Hessen

Frankfurt am Main

Maps on our site:

• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 674-675
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-35

Find more maps:

• Francfurt am Main town scape 1650-1700
  on the site of the Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
  
  

Located on canalized Main river above confluence with Rhein; site of Celtic & German settlements, then a Roman fort; probably was passage used when Franks drove Alemmani south ca. AD 500; site of imperial elections from 856; was heavily damaged in WW II.

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