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Discover Frankfurt’s most up-and-coming neighbourhood:\u00a0Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From once shady backstreets to a contemporary hotspot with cool restaurants and bars, Frankfurts Bahnhofsviertel has reinvented itself. No other neighbourhood is so diverse, exciting and contradictory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankfurt polarises. Either you love it or loathe it. Its juxtaposition of tall office towers and small wooden cottages, distinguished art scene and graffitied walls, financial strongholds and junkie houses. In the Bahnhofsviertel (literally: train station quarter) the contradictions live side by side. Taking up less than one square kilometre, the trapezoidal area spans from the main train station to Taunusanlage station and from Mainzer Landstra\u00dfe to the to bank of the river Main. About 4,000 people live there, barely more than a village. Yet almost the whole world feels at home in the city\u2019s second smallest district \u2013 in fact, no other place in Germany is less provincial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel: Skin colours, life stories and cuisines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the Bahnhofsviertel, skin colours, life stories and cuisines all mix together. \u2018Well over a hundred nationalities come together here\u2019, says James Ardinast, who has built up no less than four gastronomy concepts with his brother David. A different wind was blowing here in Ottostra\u00dfe in 2006 as the brothers planted their first project, the IMA Kitchen, one of the first better-burger grills in the country. Back then it wasn\u2019t boutique shops, takeaway kiosks and exotic products from all over the world that shaped the clich\u00e9s and realities of the area; rather, for the most part it was drugs, sex work, and gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all started so mundanely. The district started to grow when the transport hub around Central Station was opened in 1888. At the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> century, wealth and progress spread through the emerging labyrinthine streets, with noble boulevards, elegant villas, and luxury shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The district\u2019s descent began after the Second World War. The once sophisticated residential area became a red light district, which spellbound the US soldiers stationed in the city. The departing soldiers were succeeded by dealers, junkies and alcoholics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was the vibrancy and open-mindedness of the area that ensured that it didn\u2019t sink into dreariness and misery. Hedonists and art students, backyard mosques and smoky bars, born and bred Frankfurters and people from all over the world \u2013 there was room for everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n

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