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Quarter of Frankfurt am Main in Hesse, Germany

Eckenheim

Eckenheim is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Eckenheim
Eckenheim · Mathias Gawlista
The place

Eckenheim is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Nord-Ost.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Eckenheim

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Goethe University Frankfurt

    Goethe University Frankfurt is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt.

    2.5 km · university in Frankfurt, Germany · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    IG Farben Building

    The IG Farben Building, also known as the Poelzig Building, is a building complex in Frankfurt, Germany. It is the central building of the Westend Campus of Goethe University Frankfurt.

    2.8 km · building of the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research

    The University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research is a sociology and continental philosophy research institute best known as the home of the Frankfurt School and critical theory. Formerly affiliated with Columbia University in New York City, it has returned to Goethe University Frankfurt.

    3.9 km · research institute in Frankfurt, Germany · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Catherine's Church

    St. Catherine's Church is the largest Protestant church in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

    4 km · First new Protestant church in Frankfurt after the Reformation · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    OpernTurm

    OpernTurm is a 43-storey 170 m skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. The property is situated opposite Alte Oper on the corner of Bockenheimer Landstraße and Bockenheimer Anlage.

    3.8 km · skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hauptwache

    The Hauptwache is a central point of Frankfurt am Main and is one of the most famous plazas in the city. The original name Schillerplatz was superseded in the early 1900s.

    4 km · building in Frankfurt, Germany · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Palmengarten

    The Palmengarten is one of two botanical gardens in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is located in the Westend-Süd district.

    3.4 km · botanical garden in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Frankfurter Engel

    The Frankfurter Engel is a memorial in the city of Frankfurt am Main in southwestern Germany; it is dedicated to homosexual people who were persecuted under Nazi rule, and as well as under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code during the 1950s and 1960s.

    3.6 km · sculpture · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stadion am Bornheimer Hang

    The PSD Bank Arena is a multi-use stadium in Bornheim, a district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FSV Frankfurt and occasionally used to host Eintracht Frankfurt.

    3.8 km · multi-use stadium in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Westend-Synagoge

    The Westend Synagogue, built between 1908 and 1910, is the largest synagogue in Frankfurt am Main and serves as the spiritual center of the city's Jewish community. It is the only one of Frankfurt's four pre-war large synagogues to have survived the November pogroms of 1938 and the World War II bombings, although it suffered significant damage.

    3.3 km · Synagogue in Frankfurt / Main · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Eckenheim

Airports
Frankfurt Main (FRA), 16 km · Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 104 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 135 km
Stations
Frankfurt Konstablerwache station, 3.9 km · Hauptwache station complex, 3.9 km · Frankfurt Taunusanlage station, 4 km · Frankfurt Frankfurter Berg station, 2.3 km · Frankfurt Eschersheim station, 2.1 km
  • Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → Eckenheim
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Köln (Cologne) → Eckenheim
    149 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · €19–27
  • Calden → Eckenheim
    7569 km · quickest by air, 16h 56m · ₹88,940–1,37,810
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Eckenheim

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Eckenheim. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFor 2-5 people travelling together on a day trip from Frankfurt, the RMV group day ticket (Gruppentageskarte) is more economical and more convenient that using single trip tickets.

From Wikivoyage: Oberursel, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    431 km
  2. 02
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    464 km
  3. 03
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    674 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    708 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    709 km

If you know how people move in Eckenheim – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Eckenheim

Eckenheim is 4 km from Frankfurt am Main, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bornheimdistrict of Frankfurt am Main3.2 km
  • Eschersheimdistrict of Frankfurt, Germany2 km
  • Dornbuschdistrict of Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany1.3 km
  • GinnheimDistrict of Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany2.6 km
  • Innenstadtdistrict of Frankfurt, Germany4 km
  • Heddernheimcity district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany3 km