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CITY of FRANKFURT HISTORY |
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JUMP TO 2000 BC 1 AD 8th Cent. 1372 1480 1619 1682 1776 1810 1840 1848 1880 1905 1913 1922 1939 1945 1948 1951 1961 End |
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Frankfurt history overview from This Week in Germany, Rhein-Main Edition, Vol. 10 No. 15, April 4-10, 1965 |
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Year 1 A.D. - Roman Settlement |
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| Looks like the engagement of the US is coming to an end in Germany. Some
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that reminds me of the times when the Romans left the Liemes on this side of the
Rhein almost 1700 years ago.
Most of you have been on a field trip to the Saalburg
which was one of the Roman fortifications on the Liemes (border). Hard to
believe
but the Romans just decided to leave.
Oh well, that's the way things go.
Will the last one out quench the torches...bg |
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| http://www.saalburgmuseum.de/english/home_engl.htm | |
| Google Saalburg search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=saalburg+roman+fort&aq=1&oq=Saalbur | |
| Images: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=saalburg%20roman%20fort&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi | |
| Google Limes search: http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&q=limes%20germany&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw | |
| Images: http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=limes+germany&btnG=Search+Images | |
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794 - City of Frankfurt Founded |
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8th Century |
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"furt" origin: "ford" from the place to cross the Main river. |
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The Main Ford Legend. From a postcard mailed in 1897.
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http://uk.holidaysguide.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-73959-frankfurt_history-i
"As the legend has it, when the Saxons defeated Charlemagne, King of the Franks, in the 8th Century CE, he fled westward with his troops, only to have his path blocked by the River Main. Suddenly, a deer sprang out of the forest and crossed the river by a ford (Furt). The Franks (Franken) followed the deer across the river and thus escaped slaughter by the Saxons. Overjoyed at their salvation, Charlemagne built a town to protect the ford. This town was named Frankfurt." |
| Read another account from USFET Book on Frankfurt a/M and more about Charlemagne and Frankfurt. |
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Bruce et al., Our German teacher in 9th grade(65-66) cheers!!! zody (01-10-08) ps nice postkarte |
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Frankenfurth, Sachsenhausen |
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| In the late 8th century, it was referred to as Frankonovurd by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne. | |
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Paintings in the Caesar Room, Roemer |
Karl der Grosse |
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http://historymedren.about.com/library/atlas/natmapeur814.htm http://historymedren.about.com/od/carolingianempire/ig/Charlemagne-Picture-Gallery/karlfrankfurt.htm http://historymedren.about.com/od/charlemagnestudyguide/p/sg_biography.htm http://historymedren.about.com/od/charlemagnestudyguide/p/sg_facts.htm |
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1193 - Sachsenhausen |
| "Sachsenhausen was founded as Frankfurt's bridgehead in the 12th century. The oldest documents point to the year 1193. Unlike Frankfurt's own historic city center, which burned to the ground after British bombing in 1944, Sachsenhausen's old town is partly preserved." |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_%28Frankfurt_am_Main%29 |
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1372 - Free City of Frankfurt Founded |
| "The Frankfurters bought their autonomy from Karl IV for a fee of 8800 Gulden in 1372, making Frankfurt a freie Reichstadt , or free imperial city,..." |
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1393 to Present - Christmas Fair |
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"The Frankfurt Christmas fair is one of the most beautiful and oldest fairs in Germany. It is also one of the largest thanks to over 200 shacks. It was first referred to in 1393." http://www.frankfurt360.de/frankfurt_at_christmas.htm |
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Click here for lots of Frankfurt Christmas Faire images from Google Image search |
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1400-1428 Eschenheimer TurmThe Eschenheimer Gate Tower around 1885The tower was a part of the medieval fortifications of the city and was built between 1400 and 1428 |
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"The tower was once just one of
about 60 towers encircling the city. Most were demolished between 1806 and
1812 when the old city walls were torn down. The Eschenheimer turm was only saved from demolition thanks to the intervention of French ambassador Graf d'Hédouville. Today it is one of Frankfurt's main landmarks." "Originally the tower was used as a gate (Eschenheimer Tor),..." |
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Tower saved from destruction during the
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The Frankfurt Book Fair - circa 1480 to Present |
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| "The Frankfurt Book Fair has a tradition that spans over more than 500 years. Soon after Johannes Gutenberg had invented printing in movable letters near Frankfurt in Mainz, the first book fair was held by local booksellers. Until the end of the 17th century, it was the most important book fair in Europe. As a consequence of political and cultural developments, it was eclipsed by the Leipzig Book Fair during the Enlightenment. After World War II, the first book fair was held again in 1949 at the St. Paul's Church. Since then, it has regained its pre-eminent position." | |||||||||||||
| - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Book_Fair | |||||||||||||
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"It is the year 1445. The Mainz-born patrician’s son
Johannes Gensfleisch developed a technology that, more than 550 years later,
would be voted the most important invention of the second millennium AD by
the US magazine Time Life: movable-type letterpress printing. It became
better known under the name of Johannes Gutenberg."
"Even in the Middle Ages, the nearby Frankfurt am Main
was a bustling city of fairs. As early as the 14th century, manuscripts
produced by monks had been traded at fairs in Frankfurt. Merchants soon
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| - from http://www.young-germany.de/news-verwaltung/news-singleview/article/4941eb9bbf/the-frankfurt-book-fair.html?no_cache=1 | |||||||||||||
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c.1550 - 16th Century Tower Discovered While Excavating Near FAHS |
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"At the fall fair of 1585,
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Matthäus Merian between 1612 and 1619 from Wikipedia Commons |
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FRANCOFVRTVM -- 1682 |
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The Walls, Moats and Towers |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832 |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main, the first child of a lawyer Johann Caspar Goethe, and Katherine Elisabeth Textor, the daughter of the mayor of Frankfurt. |
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe |
| http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/goethe.htm |
| http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&q=goethe&btnG=Search+Images |
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Römer, Römerberg, Römerplatz |
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| Roemer images from 1945-47 below |
| http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=502642 History |
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http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=255379&template= bildanzeige&_img_url=/sixcms/media.php/674/R%C3%B6merstich_1745.jpg&_img_alt=Empfang anläßlich der Kaiserkrönung 1745 vor dem Römer, © Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Stadtgeschichte |
| http://www.gothereguide.com/romer+frankfurt-place/ |
| http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=R%C3%B6mer&fulltext=Search |
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"Not a memory picture from high school. Just one
a friend sent of a recent Christmas shot of the renovated Romer Platz. It
was among others of Christmas trees around the world.". - Darl Sams 67
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| Sept. 2007 by David Teska '82 (click image for larger version) |
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http://www.altfrankfurt.com/Altstadt/DomNord/
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Hauptbahnhof
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Frankfurt+(Main)+Hauptbahnhof
birthplace of the incomparable Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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1770s -- U.S. Revolutionary War |
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Hessian Mercenaries Fight for British |
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"About 30,000 German mercenaries fought for the British, with 17,000 coming from Hesse, amounting to about one in four of the adult male population of the principality. Generally referred to as Hessians, these German auxiliaries swore allegiance to the British Crown, but without renouncing their allegiance to their own rulers." |
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"By agreement, the German mercenaries were required to swear allegiance to the British crown, though without having to renounce their allegiance to their own rulers, and although they had their own commanders, they were under the overall command of British forces. The first contingent of Germans arrived at Halifax in June, 1776, soon numbering almost 22,000, a figure which remained nearly constant throughout the war." |
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Many Hessian Soldiers stayed in America after the war. http://www.geocities.com/cenantuaheight/HessianChristianStrohl.html |
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| Hessians who remained in the United States:http://pages.prodigy.net/halschwalm/jshahome.html | ||||
| Crown Forces Orderly Books: http://www.revwar75.com/crown/index.htm | ||||
| http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_II/namesofh_gb.html | ||||
| http://members.cox.net/hessen/soldiers.htm | ||||
| http://www.ushistory.org/WashingtonCrossing/history/hessian.htm | ||||
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Darmstadt, Hanau, Kassel -- major historical cities
Hanau-Nassau
Thirty Years War
Prussia
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1789-1833 -- Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church) |
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| Paulskirche, built between 1789 and 1833 was the seat of the first freely elected German parliament... | |
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Contemporary depiction of the parliamentarians entering the Paulskirche (1848-9) |
| http://www.aviewoncities.com/frankfurt/paulskirche.htm | |
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1810-1813 -- Grand Duchy of Frankfurt |
| "The Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was a German satellite state of Napoleonic creation. It came into existence in 1810 through the combination of the former territories of the Archbishops of Mainz along with the Imperial city of Frankfurt itself." |
| "The Grand Duchy ceased to exist after December 1813, when the city was occupied by allied troops. While Frankfurt itself once again became a free city," |
| From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Frankfurt |
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An 18?? "tobacco silk"
included in a tobacco tin or pouch
(like a cracker jack prize)
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THE PENNY MAGAZINE - JUNE 13, 1840 |
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The Frankfurt Parliament - 1848 |
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| The Frankfurt Parliament (German: Frankfurter Nationalversammlung, literally Frankfurt National Assembly) was the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany.[citation needed] It was in session from 18 May 1848 until 31 May 1849 in the Paulskirche at Frankfurt am Main. Its existence was both part and result of the "March Revolution" in the states of the German Confederacy. | |||
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20th of October 1880 -- Alte Oper (Opernhaus) |
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After seven years of construction, Frankfurt's Opera House was officially inaugurated |
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Running Free A NIGHT AT THE OPERA,
Maury Barlow Pepin, Frankfurt High School, Frankfurt, Germany, 1966, originally published in the 1965-66 issue of Talon |
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Re: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, From: Geral Martin (geral.martin@gmx.de),
Sent: Thu 10/29/09 Hey That is great. I am sorry to read of the death of the author. A brief history of the Alte Opern. It was built in ca. 1888-89. It is said to have been a target of the British Air Force (RAF) to attempt to kill Hitler, who should have been in the Opern at an appointed time in 1943. I am not sure that that is a 'story' or a truth, When I return to Frankfurt i have a friend, then 16, who was a war watchman in the Hitler youth and his 'station', with a P38 was the Opern Platz! He lived across the Platz, and has a very good memory about the time. He slept through a bombing raid and awoke to find a large piece of bomb shrapnel above his head board, weighing about 15 lbs! Money was raised by citizens of Frankfurt and US Citizens for the rebuilding I raised about 10,000 DM's from the Americans in the Platten, High Cog and Huegel areas. Well a guy who was running for mayor used 40,000DMs for his re-election!! A big swindle! The city had to 'cough up the money for the rebuilding, which was completed in the late 70's. Before it was rebuilt, a student from the Dorm fell down a flight of rotten stairs one late night/early morning. I received a telephone call to bring rope and help him get out of a pool of water. I arrived sometime near 2AM and the two guys who were with him helped to get him out. They were not students from my classes. He had a twisted ankle, and the next morning reported in for 'sick call' from the Dorm. I learned that they had a way of 'escaping' by sliding down light mast , located near one of the rooms. My question is WHO were they. as I have forgotten their names???" Those were the days." - Jerry Martin |
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From: brucek, Sent: Fri 10/30/09 I do not remember the ankle incident however, the light post was at the end of the boys dorm and outside what was once the room of Harlen Durgen. It was easy to slide down but almost impossible to get back up. Bruce Kerwin 64 |
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From:Tmh, Sent: Fri 10/30/09 The Opera deal was before my time but I was in the dorm from 67 to 68 and in 68 I had a room on the second floor at the end of the hall and the lamp post was right outside my window just two feet away. It was easy to go out that way at night but a little harder to get back in. Ha Ha !! Those were the days. |
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http://en.wikipedia "In 1909 Count von Zeppelin used Rhein-Main as a landing site for his dirigible Z-II. The facility was planned by Germany to be one of the most important European air terminals, |
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International Air Show Frankfurt |
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Stamp made from a 1913 Poster |
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Translation:-*4th tournament
(competition) of German Men’s Choir Clubs for the traveling trophy |
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Frankfurt Breweries |
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From Wikipedia
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Henninger Brewery (now part of the
Binding Brewery/Radeberger Group)"
"Since October 31, 2002, the tower has been closed to the public while plans to destroy the tower and replace it with a new one were abandoned." "Since 1961, the annual professional cycling race Rund um den Henninger-Turm is held on May 1, the course circling the tower multiple times." (below) |
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1922-23 Hyper-Inflation |
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By late 1923 it took 200 billion marks to buy a loaf of bread |
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http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/ASLevel_History/hyperinflationingermany.htm |
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"Imagine that after a lifelong of hard work and saving, you find that your lifesavings will not buy more than one cup of coffee." |
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I.G. Farben Building, finished 1930 |
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Sept 2007 photo by David Teska '82 |
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Ex US HQ - Abrams Building #1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQlk8pP1js&feature=related Ex US HQ - Abrams Building #2/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNuNRwQWDzw&feature=related |
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| University of Frankfurt, Campus Westend (Advertisement) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwB6A5-Kw1k&NR=1 WiWi-Imagefilm-Uni-Frankfurt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjZpzIl0ko8&feature=related Studierende über die Goethe-Universität Frankfurt @ 2:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4NU-Mp7gn0&NR=1 |
| Chip Chapin's great page |
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1936 -- Frankfurter Flughafen (later Rhein-Main Airbase) Opens |
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http://en.wikipedia "In 1909 Count von Zeppelin used Rhein-Main as a landing site for his dirigible Z-II. The facility was planned by Germany to be one of the most important European air terminals, The base opened as a German commercial airport in 1936, with the northern part of base used as a field for airplanes and the extreme southern part near Zeppelinheim serving as a base for rigid airships. That section of Rhein-Main later became the port for the Graf Zeppelin, its sister ship LZ-130, and, until 6 May 1937, for the ill-fated Hindenburg.
"Weltflughafen Rhein-Main 1936" (seen on Ebay) The airships were dismantled and their huge hangars demolished on 6 May 1940 in conversion of the base to military use. Luftwaffe engineers subsequently extended the single runway and erected hangars and other facilities for German military aircraft. During World War II the Luftwaffe used the field sporadically as a fighter base and as an experimental station for jet aircraft." |
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page the airport (Frankfurter Flughafen now Rhein-Main) was opened
in 1936 with the first air ship hanger and was immediately an
international airport with connections to north and south america. The
town of Zeppelinheim was built to house the air and ground crews. The town
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| Handover of Rhein Main Airbase to Germany http://www.spotlightingnews.com/article.php?news=673 |
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| http://www.zeppelin-museum-zeppelinheim.de/englisch-sites/frame.htm |
| http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/zf/museums.htm |
| http://www.usaghessen.eur.army.mil/hunion/Travel/ZeppelinheimMuseum.htm |
| http://www.zeppelinfan.de/html-seiten/englisch/museum_zeppelinheim.htm |
| http://www.pugetairship.org/zeppelins/list_3.html |
| http://spot.colorado.edu/~dziadeck/zf/ships_LZ130.htm |
| http://altfrankfurt.com/spezial/Zeppelin/ |
| http://altfrankfurt.com/spezial/Zeppelin/ILA1909/ |
| http://www.altfrankfurt.com/Spezial/Zeppelin/Hangar/ |
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Roemerberg Festspiele 1935, 1937, 1939 |
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1939 -- Theater Arts Festival On The Eve of Destruction? |
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1944 - 1945 Allied Bombing of Frankfurt |
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| From: Geral Martin (geral.martin@gmx.de)
Sent: Tue 10/20/09 1:02 AM To: Bruce Garner (ba_garner@msn.com) Bruce, I am in Eugene Oregon for a visit to a friend. Thanks for setting up the FFM info and the old views. My first visit to FFM, 13 Feb 1958, showed me lots of ruins. People were still living in Kellern! The rest of the buildings were gone! Thanks, It is late, but I'll see the rest as the days go by. Jerry |
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From: Gary Sams To: fhs63-66@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, October 20, 2009 7:13:24 PM I had the unique experience to begin and end my education at Frankfurt with 8 years in between spent elsewhere. In 1953 we arrived in Sachsenhausen to live in an apartment building that had been taken over during WW II. My first grade was spent in an elementary school just below the Farben Building. Then in the fall of 54 the new high school and Platten Elementary school were opened. Platten stood in the middle of mud fields with nothing else around. The buses would pull up in the little circle (not paved), drop us off and then return in the afternoon to pick us up. We rotated out in the summer of 55 to FT. Meade and two years later were on the move again to Ankara, Turkey. We had a 3 day layover in Frankfurt at Rhein Main and were able to take in the sights. Platten housing area was being raised up. Some of the buildings were occupied. Two years later, in 59, during another layover on the way back to the states, we had another tour around the city and Platten was then complete. Little did I realize that one day I would live here. From 53-59 I remember the buildings being repaired and the bomb damage disappearing. When we came back in 63, just about everything was restored. Coming back in 63, was like Yogi Berra said, Deja vu all over again. The PX and the commissary were still in the same place. The baseball field behind the PX that I remembered well, was still there. Even the bowling alley, the Post Chapel and the Idle Hour Theater was still there. Anyone for a ride on the Pater noster? |
From: fhs63-66@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Donna Crosby Sent: Tue 10/20/09 9:23 PM To: fhs63-66@yahoogroups.com Gary: You were just a little tyke in 1953....Very overwhelming to a small child...to anyone for that matter! My family arrived in 56....our quarters in Edwards Housing was not finished being built, so we were housed in an old hotel right off Kaiser Str., which was still partially bombed out. Of course, much of the core downtown was a mess....Roemerplatz, et al. I'll never forget the day I saw people coming up out of the ground! They were living in apartments in the basement floor....the rest of the building was pretty much gone....quite an impression....along with many others. Our building in "Old Edwards" was the last to be built.....just fields from there on....Of course, New Edwards was later built. My parents first trip to Berlin in '56 was both difficult and memorable....so much had not yet been restored. I remember German families but usually just the father....would come around selling family heirlooms door-to-door; dumpster-diving, the family selling brotchen out of there old VW (delicious!).....the young maids with their German/American babies living in the "maids' quarters on the 4th floor. Some of their stories of the war would give us nightmares......many of them had been forced into prostitution during the War to survive. One of our maids' father had been a guard @ Dachau and never returned.....she always told us he couldn't bear what he had been forced to do.....she still cried for him. Old memories.....Gute Nacht, Donna Crosby, '65 |
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| WWII battlefields, then and now http://www.komando.com/videos/3-6.asp |
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| Berlin Express - Footage of Frankfurt ruins in late 1947 -- as the first FAHS classes saw Frankfurt |
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http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=3097 document. Interspersed in the post-war intrigue, is actual post-war footage of Berlin and Frankfurt, making Berlin Express the first Hollywood production allowed into Germany after the war. And Lucien Ballard's stark cinematography of urban ruin is often as fascinating as the story it supports http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=3097&category=Articles The film is memorable today for showing the bombed out streets of Frankfurt-am-Main. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Express http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Yq5wzOwvc Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFzbHTAWyY&feature=related IG Farben in Berlin Express USA ARMY, 1944 FRANKFURT GERMANY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNHlQ9VjjQc&feature=related FRANKFURT GERMANY 1944 TOTAL DISTRUCTION
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"Operation Vittles" -- Berliner Luftbrücke (Air Bridge) |
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| "Berlin Airlift vets return to Rhein-Main |
| 0/14/2004 - RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- Forty-nine Berlin Airlift veterans visited here Oct. 13 to recognize the 55th anniversary of one of the end of the largest humanitarian airlift missions in the history of the U.S. Air Force." |
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| "On 19 November 1948, the 513th Troop Carrier Group (Special) was activated at Rhein-Main Air Base to assist in their lift, also using C-54s. Groups of the 513th were the 313th, 330th, 331st, 332d, and 333d. The Soviet Union lifted its blockade at 00:01, on 12 May 1949. However, the airlift did not end until 30 September, as the Western nations wanted to build up sufficient amounts of supplies in West Berlin in case the Soviets blockaded it again." |
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From (Great Web Page): http://www.spiritoffreedom.org/airlift.html |
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"MEMORIALS: The Airlift Memorial at Rhein Main Air Base, Frankfurt, ..." "Each prong represents one of the 3 air corridors used during "Operation Vittles", and the names of the US and British Airmen killed in the process are inscribed on the base of each." "31 Americans lost their lives during the Berlin Airlift, paying the ultimate price for the freedom of others. Let that not be forgotten." |
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Donner 469th Air Base Group Public Affairs 8/5/2005 - RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, Germany (AFPN) -- One of the most touching symbols of Rhein-Main’s history will soon find a new home at nearby Ramstein Air Base. |
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Go here to get Dan Bunting's book "The Young Ambassadors" |
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This book tells of the life of teenagers in Occupied
Germany, 1946-49. It is a true account of experiences in daily life and
dwells very much on Berlin and the "Operation Vittles", Berlin Airlift.
The greatest humanitarian accomplishment in history."
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My schoolmates...my book is ready...I received my review copy
today...I am thrilled! Go to
www.Lulu.com
check for "The Young Ambassadors" by Daniel L. Bunting the ID # is
1465229.....Honest..I am really pleased.
Dan Bunting FHS 49
Dan unloaded planes during the Airlift and is a part of the BAVA, Dan's patches: |
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(1897)
Internationale
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The International Motor Show or Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA) is the world's largest motor show. It is held biennially in Frankfurt, Germany and is known in English as the Frankfurt Motor Show. |
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1959- May 18, 1961-- Henninger Turm Built |
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On the 69 and 70 class rings |
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Under the portrait of Charlemagne in the Emperor's Hall, President John F. Kennedy signs Frankfurt's Golden Book. The Golden Book |
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" JFK president of USA Born May 29, 1917 Died November 22, 1963 Spoke on 25 June
1963 in St. Paul's Church to the German people and the world: No one can say of
this, our Atlantic generation, that our ideals, vision of the past, striving for
goals and our determination were left to our adversaries."
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"Rhein Main ceremony ends era as 'gateway', April 1, 1995 |
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RM control tower being torn down
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"Weltflughafen Rhein-Main 1936" (on ebay) same tower circa 1935-6? |
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terrorism/security
1998 became the seat of the European Central Bank.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen
http://www.leipzig.de/int/en/int_messen/partnerstaedte/frankfurt_main/
http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=stadtfrankfurt_eval01.c.317693.de&template=hp_flash
http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=stadtfrankfurt_eval01.c.317693.en&template=hp_flash
http://wiki.worldflicks.org/hauptwache_(frankfurt_am_main).html
http://www.deutsche-staedte.de/frankfurt/index.html
http://frankfurt.usconsulate.gov/
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556069/Frankfurt_am_Main.html
http://www.aviewoncities.com/frankfurt.htm
Book Fair Started
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Frankfurt+Bookfair
http://www.book-fair.com/en/portal.php
Christmas Faire
The Frankfurt Christmas fair is one of the most beautiful and oldest fairs in Germany. It is also one of the largest thanks to over 200 shacks. It was first referred to in 1393. http://www.frankfurt360.de/frankfurt_at_christmas.htm
http://www.frankfurt.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=2855&_ffmpar[_id_inhalt]=3428820
Messe
http://www.messefrankfurt.com/festhalle/en/home.html
Palmengarten
http://www.palmengarten.frankfurt.de/englisch/englisch.htm
1944-1945 - Allied Bombing - Heavy Damage to Frankfurt
U.S. Takes IG Farben as area HQ
http://www.usarmygermany.com/USAREUR_City_Frankfurt.htm
http://www.usarmygermany.com/Communities/Frankfurt/Aerials_Frankfurt%201945.htm
Loses Out to Bonn to be New Capital
Automobile Exposition Started
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Frankfurt+Auto+Show
U-Bahn Opens
1995 U.S. Military Pulls Out of Frankfurt, FAHS closes
Architecture
http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/frankfurt.htm
Museums
http://www.kultur-frankfurt.de/prs/WebObjects/portal.woa/wa/select?id=15000019&entity=Ordner
http://www.mmk-frankfurt.de/mmk_e/01_museum01.html
Maps
http://www.hot-maps.de/europe/germany/hessen/frankfurt_main/homede.html
Hammering Man Sculpture http://www.answers.com/topic/hammering-man
http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/frankfurt083.JPG
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/hammerman.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammering_Man
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hammering_Man
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hammering_Man%2C_Frankfurt
http://www.aviewoncities.com/gallery/showpicture.htm?key=kvege0663&dir=frankfurt&tpe=city
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Borofsky
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List+of+tallest+buildings+in+Germany
http://www.borofsky.com/public.htm
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/hlm7/ffubahnstoppics96.html
http://members.fortunecity.com/billyontheweb/id501.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/IGFarben/index.html
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