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Rh given way to modern improvements. Only one side, for example, of the famous Judengasse or ’ is now standing, the other having been demolished since ; but the visitor can still see the  where  was  in, and the dingy and unpretentious premises of No.148 which saw the rise of the. When the whole of what remains of this has been pulled down and, as it must be ere long, there will still be many less celebrated parts of the old  of no small interest as eloquent relics of bygone conditions of life. In the modern quarters Frankfort will compare favourably, both in the general appearance of the s and in the of individual, with all except a very few of the greater  of the ; and almost every  this is becoming more certainly true. Among the more spacious s are the Schöne Aussicht or Beautiful Prospect along the, the Kaiser-Strasse or , and the Zeil. The of the  is largely concentrated in the Zeil, the Rossmarkt or , the Kaiser-Strasse, Friedens-Strasse, and their immediate vicinity.

The principal  in Frankfort is the  of Bartholomew’s, which is situated not far from  between the Domplatz on the N. and the Weekmarkt on the S. The date of its first foundation is not precisely known. A called Salvator’s was  on the site by  at least as early as, and he enriched it with considerable s, and instituted a  of twelve s and an. not only confirmed ’s s in, but he added a nona or ninth of the produce of Frankfort, , , , and other. In the the  obtained  of the  of, and by the  it appears to have been known as StBartholomew’s. The was by  in a very dilapidated condition; and consequently  urged the  of the  of  to contribute to its restoration. When in the  was appropriated to the   connected with the  of the, it was found necessary to enlarge its dimensions. The eastern portion, consisting of the and two s, was pulled down and  on a larger scale about, and in  the wings of the s and the    were added. The so-called Pfarrthurm or ’s was  between  and. In the interior was renovated; but on the night of the 14th   the whole  was laid in ruins by a. In, chief  of the  (or )  was entrusted with the work of restoration, and his task has been steadily prosecuted. The only portions of the enterprize uncompleted in were the  and the. In the interior are still to be seen the high at which after  the  s were celebrated, the  of the   of, who died in Frankfort in , and the  of , the last  of , who died in. The other  are Leonhardskirche and Liebfrauenkirche, and the Deutschhauskirche in. Leonhard’s ranks second to the cathedral in point of antiquity, and is said to occupy the site of the of. It possesses a  above the high, with a  by. ’s was founded in  by  of, was made  in , and underwent a restoration in the. Paul’s (Paulskirche), the principal of the, was  between  and  on the site of the old  of the , and is mainly interesting as the seat of the   of –. The of Nicholas (Nicolaikirche) dates from the, and has a fine    in. From to, and again from  to , it was used as a. Catherine’s was about – on the site of an older  famous in Frankfort history as the place where the first   was  in. The principal —there are three altogether—is a -  between  and  in room of an older  of the. Of the secular in Frankfort perhaps the most characteristic is the Rathhaus or Römer, which by a strange coincidence bears a  suggestive of, though not derived from, its principal  associations. It was here, in the Wahlzimmer or room, that the  or their  decided the choice of the, and here, in the Kaisersaal or ’s , the   was held, at which the new recipient of the  dined with the  after having shown himself from the  to the people assembled in the Römerberg, as the open place in front of the  is called. The dates from the, and occupies the site of the en  and two private s which from time immemorial had borne the  of the Römer. The Kaisersaal retained its antique appearance till ; but it is now ornamented with a series of modern by, , , and a score of other   representing the “”  from  to , in all fifty-two. The of the  of  is a large  in the old  of considerable  interest: from  to  it was the  of the “-,” or head of the ; after the  of  it was occupied by  of ; and from  to  the  of the  held its sessions within its s. The  is a  