Frankfurt in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Frankfurt covers 13 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Frankfurt rewards a detour.

The Frankfurt route at a glance

• Day 1
• Day 2

Day 1

Day 1 covers 7 stops and about 1.6 km on foot, from Goethe House to Eiserner Steg. ≈ 1.6 km of walking, about 20 min

Morning

1. Goethe House: The Goethe House in Frankfurt, where the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in 1749 and grew up, rebuilt after its destruction in 1944, with the German Romantic Museum next door. 0.3 km on foot (4 min) to the next stop
2. St Paul's Church (Paulskirche): St Paul's Church in Frankfurt, the oval sandstone church where the first parliament elected for all of Germany met in 1848 and 1849, rebuilt after the war as a hall and a memorial to democracy. 0.3 km on foot (3 min) to the next stop
3. Kleinmarkthalle: The Kleinmarkthalle, the covered food market in the old town of Frankfurt, built in 1954, where about sixty traders sell fresh produce, meat and local specialities such as green sauce and Frankfurt sausages. 0.4 km on foot (4 min) to the next stop
4. Frankfurt Cathedral: Frankfurt Cathedral, the Gothic church of St Bartholomew with its tower of 95 metres, where German kings were elected for centuries and where ten coronations took place from 1562 to 1792. 0.2 km on foot (2 min) to the next stop

Afternoon

1. New Old Town (Dom-Römer Quarter): The New Old Town of Frankfurt, the Dom-Römer quarter between the Römerberg and the cathedral, built from 2012 to 2018 with 35 houses, 15 of them reconstructions of houses lost in 1944. 0.2 km on foot (2 min) to the next stop
2. Römerberg and Römer: The Römerberg, the old central square of Frankfurt, with the stepped gables of the Römer, the city's town hall since 1405, the Fountain of Justice and a row of rebuilt half-timbered houses. 0.3 km on foot (3 min) to the next stop
3. Eiserner Steg: The Eiserner Steg, the footbridge of 1869 over the Main between the old town and Sachsenhausen, rebuilt several times, with a Greek line from Homer and wide views of the skyline.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 6 stops and about 5.2 km on foot, from Sachsenhausen to Palmengarten and Senckenberg Museum. ≈ 5.2 km of walking, about 1 hr

Morning

1. Sachsenhausen: Sachsenhausen, the district on the south bank of the Main in Frankfurt, with the cobbled lanes of its old quarter and the taverns where apple wine is poured from grey stoneware jugs. 1.7 km on foot (20 min) to the next stop
2. Städel and the Museumsufer: The Städel, the art museum on the south bank in Frankfurt, founded by the will of the banker Johann Friedrich Städel in 1815, with seven centuries of European art, among the museums of the Museumsufer. 0.7 km on foot (8 min) to the next stop
3. Jewish Museum Frankfurt: The Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, in the Rothschild Palais by the river Main and in the Museum Judengasse, tells more than eight hundred years of history of one of the great Jewish communities of Germany. 0.7 km on foot (8 min) to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Main Tower: The Main Tower, a skyscraper of 200 metres in the banking district of Frankfurt, opened in 2000, with a public viewing platform high above the city and the towers of its skyline. 0.6 km on foot (7 min) to the next stop
2. Alte Oper: The Alte Oper, the old opera house of Frankfurt, opened in 1880, burned out in 1944 and rebuilt with the help of its citizens as a concert hall that reopened in 1981. 1.6 km on foot (19 min) to the next stop
3. Palmengarten and Senckenberg Museum: The Palmengarten, the botanical garden of Frankfurt opened in 1871 with its great palm house, and nearby the Senckenberg Natural History Museum, known for its dinosaurs.

Walking distances and times follow streets and footpaths (routing by openrouteservice.org, map data © OpenStreetMap contributors). Times are walking only, at an easy pace; add time at each stop.

Where the route eats

Food and market stops on the Frankfurt tour, each with its own story in the app:

• Kleinmarkthalle: The Kleinmarkthalle, the covered food market in the old town of Frankfurt, built in 1954, where about sixty traders sell fresh produce, meat and local specialities such as green sauce and Frankfurt sausages.

Updated: October 27, 2026

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