
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the ruling Social Democratic Party speaks at a local party gathering at a country inn in the Taunus range near Frankfurt. (Seen from outside, the windows reflecting the pine trees)
Supporters welcome Eintracht Frankfurt’s soccer team at Römerberg square after winning the final of the UEFA Europa League .
A woman wearing a face mask looks out of a tram at Frankfurt’s Konstabler Wache station, Dec.10.
Numerous landmarks in Germany are lit up in blue, like St. Paul’s Church in Frankfurt, on Human Rights Day, Dec.10.
While some German christmas markets have been called off last-minute due to the the spiralling Covid-19 infection rate, Frankfurt’s traditional christmas market was opened Nov.22, 2021. Hot alcoholic beverages such as mulled wine and hot apple wine (a Frankfurt specialty), baked marzipan mixes like Brenten and Bethmännchen and Quetschemännchen (figures made out of prunes and nuts) are sold among lots of other things. The event’s history has been traced back to the 14th century.