Frankfurt (disambiguation)
- Frankfurt (disambiguation)
The name Frankfurt is associated with:
Places in Germany
Frankfurt am Main
The city of Frankfurt or Frankfurt am Main, called "Frankfurt on the Main" in English. It is located on the Main River close to the Rhine and the following institutions that are based there:
*Free City of Frankfurt, (1815-1866) an independent city-state and member of the German Confederation;
*Grand Duchy of Frankfurt (1810-1813);
* The Frankfurt Parliament (German National Assembly founded during the revolutions of 1848);
*Rural district of Frankfurt, a rural district (Landkreis) in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau (1885-1910);
*Frankfurt Urban Environs Authority ("Umlandverband Frankfurt") (1975-2001);
*The football team Eintracht Frankfurt;
*Frankfurt International Airport;
*The Frankfurt School of social theory and research and of philosophy.
*Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (or Frankfurt Motor Show).
Other Frankfurt places in Germany
In Germany, there are three more places of this name.
*The town of Frankfurt on the Oder, "Frankfurt an der Oder" in German, Brandenburg, on the Polish border
**The former district ("Bezirk") Frankfurt, see subdivisions of the German Democratic Republic;
*A village in Markt Taschendorf, Bavaria;
*A settlement in Wanzleben, Saxony-Anhalt.
People
The following people are called Frankfurt by family name:
* Akiba ben Jacob Frankfurt ("Akiba b. Jacob Frankfurt") (?-1597), German preacher and author;
* Harry Frankfurt, the professor of philosophy at Princeton University.
Other uses
*SMS Frankfurt, a German light cruiser warship
*In Australia, "frankfurt" is the term used for a frankfurter sausage.
ee also
* Frankfurter
* Frankfort
* Frankford
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