Oberursel

The highlight of Oberursel is its Altstadt (old town area), a residential area with many half-timbered houses. On its east side is the historic Marktplatz (market place). The streets Strackgasse and Vorstadt connect Marktplatz to the more modern shopping district along a pedestrian mall. As you walk Strackgasse and Vorstadt towards the Marktplatz, you will notice that the buildings become older as they transition from modern to medieval.

By train

• U-Bahn: Take line U3, direction Oberursel (Taunus)-Hohemark, getting off at Oberursel (Taunus) Altstadt. The train leaves Frankfurt Willi-Brandt-Platz every 15 minutes; the trip duration is 33 minutes. From the U-Bahn station, walk along Hohemarkstraße to Eppsteinerstraße to Marktplatz (distance about 450 metres).
• S-Bahn: Take line S-5, direction Friedrichsdorf Bahnhof, getting off at Oberursel (Taunus) Bahnhof. The train leaves Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof every 15 minutes; the trip duration is 17 minutes. Once you arrive at Oberursel (Taunus) Bahnhof, you can either transfer to the U-Bahn for 2 stops or walk 1 km. along Feldbergstraße and Eppsteinerstraße to Marktplatz.

The RMV website has schedules. For 2-5 people travelling together on a day trip from Frankfurt, the RMV group day ticket (Gruppentageskarte) is more economical and more convenient that using single trip tickets.

Walking is the preferred method of getting around as the Altstadt and central shopping district are both within a kilometre of the U-Bahn and S-Bahn stations.

Altstadt

• Marktplatza square with many half-timbered buildings.

• Altes Rathaus

• Fountain in the square

• Statue of a jester and a woman on a muleThe woman is being paraded riding backwards on a mule on Shrove Tuesday as a medieval punishment for striking her husband.

• St. Ursula Church

  address: Ursula-Gasse
  15th century, late Gothic

• Many half-timbered houses located behind the Rathaus and around St. Ursula Church.

Hospitalkirche

address: Strackgasse

18th century church east of the Marktplatz.

Memorial to the holocaust victims from Oberursal

address: Korfplatz

A small park along Strackgasse contains a sculpture of several people around 2 stone blocks.

EpinayplatzA modern square near the Vorstadt pedestrian mall with a fountain around a glass pyramid structure containing an elevator shaft.

Opel Zoo

address: Königstein

Events

• Brunnenfest - The fountain festival in early summer is one of the largest folk festivals in the Hochtaunuskreis district attracting visitors from the entire Rhine-Main region.

The street Vorstadt is a pedestrian mall lined with shops.

There a number of eating places along the Vorstadt pedestrian mall as well as on some of its side streets.

• Alt-Oberurseler Brauhaus

  phone: +49 6171 54370
  address: Ackergasse 13
  German food and strong beer.

• Mövenpick Hotel Frankfurt/Oberursel

  phone: +49 6171 5000
  address: Zimmersmühlenweg 35

• Parkhotel Am Taunus

  phone: +49 6171 9200
  address: Hohemarkstr. 168

• Dorint Hotel Frankfurt/Oberursel

  phone: +49 6171 2769-0
  address: Königsteiner Straße 29
  The Dorint Hotel in Oberursel is surrounded by a 100,000 m² hotel-owned historical park.

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