Landmark
Zeil
Zeil, Frankfurt am Main-Innenstadt I
Bustling pedestrian shopping mile built where one dynasty once ran half of Germany's mail.
This guide to the Zeil in Frankfurt traces the Thurn and Taxis family, hereditary postmasters general who by the 1600s controlled the roads, relay stations and mail of half of Germany, and who built a palace on this spot in 1731 as the nerve center of their private postal empire. Kings of the day needed the family's permission just to open their own post office.
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