We'll be visiting the base village of our trip and its castle on Tuesday October 31st in the afternoon, after having been welcomed and toured the school.
Neighbouring communities
Kronberg borders in the north and east on the town of Oberursel, in the southeast on the town of Steinbach, in the south on the towns of Eschborn and Schwalbach.
Constituent communities
Kronberg consists of the three centres of Kronberg (8,108 inhabitants), Oberhöchstadt (6,363 inhabitants) and Schönberg (3,761 inhabitants).
We'll visit the city on Wednesday November 1st stopping at the Opera, the old town, the marketplace, walking around the river and the financial district "Mainhattan" with a visit to the top of the Main Tower.
Frankfurt am Main is the most populated city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants in 2022 make it the fifth most populous city in Germany. It forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.8 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr.
Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the most important cities of the Holy Roman Empire, as a site of Imperial coronations, it has been part of the state of Hesse since 1945. Frankfurt is culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse, with half of its population, and a majority of its young people, having a migrant background. A quarter of the population consists of foreign nationals, including many expatriates. Frankfurt is the 14th-wealthiest city in the world.
Frankfurt is a global hub for commerce, culture, education, tourism and transportation, and is the site of many global and European corporate headquarters. Due to its central location, Frankfurt Airport became the busiest in Germany, one of the busiest in the world, the airport with the most direct routes in the world, and the primary hub for Lufthansa, the national airline of Germany. Frankfurt Central Station is Germany's second-busiest railway station. Frankfurt is one of the major financial centers of the European continent, with the headquarters of the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Automotive, technology and research, services, consulting, media and creative industries complement the economic base. Messe Frankfurt is one of the world's largest trade fairs. Major fairs include the Music Fair and the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest book fair. With 108 consulates, Frankfurt is second to New York among non-capital cities in regards to consulate seats.
Frankfurt is home to influential educational institutions and Its renowned cultural venues include the concert hall Alte Oper, continental Europe's largest theatre and many museums. Frankfurt's skyline is shaped by some of Europe's tallest skyscrapers, which has led to the term Mainhattan.
This will be the new place to visit this time. An all-day trip to this medieval university town on Friday November 3rd.
Marburgis a university town in the German federal state of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district. The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximately 76,000.
Having been awarded town privileges in 1222, Marburg served as capital of Hessen-Marburg during periods of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. The University of Marburg was founded in 1527 and dominates the public life in the town to this day.
Marburg is a historic centre of the pharmaceutical industry in Germany, and there is a plant in the town (by BioNTech) to produce vaccines to tackle Covid-19.
- ALTKÖNIGSCHULE, KRONBERG
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