Eschenheimer Turm

The Eschenheimer Turm is a medieval tower gate and one of the best-preserved remnants of Frankfurt's old city fortifications. Completed in the early fifteenth century, it once guarded a northern entrance in the ring of walls that enclosed the free imperial city. When the fortifications were demolished in the nineteenth century to let the growing city expand, this tower was spared and left standing amid the modern streets. Its tall round shaft, crowned by a pointed roof and corner turrets, rises among the office blocks of the centre.