Basic Tours of "Jewish Frankfurt"

Up to 1933, Frankfurt was home to the second largest Jewish community in Germany, behind only Berlin. Learn more about famous former Jewish citizens of Frankfurt as well as their contribution to Frankfurt's culture and history with a two-hour theme tour, taken either on foot or by bus.

The Frankfurt Tourist+Congress Board (TCF) offers visitors two excellent theme tours, "Jewish Frankfurt on Foot" and "Jewish Frankfurt by Bus", conducted by professionally certified tour guides.

Group Tours of the Jewish Memorial at the Großmarkthalle

The memorial at the Großmarkthalle, Frankfurt's former main market hall, was designed at the time of the construction of the new European Central Bank (ECB). It pays tribute to the memory of some 10,000 former Frankfurt residents, who were from here deported by train to concentration camps, where they were systematically murdered. The cellars of the former Großmarkthalle, which are now part of the memorial site, were used by the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 as an assembly centre for Jews prior to their deportation.

One section of this place of remembrance, situated along the former railway embankment, is publically accessible (Philipp-Holzmann-Weg). The previously mentioned vaulted cellars are in fact located on the grounds of the ECB and may therefore only be visited within the framework of a guided tour.

Guided tours are also bookable from the Jüdische Museum (Jewish Museum).

Jewish Museum Frankfurt

The Jewish Museum Frankfurt is closed until 2018 for renovation and reconstruction. Once it has reopened, the museum will feature collections and exhibitions highlighting Jewish history from 1800 to present day.

The affiliated Museum Judengasse, meanwhile, reopened in March 2016 after its own phase of renovation and reconstruction. The museum now presents collections and exhibitions highlighting pre-1800 Jewish history, including remains of the former Judengasse, Frankfurt's one-time Jewish ghetto. Thanks to its location, it also pays tribute to the Old Jewish Cemetary, Börneplatz Synagogue, which was destroyed in during the Night of Broken Glass or Crystal Night, and the deportation of Frankfurt's Jews.