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- Hanau is a town in Hesse, Germany. It is 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Frankfurt am Main, where the little river Kinzig joins the river Main. About 100,000 people live in Hanau. History Hanau was first mentioned in 1143 and became a city in 1303.
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Starting from this castle a village developed and became a town in 1303. As a result of this history, the main church of Hanau stood outside its walls in the village of Kinzdorf. The villagers moved into the town, Kinzdorf became an abandoned village leaving only the church.
The old town grew up around the castle of the lords of Hanau (counts from 1429) and was chartered in 1303; the new town was founded in 1597 for Protestant Dutch and Walloon refugees. Hanau passed to Hesse-Kassel in 1736.
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The old ‘Altstädter Rathaus’, built in 1537/38, has been home to the German House of Goldsmiths since 1942. Today, it’s a place for national and international exhibitions of jewellery and equipment. A popular subject for photos is the town’s landmark, a roughly seven-metre-tall bronze statue of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
- Fairy Tale Path
- Take The Fairytale Train to Philippsruhe
- German Fairy Tale Route
Together with ten other stations, they form the two-kilometer-long “fairy tale path” through Hanau: “King Drosselbart” welcomes visitors as a bronze sculpture on the Schlossplatz. In the old and new town, you will pass “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Puss in Boots”, the “Devil with the three big hairs” and “Tischlein deck dich”. You then need a little m...
It then continues like a fairytale – with the fairytale train, which takes visitors to Philippsruhe Castle, where the first German hands-on museum for the Brothers Grimm has been since 2019. “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” is great fun, especially for children. They can dress up as Sleeping Beauty or Little Red Riding Hood, climb Rapunzel’s Tower and make up...
If you want to delve even deeper into the world of the Grimm’s fairy tales: The 600 km long “German Fairy Tale Route” begins in Hanau. The well-known German holiday routeleads to Bremen in northern Germany, the city of the Bremen Town Musicians. On the way there are around 60 fabulous places where the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm have left the...
- Brüder-Grimm-Nationaldenkmal. Standing before the Neustädter Rathaus is a bronze statue for the Brothers Grimm, placed here in 1896. When the monument was finally unveiled it was the culmination of a 40-year struggle to erect a memorial to Hanau’s most famous sons.
- Wilhelmsbad. Two women discovered a spring with supposed curative properties to the northwest of Hanau in 1709. Later that century William I, Elector of Hesse established a stately park and spa complex on the site.
- Historisches Karussell Wilhelmsbad. When Wilhelmsbad was being landscaped William I tasked his architect Franz Ludwig von Cancrin to come up with something unprecedented: A revolving carousel at the summit of an artificial hill.
- Schloss Philippsruhe. This princely Baroque palace on the Main was commissioned by Philipp Reinhard, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg at the start of the 18th century.
City of fairy tales, gardens, castles & a spa. Hanau is famous for being the birthplace of the Grimm brothers, the publishers of the well-loved fairy tales. The city is also the start of the Deutsche Märchenstraße (German fairy-tale road), a scenic route that leads a few hundred km across Germany to Bremen in the north.
As a cultural centre in the eastern part of the Rhine-Main region, a place dating back to Roman times, Hanau has much more on offer: A magnificent Baroque-style palace, picturesque old town centres, a historical spa complex, eleven museums and more than 1,000 cultural events a year are among the many attractions that make a visit to the ...
