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At the end of the 19th century, the Osthafen district was deliberately planned to transform Frankfurt from a trading hub into an industrial city. Since then, it has remained an industrial zone and a key transshipment point for oil, scrap metal, and chemicals. Producers, suppliers, buyers, and recyclers work side by side in an infrastructure designed for maximum efficiency: straight roads, wide gates, vast warehouses. Yet, scattered throughout this landscape of productivity are small traces of human presence—a tiny snack stand here, the entrance to a prayer room there.

This dense hub of productivity, just a stone’s throw from Frankfurt’s booming financial district surrounding the new European Central Bank, hums with dust, fumes, and the constant murmur of engines. It is an inseparable part of Frankfurt, and yet, it remains almost invisible—you never simply stumble across it. So we ask: What does Osthafen reveal about our city and the way we live together?
And what visions of a shared future emerge when we view the world from here?

From age 8 | Multilingual | 30 minutes

„When contrasts in urban space become creatively visible while bridges are built at the same time.“ FAZ