridges can have serious consequences. One lock doesn't weigh much - but ten thousand? a hundred thousand? They literally had to remove the locks from some bridges, or they would have collapsed under they weight. Bridges - especially pedestrian ones - are not meant for that kind of load.
The Paulskirche had to be reconstructed after 1945, no wonder, there was nothing left standing in that area. I think the job was at least done half-way to celebrate the centennial of the failed 1848/49 revolution. Because of the round auditorium of that church it was easy to place the progressive-minded politicians to the left (seen from the speaker's seat), the conservatives on the right and the rest into the middle of the debating chamber. The French National Assembly had done likewise before, but for Germany the Paulskirche sat this standard for parliaments. Parts of our present constitution can be traced back to the draft of 1849 that was never ratified. Among the members of parliament were two men that you have heard of, everybody has, but it has been forgotten that their quest for German unity (based on its culture and language) and liberty did not only make them go into politics, as early as 1837, they wrote a dictionary of the German language as well. Another hint? They were brothers and in their younger years they had collected quite fabulous stories. Yes, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
There more or less is a market everyday, just in different parts of the town.
Senkenberg Museum is a must see in Frankfurt 😊
Thank you so much! Adding it to our list as we will be heading that way again soon!
@@CompassChronicleTravels Nice and look into Europark Commentary i post you a huge list to visit, which awesome are to 80%-90% people.
100% the Baumstammhaus 😉 Bye
If you want to see a really old city, which remained during the war, go to Marburg, not so far away from Frankfurt.
That tea at the Market Hall might be turkish cay (sort of black tea) 🫖
It was delicious!! I’ll have to double check and see if that’s what it was! Really getting into tea lately!
Geht doch in Wiesbaden in ein schönes Hotel und fahrt einen Tag mit dem Zug nach Frankfurt.
Wiesbaden noch viel schöner gelegen, Neroberg und auch Kurhaus und tolle Gastronomie....
I might be talking out of my ass here, but if I remember my high school history correctly, St. Pauls is where the terms "political right" and "political left" come from.
Progressives tended to sit on the left side of the room while conservatives were on the right.
Edit: I just looked it up: the French did it first. The seats on the right of the French national assembly where reserved for the royals and nobles. This was during the French Revolution in the 18th century. The germans copied it in 1848. Sorry!
oh cool! Very interesting! Didn't know that but given the political history it makes sense! Seems like one could really do some digging into St. Pauls. Definitely makes us interested in learning more about it.
You make nice videos, thank you. I'm not sure if you said Rhein, but it's not the Rhein, it's the Main.
Thank you so much! We really appreciate that! 🤗🤗. And ahhhhh that makes sense! I thought I had heard the nickname “mainhatten” and I’m sure that would be why. 🙌🏼
The river Main is actually one of most important rivers in Germany. It is linked with the river Danube by a canal so that ships can pass from Rotterdam at the North Sea to Romania where the Danube flows into the Black Sea.
Ah, Hessen. I already caught on that you live not that far from the Netherlands (on a European scale) and in the south. Well, our south - or souther than that. That checks. Nice to see a bit of the Frankfurt Altstadt. Let's just say Merkel's government did something draconic affecting more than just poker so I don't go to Germany and I meet more Germans here. 7:00 those aren't just chocolates, those are Pralines / pralines - which we also informally call bonbons in Dutch. That Kleinmarkthalle is nice, but you should visit the Markthal in Rotterdam if you love it. 10:53 This is why this is called the Old Continent. Apfelstrüdel isn't German: Austria-Hungarian (1867 - 1918). So ja.
I thought Frankfurt is only Skyscrapers
No. Frankfurt am Main has a big center with skyscrapers , but around the center lies a lot of old villages, now part of Frankfurt, but you still see, they have been little rural villages in former times. The center of Frankfurt was destroyed during the war, the train station lies nearby, but the old villages outside remained.
Frankfurt is called Mainhattan. Thats a good comparison.
No, there're a lot skyscrapers of couse in Frankfurt/M. And many new are currently under construction or will cone in the next 5 years. But the complete city are not skyscrapers. Have a drive through the city (bank district and east downtown). ruclips.net/video/2054gi9TzcA/видео.html
Compliments on the quality both of your research and of your vids ! For learning German, the Frankfurt area is possibly not the best place to start as the locals speak a strong dialect (which eg transforms "Apfelwein" into "Äbbelwoi")
Thank you so much! We always appreciate hearing that people are enjoying the content. Haha good tip on the language learning! Didn’t know the dialect could vary that much with a short hop away! We definitely are going to continue to try and learn more.
18:40 That sounded kinda dirty. ;)
Oh dear 🫣🫣 lolllll welcome to our channel:“how many faux pas can two Americans make in one video? A true story” (it’s a lot!) 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
😂 owww, If U serch 4 for Apfelwein and Green Sauce dishes of Frankfurt (am Main) 😂 but u are at Frankfurt (Oder) 😂
Meine Stadt, Forza SGE
Deine Stadt... Ich kann sie schön aus meinem Fenster in der Sonne liegen sehen. Nahe genug dran und weit genug weg...!
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Verstehe ich gut.
@@rianair5899 Na dann... Ich wünsch dir nen Guden...
Ei Gude wie, ( Hi in Hesse ) speed upGerman. Speak with Nativs ( And call in german Please ; )
Frankfurt am Main. Its not the rhine.
You misheard. Äppelwoi is a must NOT....
You can use camera translation apps...when there are things just written in german. ....helps a lot.
greets from switzerland
(i am pretty sure "swiss tourismus" would offer you both free trips..and more.....when you both come to switzerland.,, they are supporting nice and interesting travel vlogs)
May I give you an important Tip. In a German Restaurant Men should never wear a Baseballcap. Everybody kows you are an American Tourist. An its bad Behaviour .
Don't believe this crap, please. Yes, it's not as common as in the US and makes you look foreign, but it's not bad behaviour. Jeez.