Looking for any ghost towns or old historical sites around frankfurt germany?

Question

Looking for any ghost towns or old historical sites around frankfurt germany?

Answer 1

Check out Frankenstein Castle (Schloss) near Darmstadt-- it's mostly ruins, but still pretty neat.  (Yes, that's where Mary Shelley got the name.)

Here's some sites I found:

http://www.marsteller.org/Frankenstein%2...

http://www.darmstadt.de/en/sights/franke...

Answer 2

There's a Roman Kastell not too far away

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saalburg

Visit Mainz, a city founded by the Romans (they're excavating a Roman Theatre) and with an - in the medieval age important - cathedral (one of four: the others are Speyer, Worms, and Cologne).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz

Another cathedral in Worms (also known from the old german myth "Der Ring der Nibelungen"):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms%2C_Ge...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelung

A bit further away are Heidelberg (Old Bridge and Castle) and Speyer (Cathedral)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speyer

Some more links?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aschaffenbu...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miltenberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cas...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes_Germa...