There is a natural history museum very close by to the apartment. Because the German schools are on a two week Easter holiday, it has been very busy with families nearly every day.
I think that the dinosaur looks particularly vicious with the cranes in the background!
I don't know too much about the history of this neighborhood, it is called Westend. Apparently one of the biggest synagogues in Frankfurt is located over here. Naturally, many of the families that used to live here before the war were Jewish. During the seventies, developers wanted to knock down nearly all of these homes and build new, more modern homes and offices. The students of the University protested this by boycotting and occupying some of the bigger homes in the neighborhood. Today, there are mostly beautiful older homes. Some of my favorites:
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