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Frankfurt History
The first written evidence of the Frankfurt was penned in 794 by Charlemagne. From The Roman times The Frankfurt had been established as the trading centre, and by the 12th century, the city’s trade fairs attracted the punters from as far a field as the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Frankfurt was propelled into prominence when it was made the site of the election and coronation of German kings, with Frederick I Barbarossa setting the tradition in motion in 1152. Frankfurt's character was strongly secular, as befitting a cosmopolitan trading centre, and the city was among the first to embrace Luther's controversial ideas. It held a significant position in the Holy Roman Empire of Germany, although the Hessian principalities that surrounded it remained a disorganized and lowly bunch right up to 1945. In 1848, the great year of revolutions, Germany's very first parliamentary delegation met briefly at Frankfurt's Paulskirche; US president John F Kennedy was referring to this event when he described Frankfurt as 'the cradle of democracy in Germany'. About 80% of the city centre was flattened and 1870 people were killed in Allied bombing raids in March 1944. The American Army took over the city in 1945 and made it their headquarters during Germany's rehabilitation. Throughout its history Frankfurt had followed an ad hoc policy of tolerating the city's Jews if it suited, and persecuting them if it did not. Today's city is a mishmash of papier-mâché past and Gotham-city present, with the banking district's glittering skyscrapers a forceful symbol of postwar (western) Germany's phoenix-like economic fortunes.
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