Day Trip: The Three Towers of Frankfurt
On a bright, June Sunday, my friend, Katharina and her partner, Marcel, took me to see Frankfurt. While I had been in and out of the Frankfurt airport half a dozen times–and I had transferred at a Frankfurt train station even more–I had never actually toured the city itself. It had lodged in my mind as a cluster of distant skyscrapers on the horizon as I ventured through Germany. Turns out I had missed a real gem. I’ll relate my time in Frankfurt by telling of three towers. Tower 1: Main Tower Our first stop, after a fine German breakfast of scrambled eggs and Brotchen, was Frankfurt’s Main Tower, a glass and steel cylinder that dominates the skyline. The elevator zipped us up to the observation deck. A dial at the door tracked our speed and elevation. The doors opened at 190 meters. A couple more flights of stairs took us to the observation deck, closer to 200 meters. Frankfurt is the financial hub of Germany–and it vies with London for the most significant financial center...