First impression about Frankfurt

After four days of living in Hessen, in one of the so called „selected areas“ of Frankfurt, Bad Homburg, I’ve adventured myself into discovering the non-touristic areas of the innercity.

Only pure luck could have brought me to an area which I really like called Sachsenhausen. It begins at the Museum quai and continues to the south along the Swiss Street (Schweizer Strasse).

Not too green, not too crowded, not too perfect, this region has been love at first sight. I love how the houses form a continuous, uniform,  front to the street, the warm colours used for painting the houses, the small caffee shops, diverse restaurants and people who walk on the street. Posh bistros and upper scale bio-stores are intertwined with restaurants whose names speak for the kind of food served:Taj Mahal, Eis Cafe Milano, NYC bar & restaurant, trattorias, etc. Above this reigns the metalic sound of the tramway, which runs in a ten minute tempo.

But enough with the sentimentalism and let’s get down to business. I wonder how much it costs to live here. If you look at the people walking on the street, they are a mix of multicultural residents, some much better dressed than others. From this, one could conclude that the prices shouldn’t be up in the sky. However, the proximity to the bank quartier which is right on the other side of the Main river, speaks against this.

Though Richard Florida’s criteria, this would be an area for the creative class, which is on the verge of being gentrified due to its short distance to the bank quartier.

So, being at the coffee shop Fellini at the Swiss Place (Schweizer Platz), I add to my today’s „to do list“ a research  about the rent prices in the area.

Finally, I leave you with a collage of pictures freshly taken from „THE PLACE“.