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Offenbach

Country:
Germany
State:
Hesse
City:
Offenbach
Type of Location:
Multiple
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How to Reach

By Air

The city is accessed from around the world via the Frankfurt Airport, (Flughafen Frankfurt am Main) which is located 12 km (7 mi) from Offenbach.The airport can be reached by car or bus and has two train stations, one for regional and one for long-distance traffic.The S-Bahn lines S8 and S9 (direction "Offenbach Ost or "Hanau"), departing from the regional traffic station take 15 minutes from the airport to get to Offenbach.

By Train

In Offenbach there are seven stations and stops including one regional station, and six other pure S-train stations.The stations are located at the Frankfurt-Bebra railroad / railway Kinzigtal in Offenbach city tunnel and the train Rodgau.By Offenbach leads the railroad track Bebra this is in the inner city area since 1910 run as high route to Berlin model.This is also the 1872-1873 built Offenbach Central Station which has lost its importance for long-distance traffic as much as possible. Only three IC connections of Deutsche Bahn stop in Offenbach (June 2011).In rail transport Offenbach is served by regional trains of Deutsche Bahn and the VIAS GmbH ( Odenwald railway ) and the lines S1, S2, S8 and S9 of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main serves.

By Road

The streets of central Offenbach are usually congested with cars during the rush hour.Some areas, especially around the shopping streets, are pedestrian-only streets.There are numerous car parks located throughout the city.The Offenbacher Kreuz is an Autobahn interchange where the Autobahnen A 3 (Cologne-Wurzburg) and A 661 meet.The A661 crosses the (Cologne-Würzburg) and A 5 (Basel-Hannover).

By Bicycle

In the summer seasonal bicycles could be rented from nextbike, a rental company in Offenbach and Frankfurt.Only a credit card and a mobile phone is necessary to take a bike parked somewhere in the town.

By Bus

In Offenbach the local buses run regional Kurhessen GmbH (RKH) and the city buses Offenbacher Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH (OVB).There exists a local Transport Organization (LNO).It bundles the city traffic under the umbrella brand "transport in Offenbach" (NiO).From 1951 to 1972 in Offenbach wrong also trolleybuses.The current transport in Offenbach am Main, relies entirely on the diesel bus.

Key places to visit
Festival of the clubs, German Leather Museum, Klingspor Museum, Leonhard Eibnert Park, Rosenheim-Museum

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Places to Visit

Festival of the clubs

is also a street festival , which since the year 1986 once held every summer in Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach and Hanau.The Mainuferfest to serve the local associations and institutions as an opportunity to present themselves to the citizens of the city. Over the years, this initially small street festival a great event with many visitors. It is organized by the respective city in which it takes place.Feast of the clubs with a colorful culture, music and sports programs. Along the Main River between Buesing Palais and Isenburg castle present themselves in 2008 to 22 Mainuferfest Offenbacher around 150 clubs. With the Jazz Forum " Lili Temple "and open-air rock festival on the banks of the approaches to Main in Offenbach am Main.In June 2005 136 clubs in the city of Frankfurt took part in the festivities and organized events, concerts and demonstrations.

German Leather Museum

is a museum in Offenbach which is the worldwide use of the material leather showing the crafts, art and everyday life.On an area covering approximately 2,500 square where more than 30,000 exhibits.Different than the name suggests, this section of the museum collects almost principally historical leather goods from the old Egypt, on arts and crafts from various centuries and manufacturing and industrial products ranging recent times.There you will find items such as belts, bags, ceremonial shields and weapons, armor, masks, leather Bucheinbande and Minne box, including briefcases Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine, cases of manufacturers Louis Vuitton and Rimowa, and designed a chaise-longue by Prof. Stefan saint.The German Shoe Museum is affiliated international and national shoe fashion shows from four millennia. There will be exhibits of Egyptian mummy tombs, from Iran, Italy, China and many other countries.Including for example the silk boots of Empress Sissy, but also the trainers, Joschka Fischer, which he wore at his inauguration as Hessian Minister of the Environment.

Klingspor Museum

is a museum of calligraphy and typography.It is located in the south wing of the Busing Palais.2011 began a renovation and addition of building on historical models the temporary flat roof will disappear.The museum was founded in 1953 as an institution in the town of Offenbach. Ground floor of the museum was the private collection of Karl Klingspor who in the first half of the 20th Century in Offenbach, with his brother William operated a foundry.This font foundry Klingspor brothers was known worldwide and employed many famous typographers of the period.In the collection of the museum are the papers of Werner Klemke, Rudolf Koch, Ernst Schneidler and Rudo Spemann.It also has the largest collection outside the Netherlands over the typographers Hendrik Nikolaas Werkman who with his experimental magazine "The next call" from the years 1923-1926 the most influential avant-garde the typography of the 20th Century belongs.From typography to the museum the last years has developed towards the collection of art books.

Leonhard Eibnert Park

is one of the mountain Bieberer in Offenbach located public park on whose grounds the Offenbacher youth traffic school the Hessian police and a company operated by the Fun Forest Adventure Park is located. He has 22 acres of Offenbach's largest park and year round accessible.Easter 2007 on the grounds it was opened Leonhard Eibnert-park of the Fun Forest GmbH a roughly three-acre adventure park.In between five and fifteen meters in height over a hundred trees with ropes and steel bars were connected to reach the different stations are climbing.The fee-based services are aimed at adults and children over five years.Annually by the urban youth office and the city PTA of daycare aligned in a game late summer festival.These events include performances by clowns, jugglers and musicians as well as various games, sports and craft activities for children and their families.

Rosenheim-Museum

is the Museum of Contemporary Art in Offenbach am Main.It takes its name from the 1931 born there Bernd Rosenheim, who made himself as an artist, documentary filmmaker and author name.It is worn by the 1993 in the name of Bernd Rosenheim established charitable foundation. Since September 2009 she is named Bernd and Gisela Rosenheim Foundation.In 2003, the landmarked mansion in Hunters Dreieich Park purchased by the town of Offenbach and extensively modernized. After an even first exhibition during the 2007 renovations, the museum opened the regular operation on 13 April 2008 with the exhibition "The Mask of myth.Late works by Bernd Rosenheim ".The museum realized the goal of the Foundation, the contemporary visual arts in the fields of painting, sculpture and graphics to promote, where "compelling design and form of force" is crucial according to foundation's mandate.

Right Time to Visit

August - November
January - April

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