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  Frankfurt. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Frankfurt was designated in the Golden Bull (1356) of Emperor Charles IV as the seat of the imperial elections, which took place in the chapel of the Church of St. Bartholomew.
Frankfurt was the original home of the Rothschilds, who, along with other Jewish merchants and bankers, played a leading role in the economic growth of the city (especially after 1700).
The Congress of Vienna (1814–15) restored Frankfurt to the status of a free city and made it the seat of the diet of the German Confederation.
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 Frankfurt at AllExperts
Frankfurt Airport ranks among the world's top ten airports and serves 304 flight destinations in 110 countries.Depending whether total passengers or flights are used to measure, it ranks as the second or third busiest in Europe alongside London Heathrow Airport and Paris' Charles de Gaulle.
Frankfurt managed to remain neutral during the Thirty Years' War, but it suffered from the bubonic plague that was brought to the city by refugees.
Frankfurt is also known for having one of the largest red light districts in Germany in vicinity of the Hauptbahnhof (main railway station).
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 Frankfurt (Main), Germany
Frankfurt is renowned for its finance industry, on a par with London and Paris, as well as for its central location in Western Europe, surrounded by the most populous areas of Europe.
Frankfurt managed to remain neutral during the Thirty Years' War, but it suffered from the plague that was brought to the city by refugees.
Frankfurt was the original choice for the capital of West Germany - they even went as far as constructing a new parliament building that has never been used for its intended purpose, and is now a TV studio.
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 Cityparliament
The municipal council is bound to execute the decisions of the City Parliament.
One of the major tasks for the City Parliament is to reach agreement on the city's budget.
The City Parliament is able to set political priorities for the next year and beyond by allocating funds within the budget.
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 Frankfurt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Frankfurt is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.
Frankfurt is also home to many cultural and educational institutions, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, many museums, most of them lined up along the Main river on the Museumsufer (museum embankment), and a large botanical garden, the Palmengarten.
Frankfurt was the original choice for the provisional capital of West Germany - they even went as far as constructing a new parliament building that has never been used for its intended purpose, and is now a TV studio.
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 Frankfurt Parliament — FactMonster.com
Frankfurt Parliament, 1848–49, national assembly convened at Frankfurt on May 18, 1848, as a result of the liberal revolution that swept the German states early in 1848.
The parliament was called by a preliminary assembly of German liberals in Mar., 1848, and its members were elected by direct manhood suffrage.
The constitution drafted by the Frankfurt Parliament influenced that of the
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 Frankfurt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Frankfurt am Main [&x02c8;fra&x014b;kf&x028a;rt] is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth largest city in Germany.
Frankfurt managed to remain neutral during the Thirty Years' War, but it suffered nonetheless from the plague that was brought to the city by refugees.
Frankfurt was the original choice for the capital of West Germany, they even went as far as constructing a new parliament building, which was never used for its intended purpose and is now a TV studio.
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 Frankfurt city - hotels, restaurants and business connections - ibcvip.com
Its importance has its root in the Frankfurt Parliament, which met in the church during the revolutionary years of 1848/49 in order to write a constitution for a united Germany.
Alte Oper, Frankfurt's famous opera house, was built in 1880 by the architect Richard Lucae.
The Oper Frankfurt is the leading opera company of Germany and one of the most important opera houses in the world.
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 FIFA World Cup 2006 Frankfurt
Frankfurt has been Germany's financial capital for centuries, and it is the home of a number of major banks and brokerages.
Frankfurt is a city of trade fair, a financial centre, a transportation hub, a major European metropolis, but also a city of intellect, of apple wine, of small-town friendliness, green spaces and 180 nationalities.
Frankfurt’s ice hockey team had a tough history until the 1990s, when Eintracht Frankfurt was re-dubbed the Frankfurt Lions, and with the addition of international players, managers and trainers and a big image makeover, they managed to make it to the semi-finals in 1998.
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 A2Z Languages - Frankfurt, Germany - History
Frankfurt was originally a roman town and royal residence of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne in 100AD.
In 1356 Frankfurt was chosen as the seat of imperial elections, the Golden Bull, by Charles IV, which took place in the chapel of the Church of St. Bartholomew.
Though the parliament was disbanded by the Prussians, Frankfurt was later hailed as Germany's 'cradle of democracy'.
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 Travel in Frankfurt. A Guide to traveling in Frankfurt, Germany from Auto Europe
Frankfurt was founded by the Romans in the 1st Century AD and became the royal residence to Charlemagne in the 8th century.
Frankfurt was heavily damaged as a result of WWII and much of the old village and the city centre was demolished.
Frankfurt Westend - The Westend is the Bankers district with high-rises and skyscrapers.
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 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Frankfurt am Main (D)
Frankfurt am Main is situated at an altitude of 112 m on the river Main southeast of the Taunus low mountain region at the northern end of the Rhine Rift in southern Hesse.
After the defeat of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna (1815), Frankfurt was re-established as a Free City, Aschaffenburg came to Bavaria, Hanau and Fulda were given to the Electorate of Hesse (Hesse-Kassel), Wetzlar came to Prussia.
Frankfurt campaigned for becoming the new capital of Germany, but in 1949 Bonn was eventually chosen.
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 Frankfurt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Situated on the Main river, Frankfurt is the financial and transportation center of Germany.
Frankfurt has the highest concentration of lawyers in Germany, with one lawyer per 99 inhabitants, and also the highest per-capita level of debt in Germany (excepting Germany's three city-states), because of a set of massive public works projects in the 1980s under CDU mayors Walter Wallmann and Wolfram Brück.
Frankfurt is also home to several large German industrial associations, such as the Chemical Industry Association; the Association for German Machine- and Equipment-building; the Electrotechnical, Electronic, and Information Technology Association e.V. with its affiliated electrotechnical standards commission; and the Association of German Automobile Producers, which is currently moving to Franfurt.
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 Frankfurt Parliament: 1848
The Frankfurt Parliament was born to draft a constitution for all of Germany.
On March 28, 1849, the Frankfurt Parliament adopted a constitution for Germany.
With the dispersions, the Frankfurt Parliament was over and Germany was not unified.
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 Frankfurt Hesse Germany
Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.
Frankfurt is often nicknamed "Bankfurt" or "Mainhattan" (derived from the local Main River).
Frankfurt managed to remain neutral during the Thirty Years' War, but it suffered from the boubonic plague that was brought to the city by refugees.
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 The Paulskirche, Frankfurt, Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The round, single-towered church in Frankfurt is revered as the birthplace of the German democratic tradition.
The occasion was the assembly of the Frankfurt Parliament in the Paulskirche on May 18, 1848.
It was ceremoniously reopened on the 100th anniversary of the convening of the Frankfurt Parliament.
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 Frankfurt Parliament. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The president of the parliament was Heinrich von Gagern.
While the parliament was lengthily debating various schemes of union, it was diverted from its purpose by the war with Denmark over the Schleswig-Holstein question; the parliament commissioned Prussia to send troops to aid the duchies, but finally accepted (Sept., 1848) an armistice.
The constitution drafted by the Frankfurt Parliament influenced that of the North German Confederation in 1866, particularly in providing direct suffrage.
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 Untitled Document
The Frankfurt Parliament met in St. Paul's church in Frankfurt decorated with red, fl and gold, speakers spoke from the pulpit, and the debates often went late into the night.
Nonetheless, the Frankfurt parliament operated outside of any state structure, it did not have any army, and it lacked the support from political leaders of Prussia and Austria as well as Bavaria and Wurtenberg (Merriman, 1996, pg.743).
The Frankfurt Parliament promoted better and more equal position of the middle classes in the future unified constitutional monarchy or even the republic of Germany, but it feared the universal manhood suffrage more than the dominance of aristocracy.
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 Frankfurt Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Frankfurt Parliament is the name of the German National Assembly founded during the Revolutions of 1848 that tried to unite Germany in a democratic way.
At the same time as the events in Frankfurt, a Danish constitutional convention had assembled in Copenhagen, and the question of extending the draft constitution to Schleswig quickly arose, since Schleswig's population was mostly Danish and felt threatened by the prospect of becoming a small minority in a new Germany.
This crisis let to a German revolt in both Schleswig and Holstein, prompting the Frankfurt Parliament to approve the intervention of Prussia to protect its member state Holstein.
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 Center for international and european Law on Immigration and Asylum
Frankfurt is the metropolis of finance in Germany and will be, besides London, the European financial center in the coming next years.
A local parliament in Frankfurt has in fact a very weak legitimation to represent the citizens in a democratic way.
In Frankfurt there are a large number of Moslems (80.000 from countries all over the world, organised in 25 muslim communities) who participate in religious and educational organisations.
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 Neue Rheinsiche Zeitung No. 150 November 1848   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The German Parliament is in Berlin, and the Prussian Parliament in Frankfurt.
The Parliament at Frankfurt is guilty of high treason, it must be brought to trial.
But the Brandenburg Assembly at Frankfurt will become a "fragment", for the inevitable resignation of the 150 deputies will surely be followed by many others who do not wish to set up a Federal Diet at Frankfurt.
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 Frankfurt Parliament of 1848 - History Forum
I think that one of the main reasons the delegates to the Frankfurt assembly didn't get their unified Germany under Prussian King Frederick William IV is because of a lack of involvement of common people.
The Parliament was basically a group of a few hundred upper class citizens with no legal, political, or military power whatsoever, and they expected to take control of a unified Germany.
If the Frankfurt Parliament did have an army, and could enfore their laws and decisions, this would have given them much more credibility than they originally had.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Frankfurt,
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 Germany City & Hotel Guide :: Frankfurt
Skyscrapers and traditional timbered buildings are an indication of Frankfurt's reputation as a city of contrasts.
The many university students in Frankfurt leads to a lively nightlife scene with a varied variety of places to eat and drink to suit all budgets.
Frankfurt is well served by the rail network.
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 1848 german revolution - Frankfurt Vorparlament
March, of a preparatory parliament (Vorparlament) which, at the close of five days in session, recognised a fifty member committee as being responsible for the organisation of processes of election to a German National Assembly which was projected to convene in Frankfurt in May.
The Frankfurt Parliament further maintained that any legislation passed by princely or ecclesiatical state governments would only be valid if consistent with the new constitution which would be based 'on the will and election of the German people, to found the unity and political liberty of Germany'.
In July 1848 the Frankfurt Parliament voted by 342 votes to 31 (with 75 abstentions) to support a partition of the Grand Duchy of Posen.
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 Frankfurt
Frankfurt is divided into an old town, or Altstadt, bordering the river, and a new town, or Neustadt, north of the older section.
The outstanding church of Frankfurt is the Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew.
The Golden Bull of 1356 established Frankfurt as the seat of the imperial elections, and it was made a free imperial city in 1372.
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 Frankfurt | World Cup 2006 | Deutsche Welle | 19.10.2005
Frankfurt am Main, the city many refer to as the banking center of Europe, was founded by the Romans in the 1st century.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, the author of the masterpiece "Faust" was born in Frankfurt in 1749, and was baptized at the Katherinenkirche, a very simple church in downtown Frankfurt.
Frankfurt's association with books grew in 1530 with the opening of the first book printing presses signals the beginning of Frankfurt's role as publishing center.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Frankfurt
He was pastor of the Lutheran church at Frankfurt in 1670 when, to counteract the barren intellectualism of prevailing orthodoxy, he instituted meetings for fellowship and Bible study.
He taught at Heidelberg and Frankfurt and, from 1933 to his death, at the Univ. of London.
After receiving a doctorate in international and public law from Frankfurt Univ. (1931), Drucker was a financial writer for a German newspaper.
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