July 8 - Frankfurt

Our next stop was Frankfurt. After Amsterdam, it is the biggest city your Ramblers will visit. This was the day we chose to go with the Jewish heritage tour option. We toured several sections of the city with Jewish heritage, toured the Jewish museum and cemetery as well as a portion of the city. Since it was Sunday, almost nothing was open (blue laws in Germany--who knew) and the Frankfurt Ironman was going on downtown, which made it hard to get around.  All in all, Frankfurt seemed very modern, very sterile, and not worth the trip. The Rothschild museum we wanted to see was not even open.

City View

Up Close

Another View

Ironman stuff

Protestant Church (hey, it's Europe)

Plaque

Remains of old Jewish part of the city discovered after bombing in WWII

Memorial wall around cemetery. Over 11 thousand little blocks with names, dates and location where the person died.  

Cemetery site

Cemetery. Oldest grave 1272

Outside of Museum Judengasse

Commemorating the destruction of the synagogue

Tomorrow is Speyer. Until then mach weiter ("keep on rambling").