Frankfurt (Oder): Kleist's Birthplace, Viadrina University, and Brandenburg's Polish Border City
Frankfurt (Oder) has a population around 57,000 and sits on the Oder river at the Polish border in Brandenburg, about 80 kilometres east of Berlin. Not to be confused with its far larger namesake on the Main, this Frankfurt was a Hanseatic trading city and the site of one of Europe's oldest universities, the Viadrina, founded in 1506. The Europa-Universitaet Viadrina, refounded in 1991, specialises in law, economics, and cultural studies with a strong cross-border Polish-German focus.
Heinrich von Kleist, the dramatist and novelist, was born here in 1777. The Kleist Museum documents his life and works. The Marienkirche, badly damaged in 1945, has been partly restored and houses medieval stained glass windows returned from storage. Slubice, the Polish twin city, lies directly across the Oder. The Oderturm, a GDR-era high-rise, is the city's tallest building. Population has dropped from over 87,000 in 1988 to around 57,000. Adult companionship follows Brandenburg's regulatory approach.
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Frankfurt (Oder) has a population around 57,000 and sits on the Oder river at the Polish border in Brandenburg, about 80 kilometres east of Berlin. Not to be confused with its far larger namesake on the Main, this Frankfurt was a Hanseatic trading city and the site of one of Europe's oldest universities, the Viadrina, founded in 1506. The Europa-Universitaet Viadrina, refounded in 1991, specialises in law, economics, and cultural studies with a strong cross-border Polish-German focus.
Heinrich von Kleist, the dramatist and novelist, was born here in 1777. The Kleist Museum documents his life and works. The Marienkirche, badly damaged in 1945, has been partly restored and houses medieval stained glass windows returned from storage. Slubice, the Polish twin city, lies directly across the Oder. The Oderturm, a GDR-era high-rise, is the city's tallest building. Population has dropped from over 87,000 in 1988 to around 57,000. Adult companionship follows Brandenburg's regulatory approach.
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