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.
Visitors in dirndls and lederhosen are on their way to attend the Oktoberfest in Frankfurt, Sep. 25, a smaller version of the traditional Munich beer festival. Some 2.500 people dressed up in modernized versions of Alpine leather breeches and dresses gather every night (Sep.18 thru Oct.11) for heavy partying (and beer drinking).
An old, typical Frankfurt kiosk, pictured at the city’s Bockenheim district, March 26. Kiosks or ‘Wasserhäuschen’ (Water Houses) were established here in the second half of the 19th century to offer clean drinking water to workers and to prevent them from drinking beer or even Schnaps instead. Kiosks nowadays offer rather newspapers, lottery tickets, cigarettes – and beer. More than 25.000 kiosks can be found throughout Germany.
A carnivalist with a plate and typical Frankfurt sausages, the ” Frankfurter Würstchen”, after the annual symbolic storming of the city hall by enthusiasts of carnival, March 1. They took over power from the lord mayor and anybody entering was served free sausages and cider.
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A roundabout turns on the little Christmas market in the old town of Frankfurt’s western Hoechst district, Nov.30.
Frankfurt’s traditional Christmas market opened this week. It was first mentioned in 1393 and is considered one of the most beautiful Christmas markets in Germany. It runs until December 22, 2013. (This photo was actually taken two years ago, but it basically looks the same every year.)
Hundreds of lovelocks on Eiserner Steg, a pedestrian bridge over Main river, June 19.
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