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Frankfurter Engel

The Frankfurter Engel is a in the city of Frankfurt am Main in southwestern ; it is dedicated to homosexual people who were persecuted under Nazi rule, and as well as under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code during the 1950s and 1960s.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: sculpture
  • Inscription: “inscription:url=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Engel#Gestaltung”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Klaus-Mann-Platz.

Marketplace
Photo: Mylius, GFDL.
The is the world's 3rd oldest and 12th largest stock exchange by market capitalization. It has operations from 8:00 am to 10:00 pm. is situated 590 metres west of Frankfurter Engel.

Square
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a square.

Movie theater
Photo: MB-one, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a movie theater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bahnhofsviertel and Westend.

Suburb
Photo: Luisfff2812, CC BY 4.0.
The is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main, . It is part of the Ortsbezirk Innenstadt I. The was developed between 1891 and 1915.

Suburb
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Westend-Nord and Westend-Süd are two city districts of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The division into a northern and a southern part is mostly for administrative purposes as the is generally considered an entity.

Suburb
Sachsenhausen-Nord and Sachsenhausen-Süd are two quarters of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The division into a northern and a southern part is mostly for administrative purposes as is generally considered a single entity.

Frankfurter Engel

Latitude
50.11683° or 50° 7′ 1″ north
Longitude
8.68519° or 8° 41′ 7″ east
Open location code
9F2C4M8P+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 534003959
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q553189
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Frankfurter Engel” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Àngel de Frankfurt”
  • Catalan: “Frankfurter Engel”
  • Catalan: “Persecució dels homosexuals en l’Alemanya nazi”
  • Dutch: “Frankfurter Engel”
  • French: “Ange de Francfort”
  • German: “Frankfurter Engel”
  • German: “Mahnmal Homosexuellenverfolgung”
  • Hebrew: “המלאך של פרנקפורט”
  • Indonesian: “Frankfurter Engel”
  • Indonesian: “Malaikat Frankfurt”
  • Italian: “Frankfurter Engel”
  • Japanese: “フランクフルトの天使像”
  • Russian: “Франкфуртский ангел”
  • Spanish: “Ángel de Fráncfort”
  • Spanish: “Angel de Frankfurt”
  • Spanish: “Ángel de Frankfurt”
  • Ukrainian: “Франкфуртський ангел”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Postfiliale 501 and Consulate General of Ukraine.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Frankfurter Engel”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.