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In 1944, after the bombing the Frankfurt rained down and nearly half of the city’s old-timbered building was leveled. Frankfurt has no numbered comparison of museums and monument with the Munich and Berlin, but enough to lure more than two million visitors annually. The Museums Embankment at the south bank of Main has many grandest museums. The Altstadt, Allow about half a day to explore the old town, which was once one of the greatest and most historic in Germany before World War II bombing raids turned it to dust. Its specific attractions include the Goethe House, which was the birthplace of Germany's greatest writer in 1749. Römerberg, The Altstadt, centers on three Gothic buildings with stepped gables, known collectively as the Römer, Römerberg. These houses were originally built between 1288 and 1305 and bought by the city a century later for use as the Rathaus. The second floor of the center house is the Imperial Hall (Kaisersaal), lined with the romanticized 19th-century portraits of 52 emperors; 13 of them celebrated their coronation banquets here. Dom, The dominant feature of the Altstadt is the 15th-century, red-sandstone tower of the Dom St. Bartholomäus in whose chapels the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire were elected and crowned for nearly 300 years. The church was constructed between the 13th and 15th centuries on the site of a Carolingian building. It is most noted for its west tower or Westturm, which is greatly ornamented and crowned by a polygonal gable.
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