The timber row
The colourful stepped gables — Frankfurt's postcard alive.
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Frankfurt's big question: the original was wholly destroyed in 1944, and today's houses are faithful 1983-86 reconstructions in the old crafts. For some visitors that dents the magic; for most, the story itself — a city refusing to lose its face — is the magic.
It is the perfect hub: cathedral and coronation way east, the New Old Town between, the famous Iron Bridge south on the river, the museum embankment across it. A complete walking half-day starts and ends at its cafés.
Early morning for empty photos, evening for life and light. December is another world — the Christmas market fills it with tree, stalls and lights, worth its crowds.
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The Römerberg is the Frankfurt picture you know before you arrive: the square of colourful stepped-gable timber houses facing the Römer — the city's town hall for six centuries with its famous triple front — and the Justice fountain between. Here Holy Roman Emperors were crowned, and the city feasted their coronations. The truth that deepens rather than diminishes it: all of this was flattened in the bombing of 1944, the timber houses meticulously rebuilt in the 1980s — so the square witnesses twice over: to imperial Frankfurt, and to the will that revived it. Steps away lie the newly rebuilt New Old Town and the cathedral. It is Frankfurt's undisputed tourist heart: cafés beneath the painted gables, the famous Christmas market filling it in December, and the banking towers rising behind in Frankfurt's signature contrast — medieval timber against glass.
The colourful stepped gables — Frankfurt's postcard alive.
Six centuries of town hall behind the triple front — emperors were feted here.
Medieval timber with banking towers behind, in one frame.
One of Germany's most famous fills the square each December.
Römerberg, 60311 Frankfurt