"New Frankfurt" was the Hessian answer to the famous Bauhaus style of the 1920s. The museum in the Römerstadt estate shows what this answer looked like.
Fancy a little trip back in time? A visit to the Ernst May House will take you back to the late 1920s in no time at all. Back then, the architect and urban planner Ernst May (1886 - 1970) had numerous housing estates built in the functional Bauhaus style to counteract the housing shortage after the First World War. The "New Frankfurt" also included the Römerstadt neighbourhood on the northern edge of the Nidda Valley, where the museum is located. The two-storey terraced house was restored to its original state and epitomises the architectural principles of early modernism: the buildings were to be simple, functional and affordable. The interior also bears witness to this, such as the "Frankfurt Kitchen" - the world's first fitted kitchen, created by the Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.
Fancy a little trip back in time? A visit to the Ernst May House will take you back to the late 1920s in no time at all. Back then, the architect and urban planner Ernst May (1886 - 1970) had numerous housing estates built in the functional Bauhaus style to counteract the housing shortage after the First World War. The "New Frankfurt" also included the Römerstadt neighbourhood on the northern edge of the Nidda Valley, where the museum is located. The two-storey terraced house was restored to its original state and epitomises the architectural principles of early modernism: the buildings were to be simple, functional and affordable. The interior also bears witness to this, such as the "Frankfurt Kitchen" - the world's first fitted kitchen, created by the Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.
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