Hotel Palmenhof

Frankfurt am Main


In the heart of the leafy Westend, this Jugendstil red-sandstone establishment, constructed in 1890, offers 45 understated rooms with a mix of modern and classical furnishings; those at the rear have balconies. Breakfast costs €16.


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Nearby Frankfurt am Main attractions

1. PalmenGarten

0.27 MILES

Established in 1871, Frankfurt's botanical PalmenGarten (palm garden) is filled with tropical hothouses, rose gardens, a bamboo grove and rock garden…

2. Westend Synagogue

0.28 MILES

Frankfurt's largest synagogue was built between 1908 and 1910 by Lichtenstein-born architect Franz Roeckle (1879–1953), who trained in Stuttgart before…

3. Senckenberg Museum

0.29 MILES

Life-size dinosaur mock-ups guard the front of Frankfurt’s natural history museum. Inside the early 1900s neo-baroque building, exhibits cover…

4. Wollheim Memorial

0.52 MILES

This memorial is housed in a little pavilion marked ‘107984’ – the prisoner number of Norbert Wollheim, a forced labourer at the IG Farben’s corporate…

5. IG-Farbenhaus

0.58 MILES

The monumental seven-storey IG-Farbenhaus was erected in 1931 as the headquarters of IG-Farben (pronounced ‘ee geh far-behn’), the mammoth German…

6. Messe

0.63 MILES

Spread out between 1km and 2km northwest of the Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt’s famous trade fair grounds are anchored by the iconic MesseTurm, a 256m-high…

7. Alte Oper

0.65 MILES

Inaugurated in 1880, the Italian Renaissance-style Alte Oper anchors the western end of the Zeil-Fressgass pedestrian zone. Burnt out in 1944, it narrowly…

8. Main Tower

0.77 MILES

Frankfurt's skyline wouldn't be the same without the Main Tower, one of the tallest and most distinctive high-rises in town. A great place to get a feel…