Bahnhofsviertel

This guide to the Bahnhofsviertel in Frankfurt traces the district from the station's 1888 opening through its long red-light reputation on Taunusstrasse, kept alive by Allied troops filling its hotels after the war and still visible on Elbestrasse and Moselstrasse today. You'll hear how Kaiserstrasse, two streets over, filled instead with Malaysian, Ethiopian and Sri Lankan kitchens, and how Frankfurt's techno instinct found its way back into a backyard club called Tokonoma. It follows a neighborhood that never picked one identity over the other.