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Frankfurt (Oder) is a city with an interesting and important history. Until today, the beautiful and well preserved medieval town hall and the Gothic church of St Mary, largest sacral brick stone building in northern Germany, reveal the former power and wealth of the Hanseatic trade centre.
Frankfurt (Oder) is the most Eastern university town of Germany with its European University ‘Viadrina’. Together with the Collegium Polonicum in the associate Polish town of Slubice the ‘Viadrina’ offers optimal educational conditions as a cultural bridge between Eastern and Western Europe. Additionally, the university has Germany’s most modern library at its disposal.
Frankfurt (Oder) – the birth town of Heinrich von Kleist – offers various cultural aspects beginning with concerts of the Brandenburg State Orchestra, the exhibitions of the Museum of Young Art, the Galleria B and the Museum Viadrina up to theatrical events in the Kleist Forum, the Theatre of Laugh, the Theatre in the Shad and the cabaret “Die Oderhähne” (“The Oder Roosters”).
Frankfurt (Oder) is developing a personal image of a congress centre with Eastern European competence.
Modern and historical places with capacities from 10 to 1,000 seats offer ideal conditions and optimal possibilities for international transboundary conferences.
Frankfurt (Oder) is the city of the three transboundary bridges.
The Polish neighbour town Slubice can be reached within 10 minutes by foot from the city centre via the city bridge.
Frankfurt (Oder) is the Sports City of Brandenburg. Frankfurt offers performance and variety with the Federal Centre of Performance, the Olympic Centre, the Athletic Support Group of the Federal Armed Forces, the School of Sports Education, 13 state centres of performance and the 83 sports clubs, combined in the City Sport League, with more than 10,000 members in top-performance and free time sports.
The ‘Frankfurt Sports Union 90’, which unites almost one third of the city’s athletes, plays an important role in local sports.
Frankfurt (Oder) is the green city on the river with the typical meadow, forest and lake countryside of Brandenburg in the south and the vast fields of the ‘Oderbruch’ in the north. Nearby the city, there is to be found the Helene Lake with its glass clear water and white beaches, on which shores the largest camping site of Europe is situated.
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