St. Paul's Church

5 Liubov Shmyhlyk - 8 months ago

One more good place to visit in Frankfurt. Really nice to see that beautiful architecture, very big , fantastic, amazing, atmospheric.

3 angel s - a month ago

you cant drink water in here, what. the room upstairs with the organ is very pretty but there is not a lot of information to learn abt. the room downstairs is a little disappointing, one of the touchscreens dont work and the information isnt engaging
theres also no aircon

5 Tim Lin - 3 weeks ago

A historic place and also a nice building to visit in Frankfurt.

4 Dima D. - a month ago

When I visited this building, it was open for visitors. It was possible to see the plenary hall. There was a video playing at the lobby, but it might be interesting if there will be a photographic exhibition.

5 Gerard Dróżdż (gerardd) - 11 months ago

Great place, has free entry and a mini museum inside that explains a lot of historical context really well

5 Paweł Marcinkiewicz - 3 years ago

According to Wikipedia, the first parliament of the united Germany! When we entered the building around 11am, there was an organ concert, a very interesting exhibition about Germans in the Soviet camps in the cellar. Worth seeing!

5 Stephan Grütering - 3 months ago

"Cradle of German Democracy.", John F. Kennedy on June 25th 1963

That is very much so, because the St. Paul`s Church or die Paulskirche, as we call it, on Paulsplatz, central Frankfurt am Main, is a church with important political symbolism in and for Germany. It was a Lutheran church at the beginning in 1789 — coincidentally the same year as the French Revolution. By 1848, it had become the seat of the Frankfurt Parliament, the first publicly and freely-elected German legislative body. This was part of the only German Revolutution.
From 31 March until 3 April 1848, the Church was the place for the Vorparlament, which prepared the election for the National Assembly. On 18 May 1848, the National Assembly met for the first time in the church, and was therefore named the Paulskirchenparlament.
Until 1849, the National Assembly worked to develop the first constitution for a united Germany. The resistance of Prussia, the Austrian Empire and a number of smaller German states ultimately destroyed the effort.
Due to the 1944 Bombings of Frankfurt, during WWII, the church burnt down. As a tribute to its symbolism of freedom and as the cradle of Germany, it was the first structure in Frankfurt the city rebuilt after the war. But they just rebuilt the outside, the inside was dramatically changed. Its not being used as a church anymore, it is used as an exihibition hall and a meeting place affairs of the state.